Archiving and Back up - Archiving - Virtual Tape Library and disk to disk back-up
Archiving
All organisations need to look at Archiving as a way of dealing with long term retention of data. For many organisations data is more than doubling each year, yet up to 80 percent of this data remains inactive in production systems where it cripples performance, utilises high cost storage and increases energy use. To compound the problem, many organisations are having to deal with compliance initiatives that require the retention of more data for longer periods of time, as well as consolidation projects that result in significant data growth.
With data archiving we advise on the following best practices:
- Set a data retention policy
- Integrate data retention policies into a single archiving system
- Enforce data retention based on a published central retention document
- Store data in classes appropriate to the age of data and its access requirements
- Relocate inactive data to the archive
- Retain application transparency for users regardless of where the data resides
- Ensure that you align you archiving methodology with the legislation in each country you operate in by the relevant agency concerned
DU360 provides a range of archiving solutions for both file and email archiving. Contact us now for an independent review of your archiving options. The majority of businesses know that they must regularly back up their valuable data due to the increasing compliance requirements and regulations enforced in this information driven world. Every day significant IT resource is wasted backing up and duplicating this information and ultimately leading to rising storage costs.
The sharing of internal information is a key challenge for many large organisations, and unless information can be easily located and retrieved, you risk confusion, duplication of effort, compliance issues and embarrassment.
We are able to benchmark where you are today and where you could be tomorrow, taking away the hassle of backing up and archiving information with the best automated technologies that can reduce your storage costs and keep information readily accessible to end users.
Backup
Data loss can result in costly business interruptions and the increasing weight of government regulations and consumer expectations can pose severe penalties for the lost of key data.
Corporate data can be protected in a number of ways on different technologies. Our consultants can identify the best solution for your organisation.
Which options will be best for your organisation?
- Disc backup
- Virtual tape library (VTL)
- Tape backup
- Backup software
- Remote backup
- Online Backup
- Offsite backup
- Continuous data protection (CDP)
- Backup Security and Encryption