It begins with a simple keystroke. A financial officer starts a new spread-sheet. A staff writer creates a proposal. A customer service representative responds to an e-commerce order. In each of these scenarios, the data that is created can be protected the instant the first keystroke is entered. The technology behind this is protected primary storage, which relies on software to take snapshots and then replicate data based on policies that IT managers create. For some companies, data protection and recovery are measured in minutes — for others, it could be hours or days. ULTAMUS can be modified to meet the individual needs of customers, providing automatic data protection.