Over the last several decades, businesses have become even more aware of the need to back up and archive their data as part of their overall business continuity and disaster recovery plans. To protect themselves adequately, businesses must improve how they manage and safeguard their organizational data and records. Good records management includes both backup and archiving. While backup and archiving are often used interchangeably, it is important to distinguish between the two terms. Backup is used for short term data recovery. Data archiving is used for long-term data retention and regulatory compliance requirements.

Archived files can be kept for decades, usually at an offsite location. Keeping more than one copy is essential if you want to properly safeguard your data. Tape is typically used for archiving because of its affordability, archival life (30 years), reliability and portability.

When you deploy a tiered storage strategy that addresses data according to its use—active data, backup data, and archive data—you’ll be able to improve operational efficiencies, decrease costs, and reduce business risk. No longer will you need to keep your volumes of archived data on expensive disk, or rely on

In the world of technology and computers, quality is a top priority. There are many brands and different kinds of computer vendors out there in the market. If you are planning to refresh a Server or Desktop computers, then we recommend IBM or Lenovo as a preferred vendor and you will be making the right choice. For robust equipment that is designed for business you can never go wrong and you know that it is money well spent.

As tier one vendors, IBM & Lenovo makes sure that their products are made only from the best materials and made to last for years. They are constantly developing their products for better performance and reliability are key ingredients recognized in the global market. All this is backed by various warranty programs to suit every business.

Computergate works directly with all leading manufacturers when it comes to Servers, Workstations, Storage Devices, Printers, Solutions and networking products and can help to get the best deals through distribution partners. We are able to initiate bigger savings without having to compensate the quality of the product and get real value for money.

To meet the growing demand for networking security solutions from SMB markets, Computergate delivers a series of business-class wireless ADSL2+ VPN firewall routers, symmetric SHDSL products, and wired and wireless IPSec/SSL VPN security appliances allowing SMBs to provide their remote users, mobile workers and business visitors/partners with a secure and easy-to-manage remote access to the corporate private network. Some advanced models integrated with Gigabit WAN and LAN ports provide the bandwidth and speed needed for heavy bandwidth consuming applications like video streaming and critical business applications.

With the capability of self-owned Research & Development, Computergate aims to pursue the leading-edge position of the industry and to provide SMBs with the best quality networking products and easy-to-manage but affordable hardware solutions.

Control growth. Reduce risk. Optimise storage. With explosive growth in data, many organisations are struggling to manage, protect, mitigate risk, and maintain rapidly growing information assets while ensuring compliance with industry regulations. Getting control of service levels and growth rates, while reducing business risk and optimising storage management costs, requires a sound information infrastructure a fundamental aspect of a Dynamic Infrastructure strategy and the backbone to a company's means of storing, protecting, accessing, and extracting new insights from its data and information.

To discover the storage solution that’s right for your business, see our solutions optimised for midsize business below.

Protecting data is a crucial component of all business – now you can do it easier and more affordably with Backup Manager. With Backup Manager, you can be completely confident meeting SLAs for recovery time with innovative technology that provides Bare Metal Restore and incremental snapshots in one package on physical and virtual servers from local disk or off-premise cloud storage. This means never having to do another full backup, greatly reducing network traffic, disk storage and load on production applications. Centralized deployment, management and reporting reduce implementation and management effort and provide status information directly to you for increased peace of mind. Host-based backup of VMware virtual servers simplifies protection of all virtual servers.