Data protection for small businesses
Kenneth Liew
05/07/2007

IBM will offer its Continuous Data Protection for Files software to PC users and small businesses in Singapore for the first time. It aims to deliver real-time, on demand data protection to PC Users and Small Businesses.

The IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is a "real-time data safety net" that provides PC users and small businesses with continuous backup for information on laptops, desktop computers and enterprise file servers in one solution. The software will be sold at a promotional price of S$29.90.

"Data loss threats caused by viruses and outages aren't just a big-business concern," said Teresa Lim, managing director, IBM Singapore.

The software helps home-based businesses, medical offices, retail shops and individual computer users - who rarely back up the information on their PCs - to continuously, safeguard information the same way that banks and other big businesses do. Since every version of a file is saved continuously in real-time, digitally stored information, music and photos are thus protected from viruses, file corruption or accidental deletion.
 
The software captures and saves important information to documents continuously in real-time and also sends an encrypted copy of the information to a remote location, such as a USB drive, external hard disk, web storage or storage area network (SAN) within milliseconds. With a few clicks of a mouse, users can restore files that have been corrupted or accidentally deleted, back to any point in time - adding multiple layers of defense against data loss. Since the backed-up data is encrypted, the information can be viewed only by those with authorised access to the computer.

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