- Most businesses that experience a major data loss go out of business within 2 years, with 43% never reopening. Common causes of data loss include natural disasters, hardware failures, and human error. - Regular backups and disaster recovery plans are essential to prevent catastrophic data loss. Solutions include real-time network monitoring and backup, off-site storage of backups, and virtualization for quick restoration in an emergency. - The costs of a system failure or data loss far exceed the costs of implementing backup and disaster recovery solutions to prevent downtime and data loss.

1. Disaster
Prevention and Recovery

2. C-Level Initiatives

3. Potential Solution?
Proactive Reactive
Real Time Backup
Network Monitoring and
Disaster Recovery
Real Solutions for Real Needs!

4. What’ the Cost?
s
(Gartner research)
•Most Businesses that experience a major loss
of data go out of business.
–43% never reopen
–51 % fail within 24 months.
•What defines a “Major Loss”
–E-Mail -- Compliance Data
–Loss of accounting data -- Employee Records
–Client Files -- Contracts

5. E-Mail vulnerability
(Dell research)
•75% of all companies are expected to have a
major e-mail outage
•14% of all companies will experience an
unplanned outage
•More than 55% of all unplanned outages will
last 6 hours or more – When will it happen?
•41% of all companies experience monthly
e-mail outages lasting at least 30 minutes

6. Consequences of loss range greatly
(Dell research)
•Health Care Provider lost $3 Million during an
8 hour outage
•Law Firm confirmed losing $100,000 per hour
for a 4 hour outage
•5 Financial Firms were fined a total of $8.25
Million for e-mail failures

7. Business
Continuity
Solutions

8. Causes of Catastrophic Data Loss
Natural Disaster
• Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Micro-bursts
• Floods & Infrastructure Failures
Are You
• Fires
• Lightning
• Power Surges
Ready?
Man-made Disaster
• Viruses, Mal-Spyware
• Theft, external & internal
• Hardware damaged
• Software corrupted
• Human error

9. Causes of Catastrophic Data Loss
1. Cost of IT System failure far exceeds the cost of repair
& recovery
a) Lost receivables
b) Employee time to re-enter data
c) Financial performance penalties levied by regulatory
agencies or contract SLAs
d) $20 Million annual revenue equates to $10,000 per
hour of lost productivity – without penalties!
*It is not IF the system breaks, but WHEN

10. A 1,000 Foot View
Network Operations Center
Secondary Data Center Primary Data Center

11. Solution Details
1. A Microsoft Windows Server only - no desktops
a) Set up network shares for critical desktop info
2. A NAS is required at each end-client location
3. Block Level Backups vs. File-level
a) Eliminates costly backup software and agents.
4. Incremental Forever Methodology-near real-time
backup (every 15 minutes).
5. Security -256 AES Encryption on NAS and off-site

12. Restoration
1. Restoration
a) Include all servers with critical data or used for
remote access
2. Data available for restoration
a) Applications
b) File folders
c) Data files
d) SQL Database
e) Exchange Database
f) Individual e-mail messages

14. Virtualization
1. Bare metal virtualization on dissimilar hardware
2. No need to keep array of different format tape drives for
restoration of archived data
3. Conversion from backup to virtual server in 20 minutes
4. In the event of catastrophe, data is accessible via virtual
machine until a new network is made available. Data can be
restored by imaging the BDR at the data center and shipped
overnight to your location
5. For security purposes, your data will never be hosted, only
stored at the co-location facility. Encryption without the key,
is not accessible

15. Data Tape Issues
1. Costly backup software
2. Loss of Data
a) Tapes not taken off-site
b) Lost Tapes
c) System not checked to see if backups are working
d) Will not backup open files
3. Lengthy data restores
4. Tape incompatibility with archived data –Legacy equipment
5. Disk is cheap –Tape Systems are not
a) Modern server disk capacity has outgrown tape
capabilities