The concept of The Data Store was first conceived by founder Larry Goldman back in 1998.  Mr. Goldman, President and founder of Micro Tech Systems in 1993 saw a need to protect his customer's data.

Micro Tech Systems, located in Northbrook, Illinois is a professional service organization that prides itself on the top shelf quality service and support of computers, printers and networks.   As Micro Tech Systems matured, the products and services offered continued to grow. Goldman quickly noticed a real need to provide an automated and secure remote backup service.  Despite his efforts to educate his corporate and home clients on proper backup techniques, computers continued to crash.  Some had hard drive failures, others suffered from viral attacks, some that had backups found their backups were either no good or were out dated versions of their data. Too many times a client would come to Micro Tech Systems and literally be holding their chest, begging for reassurance that MTS technicians would be able to recover their valuable data.

The evolution of technology continues to change at a rapid pace, and some people now believe computers have become throw-a-way items, but the truth of the matter is, while the computer hardware may be minimal to replace, the value of the data contained on those computers just continues to grow.  Recovering that data frequently exceeds the cost of the computer, plus, while MTS techs do their best (and frequently succeed) data recovery is not always possible.

Goldman is a firm believer that 3 layers of data redundancy is the best way to protect his client's precious data.  Backing up to external hard drives, flash drives, etc. can be the first 2 levels, but the ultimate and final layer needed to be something that would be automated.  A process that did NOT require human involvement, because human's are just that !  Everyone is human, and humans get busy, distracted and while the intent to backup daily is all well and good, it just didn't happen.

After years of research, design, beta testing and more beta testing, finally the right recipe was born.  Next a huge financial commitment was mandated to bring this vision to reality.  While the financial investment was considerable, the most important components Goldman mandated were that the solution be 100% automated, eliminating the need for the customer to have to even think about the backup, and that the solution had to be secure.  After all, it's nobody's business what your business is.

Finally, a data center was designed and built to host our clients data, but it doesn't stop there.  Remember that data redundancy Goldman was focused on ?  It's that exact policy that went into the design of The Data Stores data center.  TDS' data host servers are configured with the latest state of the art technology in drive redundancy. Not only are there multiple layers of data redundancy, but TDS also built in redundant power, redundant power backup, redundant internet connections and that still was not enough for Goldman.  Because Murphy's law applies to everyone and everywhere, an additional investment was made to properly secure the client's precious data, so mirrored servers were put in place off-site which maintain additional secure, encrypted copies of the data.

The very first client of The Data Store was Goldman's first company, Micro Tech Systems.  Much like the popular TV commercial where the guy says not only is he a client, but he's the founder as well.  Goldman said, if we expect our clients to trust the services of The Data Store, then why shouldn't we ?  So MTS became the first customer of TDS and the rest is history.  Today, countless customers enjoy the automated, secure, remote backup solution for their priceless data.  And remember those multiple layers of redundancy ?  Where most computer users and network administrators fail is to have an off-site copy of their data.

Too many (almost all) people that do actually perform a backup simply leave their backup copy right next to the computer or server.  If the building burns, the water floods, the thief steals, whatever the dilemma, the backup generally goes with the computer, thus the final reason to consider The Data Store as your final layer of data redundancy.  Enjoy the peace of mind of knowing your data is backed up each and every day with absolutely on effort on your part.

For more information about The Data Store, email info@thedatastoreinc.com and we'll do our best to satisfy your needs.  And if you have any computer problems, hardware or software, need help with your network or your printer isn't printing, contact Micro Tech Systems via email at mts@microtechsystems.com or visit their website at www.microtechsystems.com