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DH Frederick Securities, Inc. is a licensed broker dealer that specializes in assisting clients with capital and consulting needs, and is one of three U.S. entities and one Canadian entity which comprise Frederick Capital Corporation, which is headquartered in Newport Beach, CA. For more than 20 years, Frederick Capital Corporation has successfully completed multi-million dollar deals on behalf of public and private firms, management teams, individuals, investor groups and family businesses.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA), which regulates all firms selling securities in the United States, requires FINRA dealers to archive all inbound and outbound correspondence forever. This permanent file may be accessed at any time by request by the SEC. DH Frederick Securities has been and continues to use Global Relay, a premier message archiving company in Vancouver, BC, to comply with these regulations. But the U.S. based broker dealer also needed to find a separate hosted backup and restore provider to secure all the company's files and contacts. In addition, banking regulations around transactions such as acquisitions requires bankers to backup these deal related documents so DH Frederick Securities needed to find a firm that they could trust with their most important data and that would keep them compliant. "We needed a separate service to back up all our contacts and documents like client files and contracts," says Dolliver Frederick, Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of DH Frederick Securities, Inc. "With more than 6,000 contacts, these are the lifeblood of our business and they are extraordinarily important to us. If something happened to them we would be in serious trouble."

In November 2009, their email archiving provider Global Relay recommended BUMI (Backup My Info!) to DH Frederick Securities. Global Relay had worked with BUMI and let DH Frederick Securities know that their data storage facilities were in Canada. "In today's world, physical backup like bringing disks home or storing them at another facility nearby is not good enough," says Frederick. "Off premise, out of state, across the country, or preferably out of the country gives you more secure protection from a natural disaster or a dirty bomb. It's possible that you could never have access to your physical office again, so you must have access to your contacts, correspondence and files to keep your business in business."

DH Frederick Securities contracted BUMI to remotely backup all their contacts and Microsoft Office files and continues to rely on Global Relay to archive all their email correspondence, keeping them compliant with government regulations. "If you had a virus cause a crash or in our case being in California, an earthquake, and all your hardware was destroyed what would you do?" asks Frederick. "For us, in just two phone calls -- one to Global Relay and the second to BUMI -- we would have all our email, documents, correspondence and database information and we would be back up and running. That's also extraordinarily important from a FINRA and SEC standpoint."

Frederick appreciates that the moment there is an issue backing up data on their system or BUMI's system, the support team at BUMI is immediately working to fix it. "In the event our backup did not run perfectly overnight, BUMI finds it first thing in the morning and lets us know and re-runs it," he says. Frederick appreciates the superior client service BUMI provides and has found the team to be calm, attentive and diligent, dedicated to working on an issue until it is resolved. For this reason he has recommended BUMI to his colleagues at other firms.

"There are always going to be issues with backups, it's a natural part of software," says Frederick. "With BUMI I'm confident that there is someone watching it, catching the issues immediately. It's a huge comfort to know issues are being addressed on a daily basis before they become problems."