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