SAN Managed Backup

Data loss can bring the smoothest running business to its knees and cost it millions to recover. 90% of all businesses that experience data loss because of disaster are out of business within two years, and nearly 50% never reopen their doors at all.¹

15x Faster Data Restoration

The risks of losing your valuable data to natural disaster, malicious attacks or man-made errors are very real and require protection in the form of data backup, storage, and recovery. Our managed backup solution not only reduces your risk of data loss, it also restores your data 15x faster than most tape backup services, so that there is minimal disruption to your business. Where most tape backup services take around five minutes to restore a 200MB file, our SAN Managed Backup takes only 20 seconds! This means you can recover almost immediately from hardware failures, reverse human errors, restore old CGI scripts when improvements backfire, and mitigate hacker attacks and restore affected sites.

Combine with Cristie TBMR for Even Faster Recovery

By adding Cristie Tivoli® Bare-Metal Recovery (TBMR) to our SAN Managed Backup, you do more than just keep your data safe. You also gain the ability to back up your operating systems and applications. This means there's much less to reinstall, rebuild and reconfigure if disaster should strike. You'll be up and running again a whole lot faster, saving valuable time and money.

SAN Managed Backup vs. Tape Backup

Many hosting providers will tell you that their tape backup solution is the way to go. We strongly disagree. With tape backup your data is stored on low-tech tape media, which is made up of moving parts that make it vulnerable to breakage and data loss. The data is often spread over many different tape volumes, which increases data restoration time by an additional 2 to 5 minutes to mount each tape. Further, It can take several days just to retrieve your tapes to begin the process of recovering your data as most providers send tapes off-site to protect the customer.

With SAN Managed Backup, your data is stored on highly reliable disk media, which has no moving parts, uses RAID redundancy technology, and delivers almost immediate access to your data. Unlike tape, which stores data in a linear manner, disk behaves more like a mirror that reflects all your data at once. This makes it far easier and faster to recover partial or entire data. In the aftermath of data loss, all that matters is recovering as fast as you can so that you can get back to business. Waiting on slow data restoration can mean revenue dollars ticking away with each second. Our SAN Managed Backup makes sure you don't waste time or take a needless hit on your bottom line.

Only Best-in-Breed Technology

When we designed our SAN Managed Backup solution, we were determined to use only best-of-breed technology to make sure you get uncompromising reliability, security, and performance. We chose IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) software for its next-generation storage and recovery management capabilities. And the EMC CLARiiON CX3 SAN storage for its powerhouse performance and high availability, rather than a plodding tape backup drive system. This combined with our company-
owned and operated FastFiber Network™ backbone makes sure you are getting the
very best managed backup solution available.

We Manage it For You

We manage your entire managed backup solution including initial setup, configuration, monitoring, and ongoing management. Through the IBM Tivoli software, you have the choice of backing up and restoring data yourself through a simple web interface. The data from your server is regularly backed up to our storage area network (SAN) through our highly secure local network, delivering far greater speed and integrity.

Enterprise Solution, Affordable Pricing

Our SAN Managed Backup is an enterprise-level solution without the enterprise-level pricing. You can choose from daily and weekly pricing plans starting for as little as $74.95/mo and free setup for data files up to 50GB. You also don't have to worry about exceeding your bandwidth usage limit, since backup data is not counted towards it. Talk to us about how we can tailor our managed backup service for you.

Datasheet

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¹ Reference: University of Texas, Center for Research on Information Systems