[2012-01-31]

Remote Data Backup by Novosoft Gets SAS 70 Certified, Data Center Reliability Successfully Audited

Novosoft LLC, the provider of file backup solutions, reported that cloud providers for Handy Backup online backup service have confirmed their reliability with SAS 70 certificates.

Alliance, Ohio, January 31, 2012 - Novosoft, a software outsourcing developer and consultant, releases that the cloud suppliers of the Handy Backup online storage service have once again confirmed their performance. The info centers got successfully audited receiving the SAS 70 Type 2 authorizing document, which demonstrates the reliability of internal control and actions in these cloud vendor companies. This fact increases value to the traditionally accepted performance of Handy Backup storage option ( backup to FTP, Amazon S3, remote storage, and others(and makes the solution one of the small business backup service market's powerful yet cost ones.

“Online storage service is a part you may afford selecting with lack of thoroughness these days. With all the numerous participants in the cloud supplier market, you have a world of alternatives: the payment programs, storage opportunities, and, at the end but not least, the levels of file safety. Back in 2011, we witnessed several incidents involving basic cloud breaks, with Amazon EC2 servers failing. Those incidents showed that cloud is not all about the profit by default and that you must be careful in selecting a data center,” said Aleks Dow, the head of Novosoft Analytics Department.

“Fortunately, there is certification for data storages. For Handy Backup online storage service we choose only those data storages which reliability is confirmed with the SAS 70 Type 2 authorizing document and follow to multiply cloud supplier guideline. So, in possibility, with Handy Backup your enterprise files stay protected even, God forbids, after a nuclear strike on a data storage ( hope we never get a chance to verify),” noticed Mr. Dow.

The online backup service by Handy Backup is option for saving files remote. The backups are securely transferred to and from servers of a protected data storage and are immediately available on the Internet. Along with remote saving, also advanced backup software offers with file administration, automation, compression, and other intelligent options. In addition, there is an on-site backup second featured, with many choices for saving accessible ( internal and external HDDs, network servers and workstations, FTP, SFTP, etc.).

Online backup storages are monitored by professional engineers. The reliability of backup solutions is guaranteed by the SAS 70 Type 2 certificate. This particularly includes administration and risk management, security of data, and other control features confirmed to be efficiently managed.

The remote data storage solutions can be reached right in the Handy Backup software wizard ( e.g. on the “Where to back up” window in the step-by-step interface), with no routine login registration required. The routine registration is nonetheless available on the Novosoft Handy Backup brand site.

Read more about Novosoft Handy Backup on the official site.