About Business Disaster Recovery
Business Disaster Recovery
The first step in implementing a business disaster recovery strategy is the implementation of frequent and reliable backups of your business data, preferably off site. This will give you the ability to fail over your entire IT environment to a remote site in the event of an incident that prevents you from using your computers at your primary site.
Our Data Protection and data disaster recovery solution is a simple answer combined into a single, managed service. Your information is encrypted and stored off site at our data protection centers. The service is monitored and you are contacted whenever maintenance or reconfiguration is required.
Online Backup
Backup as often as every 15 minutes
An agent is installed on each server and workstation to be protected. An initial load is normally made to a supplied portable data device which is shipped to GDV. Subsequent backups are incremental only but done so that seamless access to all data at each time point is provided.
Data is encrypted and stored off site
- An optional on site appliance can allow for faster local recovery of data
- Works with SQL and Exchange servers and any VSS compliant applications
- Incremental technology backups up only changed sectors after the initial data load ensuring rapid and efficient backups at all times.
Disaster Recovery
If a failure or other incident prevents access to the primary IT infrastructure, a complete infrastructure is built and is operational within sixty minutes using virtual machine technology. The environment is hosted at our data centers on an enterprise class VMWare server farm.
- Recovery points can be chosen from 15 minute intervals over 7 days or daily intervals prior to that.
- Servers are isolated in their own Virtual Network and firewalled for security
- One or more workstations, running the required applications, are included in the solution.
Once the primary environment is operational again, or rebuilt, the data can be “failed back” to it from our data center with minimal downtime.
Quarterly testing of the failover environment is included.
The Five Data ProtectionFailures
- Loss of files, folders or emails
- Loss of an entire database such as SQL
- Server or Exchange
- Loss of an entire server from a software problem
- Loss of an entire server due to a hardware failure
- Loss of the entire IT infrastructure
Recovery Options
- Existing systems
- Bare metal
- Dissimilar hardware
- Virtual hosted infrastructure
- One Hour Restore Time
- One Hour Restore Point
Data Protection Center Provides Complete Assured Recovery
Advanced Data Protection is available for any Windows Server 2000 or newer, including Exchange, SQL and SBS. It supports redirected DNS records for web sites and email upon failover.
Our solution grows with your business because it is easy add servers or workstations.
Restore points as per backup intervals as shown above. Much faster and better than tape backup and also offers instant restore at multiple restore points including full Disaster Recovery Failover.