Data Backup and Disaster Recovery

Why Outsource Backups?

For a medium size company, the cost of purchasing the hardware and licensed software needed to ensure reliable Enterprise-Class backups can run to thousands of dollars. That may or may not include the cost of installation and debugging to make sure everything is compatible with your existing hardware and software. Nor does that include the cost of running and maintaining the backup system over a period of years before you have to do a major upgrade or replacement. Your IT staff may need to be trained and proper backup procedures; and be asked to add a lot of hours to an already heavy work schedule.


Scalable Backup Solutions:

	Connected Backup/PC	Connected Backup/Server	Live Vault Server Backups	Enterprise Server Backups
Operating System	Windows XP/Vista	Windows Server 2003/2008	Windows Server 2003/2008 Linux Solaris Mac OS	Windows Server 2003/2008 Linux Solaris and more...
Backup Type	Continuous block level backup	Continuous block level backup	Scheduled daily/weekly/monthly	Scheduled daily/weekly/monthly
Database Support?	No	No	Some -list here-	Yes complete hot database backup support
Off-site Storage?	Yes to remote disk	Yes to remote disk	Yes to remote disk	Yes to remote disk + tape archive
Network Connection?	High Speed	High Speed	High Speed	100Mbps High Speed Required
Archive Period?	File retention: 30 days	File retention: 30 days	Files retention plans: a) 30-day b) 1-year c) 7-year	File retention: daily image: 2 wks weekly image: 5 wks monthly image: 12 mths
Backup Support	24x7	24x7	24x7	24x7
Data Encryption?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Minimum Encryption: 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standards

You store all kinds of data on your computer; from special moments captured in digital photos, music libraries, to critical business documents. Human error or computer hardware failure or disaster (fires, floods, electrical storms, theft)
can strike: all of which result in lost data.

The countless hours spent creating and assembling your unique collection of data can be gone forever if you haven't properly secured and protected it in a remote vault location -- similar to having a safe deposit box at a bank.
GridWay, in partnership with Iron Mountain offer you an Enterprise-Class backup solution at a home PC price.

Note: Connected/PC provides data protection, not long-term archival storage. Protected files and folders that are deleted from your PC remain on the backup server for a limited time period (30 days).
If you implement this solution as a disaster recovery tool, the data retention time period might be quite short.

Connected Backup/Server - For The Office File Server
You store critical business documents, presentations, accounting information, contact information, product data, programs, and configuration information on your company file server. Human error or computer hardware failure or disaster (fires, floods, electrical storms, theft) can strike: all of which result in lost data.

Your business relies on the critical information on your server. The business you've built and worked hard for can be severely impacted if you haven't properly secured and protected its data in a remote vault location -- similar to having a safe deposit box at a bank.
GridWay, in partnership with Iron Mountain offer you an Enterprise-Class backup solution at an affordable price.

Note: Connected/Server provides data protection, not long-term archival storage. Protected files and folders that are deleted from your Server remain on the backup server for a limited time period (30 days).
If you implement this solution as a disaster recovery tool, the data retention time period might be quite short.

Live Vault - For Small To Medium Sized Business
Usually smaller businesses with one or more sites have little if any dedicated IT staff and outsource backup (and other managed services). Outsourcing backups is a simple way to offload the burden of doing backups properly, securely, and moving the data offsite while being able to restore it from disk very quickly.

It has been proven that when a Small to Medium Sized business does a cost comparison of apples-to-apples, an outsourced backup service is more cost effective than doing it alone to achieve the same consistent results: freeing up valuable IT resources to focus on core business needs and to work on helping implement newer technologies resulting in improved business.

The GridWay Enterprise Backup solution is a fully outsourced data backup and recovery solution with service level guarantees. Enterprise Backup is designed for companies that have moderate to very substantial backup requirements, and, when required, the ability to instantly recover their corporate data.

Your corporate data is automatically encrypted and backed up with monthly/weekly full and daily differential backup schedules. Data can be restored at speeds up to 1Gbps over a secure VLAN network connection between the customer and GridWay's datacenter.

Outsourcing data backups means NO ongoing capital investment in tape backup software, hardware and media. There is no recurring capital cost to keep the backup infrastructure current. Outsourcing frees up your IT staff's time to provide better support and service to your users, there helping drive your companies core competencies.

GridWay's Enterprise Backup solutions eliminate risks and concerns around business continuance and disaster recovery by securely backing up valuable corporate data from your company's servers, databases and applications to a protected offsite storage facility.
Centralized administration, management and detailed reporting of data backups using industry best practices guarantees a single point of accountability.