CWRBS Backup is a fully managed, online data backup, restoration, archiving and business continuity service for both UNIX and NT environments.

Providing a cost-effective and efficient means of ensuring that vital company data is securely backed up and available online for immediate restoration, this managed service dramatically reduces the need for dedicated, highly skilled staff and eliminates up-front capital investment in complex software and hardware solutions.

Key business benefits:

• Risk reduction - the vulnerability of customers having incomplete backups is virtually eliminated.
• Scalability - the CWRBS Backup Service easily accomodates your increases in data volume.
• CWRBS Backup is supported by a comprehensive Service Level Agreement(SLA).
• No capital outlay - the CWRBS Backup service is charged on a monthly usage basis.
• CWRBS Inc.'s highly trained consultants ensure that CWRBS service can quickly adapt to meet changing business requirements.

Addressing key business issues:

• Full automation of unreliable, labour intensive process.
• Pressure to reduce costs
• IT skills shortage
• Availability, security and integrity of data
• Managing unpredictable growth in data storage
• Improve backup and restore performance
• Archiving for legislative purposes.

Capital expenditure and staffing costs are reduced by eliminating manual tape handling processes. A simple 'pay-as-you-go, pay-as-you-grow' charging model provides scalability and predictability of costs.

Better utilisation of over stretched and scarce IT staff who are often ineffectively involved in the backup and restore process. Key personnel can be redeployed into more productive areas of your business.

A full copy of your data is retained online in a secure offsite location, enabling immediate restoration of data 24 x 7. Integrity of data is assured through use of sophisticated encryption technology onto a customer dedicated platform.

The cost of managing storage is estimated to be 8 times* greater than the cost of acquisition,which is intensified by data growth. CWRBS Backup enables you to cope with planned growth and unplanned surges in demand.

Backup times are significantly reduced,thereby offering longer availability to users.Restore times for accidentally deleted files are significantly reduced from hours to minutes.

Data can be archived and retrieved easily, addressing legislative and regulatory requirements.

*Gartner Dataquest