Disaster Recovery

Industry analysts estimate that 50% of tape backups fail to properly restore all company data.

Whether the tape backup had a defective drive or media or the tape backup software was mis-configured or someone just forgot to load a new tape, failed restores are common. Most companies find that their tape backup solution was not able to restore all their critical information after a system failure, virus, human error or other disaster.

Traditionally, tape back-up has been the best choice among available solutions. Companies looking for business continuity had few options that allowed for the safe, secure, and reliable back-up methodologies.

Eventually, companies emerged that offered safe and secure transfer of data via the net to their locations. The offer was attractive, no need to manage a daily tape backup process; it would eliminate the need to physically move tapes offsite, and eliminate the business risk from unreliable tape backups.

However, to recover large amounts of data, turn-around time from these offsite vendors could often be 24 hours. With critical data, every second counts. To minimize this problem of accessibility, many companies would have to keep backup tapes on hand. At first, the high cost seemed like the lesser evil, but as the amount of data increases, and the backup window shrinks, the cost for these solutions rapidly adds up.

Today, technology has finally evolved so that centralizing data storage operations and their management can be moved in-house cost effectively. Computek can help your organization dramatically reduce the management costs and complexity of these environments while providing significant technical advantages such as large increases in storage performance through higher data transfer rates, state-of-the-art reliability and scalability, Options like redundant I/O paths, server clustering, and run-time data replication (local and/or remote) can ensure data and application availability. Adding additional capacity and other storage resources can also be simplified making these systems ideal solutions for scalability concerns. The benefits quickly add up to large scale cost savings for an organization that produces high data volume.

Our design group's 13 years of experience make Computek an ideal choice for helping you maintain the integrity, availability, and reliability of your organization's data. Consider letting Computek's design group create a Disaster Preparedness Plan customized to meet your company's specific needs.