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20 | Tees Business Serving the Teesside Business Community | 21 The IT specialists - alphatech boss Rob Rushby with director Claire Hatton. Big lift - the Middlesbrough firm in action. "We've continued to grow and invest in Teesside” Offsite solution offers peace of mind A warning has been issued to Teesside businesses that they risk a data recovery disaster if they aren’t carrying out offsite back-ups. Thriving Middlesbrough IT firm alphatech are shocked by the number of leading local businesses that are leaving their critical data – and financial security - in the lap of the gods by failing to plan for a worst-case scenario. Alphatech Technical Director Rob Rushby says his fellow business leaders could have peace of mind by switching to an offsite data back-up plan. “We’ve had a customer suffer a flood that would have been truly disastrous had they not utilised an offsite back-up of their important data, said Rob. ” “What’s of real concern is that far too many Teesside SME’s continue to rely on backing up their data themselves on-site. It’s only when disaster strikes that they realise they’ve left themselves wide open. “They need to implement a strategy that would protect them in the case of a fire, flood or break-in by storing their data in an off-site data centre. ” Through alphatech’s offsite back up, data backs up automatically to two secure offsite UK data centres. Rushby, whose busine