The Data Protection Challenge

In today’s information age, where data growth and its importance to the organisation keep climbing, the cost of managing data, keeping it available and recovering it effectively continues to rise at a rapid rate.

The need to keep mission-critical business functions highly available has led to a heavy reliance on an organisations data assets. As a result, interrupted access to corporate data files, or data losses, can financially or functionally compromise an organisation and, in some cases, leave it unable to recover.

The highest risk to an organisation is the huge impact of downtime which results in lost revenue, irreparable customer and investor confidence, lost productivity and possible legal liability. As a result, CIO’s and CEO’s need to understand the importance of data backup and the risks of data loss.

Older data protection strategies, including legacy based tape backup systems, simply don’t cater for the level of protection now required by an organisation to adequately safeguard against data loss. As a result, today’s Information Managers, Business owners and Senior Executives need to find more affordable, more reliable ways to protect their organisation and ultimately themself.

DataReady^™ Managed Backup Service

Global Storage has vast experience and expertise in understanding the challenges of data protection. As specialists in Backup and Disaster Recovery, we understand the limitations and complexities of protecting data and the considerations required to get it right.

Our DataReady^™ Managed Backup Service is a fully managed, online backup service that eliminates the heavy reliance on tape and tape systems. DataReady^™ provides customers with a minimum of 3 months online data retention and allows customers to quickly and easily restore data online via our Global View user web portal.

DataReady^™ leverages from our expertise in storage protection, remote data replication technologies and information recovery best practices to offer customers a better choice when it comes to building a suitable data protection strategy to meet today’s demanding requirements.

DataReady^™ allows customers to benefit from highly reliable remote backups more cost effectively than internal tape based systems. Advances in backup technology such as direct-to-disk and data de-duplication allow full server backups, that normally take hours to finish, to be completed in minutes. Data is automatically transferred offsite every night to our secure data storage facilities eliminating messy tape rotations and the possible human errors that are the cause of most data losses.

Customers can recover data online  via the Global View user web portal. Global View enables customers to login to view their backups and restore all data sets from a single file or email to an entire server image. For customers wanting to leverage faster restores, a client-side restore appliance can be implemented to cache the most up to date backup data sets locally.

As a fully managed service, customers no longer need to allocate their own internal resources to software maintenance, hardware upgrades, tape rotations and costly reliability and support issues. DataReady^™ provides enhanced SLA levels to customers over traditional backup strategies.

DataReady^™ Managed Backup Service Benefits

• Minimises risk to business from data loss
• Improved Business Continuity through faster, reliable online restores
• Ensure Regulatory compliance
• Reduces TCO on Infrastructure & IT resources
• Reduces CAPEX – Services charged as Capacity On Demand Monthly OPEX payment
• Eliminates tape shipping, handling and storage costs
• Eliminates reliance on manual tape systems and solves issues around lengthy backup windows
• Provides highly efficient remote backups reducing exposure to human errors
• Global View™  User Web Portal provides easy to use self recovery & monitoring tools

How DataReady^™ Works

DataReady^™ - Technology and Expertise

Global Storage has world class data centre environments providing customers a secure off-site location for mission critical data no matter where the primary environment is located.

Global Storage uses enterprise class SAN, Server and Data De-Duplication technology giving customers the reliability and features only typically available/affordable to large Enterprise customers. Combined with the appropriate communication solution for your organisations needs, users have secure reliable data protection for their entire IT environment.

Global Storage uses a team of highly skilled engineers to consult, design and implement a DataReady^™ solution to meet your exact needs. Our DataReady^™ development specialists will design a clear road map and adoption strategy for your company to allow it to easily transition from existing backup solution or to compliment an existing data protection strategy already in place.

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