While attending the RSA Conference 2002, held this October in Paris, we had the opportunity to talk with Roy Davies, Director of Corporate Affairs at Attix5. Founded in South Africa and based in the United Kingdom, Attix5 is the market leader in the development of remote, managed and secure backup and retrieval software.

Backup Professional, company's flagship product comes in two versions - Desktop and Laptop Edition and Server Edition.

Backup Professional Desktop and Laptop Edition is a secure, automated backup system that intelligently backs up critical files to a remote or local storage server, making business data safely and securely available from any connected computer. The Server Edition provides a file based backup for corporate data stored on servers and databases. Backup Professional Server Edition also includes support for open file manager, and uses SnapShot technology to handle large data volumes transfers on initial backup and full retrieval of data.




Screenshot from Attix5's demonstration at the RSA Conference 2002 Paris

In order to enhance the functionality of their products, Attix5 developed the WebAccess plug-in. This is a remote online tool that, in conjunction with Backup Professional, allows a user to access backed up files throlugh any web enabled device from anywhere in the world, at any time. WebAccess allows files to be downloaded, viewed, e-mailed, faxed or uploaded to an online briefcase for later retrieval.

At the conference, I saw this function from a practical point of view. Roy wanted to share some product screenshots with me, but there were some problems in making them in the demonstration room. He quickly connected to the Backup Professional powered server and used the WebAccess interface to get the screenshots from his personal backup. "As you can see, WebAccess is quite useful" - he added in a witty manner.