The State of Backup and Recovery

Can you justify the expense you are incurring for backing up mission-critical data? Physically moving tapes to offsite locations has several limitations. First, it is a manual process that humans must oversee. Today's economy demands efficient use of qualified technical staff. Wasteful use of technical talent administering the backup process, organizing tapes, and transporting them to an offsite location just doesn't make sense. Not only does this process take precious IT manhours, it also requires substantial investments in hardware and storage tapes.

In addition, tape-based system recovery is slow at best. The simple facts are these:

• Tapes fail.
• Transportation of tapes to and from the offsite storage area is slow and time-consuming.
• The recovery process is even slower than transporting the tapes offsite. Plus, restoring down to the single file level is almost impossible. The correct tape must be located and then the tape must be scanned for the proper session.
• Ultimately your taped-based backup system cannot scale to meet operating system upgrades or growth of your business.
• Orchestrating a tape-based backup simply takes too much time. IT resources are at a premium and delays and inefficiencies result in downtime and lost productivity.

Electronic vaults powered by EVault leapfrog the capabilities of tape-based systems, providing real savings to companies. Before you invest in additional hardware and the infrastructure to maintain and transport backup tapes, consider EVault's cost-saving benefits.

Because EVault carries the cost of the storage equipment, companies need not invest in costly hardware. In addition, the backup process is faster than tapes, and because it is centrally managed and so easy to use for an end user, companies can spend less time administering the backup and recovery process.

EVault's solution requires no human intervention. It enables you to centrally manage all installations, upgrades, backups, and restores for multiple remote servers from one machine. No tape drives are necessary, and you never have to worry about hardware obsolescence. Backups are transmitted automatically to offsite data centers.

IT staff are free to conduct business as usual -- helping to build and run your business. They no longer must concern themselves with the details of backup. EVault's service happens automatically and provides for immediate backups. No downtime -- which keeps businesses running smoothly.