Online Data Backup

The Problem
The Benefits
The Solution
The Pricing Structure

Online Data Backup - The Problem

The loss of IT capacity and telecommunications is seen as the worst disruption scenarios for organisations, and 48% of managers admit that their businesses have experienced one or more interruptions within the past year. 57% of business disasters are IT-related.

About half of small and medium-sized firms now do perform some sort of data backup, but not always adequately. Because they have limited or no IT staff, they do bulk server backup only when they can, and seldom store tapes offsite. Hence a large numbers of businesses would be unable to recover business data after a server crash or disaster.

Although 40% of medium-sized businesses are using advanced network-based storage options, they are failing to protect their employees' PCs and laptops. Less than 50% indicate they have a backup routine for PCs and laptops.

It takes 19 days and costs in excess of €14,000 to re-enter just 20 MB worth of sales and marketing data. Retrieving accounting records is even worse; they require over 21 days of work and cost over €15,700 to re-type.

93% of businesses say that data storage is an extremely important part of their organisation but only 20% of those surveyed said that there was a high level of understanding of storage and storage issues within their companies.

This is especially alarming because it is the smaller companies that are most likely to feel the economic impact if disaster, whether natural or man-made, should strike. Fewer resources, and sometimes limited IT experience and expertise, mean that technology downtime can disproportionately affect smaller firms, hurting their ability to keep operating while all around them falls to pieces.

85% of businesses that suffer major data loss go out of business within 2 years.

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Online Data Backup - The Benefits

Advances in data replication and secure technologies combined with reduced bandwidth costs allow DSS to offer continuous online data backup, recovery and electronic vaulting services to businesses with limited or no IT support.

By outsourcing your data backup to DSS it means contracting out IT systems maintenance to a professional organisation with properly trained staff that can offer the expertise and resources to offer whatever support is required.

The Old Way - Tape back-up

• Semi automated (at best)
• Limited Security and compression
• Labour intensive
• Multiple tapes onsite
• Problematic
• Expensive

The New Way - Online Data Storage and Online Data Backup

• Fully automated
• Held offsite on disk and tape
• Only new/changed data backed up
• Immediate recovery
• Incremental back-ups
• Full data encryption
• Common file elimination
• Agentless

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Online Data Backup - The Solution

Our Server Backup Solutions allow users to backup servers and databases online using any internet connection. Server Backup makes it easy for any user to quickly backup and retrieve data 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Our online storage system works with most existing backup software utilities like ArcServe, BackupExec and NT Backup. Whether you are backing-up a database, archiving an e-mail server or simply scheduling a backup of a LINUX server via FTP, Server Backup Solution can receive and securely store the backed-up data offsite for you. No more tapes to store and manage.

DSS offer a complete solution: 

• No tape handling - a direct saving
• Faster back ups and restores - a direct service improvement
• No courier issues or costs - more savings
• Your personnel able to concentrate on their core functions, increasing productivity
• Easily integrates with any existing Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery strategy

We centralise the backup to single point on network:

• Reduces configuration, administration and backup window
• Fully automates the backup process
• Multiple offsite copies of the data
• Rapid data recovery in the event of data loss
• Highly secure, encrypted transmission and storage
• Exchange, SQL Server and Oracle Database Support

The backup service supports applications like Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino and Novell GroupWise mail systems and SQL Server Oracle and DB2 databases so backups can be taken directly from these applications without having to shut them down, ensuring safe backups data.

Mail data can be restored by message, user, group or entire mail store.

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Online Data Backup - The Pricing Structure

The cost for the service is simple. You are only charged for the volume of data you have located at the backup site. You are not charged for data transmission and data recovery. You can restore data as often as you want.

Note that you are charged for compressed data only. With an average compression ratio of 4:1, if you are backing up 40 GB, you will only be charged for 10 GB.

Long-term unchanging data attracts a lower charge, further reducing costs.

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