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Backup and Recovery
Backup – The Least Glamorous Job in IT
Backup is, simply, a high risk – low reward task that is, in
a word, a nuisance. So why do it?
The statistics on backing up to tape are frightening:
Storage Magazine surveyed its readers to determine how often unreliable
tapes were at the heart of a backup snafu. When asked to describe the tape
failure situation in their shops, nearly a third of the respondents
(31.2%) said it was either a significant problem that often disrupts
backups or a problem that sometimes disrupts backups.”
According to Microsoft, 42% of attempted recoveries from tape backups
in the past year have failed.
"Restoring from tape fails 50% of the time in
distributed organizations and mid-sized companies." –
Baroudi Bloor (now Hurwitz and Associates).
"Over 34% of companies do not test their backups and of
those that tested, 77% found their tape backups failed to restore." – Storage Magazine.
A survey by the Yankee Group and Sunbelt Software found that 40%
of IT managers had been unable to recover data from a tape when
they needed it.
According to The Gartner Group, 71% of all tape restores fail.
Again....so why do it?
TEN REASONS YOU SHOULD HAVE IPR BACKUP YOUR DATA
- Your data is growing at rates somewhere in the 70-100% range...with
no end to this growth in sight.
- Your data may well be the most valuable asset your company owns.
- Your data is everywhere....laptops, PDAs, servers, home offices, remote
offices, cabinets, tapes, warehouses...is this anyway to treat your
most valuable asset?
- There are more threats (man-made and natural) to your data’s security
and integrity than ever before, and there are more threats being developed,
unleashed or waiting to happen each day.
- Depending on your industry, how you manage and maintain your data
may be regulated, with serious penalties for failure to produce data
when requested or for unauthorized access and security breaches.
- We don’t use tape...ever. We backup to RAID 5+ technology .
- Our backup comes with a backup – we backup your data to two geographically
separated data centers, maintain it on spinning disks so that
you can access it at any time from anywhere in the world.
- We’ll dramatically shorten your backup windows – 40-70%
- We use the highest levels of encryption commercially available and
only you hold the passkey...we cannot open your data.
- Recovery at LAN speeds.
IPR Backup Services
Server Backup
Desktop and Laptop Backup (including
Vista & MACs)
