| Data backup and recovery
management continues to be a pain point for IT professionals. Between
time consuming backup jobs, high resource demands, and poor reliability,
this critical task has long been a source of frustration. Fortunately,
new disk-based backup solutions are starting to provide options for real
relief. By streamlining both the data backup and restore processes,
disk-based solutions offer an alternative that Gartner predicts will
become the dominant source for data restores by 2008. IT managers appear
to agree. In a recent leading storage industry publication survey, 64%
of managers polled said they planned to integrate disk-based backup
solutions within the next six to twelve months.
Why assess your Backup and
Recovery needs?
Understanding your backup and recovery requirements is the first
step in planning and designing an infrastructure to address your
challenges. AvTek can help you understand how your information
change rate affects information growth and quantify the impact on your
infrastructure performance and cost.
AvTek Solutions' Backup and
Recovery Assessments can give you the insight to your current operations
efficiencies and recommendations to help you “Optimize” your current
backup environments in a cost effective manner to meet your current and
future business needs.
Phase 1 - Discovery
- Define the project scope
definition and create an engagement checklist and schedule.
- Gather information about your
backup infrastructure, policies, and processes.
- Inventory specific equipment
in your backup environment using data collection software.
- Audit data residing on file
systems for space by file type, file owner, and last access date.
Phase 2 - Analysis
- Analyze data from discovery
phase, including financial impact analysis.
- Identify any unconventional
performance indicators, configurations, or policies.
- Determine the recommended
backup and recovery configurations and high-level policies.
- Create a Final Report and
Executive Summary.
Phase 3 - Findings and
Recommendations
- Presentation of findings in
Final Report, including ROI analysis.
- Review recommendations for
redesigning the backup infrastructure, policies, and processes.
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