ReliabilITy
Remote Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR)
New! Secure Enterprise-Class Business Continuity Without The
Enterprise-Class Price
Most companies have backup and disaster recovery (BDR) plans.
Most prudent companies, however, realize the term 'disaster' includes more
than virus attacks, network failures, and hacker threats.
How long would your business be down in the event of a power outage, flood, fire
or other natural disaster if you are still storing your backups on your
premises?
i3 Business Solutions can provide you with easy, daily, Backup and Disaster
Recovery (BDR) and store your critical data remotely-- to protect your
company from downtime due to natural and man-made disasters.
Click here to see the technology behind our NAS device!
See a guided demo on how to protect your systems with i3’s new Remote Backup
and Disaster Recovery solution.
Why i3 Business Solutions Remote Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR)?
With its fast virtualization capabilities, our NAS device can be configured
to function as a replacement server if needed. This unique device also can
replace management intensive, error-prone tape backups while providing much
more... starting with peace of mind.
Protect Valuable Informational Assets & Keep Downtime To A Minimum
Our NAS device is a comprehensive Backup and Disaster Recovery solution (BDR)
for Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 servers. This reasonably priced,
all-encompassing solution for small-to- midsize businesses provides:
- Very frequent backups (as frequent as every 15 minutes) with an onsite NAS
device
- Optional off-site data storage at highly rated data centers
- The ability to restore downed servers in less than 30 minutes!
- Advanced restoration options (file- and folder-levels) with Exchange message
and mailbox recovery
- Bare-metal restorations to dissimilar hardware
- Low cost
NAS vs Tape
Though tape backup is common, it's far from being an ideal BDR solution.
Analysts have said that over half of tape backups fail, so chances are that
if you need to restore from tape, you'll be out of luck. But assuming all goes
well with tape backup, how does it compare with the NAS appliance?
What Happens If My Server Crashes?
Now let's look at how our solution keeps your business running if, for
instance, an e-mail server goes down.
Because the device takes snap shots every 15 minutes, administrators can
choose a point in time shortly before the problem occurred and with just a few
clicks of the mouse, this appliance allows you to activate it as a virtual
server to keep business processes up and running while we diagnose the problem
and plan a course of action for the down email server.
In the event of a catastrophic server failure, our business continuity
solution also includes a boot CD that allows us to perform a bare metal restore
on new hardware in a fraction of the time of a typical server rebuild. And, this
NAS device restoration will allow you to eliminate the hardware abstraction
layer during the restore process so that the new drivers can be loaded on the
server replacement, no matter which server brand is used - giving you speedy
recovery options in times of crisis.
Recovery after a Catastrophe
If a disaster results in your business losing the entire office - servers and
on-site NAS included - you order a newly imaged NAS with the most current
backup-normally the last daily that was done, to be shipped out via next
business-day air transportation to a location of your choice. If such an event
occurs, we will not host the data at the co-location facility. Depending on the
NAS model used, multiple servers can be virtualized on one NAS even as the NAS
continues to perform backups of other servers.
When the NAS arrives, all you need to do is plug in a patch cable and you're
up and running. This recovery service will allow you to use the NAS for two
weeks before it must be returned or purchased. This timeframe should allow you
to get a new server ordered, in place and do a bare-metal restore from the NAS
before returning the NAS. Alternatively, you can choose to keep the NAS and you
will be billed for the list price of the new NAS. This would also allow you to
use this NAS for the ongoing backups when you move forward, re-establishing your
business network.
Off-Site Storage Facility
For additional protection in the event of a complete disaster, data is
securely transferred to an off-site co-location facility on a daily basis. Then,
in event of such an occurrence, you will receive a new NAS device imaged with
your latest data. The storage facilities are two XO high-availability data
centers in Phoenix and Baltimore. They provide:
- Backup images stored at the data centers on a Storage Area Network (SAN) at
hte primary facility then replicated to the secondary facility
- Connectivity provided by multiple providers with automatic failover
capabilities
- Facilities provide two fiber optic network drops for our backbone
- Full physical security at each facility including security cameras and key
card access
- Network is secured with high-end redundant, automatic failover firewalls
- Fire supression and environmental control provided
- Automatic back-up power provided with on-site generators
Click here to see how to protect your systems with i3’s new Remote Backup
and Disaster Recovery solution!