e-fort Effortless Data Protection, is a complete data protection and backup service for the Microsoft platform that is rich in functionality and low in risk, providing fast and granular protection with the highest performance and reliability. Based on a Software + Services model, e-fort is a combination on-premise and hosted service that provides the best possible solution for businesses looking to take advantage of System Center Data Protection Manager. 

Specifically designed with Microsoft server and application requirements in mind, e-fort is designed and built to provide a scalable, seamless, non-invasive data protection solution based on the best services and technologies currently available. Using Microsoft's Data Protection Manager, e-fort provides dual-stage on-premise and hosted, geographically diverse protection of critical corporate data, without compromising security in any way.

Using Microsoft's Data Protection Manager e-fort is not merely a backup solution, it offers much more. e-fort provides a true data protection strategy that ensures all stored data is highly available and retrievable with a high degree of fidelity, recovering files with exactly the same attributes with which it was originally stored.

The e-fort service enables levels of data protection to be offered, for the first time, to all organisations that use Microsoft server and application software; from the largest enterprise customer to SME environments who have traditionally found comprehensive data protection beyond the reach of their business. In today’s current economic climate this is more of a reality than ever. 

At the highest-level, e-fort delivers the following:

• 2-stage protection of critical corporate data including secure electronic transport and offsite storage.
• Absolute minimum interruption of production systems during all e-fort operations.
• High scalability to allow for growing data storage requirements, without limiting the flexibility of the e-fort system.
• No capital investment required by e-fort customers
• Adherence to various relevant data storage compliance directives.
• Security of data in the e-fort system audited regularly by reputable third party Information Technology risk assessors