It’s not enough to simply lay out a plan on paper for meeting recovery time and recovery point objectives. To minimize downtime and data loss in a real-world situation, it’s crucial to plan before disaster strikes. As our experts discuss, this planning includes classifying your data and applications, setting internal expectations for RTOs and RPOs, and testing your plan.
Featured experts include Stephen Wynkoop, Microsoft SQL Server MVP; Robby Wright, Chief Technical Consultant from Abtech; Dennis Martin, President of Demartek; and Mark LeBlanc, Network Specialist at the Edmonton Public Library.
We all know that downtime is a huge issue for everyone, especially as it affects email, databases and file servers. In this Experts & Insights video, we take a close-up look at the data protection challenges and solutions surrounding downtime. Featured experts include Stephen Wynkoop, Microsoft SQL Server MVP; Arun Taneja, Founder and Consulting Analyst with The Taneja Group; Robby Wright, Chief Technical Consultant from Abtech; Dennis Martin, President of Demartek; and Mark LeBlanc, Network Specialist at the Edmonton Public Library.
In this podcast, BakBone customer Noah Dionne from DeLorme shares his story of putting BakBone’s deduplication technology to work at this leading mapping and GPS solutions company. With NetVault: SmartDisk, DeLorme is able to compress their data and save space and money spent on storage drives. Dionne says, “With the money we saved on tapes, we were able to cover the licensing costs of the SmartDisk solution, which offers more benefits than tape backup.”
“NetVault: FASTRecover’s 30-second recovery performance will help increase our company’s productivity and help us continue to meet our clients’ needs. The simple and easy-to-use interface has freed me from the unneeded stress and problems of everyday IT administration.” ~ RH Kwon, Systems Operator of Heerim Architects
The Challenge: With many independent file servers allotted for each project team and hundreds of projects constantly in progress, it was critical for Heerim Architects to protect their data and minimize business interruption. Construction Management and architectural drawings were stored on data servers that contained sub-divided data storage space for saving prototypes separately. The new and old data, which included architectural drawings, required full data protection as well as a system that could manage the history of changes and modifications to these files. Heerim’s old backup solution caused too many backup windows and was increasing data recovery costs for the company.
The Solution: Heerim selected NetVault: FASTRecover for real-time data protection based on its 30-second recovery capabilities, which makes it possible to go back to any-point-in-time to quickly retrieve consistent data. This was not possible with their old solution. The fast availability of data after recovery (BakBone’s Virtual On-Demand Recovery technology) was another feature that Heerim looked to employ in their data center because it would minimize downtime.
The Benefit: NetVault: FASTRecover enabled Heerim to protect critical data in real-time and eliminate backup windows. And FASTRecover’s easy-to-use interface reduces the level of expertise for system administrators to perform data recoveries. The high availability of information after recovery also limits operational downtime.
