Disaster Recovery & Online Data Protection
Disasters and outages can have a profound effect on both revenue and reputation. A solid disaster recovery plan must go beyond simple in-house or
tape-based backup – and
 include offsite protection, encryption, secure storage, and speedy data recovery. Aggressive disaster recovery plans may also incorporate additional data replication (to a second backup facility), hot or warm dedicated servers, and more.
AmeriVault delivers proven disaster recovery solutions – including
online backup and recovery and
data replication / hosted recovery solutions – for even the most aggressive recovery objectives. With true
continuous data protection and high availability options, AmeriVault provides simple, expedient restores while ensuring the utmost in security.
The Importance of Disaster Recovery Planning
When considering a disaster recovery plan, it is important to remember what is at stake:
Lost Revenue
- Direct Loss
- Lost Future Revenue
- Billing Losses
- Investment Losses
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Lost Productivity
- Duration of Downtime
- Number of People Affected
- Lost Productivity
- Employee Wages
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Bruised Reputation
- Customers
- Suppliers
- Business Partners
- Public
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Other
- Outside Consultants
- Equipment Rental
- Overtime Costs
- Travel Expenses
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The Richmond House Group’s research indicates that 20% of SMBs suffer a major disaster every 5 years, and the US Bureau of Labor reports that 93% of companies that suffer a significant data loss are out of business within 5 years. Despite this, a 2007 study conducted by Storage Magazine shows that 89% of organizations test their disaster recovery plan once a year or less.
Disaster Recovery Planning Vs. Tape-Based Backup
 Tape backup is responsible for more problems than many companies would like to admit. Storage Magazine reports that over 34% of companies do not test their backups – and of those that tested, 77% found their tape backups fail to restore.
Vulnerable to human errors from accidentally writing-over data to losing tapes, this outdated backup process has been plagued by failure. The medium itself ages and breaks. For archiving purposes, it is also difficult to search for specific data on tape – which means restores are time-consuming and hit-or-miss. Restoring data from tape is not only time-consuming and tedious, but it also drains resources and results in lost productivity.
In addition to the inherent flaws of tape as a backup medium; large-scale natural disasters, outages, and catastrophes have caused many firms to seek-out alternatives. Events such as Hurricane Katrina and 9/11 proved the need for firms to incorporate a sound disaster recovery plan consisting of data backup and replication to geographically distant locations.
AmeriVault offers offsite online backup and
data archiving
solutions with the option of replicating another copy to a second world-class datacenter – 1,000 miles away from AmeriVault’s primary site. Your geographic contingency plan is built-in to the original backup in one simultaneous, automated process.
Online Data Backup & Recovery
Find out more about AmeriVault’s
online data backup solutions,
AmeriVault-AV and
AmeriVault-EV.
Data Replication, Hosted Recovery, & High Availability
Learn more about AmeriVault’s
data replication,
hosted recovery, or
continuous data protection and
high availability solutions.
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