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The Need
to Protect Critical Data
Data is the lifeblood of every
organization and assuring that data is always available is the
most important mission of IT departments. System failures, power
outages, and natural disasters all put business-critical data
at risk of being permanently lost or inaccessible for extended
periods of time.
Replication has played
an important role in enterprise IT for quite some time, but has been
a challenging technology for many sites due to complicated processes
and scripting requirements that require constant and often expensive
maintenance by senior IT personnel. The explosive increase in the
amount of data under management, and the requirement for 24x7 access,
has severely impacted an IT staff’s ability to manage that
data.
Nowhere is this more
apparent than in backup and recovery. As backup windows have not
increased to provide more time for the process, IT managers are often
faced with a no-win choice between extending backups beyond the backup
window, thus impacting performance or cutting backup short. Obviously,
neither option is satisfactory.
Responding
to Our Clients Needs
With CDI’s Data Replication Service, production data is replicated,
backups can be done using replicated volumes. The benefit? Backup
windows are significantly shortened, and backup can be conducted
under stress-free circumstances where operators can compensate for
network burnouts, machine or media failures, and other interruptions
that often cause operations to fail. With the backup process no longer
hostage to the limits of the backup window, the process is improved
and restores are much more likely to succeed. With databases that are replicated
regularly, recent data can be restored directly from the replicated volumes,
eliminating the need to go out to tape and restore.
Computers do simple,
repetitive tasks with far greater efficiency than humans. Management
of such repetitive tasks such as replication, minimizes operator
interaction, maximizes each task’s efficiency in terms of accuracy
and operational expense, and makes the task many times more useful.
Data You
Can Count On, A Company You Can Rely Upon
A replication strategy with the help of CDI can deliver value ranging from
the creation of single point-in-time backup copies, to creating multiple replications.
The simplicity of such a sophisticated technology allows the IT manager to
create replicas easily, and to apply those replicas to development, maintenance,
or other operations easily and efficiently. Faster, easier replication means
- multiple copies of data with less expense. Reusing and redeploying application-based
data will result in more efficient application rollout and maintenance, and
in improved application availability.
It is all about protecting
the valuable information assets in the most economical way possible,
including efficient use of human capital. Information availability
is critical to every business and can make or break business, don’t
let it break yours.
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