Like most company users Vanessa Govender always thought there would be a next day, another time to backup her critical data. After four years of never performing a backup, a substantial amount of information was at risk. “Many of my critical business and personal files were on that laptop,” says Govender. “Funny thing is I had just bought a bunch of DVDs to backup that data when the laptop was stolen out of my car. . .” Like many companies, Vanessa’s employer, Gijima, had previously relied on users to take responsibility for their business critical data by copying their files to a central location, such as the company’s file server, or to an external source – like a hard drive or DVDs. Like many companies should, Gijima realized the extreme financial and operational risk it was exposed to by relying on users to backup their data . . . which, of course, hardly ever happened because: o user forgot or did not know how/where to backup their data, o performing backups was time consuming and o many users did not want their confidential information on the company’s server where it was vulnerable to unauthorized access.