Enterprise Backup & Recovery
Overview
As data volumes rise, backup solutions that were designed for departmental computing are becoming increasingly unreliable and difficult to manage.
Traditional approaches to backup and restore are often heavily reliant on manual administration. Each application and file server may have its own dedicated tape drive or backups may be streamed over the local area network to multiple tape drives. Organisations often employ the "grandfather, father, son" methodology to maintain a longer-term archive alongside daily backups, creating more manual work and greater complexity.
For many organisations, the rise in data volumes mean that backup routines are taking more time than originally planned. In some cases the backup is in danger of impacting business operations.
Typical issues with legacy backup include:
Slow and unreliable restores
Increasing time spent on administration
High tape drive and media usage Platform dependency
Long backup windows
High bandwidth usage
Poor disaster recovery planning
With annual data growth rates of 60% or more most mid-market and large organisations with distributed solutions or older enterprise solutions will face one or more of these issues.
There is a wide range of enterprise backup solutions available. The critical aspects to be considered include:
Scalability
Speed of backup
High tape drive and media usage Platform dependency
Speed of restore, both single files and complete servers
Ease of management
Key Deliverables
Create a single point of management for backup and recovery
100% backup success
Introduce centralised disk-to-disk based backup
Deploy advanced software database agents to automate online backup
Utilise the most appropriate network infrastructure for backups based on restore SLAs
Ensure that data is kept for correct time period at a cost proportionate to business value
Store a complete duplicate copy of backups offsite and update automated DR plan on & a daily basis
Incorporate CDP and snapshots for point-in-time restores & laptop backup
De-duplicate data to improve utilisation of storage assets and faster recovery
Create a single point of management for backup and recovery
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