Backup Direct SolutionsFor Lawyers

ONLINE BACKUP AND IT MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS FOR LAWYERS

Backup Direct™ have a range of solutions available that help legal practice managers run their internal IT infrastructure 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. Backup Direct take away the risk, hassle and cost of managing IT in legal firms.

ONLINE BACKUP

• Online Backup for PCs, Laptops and Macs

Data residing on PCs, Laptops and Macs within a law firm is often the most vulnerable. Ever since computers were invented, hard-drive and file corruptions have been commonplace - failing unexpectedly, causing excessive hair loss and rising blood pressures.

Unlike hardware-based backup solutions, online backup removes the risk of data loss caused when hard-drives fail or computers go missing. With online backup, data is backed up automatically during the day and transferred over the internet for storage in secure data centres. Your critical data resides in these managed data centres indefinitely, continually updating and ready for retrieval when most needed.

Our online backup solutions are completely Data Protection Act 1998 and PCI Compliant. No more worrying about manual backups, you can get on with what you were doing and feel confident that your data is in safe hands.

 

• Online Backup for Servers

Practice management software has become critical for the effective day-to-day running of a legal firm. These databases typically contain the majority of client data and thus protecting them sufficiently is key. However, maintaining an effective server backup plan has become a real challenge. Data sizes are increasing, regulation is tightening and less time and money is available.

To avoid these new data management challenges, Online Backup for Servers works seamlessly with your existing IT infrastructure to provide a reliable, scalable and secure, backup of all critical data contained on servers. Our software will handle all major legal management software including, practice and case management applications and customer relationship management programs.

Continuous Data Protection means that your system is backed up as often as every 15 minutes - so if there is an unexpected outage, you'll never lose more than 14 minutes worth of productivity. Data is transferred securely over the internet using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption and then stored in dual military-grade resilient data centres. Single file or full system state recovery can be initiated within minutes of data loss by downloading data back onto the host machine via the Internet. Online Backup means you can stop worrying about the management of tapes and get on with your job.

 

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 client data, you might be putting your firm's reputation at risk. The nature of laptop use means that information contained on mobile devices is often most vulnerable to loss or exposure when outside office walls. All UK legal firms 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.

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

 

DISASTER RECOVERY

Imagine turning up to work tomorrow and finding that your 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, a further increase in stress and serious case of embarrassment.

Disaster Recovery is a solution that backs up and hosts your critical systems and data off-site and makes it near-instantly recoverable on 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 law.

 

EMAIL ARCHIVING

Emails can cause real strain on practice servers or computers. Because they need to kept securely for up to five years for compliance reasons, they start to take up significant memory and computer resources that result in performance slow downs. This makes your systems run inefficiently.

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

With your emails stored securely off-site in a central archive, your server is free to perform without resource hogging email files constantly bogging it down.

 

EMAIL SECURITY AND CONTINUITY

Are you fed up of SPAM? Has your office ever been infected with a virus? One of the main causes of IT downtime in businesses 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 receive will always be clean and relevant.

Email Continuity is a feature that makes all company 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 company server or Exchange router.

 

A FULLY MANAGED SERVICE FROM BACKUP DIRECT

Backup Direct supports all services with free 24/7 telephone, email and remote log-in support.

 

INDUSTRY VIEWPOINT

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