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Red Chilli aflame for hosted backup
Property finance company waves goodbye to tapes

By Julian Goldsmith

Published: Friday 23 May 2008

Independent property finance advisory firm Red Chilli has outsourced its disaster recovery and backup systems to Thinking Safe.

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The company, which specialises in arranging funding for property projects, will use a service which automatically backs up data as it is stored in the company's server portfolio. Previously, Red Chilli IT staff had to back data up to disks in servers and stream it to tape, taking up system resources and requiring multiple tape devices.

Red Chilli head of IT Simon Page told silicon.com: "This is a solid piece of software that gives us peace of mind that our data is secure. We store a lot of confidential financial information and safe, secure back up systems are critical to our business. It would have a big impact if our systems went down and we couldn't access our data."

Red Chilli will pay up to £8,000 per year for up to 170GB of storage. Charges are per usage, so if the company uses more space, the rental will go up.

However, the company has made savings in staff time checking tapes and the cost of tape stock itself.