There can be little doubt that the new world of work has led to an explosion in the volume of data created by companies. Whether it be email-based communication, online information, company-specific product, solution or financial data, there’s often hundreds of thousands of megabytes of information that’s crucial to operations.
However, data backup, recovery and protection remain one of most under-rated area of any ICT infrastructure solution.
At Global Micro, we use Recovery Vault Standard, an ‘agent-less backup and recovery solution’, centralising the process from our data centre. This eliminates the need for a backup agent on every machine or a tape backup device at every one of your sites. You pay only for the total amount of de-duplicated, compressed data stored online.
If users lose data, our help desk - or the users themselves - can restore it immediately. Also, the solution meets government, provincial and international regulatory compliance demands by backing up data in an encrypted format to our secure offsite facilities.
With our Hosted Backup & Recovery services, you will experience:
- Agent-less architecture: a single software application is installed at each office where data is to be backed up, thereby eliminating the cost and complexity of installing something on every machine.
- Centralised control: the software enables us or your own staff to monitor, manage and report on the backup process.
- Enterprise-wide and remote Backup & Recovery: our solution replaces legacy tape-based offerings by providing a high-speed, easily-managed alternative for companies with one, two or multiple local or international sites.
- Lower costs: with our 'pay-as-you-grow' you pay only for the compressed, deduplicated data backed up over your multi-site network.
- Faster backup, faster recovery
the what
Recovery Vault Standard lets you back up all your corporate data to an online storage vault - it includes all the tools you need to manage distributed data and protects every machine on your LAN/WAN, including servers, desktops, and laptops. You have the option of storing backed up data onsite, or, for added security, transmitting it offsite to a remote repository over a WAN.
The solution consists of two main components: a DS-Client (a fully managed appliance installed at the edge of your network) where data needs to be protected; and the DS-System (our military grade data vault) where your protected data resides.
Depending on your requirements, the service can be deployed to include the following solutions:
Data Centre and Remote Site Protection
Recovery Vault Standard is next-generation software, aligned to Cloud Computing and designed to offer backup efficiencies unavailable with traditional approaches. It allows you to capture less, ingest less, and store less data, thus reducing the amount of backup assets you buy, manage and maintain. Recovery Vault Standard is more efficient, cost-effective and more transformational than traditional backup and recovery software.
Disaster Recovery Protection
Of those companies that had a major loss of business data, 43% never reopen, 51% close within two years, and only 6% will survive long-term. So with the increasingly important role of IT in the business and today’s around-the-clock economy, it’s even more important to protect your data and your infrastructure. And when you need to store a second instance of the backed up data in another geographical location, you can use the Recovery Vault Standard Replication DS-System.
Desktop and Laptop Protection
In most organisations, data from mobile users (whether on the road or plugged into the LAN) is not stored at the company’s data centre, making it difficult to properly back-up and safeguard. However, in many cases, information stored on laptops is critical to a company’s business operations --- , so it’s unwise to leave this to users to protect. With Recovery Vault Standard, all of your users’ laptop data is copied over your network to a central online repository. If users lose data, your help desk - or the users themselves - can restore it immediately.
Virtual Environment Protection
Server consolidation is driving deployment of virtualisation solutions across enterprises of all sizes. However, to fully realise the benefits of virtualisation, organisations must consider their information recovery management strategy. Traditional backup and recovery strategies generally don’t offer the granular recovery demanded by the business. More importantly, the cost associated with traditional or agent based technologies negates many of the cost advantages of virtualisation. Recovery Vault Standard provides a robust feature set ideal for virtual environments. It delivers an efficient, cost-effective and transformational solution maximises a virtualisation strategy while achieving superior information protection and recovery management.
the how
Recovery Vault Standard is a holistic data management solution that includes all the traditional and non-traditional data reduction, bandwidth optimisation and storage optimisation technologies --- inclulding block-level incremental forever, common file elimination, compression, continuous data protection, de-duplication, single-instance storage in a single code base and unified platform. It is also the only backup and recovery solution with the FIPS 140 certification for encryption.
Integrated Security, Encryption, Compliance
Recovery Vault Standard encrypts your data in flight and at rest from cradle to grave. Passwords are automatically generated and recycled. Our disk-based automation processes requires no manual intervention (such as changing tapes) and is therefore fully compliant with regulations like HIPPA and Gram-Leach- Bliley.
Integrated De-duplication
Recovery Vault Standard was designed to alleviate the challenges of backing up remote sites. One of the biggest issues is managing WAN bandwidth costs. Recovery Vault Standard reduces the amount of data being backed up in the steps. First, all duplicate data is removed. Second, only changes from the previous backup (continuous delta technology), are transmitted and finally compression algorithms are used to further reduce the bandwidth required.
Integrated Mass Deployment
The Mass Deployment feature enables you to deploy the Recovery Vault Standard DS-Client software in silent mode and configure the software automatically. This ensures minimum time consumption for sites remote users with similar configuration, schedules, backup sets and retention rules.
Integrated Continuous Data Protection (CDP)
Recovery Vault Standard’s CDP implementation is a two-stage continuous backup that, without agents, backs up any changes on your serves as they occur. Backup starts with this change event. The appliance then aggregates the changes, de-duplicates, compresses, and encrypts prior to offsite transit to the centralised storage repository at the data centre.
Integrated Heterogeneous Support
To understand how Recovery Vault Standard backs up data over the network without the use of agents, consider how a local hard drive in a Microsoft Windows server can be backed up over the network. A system administrator accesses the local hard drive over the network as a shared drive and maps it as a drive letter. A disk-to-disk backup of that hard drive is then performed by copying its contents to another hard drive over the network. Recovery Vault Standard’s software uses a sophisticated extension of this idea, without agents. Although simple and elegant in concept, it required years of development to get right on a broad variety of operating systems and data types.
efficient back-up and recovery
These modules offer additional functionality that augment the core backup / restore capabilities of the Recovery Vault Standard. They are pre-integrated into the Recovery Vault Standard central storage repository. Check out the details and see how we can bring unprecedented efficiencies to your back-up and recovery infrastructure.
Integrated Backup Lifecycle Management
Years ago, we treated all data as being equal. All data originated on one type of storage and stayed there until it was deleted. We now understand that not all data is created equal. Some types are more important than others, or accessed more frequently than others. Data Lifecycle Management (DLM), a component of Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), defines the DLM concept where data is created on one storage system, then migrated to less expensive storage systems as it ages.
Integrated Replication
When thinking about data protection in a network, two technologies come to mind: data backup, and data replication. Recovery Vault Standard protects data by copying data off-site to a secure location and maintaining several versions of files, to protect against both accidental and malicious data corruption. In addition, Recovery Vault Standard comes integrated with replication to a second secure data vault to protect DS-System online storage.
LAN Storage Discovery
This tool helps us redesign your backup strategy by identifying different tiers of data and how many versions of that data should be kept online in the backup repository. Some of the report templates include Share Usage, Largest Files, Largest Duplicates, Ownership, File Type Distribution, Partition Size, Access Report/Dormant Files, Growth and Modified Files, SQL Server Size, and Exchange Server Size.
Local Storage
This module addresses the need for rapid, seamless business continuity. It stores a copy of the latest generation or multiple generations of a backup set on the local LAN, and ensures that relevant backup sets are always available for immediate restoration at LAN speed - from an individual file version to a complete system restore.
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