FEBRUARY 2007

Industry News

ZDNet Software Review: Editor's Rating VERY GOOD
Firms currently running remote office or off-site backup systems should certainly evaluate this product; service providers could also use it as the basis of a service offering.

Protect remote-office data
Centralizing remote-office and branch-office (ROBO) apps and their data in the primary data center has enormous economies of scale. Storage Magazine provides a sampling of the various ROBO data management products on the market, and describes how they can best be implemented.

Data Protection: A year in Review - What went right and wrong in data protection
Increases in spending and capacity of data protection technologies continue to grow for companies of all sizes - from SMBs to the enterprise -resulting in significant need for scalable storage systems to handle the data deluge as well as innovative strategies to back up information throughout the organization.

Managed Backup Service Providers Choose Asigra Televaulting
Growing traction noted of the Asigra backup and archive platform as managed backup service leaders continue to transition from rival solutions to ensure greater scalability, billing flexibility, reliability, profitability, and to avoid commercial conflicts of interest.

SMBs turn to storage service providers to safeguard critical business information
To combat data loss while also overcoming the obstacles of technical expertise and excessive expenses, more and more SMBs are turning to storage service providers.

Featured Customer Success Stories

Frank Hirth
hSo:VAULT deploys Asigra solution to protect critical financial data for account consultants Frank Hirth.

Stack Ensures Meyer Cookware has Data Stored Safely Online and Offsite using Asigra Televaulting
Stack Computer Solutions provides an all-encompassing solution for Meyer Group to protect its entire array of company data online and offsite. Meyer Group is a market leader in gourmet cookware and kitchenware.

National Land Survey of Iceland benefits financially from SecurStore’s deployment of Asigra Backup Lifecycle Management.
BLM solution controls mounting storage costs.

Byte and Switch Backup Field Report: VAALCO Energy
The word is that online backup services are on the rise. But in reality, online backup requires a confluence of forces to work properly. When an online backup ecosystem works properly it can be a boon to all involved.

Q&A

Q: How do I recover an entire ROBO site if all data is lost during a disaster?

A: The restore method depends upon the recovery time objectives (RTO), the amount of data to transmit and the bandwidth of line installed. Often there is too much data to restore via the WAN if the latest backup copy on local storage has been destroyed. If the actual ROBO has been destroyed then the data will be restored to an alternate DR location.

There are three methods in which data can be restored.

• Data is restored across the WAN link
• Restore data is delivered via a portable disk
• A portable DS-System can be delivered to the customer's site or alternative disaster recovery location or hot-site in the event of a major DR effort.

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