One Place for Your Files, With Backups You Can Restore
We set up network storage in your office that every computer can reach, then back it up following the 3-2-1 rule. Your team stops emailing attachments around, and a failed drive or a ransomware infection does not take your files with it.
- Network storage on hardware you own
- Three copies, two kinds of media, one off site
- Drive health and backup jobs monitored
- Restores tested, not assumed
- Full documentation handed to you
Shared Files Without the Version Mess
Network Attached Storage (NAS) is a storage box on your network that every computer in the office can open files from. Everyone works from the same copy, so there are no conflicting versions and no files stuck on one person's laptop.
Because the hardware is yours, your files stay in your building and are not subject to a cloud provider's terms, price changes or download fees. If you would rather keep files in Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, we manage that too and back it up the same way.
Sized to Your Business, Not a Catalogue
NAS Appliance
A ready-made unit from UniFi, TrueNAS or a similar maker. Quick to set up, simple to run, and the right answer for most small offices.
Custom Build
When your work needs more speed or capacity than an appliance gives, we build a storage server around your workload, with room to add drives later.
Clustered Storage
Several machines that serve the same data, so one can fail and the others keep going. Worth the cost only when an outage would stop your business.
Hardware is a real purchase. It can cost less over the years than renting the same space in the cloud, but it takes time to earn itself back. Run your own numbers →
Three Copies, So One Bad Day Is Not the End
Drives fail, ransomware encrypts, people delete the wrong folder, and offices flood. The 3-2-1 rule means no single one of those reaches every copy.
Your working data plus two separate backups, each stored and managed on its own.
For example the NAS plus a separate backup drive. Different media fail in different ways.
In the cloud or at another location you agree to, so a fire or theft at the office cannot reach it.
A typical schedule is daily snapshots on site and weekly copies off site. We set it by how much work you could stand to lose and how fast you need it back.
What People Ask Before They Hand Us Their Data
What Happens When a Drive Fails?
The disks are set up so the system keeps running on the rest. Monitoring tells us, we take a fresh backup and replace the drive. If the whole unit fails, we restore the last good snapshot onto new hardware.
Can It Grow With Us?
Yes. We leave spare capacity in every design and watch how fast it fills, so you hear about adding drives well before you run out.
Where Does My Data Live?
Your main copy lives on hardware at your location. You agree the off-site destination with us in advance. We do not put your data anywhere you have not signed off on.
What We Set Up and Look After
Storage and backups are part of managed IT. Once it is set up, checking it stays our job.
- Choosing and buying the hardware for your workload and budget
- Disk layout that balances speed, space and protection
- Folder permissions by person and team
- Automated snapshots and off-site copies
- Monitoring of drive health and backup jobs
- Test restores and a written recovery plan
- Capacity tracking, with warning before you fill up
- Documentation of the whole setup, owned by you
Managed IT
Monitoring, patching, help desk and the backups on this page, for one flat monthly fee.
Managed IT →Managed Network
The firewall, switches and WiFi your storage sits on, kept updated and watched.
Managed network →Private Cloud
Moving files and business software off monthly subscriptions and onto a private server you control.
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Thirty minutes on a call. We'll ask where your files live and how they are backed up, then send you a written plan with the monthly fee.