We hear about online storage and backing up of important data so often, we become immune to the importance of a company’s information. Instead of, once again, noting the importance of the process, Sage Pastel has provided Hi-Tech Security Solutions with a few examples of how backups saved with IronTree saved the day for a few of its clients.
Storage company keeps running through multiple robberies
A Midrand-based storage company offers furniture removal and self-storage services. The company used to do its own backups to hard drives and memory sticks, but eventually realised it needed a secure, online offsite backup solution that required minimal human intervention.
Since signing up with IronTree as a backup service for its servers and laptops, the company has been robbed four times. Though notebooks with critical business data have been stolen on each occasion, the backup solutions have enabled the company to restore its information and get up-and-running quickly each time.
Life continues after a flood
A press services company based in a busy Gauteng shopping centre offers a range of copy, scanning, online and Internet services. The owner relied on IronTree Backup at her previous company to back up her business-critical data. When she started her new business, she immediately signed up with IronTree – a decision she claims saved her business just a few months into its existence.
She walked into her shop one morning to find it flooded after employees at the restaurant above had apparently left taps in the washbasins running all night. Thanks to IronTree, Sandy could restore all of her financial and customer data on the same day. She has since signed up as an IronTree reseller and now offers the IronTree services to her clients.
Lightning strikes twice
One Friday afternoon, a Johannesburg client called IronTree at 4:45pm for it to restore his data. Two hours later, he phoned us again after he was robbed of his device and data at gunpoint. On the same evening, the company was able to restore his data for a second time, putting it on his wife’s notebook.
Disgruntled employee’s malicious action reversed
A client called the IronTree support centre after a disgruntled employee deleted his company’s entire database from the server. It was restored and the client could continue working as though nothing had happened.
Client GHI
A Durban-based company was robbed of all its workstations and lost all of its data in the process. The client called the IronTree support centre and it was able to restore all the lost data the instant its new computers arrived.
Spur
The Spur group backs up daily trade and transactions from its 350 franchise outlets across Africa to the IronTree storage platform every evening. It replicates branch data from IronTree to the Cape Town head office to facilitate group-wide business intelligence.
One evening, a fire broke out in a Johannesburg mall where one of the chain’s flagship stores is located. IronTree was ready to deliver and restore the data while fire fighters were still dousing the flames.
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