Data Protection & Backups

Data is the lifeblood of modern business. It is not just a record, but a fundamental asset. For most businesses, your data might be your single most valuable asset. We make sure your data is healthy, secure and current to your business operations.

• Right Size data and backup solutions
• Employee training for storage best practices
• Network System backups are the heart of any disaster recovery plan
• Electronic notification of backup success with clear error logs to alert key individuals where proactive attention is needed
• Offsite storage / Media Management / rotation
• Test restores are performed regularly to ensure backup and data integrity

Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity

Disaster Recovery plans are fundamental to modern businesses where data has become central to every day operations. A proper business continuity plan can restore infrastructure functionality in a few hours instead of a few days. The most costly aspect of a disaster is not always staff downtime; in most cases its the impact it has on your customer's operations and the loss of intellectual property. IAS has disaster recovery experts who meet with management and key business leaders to identify and prioritize critical components for restoration. We provide right-size solutions to allow for growth within the specified budget. We then review the plan periodically and test to ensure the system is working correctly.

There is an appropriate and affordable solution for everyone's data. To us, it's simple and smart to plan for emergencies. We all have enough to worry about, why worry about your data?

Virus Protection & Prevention

The internet is not a one-way street. Data also flows "into" your computer every time you go online.Virus protection is commonly misunderstood and many people who believe they are protected are still left vulnerable to Trojans and malware. Even with updated versions of popular Anti-Virus software, spyware attacks can still slip by, leaving workstations crippled and confidential data stolen. Have you ever clicked an email attachment that seemed to do "nothing." Chances are a trojan was installed on your hard drive opening the door for someone to monitor your keystrokes, your emails, the sites you visit online and more. Smart businesses need a multi-point attack and monitoring system to prevent serious security issues.

• Minimize operational downtime from infections
• Prevent data theft or loss
• Eliminate Security Intrusions
• Optimize company-wide system performance / Bandwidth
• Centralized Anti-Virus-Anti-Malware/Trojan Solutions
• Firewall and Gateway Solutions
• Rapid Crisis Recovery (Staff on-call)
• Virus Protection Best Practice employee briefings

Spam Prevention

The productivity impact of spam on business operations is getting the attention of many organizations today. It's more than simply the productivity lost to employees deleting dozens, even hundreds of files each day. Much of the time, spam never gets truly deleted from your system and ends up impacting backup storage space, and can severly hinder a typical office user's system performance. Prevention of spam and proper removal by our trained professionals leads to:

• Optimized system performance
• Maximized backup space / bandwidth
• Improved worker efficiency and message security
• Protection against virus delivery through spam
• Right-size solutions for specific business situation

Server Virtualization

Lower your costs by reducing the amount of equipment necessary to run your company. For some businesses, there are benefits from server consolidation/virtualization. Depending on your specific situation and computer processing needs, you might easily improve the efficiency of your network while lowering your ownership costs with server virtualization.

The advantages include:

• Fewer physical servers = Reduced maintenance costs
• Optimize the utilization of drive space on your network
• Streamline upgrades, updates and software changes
• Install multiple Operating Systems on a single hardware platform