Your company probably relies on a tape based backup solution to protect your critical data, with perhaps a daily courier to store offsite? This may be a process that has not changed for many years and could be costing your company a lot more than you realise. In the event of critical data loss, it could seriously impact on your business.
Areas to consider:
- How reliable is your current back up process and how quick and effective is it to restore lost data? Downtime due to user error and corrupted disk drives are a regular occurrence and are a significant hidden cost in your business.
- IT staff are expensive to hire and retain…. a scarce resource. How much time is consumed managing this process? Could they be deployed more effectively?
- With the ever growing need to retain data for longer, more strict legislation recognises that data is a valuable asset and the responsibility not only lies with the IT team but also with the company directors. Are the current storage media and methods up to the job?
- As data grows and the backup window shrinks, is your current process adequate for future growth? How do you manage remote sites/workers?
Chiron Solutions supplies D-stor. This solution is a more secure, efficient and cost effective service.
- No tapes, no hardware, no additional power requirements. All data is automatically encrypted before it leaves your environment …. and then stored in ISO accredited data centres.
- 95% of requests to restore lost data are for lost files or documents. With traditional methods, this means a tape needs locating and the file found and reinstalled. Depending where the tape happens to be stored, this could be a day or two to recover a lost file. With D-stor single files can be quickly located and restored within seconds online.
- D-stor is fully automated; all potential for human error to tape backup failure is removed, including remote sites.
- A tape solution typically requires the back up of all data, including duplicated files and legacy data EVERY day creating problems in the back up window. D-stor uses Global Single Instancing, negating duplication of common data and backing up only new or changed data.
- D-stor is a fully managed service 24x7x365 and fully secure using 256bit encryption… giving total automated security.