Does your organization face the challenge of having to back up more and more data
even as backup windows continue to shrink?
The rapid growth of business data and application systems has resulted in a corresponding
increase in data storage management challenges. Your organization, like many others,
may have discovered that you cannot back up all your data as consistently or as
cost-effectively as you would like. Instead, you have been forced to devise different
backup strategies for various types of enterprise data that vary according to how
"mission-critical" the data is considered to be. Or perhaps your organization has
embraced server virtualization, a solution that offers many strengths and advantages
but also requires robust storage and high availability infrastructure.
The problem with the traditional model.
Traditional backup and restore models have featured dedicated disk and tape systems
for each particular host server, with each host backing up its own data to its own
locally attached tape drives or library. This traditional design is a relatively
poor utilization of tape resources because if one server's tape drive is idle, another
server cannot use it. In addition, each operating system platform tends to use unique
backup and restore software applications, which complicates the overall management
of the resources as well as the backup and restore process itself. The disk and
tape systems also tend to be slower, less reliable, and much smaller than today's
enterprise storage systems because most organizations cannot afford faster, more
reliable storage resources when they have to buy them for each particular server.
In today’s data center environment, with the demands of enhanced business continuity
and the growth of data storage requirements, traditional data management solutions
are becoming inadequate.
The power of IntraSource's solutions.
IntraSource's Storage Management Practice has been established on a foundation of
over two decades of professional IT consulting experience and has been developed
to assist our clients in securing and managing their data assets. IntraSource has
developed a strong, focused commitment to providing tightly integrated and certified
“Best of Breed” hardware and software storage management solutions that work seamlessly
to maximize the value of your enterprise information.
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Centralized Enterprise Backup Solutions
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Storage Area Networks (SANs)
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It all starts with the need to ensure that you have
a totally effective data backup AND restoration solution.
For organizations that have grown beyond a single
site with five or less servers, an Enterprise Backup
Solution becomes particularly essential to ensuring
the success of your total business operations. After
all, your data is what your business is based on.
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SANs provide an “intelligent data storage platform” that can significantly improve
your organization's ability to implement and manage business solutions more
effectively. As a result, you can better optimize storage resources, achieve continuous
access to data, gain a competitive advantage, and achieve a strong return on technology
investment.
SAN Solutions/Benefits:
• Server and storage consolidation
• High availability of servers & data resources
• Centralized data backup and restoration capabilities
• Enhanced business continuance capabilities
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IntraVAULT
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Remote Mirroring Solutions
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IntraSource's managed services solution that offers
online data backup and off-site data vaulting:
• Data on your mail, file & print, database and
application servers is backed up locally and off-site
• Data lifecycle management and discovery
- provides storage & legal discovery value
• Site hosting and recovery - if your entire IT
infrastructure is lost, IntraVAULT is able to host
your critical servers at our data center
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Although disaster recovery begins with the capability to effectively recover lost
data files, it may inevitably grow to the importance of building a remote, off-site
disaster recovery site to insure business continuance. Remote mirroring involves
the copying of the changes in the primary data storage units to a remote storage
unit at a secondary site. This can be accomplished through techniques such as storage
based remote mirroring or host based mirroring. In the event of an outage or a disaster,
the data may be restored and recovered at the mirrored site, and systems may then
point to this mirrored site and continue operations.
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