Care Micro Systems Limited

2008-06-19Keeping all the aces in YOUR hand

Few individuals in an organisation face a tougher task than those responsible for online back-up, and for business continuity and for disaster recovery. If you are responsible for this area of work in your organisation, you will know that businesses are constantly at risk from both natural and man-made disasters, either of which can have devastating impact and significantly material consequences.

The risks can range from a mundane hardware failure or human error, to the increasing threat of flooding and terrorist attacks. Any of these can lead to a denial of access to your place of work.

Your organisation's data and email service are increasingly more critical to your business success. So protecting your vital information with traditional tape backups is no longer feasible due to bigger and bigger backup windows and the well-known and well-documented unreliability of restores.

Now, Care Micro can provide your organisation with a robust back-up and restore solution. We work together with our partners Backup Technology, the UK's leading online back-up and disaster recovery specialist, to deliver our solutions which deploy the market-leading Asigra Televaulting agentless backup software. As a result, protecting your critical data need not be complex or cost-prohibitive. Our fully scalable, cost-effective, secure, automated, online back-up system solutions are specially designed for businesses and enterprises like yours and suitable for data sizes between 10 gigabytes and 100 terabytes.

The success of Backup Technology has been built through offering the best combination of service, solution and support available in the UK. Care Micro and Backup Technology together will utilise your existing infrastructure and internet connections to deliver to you a fully-tailored back-up solution to meet your exact requirements and which will continue to meet your needs as your business grows.

Online Back-up

On-line, off-site back-up is now widely considered to be the best practice for protecting business data. Backup Technology's solutions meet your business's needs through integrating off-site data back-up with business continuity and disaster recovery functionality.

Agentless Architecture

All of Backup Technology's solutions are fully Agentless. This means that only one piece of software needs to be installed on one device to protect all data types within your organisation's entire network. All back-ups and restores are highly secure and robust, utilising up to 256 AES encryption, both in-flight and at-rest, with grid-based performance and capacity scaling for virtually unlimited data growth. This enables Backup Technology to support any back-up load across multiple platforms and operating systems, including Windows, Linux, UNIX, MAC, Novell and IBM, without the need to install and configure separate clients.

Business Continuity

Maintaining the ability to operate efficiently in the event of data loss is of paramount importance. Two features that ensure recovery to the latest point in time include Continuous Data Protection and Message Level Restore.

Continuous Data Protection (CDP)

CDP continuously monitors and stores any changes to files in real time and preserves copies of all previous versions of the file or object, so that the user can restore data to the point just before a data corruption took place. This tool minimises data loss and helps to achieve the Recovery Time Objective.

Message Level Restore

In addition to the full Exchange, Novell GroupWise and Lotus Notes back-ups, individual e-mails, contacts and calendar items can also be restored whilst users are logged into their Outlook, Novell or Lotus Notes. As the "hot" back-up is incremental, restores can be done on any of the generations of data stored in the online vault.

Disaster Recovery

In case of data loss, restoring your data needs to be fast and efficient in order to mimise the impact on business continuity. Since all data is securely protected, on-line data is restorable in a matter of minutes using the recovery wizard tool in the OS Client. Two features that quickly enable large restores include Local Storage and Bare Metal Restore.

Local Storage

The local storage module can help address disaster recovery requirements by saving a copy of the latest version of files at a local storage location. If a restore is needed, the file can be quickly restored from the local environment, at LAN speed, without connecting to the online data vault.

Bare Metal Restore

Any disaster that destroys a computer system requires a bare metal restore to ensure the minimum downtime and disruption to a business. Once new hardware has been configured with a fresh operating system of the same family as the original computer, users can then restore the complete system including data, profiles, registry and system states, programs and service pack files from local storage.

Please call us at Care Micro on 0845 122 6898 (local call rates) or email us via the Contact Us page for further information or to book your online backup demonstration.

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