Data protection in today's dynamic environment and uncertain

Data protection in today's dynamic environment and uncertain
Online server backup and restore data access

By Bud Stoddard, President & CEO, AmeriCorps Vault Corp.

Data, the cornerstone of business today

The data is not only the creation of enterprises in all sectors, but remains a vital irreplaceable strategic asset. But this asset class is threatened today more than ever, given the increasing threat of disasters, fromthreat of war and recent and possible future terrorist activities. According to the U. S. Department of Labor, 93% of firms experience a significant loss of data from the business within five years.

As a result, the data becomes an important component in an organization, disaster recovery and business continuity. Today, specialists are responsible for contingency planning for continuous operation and the immediate recovery of data.Faced with increasingly narrow recovery windows and "zero tolerance" for the disruption they have no choice but to look out for recovery solutions. should comply with traditional disaster recovery capabilities and business solutions for clients business objectives of the global business continuity can be assessed and introduced a new methodology.

With its ability to meet the faster and more efficient backup, recovery and online backup is a reaction toRequirements of enterprises today in these uncertain times. Not surprisingly, a technology used to be seen as unconventional and experimental, is quickly becoming mainstream. IDC estimates that by 2006, rapid growth in the area of remote backup continues.

Lawyer's Weekly, the nation's top source of legal information for practicing attorneys, has used for years to protect their online backup data. "My feeling is that it is only as good as your last backup.Our company has many remote locations without systems administrators. As a result, we have really come back online as a means to ensure our backups on a daily basis That one of these sites by subject, "said Tom Bannister, Systems Manager, Lawyer's Weekly.

Data management for next generation

significant changes in the economy will work online and other electronic processes that operated 24 hours a day. Business processes are increasinglycompressed and businesses that have been days now happen within hours or minutes worldwide. Companies without a strong foothold in technology will be disadvantaged if the changes in the evolutionary development of the business. Disaster recovery and business continuity planning must change to cope with the hectic and competitive environment and offer protection against the threat of a collapse in an uncontrollable catastrophe. Continuity Planner solutions, turn on the Internet must have.

The recent SQL Slammer virus was a prime example of why contingency planning must change to deal with companies dependent on technology. Although SQL Slammer effect could a malicious payload has been made, led to 13,000 ATMs of Bank of America, making it impossible for consumers to withdraw money for an entire weekend and reportedly caused serious damage to HP, and Microsoft itself, disaster recovery and business continuity planningThe industry was forced to take note.

Myths About Online Backup

Whenever an innovative idea threatens to replace existing solutions business practices, day by day, myths start sprouting like weeds spotting your favorite golfing green. The uncomfortable truth is that many companies suffer today a backup plan insufficient. is a backup of any organization is crucial. Do you remember the last time not suffered from headaches backup? Youcan not.

A new solution on the market came in the mid 80s, but the phenomenon has taken the World Wide Web. Only then has the attention of IT professionals for the protection of mission-critical data. online backup and electronic vaulting, no matter the term coined start, eliminates many typical backup headaches. The ability to automate the backup and remove the data off-site once a safe with a click of a mouse button oneReality. Online Backup is innovative, convenient and reliable solution out there today. But Debunking the myths of online backup is still a challenge for companies that use this technology.

A myth: online backup is too expensive.

At first it may seem so. Compare scenario of bandwidth, for example. Hardware, software licenses, tapes, personnel - and let's not forget basic human error, add the cost of traditional backupProcedures. additional costs related to traditional courier services off-site tape solutions and great advantage in attack and sometimes unexpected costs, while online backup costs are declining. Vault America Corp. (TM) provides a double-digit annual decline in costs, bandwidth and storage hardware price decline. Small ten gigabyte user with daily backup will be about $ 460.00 if paid for the traditional service or part, while the same user would pay about$ 294.00 for a complete and automated. It also uses the technology of online backup, a company existing phone lines. A company can better justify the cost of its 24 / 7 dedicated Internet connection. Online backup eliminates all these factors of traditional cost. With total automation, local backup and off-site protection occur simultaneously.

Myth number two: the data is not safe on the Internet.

Online Backup uses the same technology, the United StatesGovernment uses for its security. Encrypted, fragmented data sent over telecom lines - pieces of a puzzle in a language incomprehensible. Online backup vendors can offers clients a highly secure VPN (Virtual Private Network) connection. This higher level of security ensures that all communications between the client and the vault is encrypted. Online backup is actually more secure than storing unencrypted data tapes in a vault at a distance.

Myth Three: OnlineBackup can not handle a Fortune 500 company data.

Handling of large amounts of data over relatively low bandwidth is a popular feature of online backup. An initial backup or "seed" of the server data to be extracted. The Delta Processing technology then asks updated portions of changed files. Only fragmented change of data is sent at a time. large volume and highly redundant disk storage systems store data online. Online BackupService providers, companies with the responsibility to ensure space is always available, whatever the format. To promote data integrity, reliability and recovery, the huge amount of backup data on-line tape on a daily basis, and issued an underground vault for safekeeping.

An inevitable development

Despite the current myths of online backup, it is inevitable the industry standard for fast data backupStorage. Online backup has proven to be a key component of disaster recovery and business continuity plans are. Traditional recovery solutions must be retailored new recovery and continuity alternatives available to accommodate companies in this fast-paced and uncertain climate. Companies can no longer trust to protect their most important asset with inefficient methods.

Data loss and disasters are inevitable, so online backup.The Internet has radically altered the world economy, and with it the management of backup and restore data. Companies that implement the disaster in a better way to ensure their important data will be extinct like the dinosaurs that roamed the planet once expected.