Data Protection & Recovery

In today’s changing business climate you need to ensure continuous access to your applications and data to keep business running without interruption. Server failures, storage subsystem failures, network and interconnect failures can all interrupt business processes. Recovering from these failures can take hours, days, or longer. Beyond “ordinary” failures, today’s businesses are also open to downtime caused by natural disasters, electrical power blackouts, and man-made disasters. Data protection should be an essential part of your company’s IT strategy. It minimizes the risk of downtime and data loss as well as the risk of a compliance breach. Back up and restore, high availability and disaster recovery help to protect your data against downtime.

Backup and Restore

Backup and Restore protects and recovers your data from failure. The right choice of backup and restore solution will shorten recovery times, meet your recovery time objectives, reduce costs, improve operations and consolidate budget items.

Today's storage software industry offers an enhanced approach to traditional, legacy, point-level backup called “modern data protection”. It meets the challenges of data management with a single platform that integrates application intelligence with heterogeneous hardware snapshots, indexing, deduplication and replication to efficiently capture, move, retain and recover data from any storage tier.

What are the most essential data backup requirements?

What operating systems do you plan to back up (e.g., Windows, Mac OS, Linux)? What applications do you run on your servers (e.g., Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint, Oracle)? How much data will you be backing up? How fast do you want to back it up and how fast do you want to restore it? How often do you want to back it up?

One of the most commonly ignored requirements in data backup is the need to get the data offsite in some way. Many smaller companies have their only backup system onsite, and when disaster occurs, that system is destroyed right along with the servers it's protecting. It is folly to ignore this requirement, despite what you may have been told about the cost.

Another requirement that is often left unregarded is the need to have a fully integrated backup system. Smaller companies often try to back up Exchange and SQL servers by dumping them to disk and backing up the dump files. While this is a viable approach, the preferred approach should be to use backup software that fully understands all your data types and backs them up directly.

For an analysis of your specific requirements, contact us at info@datacomstor.de.