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Your
Issues
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Impact
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Thinking
SAFE Solution
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Our
Value
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Backup data is not encrypted
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Confidential company data
is being transported and stored
in the public domain.
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Encrypt the data as it is
backed up and before it is
sent offsite |
Removes the need to add encryption
hardware to tape drives
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The management of the backup
process takes a significant
amount of time |
Admin staff spend time on
repetitive but important tasks
rather than directly supporting
the end users and adding value
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Implement a centralised, automated,
tapeless backup and recovery
solution |
Reduces the annual intangible
staff costs by atleast £5,000
per site |
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Restoring files or complete
servers is difficult |
Users wait longer than they
need to for data and systems
to be restored as most recent
data is stored offsite.
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Create 2 copies of backup
data on disk locally and remotely
that are available for restoration
instantly 24x7 |
Halves the cost of running
a backup environment based
on best practices |
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Backup window is shrinking
as data is growing |
It will be difficult to complete
backup within the available
time for some systems
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Implement hourly or daily
incremental backup processes,
or use Snapshot copy to reduce
the overnight bottleneck
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Thinking SAFE can guarantee
that all business data can
be backed up |
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Different types of tape have
been used. |
Keeping every type of tape
drive available to restore
archive data over the next
10 years is impossible
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Keeps all archive data on
disk |
Archived data can always be
accessed as there are no compatibility
issues |
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Long term archive mechanism
for mail or other business
data is limited |
There is limited ability to
comply with good corporate
governance practises. Recovery
of email will be much slower.
Stale data being stored
on expensive production spec
servers. |
Archive all emails for specific
grades of employees.
Archive information pertaining
to project and customer relationship
management to alternate servers.
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Thinking SAFE provide an integrated
email and document archiving
solution to address these
issues |
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Onsite firesafe used to store
daily backup tapes (250m is
seen as minimum acceptable
distance) |
Firesafe hardware will protect
tapes from fire damage but
can heat them beyond their
working limits |
Secure the data onsite daily
or hourly, then immediately
synchronise it offsite
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Thinking SAFE removes the
need to spend £4,500 per site
per year on courier fees
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There is no centralised control
or visibility of the backup
activity |
Corporate data may be at risk,
however IT have no way of
knowing |
Provide a centralised management
console that controls the
entire environment |
All backup and recovery activity
can be seen and audited easily
and quickly |
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No laptop or desktop data
is being backed up by IT
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‘Work In Progress’
Files and email archives,
which are being used to drive
the business forward, are
at risk from hardware failure,
and accidental or deliberate
deletion.
This could affect up
to 50% of the WIP data.
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Deploy backup agent on laptops
to secure the data to a datacentre
from anywhere in the world
using any type of network
connection |
In the Enterprise
model, as Thinking SAFE would
have backed up the data when
it arrived on the corporate
servers, there is no additional
cost for this capability.
However the value of
not losing the past 2 weeks
of the CEO’ s data is
significant IT can recover
data to a users computer anywhere
in the world |
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Data needs to be stored offsite
for D/R purposes |
Tapes have to be labelled
and given to couriers so that
they can be stored remotely
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Backup data is automatically
replicated offsite as soon
as it is backed up |
No manual intervention means
that cost of the process is
lower and the reliability
is much higher |
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To reduce costs backup data
is only taken offsite weekly
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In the event of a fire a week
of business data will be lost
which will directly affect
the bottom line of the business
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Secure data offsite daily
or hourly |
We can send data offsite hourly
as part of the core solution
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Where there are backups of
the data, only one copy is
made creating a single point
of failure |
Any media failure will result
in lost data |
Thinking SAFE implements a
resilient backup solution
that creates at least 2 copies
of the business data that
are stored in atleast 2 separate
locations |
Implements highly resilient,
best practice backup by default
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The current solution costs
a significant amount of money
to run |
Money is being spent and a
limited service is being delivered
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Remove the cost of tapes,
tape drives, alternative backup
software, manual intervention,
couriers and offsite tape
storage. Monthly
fee for the service spreads
the cost.
Perpetual license for
the software is lowest cost
option.
Term license option
spreads cost of owning the
software.
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The Thinking SAFE alternative
typically reduces operating
costs by 50% |
