Breece Hill, the premier provider of innovative data protection solutions for the small and medium-sized businesses, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Headway Technology Group Ltd. to distribute and market its line of data protection appliances throughout Europe.

Headway Technology, a business division of the ACAL IT, is a premier specialized distributor for document management and storage products, reaching marketplaces in Belgium, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Scandinavia and the United Kingdom. The addition of Breece Hill’s BizGuardian™ and iStoRA™ products marks the first fully-integrated data protection solutions to the company’s product portfolio.

“Our business philosophy has always been to only supply our customers with ‘best of breed’ solutions from top manufacturers and we are able to continue this through our distribution agreement with Breece Hill,” said David Lewis, Managing Director at Headway.  “Their BizGuardian and iStorRA appliances enable easy and efficient backup, recovery and archiving. Their inclusion within our product offerings will enable us to provide premium storage solutions to the underserved departmental workgroup and midrange market.”

“Breece Hill is committed to delivering world-class data protection solutions to the SMB marketplace around the world. By partnering with Headway, we are better positioned to do just that,” said Bob Schaefer, CEO at Breece Hill. “We are pleased to have Headway leverage their expertise of the European marketplace to help us further extend the global availability of our innovative line of appliances that are easy to own, manage and operate.”

About the Products
BizGuardian provides robust protection without the complexity and IT intervention usually associated with traditional multi-layered data protection. It automatically scans the network to discover new desktops, notebooks or servers, and then backs them up to disk without the need for manual intervention. Backup operations are automatically adjusted to ensure all computers get protected, and AES-encrypted tapes are created for safe offsite storage. Users can perform restores of their files themselves without needing to involve IT personnel.

Breece Hill's iStoRA is a new approach to data storage. iStoRA integrates disk and tape into an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-manage, versatile and affordable package. The iStoRA provides a flexible high-performance storage repository suitable for a wide variety of data storage and server applications. iStoRA today combines 2.0 TB RAID disk, a tape autoloader and a robust Windows or Linux server in one optimized package.

Breece Hill’s solutions eliminate the “hidden costs” of administrative time required to maintain conventional backup systems such as manually swapping tapes, writing and re-writing backup scripts, or searching for lost files. This unique blend of best-in-class components provides a worry-free repository for customers’ data.