Blog: Disaster Recovery
rssNetApp highlights Tier 3’s successful deployment of NetApp gear to accelerate data backups and restoration for customers
NetApp recently posted a Tier 3 customer success story showcasing the impressive results we’ve been able to attain for our customers since implementing NetApp storage systems and associated software. Here are some of the notable benefits:
- Helped provided enterprise-level backup and DR services at 10 times less cost than in-house infrastructures
- Reclaimed 67% of storage in virtualized environment
- Reduced backups of entire data center from 24 hours to one hour
- Can now off... continued...
Why disaster recovery matters
At Tier 3 we always wonder about how good the facilities are in this era of cost cutting in the IT environment. That is why we automatically replicate our customers data to the secondary data center so if spin up needs to happen we can do this.
Disaster Recovery is often one of the things that is left out with most IT orgs because of the cost and technical know how required to make it be effective and maintainable.
http://www.intology.com/computers-internet/us-data-center-cat...
Why tape backups are bad
Alot of our customers always ask why we dont do offsite tape backups or tape backups of any kind at Tier 3. The answer is many fold but what it comes down to is the non stop risk that it has.
Here is another reason why we use disk to disk to an offsite data center for backups:
http://www.computerworld.com
If you are using tapes be very careful to encrypt your data. Even with our solution we...
Being focused on High Availability means not only
Being focused on High Availability means not only focusing on unplanned downtime. It is also about at passionate resolution to eliminate planned downtime. A major indirect cost of IT Operations. An article by Dell quotes "Infonetics Research study, The Costs of Downtime: North American Medium Businesses 2006, found that mid-market enterprises (101-1,000 employees) lose an average of 1 percent of their annual revenues to downtime. Even more startling, another study has found that up to 40-50 percent of businesses that have suffered major service interru...
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