Relax, you're in safe hands

Store my files online - do I look crazy? Online file storage often conjures up a frightening image of your private files being accessed by millions of people.

Rest assured that's not what Heart-drive is about, your files can only be accessed by you and the people you specify. When you consider the threat of viruses, hackers, computer theft, software malfunction and hardware failure to your local hard drive - storing your data with Heart-drive is not only safe, it's the smart option.

Knock on our door - we won't hear you!

With Heart-drive, your files live in the climate-controlled peace and seclusion of a former Bank of England bullion vault.

You can imagine how seriously the Bank of England guards its gold. Now, we can offer you exactly the same protection for your files because we run the building.

Back up your data to our bullion vault

Including bomb-blast corridors, solid granite, blast proof steel gates and a vault door out of Goldfinger, there's over 16 foot of physical security shielding your files.

Fail safe software

Every part of our service has been designed from the ground up for maximum protection. To guard against software bugs, our system uses a permissions structure which requires specific permission to view a file so even if we make a mistake - the system will fail-safe and keep your files secure.

Network infrastructure for fail safe data backup
Internet
Firewalls
Defend equipment from cyber attack.
Load Balancers
Ensure constant availability, even in the event of equipment failure.
Application Servers
Redundant servers ensure you can always access your data.
Network Partitioning
Storage clusters cannot be accessed from the Internet.
Storage Clusters
Each file is held on multiple independent storage clusters with continuous back up.

A final thought...

If you're still not convinced, consider the following - we're sure you'll agree that any risks of using Heart-drive are far outweighed by the risk of not doing.

  • 6.3% of consumer grade hard disk drives fail in the first year of their life, whilst 28% have failed after 5 years.
    Source: Google Labs
  • The chances of your laptop being stolen are 1 in 10.
    Source: Gartner Group
  • 97% of stolen computers are never recovered.
    Source: National Hi-Tech Crime Unit