In today's competitive and demanding marketing, data loss can be a death sentence for companies. SafeData's instantaneous mirroring can bring a remote system back online within 5 minutes. As a result, business is booming for the Warwick-based company.

BRIGGS: Businesses have to have some kind of data-recovery plan. And they have to report that to their board and shareholders. Most boards and shareholders won’t tolerate a business interruption for more than a short period of time.

BRIGGS: More and more companies will be using a service for data backup, as opposed to a build-it-yourself approach. Build-it-yourself requires IT management. Most IT staff are overworked, so things like security and data protection get put on a back burner. So more and more people are going to be interested in a service.