Backup and Recovery in today's business climate

Business continuity has become a priority one corporate business imperative.  It has also become your biggest challenge, given the fact that data in the average Fortune 1000 enterprise is doubling every year.

Successful business continuity requires that corporate data is reliably backed up and available to your organization (24 x 7 x 365).  In addition, both government regulations and corporate policies are driving recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs) closer and closer to zero.

Together, these conditions require that data administrators build a backup and restore process that is very fast and highly reliable.

Backup and Recovery Challenges

• Expensive to operate and manage backup storage
  With the introduction of higher capacity, lower cost disk technologies, disk-to-disk backup has become a business imperative for data rich enterprises. However, backup storage requires roughly 5 to 10 times the amount of primary storage that you are protecting. As a result, most disk solutions are still too expensive for extended retention as a front-end to an existing tape infrastructure.
  
  Snapshot-based backups work to a certain extent, but the downside is it consumes expensive transactional storage, when it is rarely accessed, therefore retention for the long-term doesn’t cost justify.
  
  
• Recoveries from unreliable storage
  To address massive data growth, many companies implement a short-term fix of simply putting a disk cache behind their primary storage and in front of their tape.  This only solves half of the backup and recovery problem of providing faster backups to meet shrinking backup windows. Recoveries must still come from unreliable and poor performing tape, which still leaves your business at risk.

  Tape based backup has always suffered from reliability, integrity, security and management issues, as well as the realization that the total cost of ownership for tape is huge compared with the acquisition cost.

Cost-effective data protection

• Protect more data, more cost-effectively
  At a cost-per-gigabyte that is comparable to tape, COPAN Systems enables efficient disk-based data protection that is cost-effective to use for all enterprise data. In addition, COPAN Systems core-to-edge solution extends from the core enterprise to the remote office to ensure the highest level of data protection across the enterprise.
  
  
• Remote replication
  COPAN Systems’ remote replication software enables the COPAN Systems product family to replicate data to across locations efficiently and easily.  And COPAN Systems industry-leading capacity will provide your company with the ability to consolidate all your data assets to a primary and secondary central location cost-effectively, with the performance characteristics of an end-to-end disk-based solution.

Through a combination of COPAN Systems massive density and data de-duplication technology, you can now easily rely on COPAN Systems as both the primary backup and restore target, alleviating your reliance on unreliable tape solutions, as well as higher cost, space consuming disk-based alternatives. Deduplication allows a cost effective replica of disk-based backup, making this incredibly competitive with the costs of taking tape offsite and provides longer retention possibilities.

Benefits

• Highly cost-effective so you can protect more data
• Accommodates DR data growth - easily scalable to multiple PBs
• Minimizes disaster recovery asset requirements
• Save up to 75% on power and cooling
• Save up to 75% in data center floor space
• Minimized network requirements
• Improved Security