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51 ADVERTORIAL
F ONLINE BACKUP
A 2004 survey of IT executives revealed that more than 40 “seed” backup has been sent to the electronic storage device,
percent of respondents had been unable to recover data from every subsequent backup is the equivalent of a full backup. To
tape in the past year because of media unreliability.
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A year conduct a restore in this scenario, an administrator accesses
earlier, an end-user survey indicated that 52 percent of the the GUI to make a file or folder restore. No manual retrieval
respondents believed their current backup/recovery solutions and assembly of full and incremental tapes are needed.
left their data somewhat exposed.
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IT staff face more challenges than ever before to keep costs
Efficient processes and improved resource centralisation in check as they service employees and customers who are
have made online backup a more reliable choice over tape increasingly dependent on data access and intolerant of
backup. Delta-block scanning techniques, for example, downtime. A convergence of regulatory and economic drivers,
minimise the volume of data travelling across the network. as well as technical innovations has led thousands of
These techniques give businesses the equivalent of full businesses to implement online backup. i365, A Seagate
backups in a smaller storage footprint because only new or Company’s EVault online backup provides businesses with the
changed data blocks are compressed, encrypted and then solution that best fits their needs. By controlling the growth
backed up and copied to hard disk. Having less data to backup of data being backed up, EVault customers quickly realise
provides financial benefits that cascade throughout a significant cost savings. They are also better able to support
company. Over time, an inefficient backup process may the backup and restores of remote offices and meet applicable
become the de facto operational method that dictates regulatory requirements. The IT functions in your business are
corporate policies for businesses. Instead, corporate policies complicated enough. For the business majority, adding data
should dictate IT procedures and processes. Online backup protection expertise as a core competency simply does not
enables administrators to set up policies that eliminate error- make fiscal sense. Turning that function over to the leader in
prone manual processes associated with tape-based backup online backup and recovery—i365, A Seagate Company—will
such as swapping tapes for backups and having to retrieve save you time, money and aggravation. i365 has the right
them in a restore situation. online backup solution for companies like yours that are
serious about protecting their business-critical data.
Online Backup Makes Sense
Online backup places significantly less data on storage arrays 1 AMR Research
than the incremental methods used by tape-based software. 2 “How Much Information?” study, University of
Delta-block processing techniques within online backup are California, Berkeley, 2003
extremely fast and efficient. Similar to incrementals, only new 3 Yankee Group survey, March 2004
or altered files are backed up. However, once an initial, full or 4 Enterprise Storage Group, May 2003
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