On their website Consonus have a sobering quote from a recent Gartner report which found that 93% of organizations that experience a significant data loss are out of business within five years. And it is in this sort of environmental awareness of the seriousness of data loss that Consonus Technologies has launched its fully automated, online, remote backup, monitoring and management service.

The iBackup solution has been developed to provide data security and availability independent of company size. The turn key service is focused on the day-to-day activities required to keep a customer’s important data protected and recoverable. This type of service provides a solution for companies to satisfy their own and regulatory requirements for data availability, retention and compliance. Challenges to doing this in-house include skilled resource retention, increasing backup system complexity and of course costs.

After an independent SAS70 audit by Grant Thornton, Consonus announced in February that they had received a Type I SAS certification of the integrity of their facilities and data hosting solutions.