You’ve made a smart decision to identify and evaluate us for online business backup and long-term retention for your electronic records.
Here’s why.
In dealing with regulated businesses, Filetwin is confronted with a major and undeniable security imperative. As a result, our mission is to continue providing highly secure remote file storage to small businesses faced with compliance guidelines surrounding their digital assets.
Let’s discuss how Filetwin can help you ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your digital files.
Accountants are required by law to retain electronic files for three (3) years to life. This sounds a little like a prison term and if you don’t equip your office with the proper resources, it can begin to feel like you’re crammed into a little compartment.
Shortly, you’ll be overwhelmed with heavy boxes of old paper files that use up expensive square footage. We all know that 80% of those boxes won’t even get looked through. Be that as it may, you still have to retain those files by law.
Mind you, when it comes to electronic files, most small businesses think buying a one (1) terabyte hard drive solves all their storage problems. In fact, this kind of makeshift strategy opens small businesses to larger problems.
For example, what happens if your sole backup and storage hard drive crashes? What happens if through some disaster your equipment is rendered useless? There is no backup for the backup.
Consider this, with hard drives the space is finite whereas with remote secure data storage you can offload your entire storage infrastructure and access it online whenever and wherever you need to. You’ll never again worry about that state of your electronic records. We have customers tell us that they feel great knowing that they no longer have to worry about their equipment failing on them because they know their data was cloned, encrypted and stored somewhere else.
We’ve outlined the evolution of digital file storage in the image so accountants could see the logical progression in secure data storage.
So why Filetwin business online backup?
With Filetwin, you get the ability to scale up without doing waves and waves of hardware or software acquisitions, setups, installs and all the risks around doing that. After all, you are in the business of number crunching - - not information technology.
Now accountants can take advantage of our instant scalability along with our pay-per-use pricing model to handle your growing digital storage needs. Accountants can consume storage at any rate that your particular needs demand. This flexibility far outweighs the perceived advantages of using external hard drives or tape drives and gives you the peace of mind knowing you are satisfying the intent of the law by using online business backup.
During the electronic vaulting of your files, from your server or PC to our data storage facility, our software encrypts your data with 256-bit AES encryption. In addition, all transmissions between your server/PC and our Data Center are transported through a 256-bit encrypted secure connection using an SSL certificate. This combination of data security rigorously protects your data. To put it in simple terms; although your backup files travel through a public network (the Internet), no one will have any knowledge of what has been exchanged. Keep in mind that even though your data will travel through the Internet, its final destination is our Data Center…and man do we protect our Data Center!
Finally, consider competition for a moment. Imagine how it would look to your customer if you lost all the sensitive transaction records surrounding their income tax records simply because you didn’t back up your digital records. In such a competitive industry, every accountant has to consider how to get a leg-up on the accountant next door.
Filetwin has developed a special pricing plan for regulated businesses and for $134.95 per month, about the cost of your voice and data plan on an iPhone, you can securely backup your business and satisfy any regulating body by using Filetwin’s business online backup for Accountants.
