ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Safe Systems, a national leader in providing compliance-centric IT support and hosted services exclusively to financial institutions, today announced it has been recognized with BankNews Magazine’s 2011 Innovative Solutions Award for the company’s disaster recovery and business continuity solution, Continuum. This is the second consecutive year Continuum has been honored as one of the industry’s best solutions for banks.
“We are honored to be recognized by BankNews Media and the thousands of community bankers who voted for a solution designed exclusively for their banks,” said Darren Bridges, president of Safe Systems. “Continuum plays a vital role in preparing banks for unexpected business interruption. In today’s regulatory environment, we’ve seen a much greater emphasis on an institution’s ability to have a true disaster recovery solution, including recurring tests with results to ensure preparedness. Continuum capitalizes on our understanding of a bank’s technical environment and its operational needs to provide a level of comfort and security from a business continuity perspective.”
There are two significant enhancements to Continuum in 2011. First is a local recovery solution, which addresses the most common disruption event for financial institutions: hardware failure. Secondly, Safe Systems has included file level backups with data vaulting. This, jointly with the local recovery solution, has made Continuum a comprehensive disaster recovery solution. Additional benefits include a significant reduction in costs, resources and recovery time for bank operations to hours as compared to days with traditional disaster recovery solutions. Continuum was developed exclusively for community banks with built-in compliance features, such as a Compliance Director and Account Manager to assist each Continuum client with the preparation and responses for IT audits and exams.
“For more than 100 years, BankNews Media has dedicated its outlets to serving the needs of community bankers," said Bill Poquette, editor-in-chief for BankNews Media. “Through the 2011 Innovative Solutions Awards, we give community bankers the unique opportunity to collectively recognize companies whose products and services help them better serve their customers. These prestigious awards that recognize companies selected ‘by community bankers, for community bankers’ are one example of how BankNews Media continues to pave the way for community banking executives seeking the latest information, tools and resources. Congratulations to Safe Systems for its leadership in providing a comprehensive and effective disaster recovery system for community financial institutions."
About Safe Systems
Founded in 1993, Safe Systems is the national leader in providing compliance-centric IT solutions exclusively to financial institutions. As a technology partner, and recent winner of the BankNews Innovative Solutions Award, Safe Systems has worked with over 500 financial institutions and manages over 25,000 network devices nationwide. Safe Systems' scalable and cost effective solutions include IT managed services, compliance solutions, business continuity and disaster recovery, hosted email, data vaulting, network design and installation, security services, and IT and compliance training. Safe Systems helps financial institutions to significantly decrease costs, increase revenues, and improve performance. For additional information about Safe Systems, Inc., please visit http://www.safesystems.com or call 877.752.0550.