“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.
In this podcast, BakBone customer Derek Kruger discusses the challenges he faced with his old backup solution and why he switched to NetVault: FASTRecover. He shares with us how FASTRecover helps keep the city’s financial databases up and running, how it has eliminated backup windows and how the product works quietly behind the scenes to keep Exchange and SQL data available for the employees and citizens of Safford. “No one cares if you back anything up, all they care is if you can get it back to them when they ask for it,” Derek says.
We’ve all read numerous press and analyst takes on RTOs (recovery time objectives) and RPOs (recovery point objectives) and front page news articles about high profile (and embarrassing) downtime and data loss incidents. RTOs are not as forgiving as they once were. Advances in data protection technologies have led to greater user expectations and demands. It’s the old, “give ‘em an inch, they’ll take a mile” adage.
In an increasingly competitive, fast-paced and connected society, organizations must have a thorough understanding of the consequences that bubble to the surface as a direct result of downtime. Think about it. What bad things happen as a result of a prolonged email outage? For instance, if you are faced with recovery of a 1TB Exchange database, how will the 8+ hours (on a good day…providing it’s a hiccup-free, clean recovery) of downtime impact you organization? What are the hard and soft costs incurred while waiting for Exchange to be put back in the hands of your users? How happy will your executives be when they find out that there will be no email access for the majority of the day? Even better, how much happier will they become when you inform them that the first recovery attempt was a wasted effort and you need to start from scratch? Word to the wise: at this point, it would behoove you to quickly update your LinkedIn profile and release the networking hounds. But this doesn’t have to be the case.
What bad things happen as a result of a prolonged email outage? For instance, if you are faced with recovery of a 1TB Exchange database, how will the 8+ hours (on a good day…providing it’s a hiccup-free, clean recovery) of downtime impact you organization? What are the hard and soft costs incurred while waiting for Exchange to be put back in the hands of your users?
With Virtual On-Demand Recovery from NetVault: FASTRecover you can make very large data objects available for use almost immediately after recovery has been initiated. Users can access the recovered data as soon as a brief recovery setup phase has been completed, in as little as 30 seconds, and to any point in time – without waiting for the full recovery to complete. For example, that 1TB Exchange database we talked about earlier can be mounted before the recovery is complete, allowing users to send and receive email.
If a call is made for data that has not yet been recovered from NetVault: FASTRecover’s Online Storage, Virtual On-Demand Recovery will grab that data and move it to the front of the queue. It’s that easy.
So let’s quickly review here. If you carry the weight of Exchange, SQL Server or Windows File Server applications and data availability squarely upon your shoulders, you don’t have to choose between RTOs and RPOs. You can fight the good fight with Virtual On-Demand Recovery.
When organisations lose access to critical data, they lose more than just information – they lose time and money, too, which cannot be recovered. Next week at IP Expo in London,BakBone Technical Account Manager Phil Parkinson will present on “Continuous Availability of Mission-Critical Applications.”
IP Expo runs October 7 – 8, and you can find BakBone at Stand 736 VMV. Stop by to see how NetVault: FASTRecover’s continuous, disk-to-disk protection can meet your business needs with no impact, no backup window and no need for specialist skills.
For those of you who tuned in for the original Shameless Product Plug and came back for the sequel, Shameless Product Plug II, we bring you the third cinematic debut in this ongoing series. In Shameless Product Plug III, I lend my voice talent to a demo of NetVault: FASTRecover’s Virtual On-Demand Recovery (VODR) technology.
VODR is really starting to grab the attention of those responsible for the protection and availability of Exchange, SQL Server and critical Windows File Servers. NetVault: FASTRecover is the only product available today that offers VODR – allowing very large data objects to be made available for use almost immediately after recovery has been initiated. For example, as you’ll see in this short clip, Exchange databases can be mounted BEFORE the recovery has been completed, allowing users to send and receive emails. Grab some popcorn and check it out!
