Sentrum Colo Partners With UK Backup Technology

Sentrum Colo has partnered up with one of their clients, Backup Technology Limited (BTL), enabling them to offer their customers backup and DR services.

With a large number of organisations going out of business after
suffering a major computing and IT disaster, business continuity and DR
plans are important to safeguard the future of a business. This new
partnership allows Sentrum Colo’s customers to plan ahead by using this
offering to protect sensitive and critical data, ranging from 50GB to
more than 100TB and enabling customers to be FAS, PCI and Freedom of
Information compliant.

Sentrum Colo also offers customers dedicated, secure office and business
continuity suites, providing segregated network and private WAN access
whilst working offsite at Sentrum Colo’s data centre in Hayes.

"When an IT disaster occurs within an organisation we know that the
first point of action is salvaging all critical data and getting the
business up and running again. DR and business continuity plans are
essential to overcome the effects of a critical event by allowing
organisations to continue all normal business activities almost
immediately after the incident occurs. For this reason we are extremely
pleased that we are able to offer our customers backup and DR services
through this partnership with Backup Technology," said Graham Monro, sales director at Sentrum Colo.

Backup Technology’s main Southern England site is situated in Sentrum
Colo’s List-X rated, Tier III+ data centre in Hayes, near Heathrow where
they are currently hosting 5 racks with that number expected to grow
over the next 12 months.

"Companies are realising the cost and security benefits of our
backup, DR and business continuity solutions. Our customers benefit from
reliability, security, efficiency and performance and a peace of mind
that their data is safe. In addition our solutions help Compliance and
Information Security Officers meet regulations imposed by governing
bodies," said Simon Chappell, CEO, Backup technology. "Sentrum
Colo’s customers are now able to easily take advantage of our solutions
and quickly implement an effective backup and DR strategy that will
safeguard their data from disasters, whether they are natural or caused
by human error."

Backup Technology has a global presence, from their head office in Leeds
in the UK; they have expanded to offices and data centres in the US, as
well as establishing partnerships in Europe and Australia. Core
business has been built around their partnership with Asigra.

BTL are ISO 9001 (April 2010) and ISO 27001 (May 2010) certified,
ensuring quality management procedures are in place and all security
processes are followed and documented. BS EN 25999-2 certification has
also been achieved (January 2011), meaning BTL has an independently
audited Business Continuity Management system in place to offer
additional peace of mind for its customers. With individual customer
data sizes ranging from 100GB to over 500TB, they currently protect over 10PB.