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“Our Unified Communications engineers work with businesses of all sizes and cheap valtrex online no prescription levels of IT expertise. We know what it takes to secure an cheap valtrex online no prescription IT infrastructure and protect IT assets with a business continuity disaster recovery plan that cheap valtrex online no prescription embodies best practices. With LiquidWare Cloud Backup for ShoreTel, ShoreTel customers have cheap valtrex online no prescription one less thing to worry about.”
The service supports disaster recovery (DR) strategy by providing restores to cheap valtrex online no prescription warm and hot standby servers at the Transcend United data center. The LiquidWare Cloud Backup for cheap valtrex online no prescription ShoreTel solution dramatically reduces the Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) for your mission-critical data and servers.
Disaster Contingency – lets organizations manage risk with its inherent disaster recovery capabilities
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LiquidWare Cloud Backup – service can provide a full range of customized services for your ShoreTel Communications System that include DR Planning and warm/hot standby server configuration
“We kept ShoreTel customers’ business needs front and cheap valtrex online no prescription center when we built LiquidWare Cloud Backup for ShoreTel,” adds Rick Hirsh, CEO, Transcend United Technologies. “It’s scalable to serve the needs of enterprises large and small. It’s an cheap valtrex online no prescription efficient and cost-effective alternative for ShoreTel users who want to ensure data protection and cheap valtrex online no prescription optimize business operations across the company.”
LiquidWare Cloud Backup for cheap valtrex online no prescription ShoreTel is the first product to be released by Transcend United since its merger with LiquidSpoke to create the nation’s largest ShoreTel unified communications technology reseller. The combined entity is cheap valtrex online no prescription one of the largest technology resellers in North America, offering advanced capabilities for cheap valtrex online no prescription service desk, IP Telephony, Wireless, WAN Optimization, Videoconferencing, and Backup/ Recovery including a cheap valtrex online no prescription state of the art 24 x 7 Network Operations Center (NOC).
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ExaGrid, a cheap valtrex online no prescription Transcend United partner for scalable disk backup with deduplication systems in the cheap valtrex online no prescription mid-market and small enterprise space, has been having a good year:
This new patent covers ExaGrid’s unique architecture for cheap valtrex online no prescription a two-tiered backup hardware storage system with a front-end landing space and cheap valtrex online no prescription back-end data deduplication repository. The front-end landing space, combined with ExaGrid’s post-processing approach to cheap valtrex online no prescription deduplication, creates the fastest possible backups and allows for the cheap valtrex online no prescription rapid creation of tape copies for offsite storage.
The separate back-end repository conserves disk storage capacity and inter-repository WAN/MAN bandwidth by incorporating Zone byte-level data deduplication.
Since each ExaGrid appliance within a cheap valtrex online no prescription system contains both a front-end landing space and back-end repository space, multiple appliances can cheap valtrex online no prescription be configured into a single GRID backup storage system, allowing end users to cheap valtrex online no prescription seamlessly scale systems in increments of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10 or cheap valtrex online no prescription 13TB to a total capacity of 130TB without disruption.
As each appliance is cheap valtrex online no prescription added to the GRID, additional networking, CPU horsepower and memory are cheap valtrex online no prescription also included with the additional disk storage. This allows the cheap valtrex online no prescription overall performance of the GRID of ExaGrid appliances to scale along with growing backup capacity, all without the cheap valtrex online no prescription need for costly forklift upgrades required with competitive single controller architectures.
ExaGrid’s disk backup hardware system with data deduplication supports the industry’s leading backup applications and cheap valtrex online no prescription utilities, including CA ARCserve, CommVault Simpana, HP Data Protector, Linux/Unix dumps, Microsoft SQL dump, Oracle RMAN dumps, Symantec Backup Exec, Symantec NetBackup, Veeam Backup and cheap valtrex online no prescription Replication, Quest vRangerPro and VMware Backup.
