Do You Know Where Your Data Is?

Don't Risk your Data to Tape Backup Failures

Surveys have shown that most SMBs use tape backup as their primary mode of data protection. However, tape backup is vulnerable to corruption, damage and theft, resulting lost productivity and revenue.

• Tapes are unreliable. Enterprise Strategy Group estimates that 60% of traditional tape backups fail.
• Tapes are vulnerable to loss and theft, particularly in transit when they are being moved to a secure off-site facility. Losing data and then having to recreate it from scratch costs American businesses between $2,000 and $6,000 per megabyte.
• Meeting Recovery Time Objectives is problematic even when tape backups are performed regularly. A Forrester Research report states that “Disaster recovery and restart could take days, even weeks because you must know exactly which tapes you need, locate them, retrieve them, import them into your library, and restore them.

To avoid downtime and risk, businesses are moving beyond traditional backup, storage and recovery approaches that rely on tape. They’re looking for more effective and less expensive ways to help ensure that:

• Current and historical data are accessible within increasingly compressed timeframes
• Data is secure at rest and in transport
• Data protection does not consume already limited budgets
• Data is rapidly recoverable in the event of failures.

Workplace2go helps organizations achieve these objectives with three premier backup and recovery applications from IBM, MozyPro and Asigra that provide highly efficient, low-cost alternatives to tape-based processes. You’re able to back up critical information to a secure recovery center, with the data remaining online but offsite for enhanced protection and faster restoration.