Solutions

Online backup

A primary concern for most companies is how to get corporate data safely and efficiently offsite on a daily basis. Our online backup solution gives you a managed network backup to resilient storage data vaults replicated between our two datacentres in Jersey. Changes in your data or files are compressed and encrypted before being backed up to our vaults. The data is stored compressed and encrypted on the vault storage system and may be restored to your disaster recovery servers either here or at another location. The use of sophisticated delta change technology means that only relatively small bandwidth connectivity is required to backup large amounts of data.

The service backs up files based on their content regardless of the hardware or software environment. After the initial backup, only the blocks that have changed are processed on subsequent backups that makes the service extremely efficient and provides backups across the globe that can in some instances be faster than the equivalent local full backup to tape.

You can then choose to restore this data to servers located here at network speed, or to servers located anywhere in the world via the internet. Alternatively we can copy your data securely to a USB disk and have it shipped to your disaster recovery location.

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Database replication

Database utilities may be used to replicate changes from a your live environment to a duplicate database held on a server located in our offshore datacentre. Depending on the type of database used there are a number of methods to achieve this. In the event of a disaster access to the applications running from within our offshore datacentre may be provisioned through a browser or thin client technology.

Software based utilities

Software based utilities may be used to mirror volumes or applications from your live servers to disaster recovery servers located in our offshore datacentre. There are a number of vendors with products that can achieve this. In the event of a disaster access to the applications running from within our datacentre may be provisioned through a browser or thin client technology.

Hardware or appliance based storage replication

A number of storage vendors provide the ability to mirror or replicate data from a storage system in your live environment to one located in our datacentre. Depending on the vendor and the type of appliance this can include NAS, SAN, fibre-channel and iSCSI storage subsystems. In the event of a disaster access to the applications running from within our offshore datacentre may be provisioned through a browser or thin client technology.