With Enhanced Smart Backup, companies hosting with MCI can easily restore critical company information in case of disasters.

MCI, Inc., a global communications provider, yesterday introduced a new fully managed data protection service to help companies strengthen their business continuity efforts.

According to MCI, with its new Enhanced Smart Backup, companies hosting with MCI can now more easily and rapidly restore critical company information in the event of anything from simple data loss to major disasters. Enhanced Smart Backup enables enterprises of all sizes to benefit from faster data backup and restoration, improved data integrity, reduced capital costs and increased scalability. MCI customers can also more easily retrieve file or system restores on-demand, since the data is securely stored online.

"MCI is bringing next-generation hosting services to market that deliver greater value for our enterprise customers," said Nancy Gofus, senior vice president of Product Management for MCI. "MCI's Enhanced Smart Backup helps companies lower their total cost of ownership while tapping into new business continuity capabilities that far surpass traditional backup and restore."