Why Choose SMVA?

The biggest misconception in the offsite industry is that the typical vendor is somehow protecting the clients media or that they absorb some of the responsibility for misbehavior! The reality is that there is no insurance protection and the contracts of the largest players absolve themselves of any requirement to act cautiously; as they push all liability and blame back on the client for selecting them in the first place.

1)  At one point in time some web sites warned you that 60% of the media they stored would be damaged upon return to the client. (This was a result of improper storage conditions.)

            • SOX makes the CEO & CFO liable for this spoliation

2) After losing one client’s media, they claimed it was the client’s fault for failing to encrypt.