Whether your business is large or small, your company
needs to protect your data under any circumstances.
It's the lifeblood of any business. The loss of critical
data from equipment failure or environmental factors
can be a damaging or fatal event. These circumstances
make strong backup and recovery systems imperative,
but due to the high cost of personnel time, these
services need to be as simple and automated as possible.
Backup is a business responsibility.
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A business survives (or dies) on the availability
of quality information on which to base decisions |
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Quality information takes time and effort
to produce and businesses spend a fortune on
it |
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A typical business doubles its data every
year. That's a huge investment in a valuable
asset |
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Many businesses fail to properly protect this
asset and suffer losses every year |
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Most others spend far too much time and effort
using tools ill suited to the job |
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Computers fail, people make mistakes, data
requires backup:
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It's a business responsibility |
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A corporate governance requirement (Sarbanes
Oxley, Turnbull Report, King II Commission) |
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An IT no-brainer |
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And done automatically it creates efficiencies |
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The problems businesses face with tape based systems:
Increasing amount of data requires larger backup windows
Full backups are a problem
Cost and number of tapes escalating
Remote sites
Manual procedures introduce errors
Inefficient use of IT resource time
Increasing off-site storage costs
Multiple standards increases complexity
High capex on software, hardware and consumables
No single centralized management interface
Recovery from tape is slow - especially for single
file recoveries which amount
to 95% of requests.
Value proposition: Increased Efficiency + Reduced
Cost + Reduced Risk
The requirement for complete company-wide data backups
has once again been highlighted by both recent events
and corporate governance legislation, and with a number
of companies competing for the emerging disk-to-disk
backup market, it has become increasingly difficult
for IT managers to select the best solution for their
company.
All too often the tendency is to select lower cost
alternatives instead of assessing needs adequately
and matching them to a solution that carries a lower
total cost of ownership as opposed to upfront purchase
costs. While many low-cost or bundled data backup
solutions appear to offer value for money, they fail
to meet the requirements stipulated by business continuity
and corporate governance guidelines. As a result,
they either fail altogether or end up costing a fortune
in the man-hours required to keep them running.
Attix5 builds technology to power services as opposed
to products. The Backup Professional product suite
is designed from the ground up to provide enterprise-wide
fail-safe data protection into which company policy
and Corporate Governance can be embedded, thereby
ensuring compliance at all levels with a minimum of
resource overhead and a strict adherence to required
Service Level Agreements.
As hardware and software costs go down, the cost
of manpower and time go up. Skilled human resources
are an IT manager's most valuable possession and by
implementing a service-based backup technology you
ensure that they remain focused on core business requirements
as opposed to the often mundane routines associated
with full data protection compliance.
Attix5 is an end to end solution:
Attix5 Backup Professional enables secure backup and
recovery for critical data on Servers, Desktops, and
Laptops, running Microsoft Windows, Novel Netware,
Red Hat Linux, Sun Solaris, HP Tru64, SCO Unix and
many others. Data is securely and automatically gathered
across remote distributed networks and consolidated
within a managed environment for recovery or archiving
to tape. Certified encryption techniques ensure absolute
data security providing the customer with complete
peace of mind.
With today's 24x7 business demands, Service Providers
are being asked to provide fast restores of mission
critical data to minimize the impact of system downtime
or data loss. Backup Professional combines speed with
flexibility to automatically create multiple point-in-time
copies of data to be maintained in an on-line, disk-based
archive. Data is instantly accessible and available
for recovery to a prior state. The use of sophisticated
compression technologies reduces the back-up window
and provides high-speed restores at a file or directory
level. It's fast, secure and on-demand. Since Backup
Professional can be configured as either a dedicated
or shared infrastructure, both large enterprises and
small customers alike can be provided with affordable
state-of-the-art technology and data protection best
practices.
Few companies are in the market to buy more software.
The emphasis is rather on resolving problems or cutting
costs. Growth in data complexities and storage requirements,
along with the recent focus on corporate governance
requirements, has forced many companies to re-evaluate
their data protection strategies. For many, the answer
has been to internalise a service- based approach
or outsource data protection altogether.
For these companies the top reasons for such an
approach are:
Cost reduction
Maintaining focus
Gaining access to special expertise
Relieving resource constraints
Diminishing risk
Improving stability
Speeding ROI
Attix5 builds technology to power services as opposed
to products. The Backup Professional product suite
is designed from the ground up to provide enterprise-wide
fail-safe data protection into which company policy
and Corporate Governance can be embedded, thereby
ensuring compliance at all levels with a minimum of
resource overhead and a strict adherence to required
Service Level Agreements.
