Powered by IBM, Vaulten Launches Secure Automatic Online Backup Solution for UK/EU SMBs

LONDON, July 23/PRNewswire/ -- In the current economic climate, every small to medium business (SMB) islooking for ways to reduce IT costs without compromising business security.Backing up business crucial data securely to an offsite location has becomemore of a mandatory compliance need rather than a nice-to-have feature.Restoring data as and when required in case of any unforeseen disaster iscrucial for business continuity.

Typical backup solutions on the market today are based onsmaller, lesser known providers, or very high-end costlier disaster recoverysolutions ideally suitable for companies with big budgets e.g. Corporates &Banks. Users can't always be sure of the future of smaller players or may notbe willing to invest heavily in infrastructure costs to implement full-scalesolutions.

Vaulten, powered by IBM, specifically address these gaps inthe market by providing a secure online automatic backup service to end-userson a SaaS based model.

On its launch in UK and EU, Mac Karlekar, Managing Director atVaulten says "We are proud to have IBM, the world's leading IT company, atall fronts; the software, hardware and services, with which we are now ableto provide Enterprise Level Security to SMBs based on proven world-class IBMtechnologies (IBM Tivoli, CDP and IBM managed Data Centres). We feel, Vaultenwill help SMBs to reduce considerable IT management costs but still providepeace of mind that their data is secure and encrypted, ready to be restoredon-demand anytime and anywhere."

Since the solution itself is powered by IBM, trust factor,security and reliability comes by default with the IBM brand name. Even inthe current economic climate, you can count on IBM to be a market leader nextyear, and maybe 10-20 years from now.

Vaulten Online Backup offers the same technology and level ofsecurity that is normally implemented by Banks and comes with user-friendlyinterface at affordable pricing options.

Key Differentiators of Vaulten:

1. Peace of mind - Secure as IBM: Powered by IBM Technology(Blade servers, CDP, Tivoli), your files are stored encrypted that can beonly accessed with your private credentials.

2. Pay-As-You Go Model: Every user has different need ofsecure storage requirement. Keeping this basic principle in mind, ourpackages allow users to pay only for what they need.

3. User friendly interface: We have kept the interface assimple as possible for end-users with near zero intervention once the setupis complete.

4. IBM Data Disaster Recovery Protection: Managed in highlysecure redundant IBM data centres, your data is as secure as any bank's datawhich uses IBM infrastructure for disaster recovery.

5. Reduce Compliance Risks (Onsite or Offsite): Flexibleoptions depending on client needs, entire setup can be replicateonsite-offsite.

6. Hands-off & Automatic: Once installed Vaulten willautomatically keep working in the background backing your files.

7. On-demand Recovery: You can recover multiple versions ofyour files anytime on any machine you want without any dependency onadditional resources.

8. Less resource hungry: Using well-proven CDP technology,there is no adverse performance impact to your system. Vaulten has beentested heavily in our labs & we are proud of its performance as compared withother competitors.

9. Store Backups in the World's Most Secure Data Centres:Managed by IBM professionals, your data is extremely secure in IBM manageddata centres.

10. No Infrastructure Complexity: As long as you have ainternet connection, you do not need to invest in any other costlierinfrastructure.

We do not consider ourselves to compete with other onlinestorage providers who provide free or cheap storage. Our solution is targetedideally at SMB sector who may not necessary want to invest in costlyinfrastructure but ideally will still like the same level of security andencryption as used by banks to transmit highly confidential information. Webelieve, Vaulten has harnessed the power of IBM to have a very uniqueadvantage over other providers.

The service is also highly flexible when it comes to prices. As a launchoffer, starting at a minimal GBP5.99 for 3GB storage per month running up toterabytes, Vaulten also offers customised solutions specific to client needs.A free 30 day trial version is available here :http://www.vaulten.co.uk/download

For more information & partnership queries, please contact Head of UK/EU- Mac Karlekar at [email protected] or +44(0)203-371-9843

Source: Vaulten