Data Backup
Creating and performing a well planned strategy for data backups is an integral function for every business. Ensuring information is available for restore quickly and efficiently in the event of a data loss is also a key factor to an organisation’s overall disaster recovery and continuity planning.
Data Backup Challenges
The exponential growth of data levels means that the business critical data backup procedure is a challenge for the IT function from a technical perspective and can also prove to be a huge drain on time and resource. Common problems areas include:-
- Staff time and IT resource
- Multiple office locations
- Different operating systems and applications
- Regulatory and compliance guidelines
- Frequent user restore requests
- Small backup window
- Managing offsite media storage
- Cost of media
- Backup failures
- Inefficient software
- Multiple copies and duplicate data
- Service Level to business
Solutions and Strategy
Through vast experience of different customer needs, requirements and data levels, Data Connect provide access to our experienced technical consultants, a range of enterprise technology partners and managed service providers to advise on and implement a workable solution for your organisation. Our services can be adapted to your specific requirements and cover the following areas:-
- Review of current procedures and cost of ownership
- Risk and gap analysis
- Strategy review
- Technical troubleshooting
- New solution options, scoping and financial review
- Implementation
- Ongoing support and management
- Managed services and online secure backup
- Guaranteed service levels
Managed Service and Online Secure Backups
Our extensive knowledge of providers and software in this area has proved invaluable to small companies through to large global enterprises and multi-nationals. The managed service route has been adopted by a significant number of organisations through the need to maximise their own in-house resource and to provide their business with the required service levels.
Involving Data Connect in a managed service backup project has afforded our customers a means to select the best service providers for their budget and technical requirements and also provided invaluable advice on the management of data storage levels.
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