FractalVault
Offsite Data Protection for the 21st Century
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Fully Encrypted
The Problem
According to a leading data recovery software developer, critical data loss is generally caused by the following:1
Human error is the single, largest contributor to critical data loss. In a study by PC World Magazine,2 human error was the cause of up to 75% of data loss. Data corruption from software errors or malware are also major contributors.
Critical Data Loss
Hardware problems are also a significant cause of critical data loss. Hard disk drives are mechanical devices, and every hard drive fails eventually. Unfortunately, according to one hard disk maintenance and recovery software developer, hard disk "failure rates are always much higher than the manufacturers claim."3 This statement is also supported by a major study done at Carnegie Mellon University whose writers state, "...drive failures are much higher in real-world situations than the manufacturer's mean time to failure (MTTF) number indicates."4
Tape is Not the Answer
Unfortunately, backing up to tape is an expensive, time consuming "hands-on" process, with far too many points of failure. In many organizations, even some-thing as simple as changing tapes is often left to a single employee, and when that person is sick or away, backups often aren't done properly or don't get done at all.
An industry study indicates that fewer than 35% of companies actually test the integrity backed up data, and of those that did, approximately 77% found that they were unable to fully recover their data.5 Another source indicates that 30-40% of backups are completely unusable.6
Even more alarming are the statistics put forth by industry researchers that indicate that up to 60% of corporations go out of business after losing critical data.7
The Solution: FractalVault
After years of dealing with the frustrations and inadequacies of legacy backup solutions and after months of re-search, our belief is that the ideal solution for backup is a hybrid solution that combines the best of disk-to-disk with online remote storage in secure redundant data centres. Using best-of-breed enterprise class backup software, FractalVault finds and backs up critical data across every machine in an organization...first locally, then after de-duplication, compression, and encryption...remotely.
Key Features
Agentless Installation: Client software is installed on only one machine, whether office has a few machines or hundreds. This makes initial deployment faster and allows for centralized management.
Lower Backup Costs: Unlimited seat licensing means you pay only for the actual amount of compressed, de-duplicated storage used across your company no matter how many workstations and servers protected.
Multiple Locations: Data can be backed up and restored across multiple locations easily and quickly.
Versioning: Due to the way data is backed up, multiple snapshots of each file or folder can be kept, making restores of previous versions of files as easy as restoring the current backup.
Live Data: Live data applications such as Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Outlook, and databases such as Micro-soft SQL server and MySQL can be protected while they're running.
Outlook Message Injection: Arguably one of the most impressive features, individual email messages can be restored directly into user's inbox while user is using Outlook or Exchange. Message Level Restore allows near-instant restores of suddenly important email messages or folders.
WAN Optimized: Data is first compressed, de-duplicated, and encrypted and only changes to data are stored locally and remotely. This minimizes data transferred and maximizes backup speed.
Rapid Recovery: Many companies focus on the backup and give little consideration to how easily or quickly restores can be done. Data restores is generally done at near LAN speed and remote restores are quite fast also.
Data Security: Advanced security and authentication algorithms mean that your data is unable to be accessed by unauthorized parties. Full military-grade AES256-bit encryption is done on all data, both locally and remotely.
Secure, Offsite Storage: One of the often neglected aspects of disaster recovery planning is storing current data offsite. Remote data is stored in mirrored data centers in different cities; thereby ensuring data is safe no matter what!
Fully Scalable: Unlike tape drives that eventually run out of space, FractalVault will grow with you. Whether you have only a few gigabytes, hundreds of gigabytes, or more, FractalVault will grow with your data.
Low Administration: FractalVault is as close to a "set it and forget it" solution as exists today.
Location-independent Disaster Recovery: Recover data quickly, even from a different location.
Tapeless Backup
With high speed internet connections and extremely fast LAN connections, many office networks are ideally suited for the FractalVault solution.
- Seamlessly integrates into network infrastructure
- Easy to provision and manage
- Data stored locally and remotely
Backup/Restore Support
An extensive array of operating system support covers most desktop and server systems in use today, including:
Windows NT, 2000, XP, 2003, Mac OSX, Linux (RedHat and Suse), SUN Solaris, Novell Netware, VMware and others.
An equally impressive list of databases are supported including:
Microsoft SQL server, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Outlook 2000/2003, Oracle 8 & above, IBM DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL and more.
MS Exchange at email level, MS Outlook at email level, Lotus Notes/Domino Server at email level, Novell GroupWise at email level, VMware at both individual VMs or a Virtual Server level.
Protect Your Data Now!
According to HP, typically only 20% of data is stored on the server...the other 80% is stored on desktops and note-books throughout the organization.8
Get Started Today!
Call us at 604.304.0444 Ext 102 or email us at sales@fractalweb.com and talk with one of our specialists to find how FractalVault can protect your data now!
Sources:
1: Stellar Information Systems (http://www.stellarinfo.com/data_loss.htm);
2: PC World Magazine (http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129736-c,privacysecurity/article.html);
3,4-Ars Technica (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070225-8917.html);
5-VaultLogix (http://vaultlogix.com/industryStats.html);
6-Total Recall Data Recovery;
7-DTI;
8-Hewlett Packard
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