How good is your Backup strategy?

How good is your Backup strategy?

Do you have a tried and tested backup strategy? Are you sure you could quickly recover from any serious data or system lost? Perhaps you feel lucky - but do you think it will hold out? I ask because a recent backup vendor survey claims almost two-thirds of you backup less than once a month, and from experience I know that even fewer companies test their Disaster Recover procedures on a regular basis or at all. The report also reveals that 2GB of data disappears every single minute due to drive or media failure, disaster or human error. Do you still feel lucky, or would you rather feel prepared? If so, say hello to the second generation of continuous data protection appliances from SonicWALL.

Any backup is only as reliable as its ability to restore business data and applications when they are needed most. Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) need to protect not only their data, but also the systems that access that data, such as Exchange, SQL Server and Active Directory. SMBs also need the performance to backup and restore rapidly expanding volumes of data, while meeting stricter regulatory compliance for data archiving. And should disaster strike, SMBs need the flexibility to immediately recover the most current data to new locations or computer platforms.

SonicWALL® Continuous Data Protection (CDP) offers the only complete end-to-end disk-based backup and recovery solution for SMBs. CDP features automatic transparent backup, user-directed restore, flexible disaster recovery options and low-touch administration. CDP ensures performance and reliability by generating automatic e-mail alerts of compromised connectivity, as well as daily hierarchical and detailed drill-down reports that summarize all backup jobs, capacity and utilization statistics. Extensible across multiple platforms including Windows and Linux®, CDP solutions can instantly recover data, applications or entire workstation or server systems onto original, new or virtual devices. CDP solutions secure data using industry-standard encryption anytime it is transmitted off site, offering complete business information availability for servers, desktops and mobile laptops.

CDP offers multiple backup and recovery options enabling organizations to be up and running extremely quickly after a disaster event including Offsite, Site-to-Site, Bare Metal Recovery (BMR)and Local Archiving

The SonicWALL CDP Series provides a flexible, extensible solution that can scale to meet the budget, performance and capacity needs of any SMB.

For a quote or to discuss these products in more detail please contact SIRE Technology or take a look at the SonicWALL® Continuous Data Protection Datasheet.

Last updated: January 20th 2010