Ensure the highest levels of reliability and availability of your IT infrastructure and data.
Many small to midsized businesses today still utilize tape as their primary source of backup. There are concerns about the reliability of the backup and the security of the data contained on those tapes. When asked, the majority of the companies we speak to have not tested those backups and have not validated a restore. Can your company recover in the event of a significant data loss?
One of the biggest reasons for tape backup was that it was less expensive as a backup resource than disk drives. Advancements in technology have lowered costs of disk storage to a point where is not only competes with tape technology it often lowers the total cost of ownership. Couple that with the emergence of image (full snapshot) backup software and increased network speeds companies; can move more data locally faster than ever before.
Imaging technologies also have lowered the recovery time objective (RTO) by allowing a full bare metal restore of a server to occur in hours instead of days.
Often organizations send the backup tape home with the owner, IT manager, or even the Office Administrator. This is an unsecure and ineffective way to move data off-site. If that tape gets lost you have put your company's greatest asset, its intellectual property at risk. Additionally, if your tape includes any confidential personal or client's data you are now responsible for the loss of that data. This can cost your significant money not to mention the risk to your company's reputation. This process needs to be automated to succeed.
The pcnRecovery Suite solution are services that address three major concerns:
1. Backup and restore both server images and individual files.
2. Ability to failover server resources in the event of a server malfunction.
3. Automated, secure off-site backup of all stored data (with geographic diversity!)
PCNet has partnered with Axcient a leader in backup technologies to bring a complete IT recovery solution for the SMB. PCNet provides you with a HP Proliant server sized for your individual needs. The software controls the backup of your computing environment allowing for full image, file, mailbox, and database backups. Each backup can be controlled individually to meet the business need. When a client declares and emergency event PCNet will start the server image of the disabled server and restore services to your user community. Multiple servers fail? No problem we can support up to seven (7) server images per supplied server. All of this can happen in as short as 15 minutes of a declared event1.
The solution goes one step further as all protected data is transferred off-site to our California based SAS70 Type II data centers. This is done automated and in a encrypted format from your site to ours. In the event you suffer a catastrophic site loss, your data is protected and ready for restoration once your recovery plan allows. Data will be shipped to your interim location and can be used to recover. PCNet aims to provide piece of mind from a simple file recovery to a complete data loss, all at an affordable price.
