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Business Continuity
The goal of any Business Continuity planning is to protect the most business critical processes and to
minimise unplanned downtime. An organisation has to balance the cost of their Business Continuity strategy with the business
impact of downtime.
Modern storage technologies are delivering better recovery time objectives (RTO) at lower cost, from basic backup through to automated and mirrored
solutions.
Tectrade's core business areas represent integral components of a comprehensive Business
Continuity strategy and we are one of the most experienced storage specialist in the UK working
in this area. By adopting modern storage technologies and innovative design, we can significantly
reduce the costs typically associated with Business Continuity solutions.
Tectrade's Business Continuity Components
Enterprise Backup & Recovery
Replication and Disk Copy
Server Virtualisation
Storage Resource Management
Data Archiving
Enterprise Backup and Recovery
Any business continuity strategy must start with enterprise-wide backup and recovery and Tectrade
is one of the UK's top integrators for medium and large organisations, working with Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) software.
TSM's unique architecture delivers a number of key benefits for building a robust business continuity strategy:
Fast, disk-disk-tape based backup and recovery
Creation of a duplicate copy of backup for manual or automated off-site storage
Automated disaster recovery plan, updated on a daily basis
To complement TSM, Tectrade also deploy Continuous Data Protection software tools for point-in-time recoveries and protection for remote users.
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Replication and Disk Copy
Tectrade can deliver both local and remote replication solutions that embrace a range of technology options:
Snaphot technologies for improved Recovery Time Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO)
Synchronous, asynchronous and semi-synchronous data repliation to own or third party locations
Host-based replication for smaller or departmental solutions
Storage virtualisation and tiering can help reduce the amount of expensive,
enterprise-class disk traditionally used for storing replicated data.
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Server Virtualisation
Server virtualisation using VMware delivers some significant business continuity features:-
Automated High Availability clustering
Reduced cost and complexity of business continuity by encapsulating entire systems into
single files, simplifying replication and restores
To complement TSM, Tectrade also deploy Continuous Data Protection software tools for point-in-time recoveries and protection for remote users.
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Storage Resource Management
The importance of storage resource management software in business continuity is its ability to summarise a mass of raw data and present key information that a busy administrator may miss:
Failed backups and time lapsed since last successful backup
Backup scheduling to meet available windows
Device failures
Capacity issues
Storage resouce management can also assist with capacity planning and change management
where poor administration can easily result in unexpected downtime.
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Data Archiving
A core business continuity objective is to restore critical servers and data as quickly as possible.
Large volumes of duplicated or inactive data has a significant impact on this priority,
both slowing restores and consuming expensive, high performance disk.
By identifying and separating inactive data and storing on lower cost devices,
Tectrade can help organisations lower the cost of replication and accelerate the recovery process.
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