The document outlines intechnology's multi-tier data management services designed to address the challenges of exponential data growth and long-term data retention, focusing on a cost-effective approach based on data value rather than volume. It emphasizes the importance of treating data according to its criticality, offering managed replication, backup, and archiving services that ensure appropriate handling and compliance with regulatory demands. The service model promotes a pay-as-you-go structure, helping organizations reduce costs while improving data management efficiency.

1. DATA SERVICES /
multi-tier storage /
managed replication /
managed bacKup /
managed archiving /
based on value not volume /
sustainable & affordable /
scalable capacity /
simple pay-as-you-go model /
challenge us /

2. WHY CHOOSE INTECHNOLOGY?
cost-effective multi-tier
approach based on data
value, not just data volume /
intechnology’s service
increases our resource,
but we retain
control*/
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dundas & wilson /

3. ADDRESSING EXPONENTIAL DATA GROWTH /
exponential data growth, as well as the requirement for long term data retention, is one of today’s major it
challenges. traditional technologies struggle to keep pace with storage and data management requirements
(that can grow by up to 50% annually), which piles pressure on it budgets like never before. additional
challenges such as carbon footprint reduction add to the headache, costing businesses precious time and
resources as they focus on back-end infrastructure at the expense of front-end business systems.
OUR DATA PROPOSITION / DATA CATEGORY STORAGE TIER COSTS
a new approach – designed to put
organisations back in control of their data, MISSION TIER 1 HIGH
CRITICAL
budgets and strategic ambitions – lies in the DATA HIGH AVAILABILITY COST
adoption of managed data services. in keeping TIER 2 MEDIUM
CRITICAL
with the rest of intechnology’s end-to-end suite DATA FAST RECOVERY COST
of cloud based solutions, these help clients
LEGACY DATA TIER 3 LOW COST
along their convergence journey – delivering
both quick wins and long-term value.
Multi-tier Data Management (MDM)
our services are the average enterprise treats all its data as one homogenous mass, invariably using expensive
primary and secondary storage. we don’t. in our eyes, today’s transactional data is business-
designed around data critical, whereas a four year old email is merely a business overhead. why should they be
value, not volume. treated the same way and stored on the same expensive tier 1 storage?
by matching the right
tier of data with the
right service, we can
help build sustainable,
affordable and robust
data management
processes and policies.

4. YOUR DATA SERVICES /
you can take any of our solutions as a discrete service, but the greatest rewards lie in fully integrated multi-tier
data management. this ensures all data is automatically accorded the most appropriate treatment: replication
for mission-critical data (tier 1); backup for critical data (tier 2); and archiving for legacy data (tier 3).
1 Managed replication –
Tier 1 mission-critical data
2 Managed backup –
Tier 2 critical data
mission-critical data sits at the top of intechnology’s data value critical data sits in the middle of the data value hierarchy – what we
hierarchy – tier 1. most businesses will have perhaps 5-10% of data that refer to as tier 2 and consisting of between 20-30% of electronic
is so valuable that it must be replicated as it is being created or changed. content that’s accessed regularly and is key to operational efficiency.
our managed backup service with its automated online backup, secure
we offer a continuous data replication service at a better price than encryption, de-duplication and instant restore capability, completely
other high-end replication and server clustering alternatives via our eliminates the severe limitations of tape-based backup and sets new
high availability national ip network, outstanding data centre facilities standards in terms of cost versus performance.
and proven storage expertise.
Email File App Web
Servers Servers Servers Servers
Storage
Customer
Option 1
Replication
Cloud
Cloud
Option 2
Replication
Virtual Storage Virtual Storage
InTechnology InTechnology
Data Centre 1 Data Centre 2
Multiple Backup Copies in Off-site Data Centre(s)
Virtual server hosting
virtual servers and storage can easily be combined with tier 1 and tier 2 data and offer unlimited capacity on a pay-as-you-go model.
our hosted service is based on a managed vmware platform and associated enterprise class storage in our carrier class data centres –
monitored 24/365.

5. FREE SPEND & STRATEGY REVIEW: 0800 983 2522 /
3 Managed archiving –
Tier 3 legacy data
BUSINESS BENEFITS /
70% of most corporate data is ‘dormant’ and should therefore
sit within the lowest tier of the data hierarchy – tier 3. these are Drive down spend
important or legacy files and emails that are rarely accessed but we’ll help you leverage the economies of scale and competitive
still need to be held securely for regulatory and recovery purposes. commodity pricing of the cloud computing model.
the managed archiving service allows users to create dynamic
policies that automatically archive emails and files that have not been Shift data management costs
accessed for a specified period of time. move from capital expenditure (capex) to operational expenditure
(opex), with intechnology’s ‘pay-as-you-use’ utility charging model.
Scale to your requirements
tap into unlimited storage capacity...on-demand.
Recent Data
Accessed in
Last 90 Days
Recent Data Prevent internal infrastructure issues
Customer Accessed in
Last 90 Days by moving your data to cutting-edge facilities, you’ll no longer
suffer the distractions of infrastructure ownership and admin.
Enjoy high levels of security
complete peace of mind from secure enterprise class disaster
Cloud recovery (dr) at an sme price-point.
Improve performance
your primary servers and applications can be optimised by
removing unnecessary data burden.
Inactive Data
Inactive Data
90 Days+
Meet regulatory demands
90 Days+ avoid compromising regulatory and data security compliance
through enforced culling or capping of directories and mailboxes –
copy to the cloud instead.
Shrink your carbon footprint
Original Emails & Files save yourself from exposure to punitive green taxes through
InTechnology Backup Copy
Data Centre 1 InTechnology reduced energy and materials consumption.
Data Centre 2
CHALLENGE US /
data services is just one of the value-adding propositions within our managed services portfolio.
to learn more about how we could help you cut cost, build agility and increase productivity put us to the test
and ask for a FREE Spend & Strategy Review.
Call: 0800 983 2522
stefan haase / email: challenge@intechnology.com
divisional director /
data services / Visit: www.intechnology.com
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