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Offsite Media Vaulting in Plantation
About 22 minutes from Plantation. Inland Broward along Broward Boulevard and the 595. Less surge exposure than the coast, which makes it a common primary site — and a poor choice for the second copy.
Bring your retention schedule. We will tell you what it actually costs to meet it.
Air-gapped
No network connection. Ransomware cannot reach it.
70°F / 50%
Climate held to ±2° and ±5% RH
9R
Highest UL vault rating available
40+
Years operating since 1983
The local case
Why Plantation calls us
Inland, and the threat is not water
Plantation sits far enough inland that surge is not the danger. Ransomware and a failed air handler are. Neither cares about elevation, and both reach every copy still connected to the network.
Systems the vendor stopped supporting
Back-office and healthcare administration here often run platforms nobody sells any more, and the media outlives the machine that reads it. Holding tape at 70°F and 50% relative humidity keeps the option open for the day the software finally goes.
Retention that outlives the contract
Healthcare administration carries obligations measured in years after the last visit. When the requirement outlasts the vendor relationship, a signed chain of custody is the only thing that still proves where a record has been.
The honest case
Distance, separation and what it buys you in Plantation
County separation
Plantation sits inland, and that is genuinely useful. Less surge exposure than the coast makes it a sound primary site. It makes a poor second copy. Both addresses are in Broward, so a county-wide event reaches both. Use us for separation from your building and your rack, not to satisfy a policy that says the copy must leave the county.
Rotation at 22 minutes
Twenty-two minutes, mostly Broward Boulevard or the 595. A weekly rotation is straightforward. The 595 is the variable. An incident there can add twenty minutes to an afternoon run, so scheduled pickups here are set for the morning wherever the client will allow it.
Corporate back-office and healthcare administration, much of it running systems the original vendor no longer supports. The common question is not where to store the media. It is whether anything can still read it, and how long the obligation has left to run.
What we do in Plantation
LTO Tape Vaulting
Tape is genuinely offline once it leaves the drive. Kept at stable temperature, with every barcode reconciled at intake.
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Hard Drive & SSD Storage
Drives pulled from a retired array end up in an office cabinet. Here they are logged by serial and stored sealed.
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Server & Rack Component Storage
A decommissioned server still holds data. Shelved, logged by asset tag, released only to the people you name.
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Physical Records Storage
Boxes logged against your own index and shelved rather than stacked. Paper is the medium water ruins first.
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Scheduled Courier Rotation
An offsite copy only counts if it goes offsite. A scheduled collection, signed at both ends, every cycle.
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Witnessed Media Destruction
A destruction certificate for a job nobody watched proves nothing. Media is verified against the list before anything is destroyed.
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Disaster Recovery Vaulting
Two sites inside the same surge zone are one site to a hurricane. Separation is measured by basin and grid.
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Questions from Plantation
- Do you serve Plantation?
- Yes. About 22 minutes from Plantation. Inland Broward along Broward Boulevard and the 595. Less surge exposure than the coast, which makes it a common primary site — and a poor choice for the second copy.
- We are already inland. Why do we need offsite at all?
- Inland reduces surge exposure. It does nothing about a cooling failure, a sprinkler discharge, or ransomware that reaches every connected copy. Those are the failures we see most, and they happen to dry buildings.
- Can you commit to a fixed weekly pickup time?
- Yes, and we prefer mornings for this market. The 595 makes afternoon runs less predictable, and a rotation schedule that slips is worse than one you planned around.
- How fast can you get here?
- Call (954) 565-7233 and we will give you a real window, not a range.
- Do you charge for a quote?
- No. Quotes are free and we will tell you if you do not need the work.
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Serving Plantation.
Tours are private and by appointment. You will see the vault door, the man-trap entry, and the box sizes in person. No account relationship is required to visit.