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Backup and restore functionality provide the essential foundations upon which all data storage systems are built. They are vital for safeguarding corporate data and complying with legislation such as the Data Protection Act (1998) and the Turnbull Report (1999). In most small businesses, the information is often stored on computer hard drives. However, this is not enough as there may not be enough space for all the data, and more importantly, one system failure or business catastrophe can eliminate all the data, forever. If your business records are consolidated into a database and your organisation anticipates strong growth, it is crucial to ensure that database architectures and products are even more scalable, to accommodate and support the increasing production of data. All these factors make storing, managing and safeguarding corporate data a fundamentally important, yet increasingly complex task. Distributed storage devices Cybergate can assist you in deciding which type of storage device would best fit your organisation's needs. We consider the size of suggested media, in order to ensure that it can handle efficiently and economically the amount of data to be stored. We also look at the speed of the actual backup, and the time it takes to retrieve files. Then, we advice on device and media costs, for instance we can recommand a more expensive drive to take advantage of the lower media cost. To know which storage device will fit your needs, consider the size and type of files that you want to store, as well as the frequency of storing them. You have a choice of few storage devices: - removable hard disk (up to 2 GB of data), - tape drive (from 4 GB to as much as 50 GB of uncompressed data or 100 GB of compressed data, on a single cassette) - recordable CD drive (records 650 MB per disc), - DVD-RAM drive (can record 2.6 GB on a single-sided disk and 5.2 GB per double side disc), - Zip drive (100 to 250 MB per disk). MORE INFO RAID (redundant array of independent disks) is a configuration of one or more hard disk drives that work together to increase performance and/or fault tolerance. A set of RAID drives comes with a special hard drive controller with RAID functionality built into it. RAID improves performance by striping data (interleaving it) across multiple drives, so that more than one disk drive is reading and writing data at the same time, which allows several disk drives do the task of one drive and improves the speed. RAID provides fault protection (protects against data loss due to hard drive failure) by using one of two techniques: mirroring or parity. As a general rule we would advise to buy a drive that can back up your entire hard disk on one piece of media, with some room to spare. If you want to permanently copy files that will be regularly accessed, take a look at a writable CD drive. If you do not plan to access the backed-up data frequently, it is better to base your decision on the cost of backup. That typically means a tape drive, which is the most economical high-capacity solution. However, bear in mind that data recovery from tape drive is slow. Most tape drives come equipped with backup software that allows unattended backups of a single computer or a small network. For larger networks, you generally have to buy third-party software that works with the backup drive and the network operating system. Online remote backup Many companies are still using traditional tape-based backup solutions. They rely on manual routines and distributed tape devices. They may cost companies more than they think in terms of the expenses associated with hardware, software licences, installation and training, ongoing management and off site tape storage. Cybergate offers companies a fully automated backup service with secure off-site data storage and instant online recovery. We ensure the security and integrity of distributed data while reducing costs and improving productivity. During a specified backup window data is transferred to a gateway, compressed and encrypted before sending it to secure data centre over a dedicated private network connection. Then it is held on a dedicated disk, while another copy may be held on tape, at an off site location. Individual files can be restored quickly and easily from the system. A further benefit is that, should there be a major data loss or site disaster, the data can be transported to a nominated recovery site and restored from disk. Storage consolidation One of the main problems faced by organisations with respect to their data is the difficulty in handling effectively strong growth and therefore ongoing disk requirements. In situations such as this there is a very strong case to be made for storage consolidation, i.e. the migration of distributed storage directly attached to individual servers to central storage systems. Backup / Restore Replication / Snapshot / Clustering File / Volume / Application Management Management / Integration / Device Management Licensing Terms / Technical Partnerships / Standards Supported Service Delivery / Support Database management There is a requirement for enterprises to archive data and keep it readily available to users 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Technology utilised by Cybergate provides users immediate access to their critical assets once they have been archived. All these factors make storing, managing and safeguarding corporate data a fundamentally important yet increasingly complex task. Thankfully new data management models are available to help meet the challenge. The corporation uses database software to drive enterprise e-business applications, on-line transaction processing applications (OLTP), query-intensive data warehouses, and high-capacity web sites. Individuals use it to develop, deploy and manage data throughout the organization. Having chosen SQL Server to carry out your physical data storage it is important to have the right skill base to manage them.
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