CONTACT REMOTE SUPPORT DASHBOARD CLIENT PORTAL About Us About You Information Technology Security Business Continuity Telephony Home IronStore and IronRecovery Managed Disaster Recovery Services Your backup solution is the last line of defense when you have a devastating server crash. It is the difference between staying in business and going out of business. If your servers were to crash or be destroyed in a natural disaster, what would happen to your business? The Two Purposes of Backup Backup has two reasons for its existence. The most common need for backup is to restore a file that has been accidentally deleted, lost, or corrupted. The backup gives you the ability to correct mistakes by providing an archival record of company data. Employees know that they store files on the server so that if something happens, they call IT and voila - the file magically reappears (several hours later)! The most important reason for backup - and the least thought of - is disaster recovery. What do we do if the server's hard drives crash? Worse, what do we do if a fire or tornado rip through our data center? The answer is backup. A natural disaster can happen any time and any where. The Tape Problem Tape backup has provided the answer for years. But as organizations have grown to completely rely on their computing infrastructure, as government regulation requires data history, and as data needs have become more complex, magnetic media is not fitting the bill. It is slow, cannot keep up with corporate data growth, and has known reliability problems. How many of us have diligently backed up data day after day, only to find that when we need the data off of the tape, restoring hasn't been as promised? Restore times are long, files are missing or corrupt, and sometimes the tape is completely empty - despite having reported a successful backup. Experience shows that tapes don't work all the time. Can you trust your business to tape? The Disk Answer...sort of Disk to disk solutions promise reliability and are becoming less and less expensive as each day goes by. Disks are great because you can quickly find the file, restore from disk, and very quickly have the file. Additionally, the time it takes to backup company data is significantly reduced. There are even continuous data protection solutions (CDP) permitting constant backup and eliminating the growing "backup window." Unfortunately, the nature of disks makes it cumbersome or impossible to take the backup offsite, leading to a major problem: backup disk solutions do not help with disaster recovery situations where the solution itself is destroyed! There are services that will backup data remotely, but that data is often hundreds of miles away and restore times of 72 hours or more are not uncommon. That leads to days of downtime during an already tragic situation. Ironside's Solution: Managed Disaster Recovery We meet the shortcomings of the other solutions by providing an onsite disk-based continuous data protection (CDP) solution, plus an offsite CDP backup repository for disaster recovery. Because Ironside Security is your local professional partner, we can respond to emergency situations with great speed and ease. But we know that our clients need more than just a simple backup solution with copy-cat industry services and jargon. Startled by the lack of innovation and ingenuity, we also offer a full line of other features all working together in this one service to provide a complete response to a disaster that would otherwise end your operations. Written Disaster Recovery Plan It's pointless to have an offsite backup with a professional partner ready to assist you if you don't have a plan of action. Included in IronRecovery is the creation of a disaster recovery plan (up to thirty pages) that is completely customized to your needs. This is not a generic cut and paste plan, but one that is built for your business with input from your people and presented by our professionals. Response Contract A managed remote backup solution and disaster recovery plan only works if the technical professionals you rely on are actually there to restore your business or organization. Included in IronRecovery is a response contract guaranteeing our fast response to your disaster. Who better to help lead or assist your recovery efforts than your business partner, Ironside, who already knows your network? Data Integrity and Security The data that is backed up locally, and its copy backed up remotely at our facility, is secured with industry best practices. The disk itself is encrypted for protection in the event of theft. The offsite data is not only encrypted, but kept in a secure location with 24x7 security monitoring. Additionally, the data is manually checked each month for consistency and, optionally, a tape or optical backup is made and stored. And, of course, the path between your network and the remote backup is encrypted. Worry-Free Backup Now you can rest easy knowing that your data is safe and stored in multiple locations. The data is encrypted, there are no tapes to worry about, and no maintenance or hardware failures. There are no backup windows, no fear of tape restore failure, and no costly infrastructure upgrades every few years. The solution is completely managed, assuring you freedom from backup woes. Contact Ironside Security & Network Management to discuss this exciting backup solution and help assessing how it fits with your organization.      Contact Us      Ironside Difference      How we do IT ironsideit.com  |  ironsidesecurity.com  |  ironsidetelephony.com Copyright 2013 Intrepid Pursuits, Inc.