Backup Direct SolutionsFor Healthcare

ONLINE BACKUP FOR HEALTHCARE AND PRIVATE MEDICAL

Backup Direct™ have a range of solutions available that help administrators in hospitals, surgeries and private practices run their internal IT infrastructure more efficiently and compliantly. Our enterprise-class solution portfolio is built upon world leading backup and cloud technology and we deliver all solutions with industry-recognized customer service and support.

ONLINE BACKUP

• Online Backup for PCs, Laptops and Macs

Data residing on PCs, Laptops and Macs is often the most vulnerable. Hard-drive failure is common and theft or physical damage is a real possibility – especially when computers are outside office environments. If there is no existing central backup method in place for these devices important data can easily be lost through unexpected events.

To negate the risk of data loss on PCs and mobile devices, online backup provides an automatic backup environment where users don’t need to manually execute their own data backups. Through an easy-to-use software application, users select the data sets that they would like to backup and set a schedule for when those backups should occur. Then, during the intervals set, the software will automatically encrypt and transfer the selected data over the internet for secure storage in managed data centres.

It can be used to manage a single PC or an entire fleet of laptops that are controlled centrally through an administrative portal. No more stressing over missed backups or lost USB drives. Online backup is infinitely more secure than traditional technologies and will free up the IT administrator’s time to focus on more value-adding activities.

 

• Online Backup for Servers

In recent times it has become common for healthcare organisations to access their practice data from central servers within a network. Typically these dedicated machines will be storing sensitive file data or running specialist software applications - the nature and importance of which means adequate backup plans should be in place.

But with data sizes increasing and regulation on data security tightening, traditional forms of backup are no longer satisfying data protection objectives. Tape backup has become old technology. It is no longer reliable or scalable enough to cope with the increased demands of server backup. To evolve with this change, IT administrators need to find more flexible and powerful backup solutions.

As a replacement for traditional tape backup systems, Online Backup for Servers works seamlessly with existing IT infrastructure to provide a reliable, central, scalable and secure, backup of all critical data contained on servers. The system will work just as easily on a single server as it will on multiple machines spread out over a network to securely store data off-site - removing the risk of whole-sale data loss or accidental exposure.

Continuous Data Protection means that you can backup your system as often as every 15 minutes or schedule a backup to happen every night outside working hours. Data that is backed up is transferred securely over the internet using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption and then stored in dual military-grade resilient data centres. It’s a fully Data Protection Act 1998 compliant system that allows managers to implement the most extensive levels of security possible without stretching IT budgets.

 

DATA PROTECTION

Do you or any of your colleagues ever use laptops at work? Do you take them home with you? If you do, and those computers contain sensitive data, you might be putting your organisation’s reputation at risk. The nature of laptop use means that information contained on mobile devices is often most vulnerable to loss or exposure. All UK healthcare institutions are regulated by the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Computer Misuse Act 1990 - a breach of either of those laws could result in fines up to £500,000 and a serious public embarrassment.

To ensure a lost or stolen laptop never ends up on the front page, Backup Diret's data protection solution, Data Defence, allows IT administrators to remotely encrypt and delete entire hard-drives - regardless of where they are located – from a central web control panel. You can manage a single or entire fleet of computers from a central location and retain complete control over your organisation’s data.

 

DISASTER RECOVERY

Imagine turning up to work tomorrow and finding that the computers don't work. Perhaps there has been a break-in and thieves have stolen some critical equipment or maybe your server has just decided to die - funny how that always happens at the worst possible moment! Apart from calling the insurance company and IT support, you now have to manage on your own for up to three days or more as new software and hardware is installed and rebooted. It causes a mass backup of work and extensive re-scheduling.

Disaster Recovery is a solution that backs up and hosts your critical systems and data off-site and makes it near-instantly recoverable to replacement hardware on-demand. If your existing infrastructure goes down for whatever reason, you can initiate a fail-over of operations within minutes and carry on working from a standard computer. Accessing the system remotely over a standard terminal services connection, you and your colleagues can continue working as normal and no-one will know the difference.

Disaster Recovery is ideal for avoiding potentially embarrassing IT disasters and maintaining a professional and diligent attitude to IT in healthcare.

 

EMAIL ARCHIVING

Emails can cause real strain on servers and computers. Because they need to kept securely for significant periods of time for compliance reasons, they start to take up significant memory and resources that result in performance slow downs and greater risk of virus attack or corruption.

To ease this pressure on servers, Backup Direct has an Email Archiving solution that stores all incoming and outgoing emails off-site in secure data centres - away from your in-house infrastructure. Emails are stored in encrypted form and made retrievable through a secure web-portal. A rapid e-discovery feature allows responsible managers to trawl through an archive of all emails that have been sent and received from employee mailboxes with ease.

With maximum consideration to confidentiality and security, your emails are stored securely off-site freeing your server to perform efficiently without resource hogging email files constantly bogging it down.

 

EMAIL SECURITY AND CONTINUITY

Are you fed up of SPAM? Has your practice ever been infected with a virus? One of the main causes of IT downtime in hospitals, surgeries and practices is virus infection. It usually happens when an employee opens a malicious email and unwittingly executes a nasty wormy infection straight into your network.

Harmful viruses are typically found attached to SPAM emails. To remove this risk, Email Security filters out 100% of known viruses and 99% of SPAM in the cloud before emails even enter your network. The emails that you and your colleagues do receive will always be clean and relevant.

Email Continuity is a feature that makes all individual mailbox functionality available through dedicated, always-on, online portals. Similar to the mechanics of a Hotmail or Google Mail account, employees can log onto these portals from anywhere in the world and continue to send and receive emails regardless of what has happened to the regular server or Exchange router.

 

A FULLY MANAGED SERVICE FROM BACKUP DIRECT

Backup Direct supports all services to healthcare organisations with free 24/7 telephone, email and remote log-in support for data recovery rescue on-demand.