Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity (DR/BC) Services From VirtuousIT The VirtuousIT DR/BC solution is designed around RecoveryShield from Thinking SAFE. The service includes a local backup appliance for line speed restore in cases of lost files, an offsite backup server for replication, and a loan server and rebuild of your server and use of hot desks in case of a disaster. RecoveryShield delivers improved availability critical business systems distributed across the organisation. Whether they are located in the data centre or a remote office, RecoveryShield is designed to meet the recovery objectives of the 21st century business, provide continuous data protection and deliver higher availability of data and systems. With RecoveryShield you can: Dramatically improve your IT disaster recovery position Automate your backup and recovery environment Build in greater reliability and resilience Reduce or contain your costs Deliver an integrated, cost effective email, database and file archive platform Secure virtualized systems across distributed SAN, NAS or DAS architectures RecoveryShield is a disk based online backup, recovery and archive solution that delivers corporate level data availability for all sizes of business. Do you go to work without a safety net? Online Backup and Disaster Recovery acts as an insurance policy that minimises risk to the business and helps you avoid an unplanned career break. The cost of the service depends on the amount of data backed up and is charged in GB/month. To give an accurate quotation would depend on the amount and type of data you backup, this is because of the different policies required for file, database and exchange data.
RecoveryShield from VirtuousIT Product Brief As the volume of data and number of work locations in an organisation increases, so the processes of data backup and recovery become more complex and more costly. Historically, these processes required tape libraries on every site and tapes were manually transferred from site to site. Manual processes, tape failures, limited redundancy, and transport failures meant data recovery could suffer a 40% failure rate. Automatic backup to disk, creating multiple copies, electronically distributed across several sites makes 99.999% data recovery the new standard. VirtuousIT recognise that achieving 99.999% recovery requires good business practice, but good technology helps. RecoveryShield technology offers central management across multiple sites, automatic replication, enhanced security, audit trails, instant recovery, built-in disaster recovery & data archiving. Historically the cost of running a backup regime included tapes, tape hardware, software, offsite transportation and storage, and the management of the process. With continuous pressure on budgets, the use of tape-based systems for data backup & recovery is not sustainable. RecoveryShield reduces staff cost through automation, uses existing network connections to distribute data, and uses low-cost disk storage to create secure, reliable and cost-effective solutions for all your backup, recovery and archive needs.
Central Management How does RecoveryShield work? Your technical team needs to manage backup, recovery, and archives across the whole organisation. Your audit team needs to be confident that your business is adequately protected. RecoveryShield provides a central management console to define and monitor corporate policy for business data retention. Policies define what data is retained, how often it is secured, and how it is distributed across sites for maximum resilience. Backup Backups run automatically according to schedule, without manual intervention. Backup data is secured on disk storage, with multiple copies, distributed over multiple sites, and the data is protected by advanced encryption security. Business recovery may require data to be restored consistently to a given date and time, so backups can be synchronised across the organisation by reference to the atomic clock. Business processes and hardware sometimes fail, but this is reported automatically via the console and through email notification. Backups will run automatically once it becomes possible. Backups can protect file servers, application databases, email systems, desktops, and laptops across every business location including head offices, data centres, branch offices, home and mobile offices.
Restore VirtuousIT customers can restore their data using the Management Console without needing IT support or the return of backup tapes from offsite storage. The interface provides a list of all the files available for restore from the Backup Appliance. This list is sorted by Backup Date and can contain several different versions of the same file. The exclusive Version Control system built into the RecoveryShield environment enables data to be restored to any version - not just the latest one. Files and folders can be selected by checking and un-checking them using the file tree structure. Individual files, folders, or complete drives can be recovered and restored to any location. Files can be selected for recovery from a specific date and time, or by version. Archive Old, stale data can be archived enabling it to be permanently secured in the RecoveryShield environment for long-term storage. Once it has been archived, this data can be removed from the production servers safe in the knowledge that it is stored in one of the most secure environments in the world. As up to 80% of your data could be archiveable, this process dramatically reduces the cost of managing your storage environment. Centralise Control Increase Reliability & Resilience Improve Disaster Recovery
RecoveryShield Key Features Automated online backup and recovery based on S-ATA disk technology with SAN, NAS and DAS Single Solution for Multiple operating systems Protects unlimited number of servers and systems with one RecoveryShield management console Delivers resilient file recovery at a click of a mouse even if the VPN or Internet connection is down (requires local backup appliance) Provides rapid server recovery at LAN speed (requires local backup appliance) Integrated data replication for offsite disaster recovery RecoveryShield Key Messages Stop using tapes for your operational backup and recovery process Reduce your current backup costs by upto 60% Turn a technical IT function into a Helpdesk admin task Automate the backups to remove the daily effort of managing tapes Reduce your backup window to a few minutes (requires local backup appliance) Use the integrated archive to reduce the amount of storage needed on your production servers RecoveryShield Benefit Summary: Backup your data to one of the most secure data centres in Europe Give you centralised data recovery & backup management Support remote users and remote sites Offer data recovery at disk transfer speeds Have the option of an on-site data recovery unit for fastest possible server rebuilds Offer full disaster recovery, with your data restored to a replacement site Encrypt all of your data before it transferred to the data centre Store your data encrypted using the most advanced 256 bit AES standard, for maximum security Operates as a fully managed service, that can be upgraded from 1Gb to 20Tb, with one phone call 99.999% recoverability Service Level Agreement and a No Quibble Guarantee