Organizations today understand that backup is not the key process.

Recovery of systems and data is now critical.
Data is the lifeblood of all organizations – without it, quite simply, businesses will fail.

Tape backup products typically focus on the data, not the operating system. But in reality, the fast recovery of the operating system is critical, since the server must be operational before data can be restored.

Whether it’s small business, medium size companies or indeed large corporations and government entities, all should be able to restore key data – such as Exchange servers and SQL databases – in a matter of minutes, not days.

The real issue is to first understand the needs of business, and how downtime will affect the business and its profitability. Then to put in place risk-mitigation strategies or solutions that reduce or eliminate the problems associated with traditional backup and help ensure that businesses are able to reduce costs, reduce complexity and improve compliance of their data.

There is no point in spending hours backing up data if there is a concern that the restore may not work. After all, the only reason you backup data is to restore it at some point in the future. Backup is an insurance policy – and in reality, who wants an insurance policy that does not deliver on expectations? Or worse, a policy that does not provide you with coverage when you need it most – after a problem or disaster?

Data is the lifeblood of your company. It is irreplaceable and costs money, or even your entire business, if it is lost.

One of the greatest challenges companies face is when a server crashes. How do you get that server up and running as quickly as possible and then restore data as quickly as possible? 

A typical manual system rebuilding process takes four to eight hours and often substantially longer if a database is involved. 

While the system is down, no data can be restored until after the system volume is put back into production state – and that includes all the service packs, security updates, tweaks, scripts,applications and so forth.

Once this is completed, the data then needs to be restored.

In best-case scenarios, if data restores work flawlessly, it takes approximately the same time to restore data as it did to back it up. That means, if it takes six hours to backup your data, it will take you typically four to eight hours to restore your system volume, then an additional six hours to restore your data.

During this time, users who rely on the system that is down do not have access to it!

This is often a major pain point in most companies. Imagine, your Exchange server crashes, and no one has access to sending or receiving e-mails for 10, 15 or 24 hours.

What will that cost you in lost productivity?

What if it happens to be your SQL server doing order processing, or a key application server?

What if that server is your backup server?

It’s all about saving your Business, not backup.