Smith & Hammaker is a full service provider of off-site data backup rotation service and media storage. With our new state-of-the-art Firelock media vault, it is certain that your data will receive the very best and highest level of protection. Smith & Hammaker will customize the rotation schedule to the clients needs; anytime of the day or night, and at any frequency the client needs.
Our media facility has an independent environmental control system, NOVAC suppression system, 24/7 monitoring for fire and security by a third party security company, vault access is limited to authorized personnel only with secure keypad entry, and a vault door.
Recent laws such as Sarbanes Oxley impose harsh penalties on CEO’s and CFO’s who allow the data media and information assets of an organization to be destroyed or lost for any reason. Heavy fines and criminal penalties of up to 10 years imprisonment make it mandatory that corporation’s address the issue of protecting data centers and data archives. Government statistics in this legislation reveal that 93% of all information assets start as digital records and only 30% are ever printed to paper. SEC requirements, of treating email as business records, impose an even heavier burden on IT professionals to protect information in all its locations and formats.
The very image of your organization and its stock value rely on a professional and fail-safe program of protecting mission critical information systems technology.
Our vault Environment provides a fireproof, heat insulated, magnetically shielded, Zone Four Seismic Data Protection Chamber that is used at the highest levels in the United States Government to protect vital information and hardware assets. The vault has been equipped with an independent climate control system that regulates both the temperature and the humidity. The temperature is set at 68◦ plus or minus two degrees and the humidity is set at 30% plus or minus five percent. In addition, our clients have the ability to monitor the climate setting via an internet link specifically created for the vault.
Our customers can be assured of proven 
protection in a real catastrophic event. A third party nationally recognized laboratory insures that the vault is tested to the same standard as describer by the American Society of Testing & Materials (ASTM International). The OMEGA Point Laboratories, Inc of San Antonio, TX was tasked with putting identical modular fireproof vaults through a series of test (ASTM-E-119 and UL 72) designed to show how the vault holds up under an extended full-scale blaze. This test was conducted for five hours and the vault delivered a four hour rating for paper documents but more importantly, the panels were able to deliver the longest fire protection rating in the industry for media.
Current industry standards require vaults to maintain an internal temperature of below 125◦ F during a fire for one hour; our vault doubles the base line protection.
