Disaster Strikes - FIRE

We were recently contacted to visit the site of a fire that had ripped through the offices and production areas of a company who had recently been considering using Sterling SafeFile's Online Backup & Recovery service.

As it can be seen from the photographs, the building and contents are a total loss. Unfortunately, the data on the computer systems within the building has been lost. We were invited along as the Managing Director, who had been considering the use of our Online Backup & Recovery service felt that it is important to highlight to others that the risks really are there.

"We have recently been looking at the issues surrounding protecting out data. While we did not have a great deal of data, what we did have was very important. We now have no customer records, accounting and payroll data and all of our paper based records are lost. To think that for a small monthly fee all of our computer data would have been safe is dreadful. We have been caught out by the 'it will never happen to us' syndrome, well we were very wrong"

For a cost of between £20 - £30 per month, this company would be in a position to download the lost data to new computers as soon as they have arrived at their temporary site. Thankfully, it is felt in this case that due to the nature of the business a full recovery (of the business, not the data) can be made, although this would have been more straight-forward if the data was still available.

This is just one of many cases where people feel that it simply will never happen to them. Unfortunately, in our line of business we see this kind of incident all to often, thankfully not always on a scale such as this. We therefore urge you to act now to ensure that your critical business data is protected.

A free trial of our Online Backup & Recovery service is available here, more information is available on the product pages.