The Problem

The loss of IT capacity and telecommunications is seen as the worst disruption scenario for organizations. 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.

Consider these statistics . . .

• 48% of managers admit that their businesses have experienced one or more interruptions within the past year. 57% of business disasters are IT-related.
• 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.
• 93% of businesses say that data storage is an extremely important part of their organization but only 20% of those surveyed said that there was a high level of understanding of storage and storage issues within their companies.
• 85% of businesses that suffer major data loss go out of business within 2 years.

Online data backup - The benefits

Advances in data replication and secure technologies combined with reduced bandwidth costs allow agilIT 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 agilIT, it means contracting out IT systems maintenance to a professional organization 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

Online Backup Solutions

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, our Server Backup Solution can receive and securely store the backed-up data offsite for you. No more tapes to store and manage.

AgilIT offers 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 are able to concentrate on their core functions, increasing productivity
• Easily integrates with any existing Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery strategy

We centralize 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

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.

Next Steps

AgilIT can provide you with a 30-day trial of the online backup software. You can install the software yourself or agilIT can install and configure it.

Data Analysis and Discovery Exercise
AgilIT can perform a data analysis discovery exercise. This involves installing a data monitoring tool on a designated PC on your network. This will collect data on data volumes for an interval of at least one week to ensure that accurate statistical information on data growth and changes is gathered. AgilIT will then analyze the data and produce a series of reports, such as:

• All files
• Changed and new files
• Not accessed files
• File type distribution
• Access report/dormant files
• SQL server size
• Duplicate files
• Unchanged files
• Largest files
• File ownership
• Partition size
• Growth and modified files
• Exchange server size

The information from this analysis can be used to provide an insight into your backup requirements and to determine the cost of online backup.

Go Live

AgilIT can implement the backup facility, configuring operation for:

• Frequency of backup
• Backup schedule
• Number of generations of data to maintain
• Setup of backup data levels to reduce cost
• Access Report/Dormant Files

AgilIT can take a full-backup of the data initially to a portable disk to perform an initial full backup, eliminating this initial load on your internet connection. In addition, agilIT can train your staff in the operation and use of the system and provide a dedicated backup device if required.

AgilIT can provide a fully managed backup service, monitoring backups daily and identifying any problems, further saving you time.