| The consulting company, Newell
& Associates had a disk drive crash six months
after it began operations. And, even with a
fully backed up system on a tape drive, it took
over five days to get a critical computer system
restored. Newell & Associates spend several
months investigating all the alternatives to
manual backup systems. And, finally decided that
the best backup system is the one used by
Fortune 500 companies. Companies like IBM, GE,
and Amoco. Most fortune 500 companies use
the same basic techniques to protect their data:
- All their systems are completely
automated
- The data is copied to a central location
- Highly skilled technicians implement and
monitor the process
Newell & Associates then spend several months
searching for the right hardware and software to
enable this backup system to work for a typical
company. Without the high overhead.
In the middle of 1999, Quantum Tech, a
leading backup software company, released a
remote online backup system that would allow
Newell & Associates to set up a centralized
backup server so that its customers could lease
a highly effective backup system with no
overhead.
The advantages to a typical business are
enormous:
- All files are protected by state of the
art encryption, only the customer can
retrieve their files
- Completely automated off-site protection
- Fast online recovery of any version of
any protected file
- Easy installation and setup
- Only an internet connection is required,
eliminating the need for expensive backup
equipment and media
- The backup server is monitored by highly
skilled technicians whose only job is to
make sure the backups are performed properly
This is how it works....
We operate an off-site storage facility for
the user's data. At the facility, an account is
maintained for each user. Each account is
protected by a password known only to the user!
The electronic vault system is set up so that at
a preset time, usually late at night the clients
computer automatically wakes up and prepares its
data for backup, it determines which files have
been modified since the last backup, compresses
them, encrypts them for security. When the data
is ready the computer uses its modem or Internet
connection to contact our Servers and transmit
the data.
Our Servers verify and store the data. |