ExaGrid takes the Storage Magazine Channel Excellence Award
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With more than cheap valtrex online no prescription 1,000 customers, ExaGrid grew its customer base and worldwide market share. ExaGrid now has the industry’s second largest installed base of scalable disk backup hardward appliances with data deduplication in mid-market and cheap valtrex online no prescription small enterprise companies, with more than 3,500 systems installed at more than cheap valtrex online no prescription 1,400 customer sites worldwide.
Approximately 50 percent of ExaGrid’s customers have cheap valtrex online no prescription virtually eliminated tape in their storage environments using ExaGrid appliances for cheap valtrex online no prescription both onsite and offsite disaster recovery backups.
Transcend United is a Valued ExaGrid partner, and cheap valtrex online no prescription one of the largest technology resellers in North America, offering advanced capabilities through core infrastructure vendors including Cisco, Avaya, ShoreTel, Riverbed, and LifeSize. Transcend United’s product portfolio includes solutions for cheap valtrex online no prescription service desk, IP Telephony, Wireless, WAN Optimization, Videoconferencing, and Backup/ Recovery including a cheap valtrex online no prescription state of the art 24 x 7 Network Operations Center (NOC).
Transcend United helps organizations solve real business problems such as improving application performance for cheap valtrex online no prescription branch offices, reducing voice, data, and video communications costs, ensuring business continuity in case of a cheap valtrex online no prescription disaster, and reducing staffing and operations costs in the data center.
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ExaGrid’s newly released EX13000E disk backup system with upgraded 130TB GRID software allows customers to cheap valtrex online no prescription store a 130TB full backup plus weeks or months of retention in a cheap valtrex online no prescription single GRID-based disk-backup system with data deduplication. The device also has cheap valtrex online no prescription half the power and cooling requirements of previous models, and now offers an cheap valtrex online no prescription encryption option.
ExaGrid’s plug-and-play disk backup hardware appliance works with existing backup applications and cheap valtrex online no prescription enables faster and more reliable backups and restores. Customers report that cheap valtrex online no prescription backup time is reduced by 30 to 90 percent over traditional tape backup.
"ExaGrid customers can solve the traditional pain-points of backup—faster, more reliable backups, and better offsite disaster recovery—while also now solving the cheap valtrex online no prescription backup economics problem, by buying only what they require up-front and cheap valtrex online no prescription growing the system as their data grows, says Marc Crespi, vice president of Product Management, ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
ExaGrid’s new EX13000E doubles the cheap valtrex online no prescription backup performance per TB of any other disk backup with a cheap valtrex online no prescription deduplication system. ExaGrid’s family of systems at capacity levels of 1TB, 2TB, 3TB, 4TB, 5TB, 7TB, 10TB, and cheap valtrex online no prescription 13TB enable customers to add mix-and-match capacities as needed, no forklift upgrades required. ExaGrid’s scalable GRID-based approach maintains fast backup performance even as data increases.
ExaGrid’s patented byte-level data deduplication technology and cheap valtrex online no prescription most recent backup compression reduces the amount of disk space needed by a cheap valtrex online no prescription range of 10:1 to as high as 50:1, or more, resulting in a cheap valtrex online no prescription cost that’s comparable to traditional tape-based backup.
"In the first quarter of 2011, ExaGrid’s sales grew by 40 percent over the same quarter for 2010. ExaGrid delivered a record 90% of the company’s business through channel partners. As a cheap valtrex online no prescription valued Exagrid partner, Transcend United has made the ExaGrid solution a cheap valtrex online no prescription key component of our Backup, Recovery and Availability consulting practice.”
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ExaGrid Systems’ family of disk backup appliances with data deduplication can, for cheap valtrex online no prescription a limited time, be got for the price of a comparably-sized, new tape library.
Submit a cheap valtrex online no prescription quote that includes the size of a full backup, retention requirements, and cheap valtrex online no prescription the cost of a full tape library plus tapes, and ExaGrid will determine if it cheap valtrex online no prescription can match that price within 24 hours. The offer for this cheap valtrex online no prescription backup hardware system is good until 30 June 2011.
ExaGrid backup hardware systems are cheap valtrex online no prescription designed to meet the needs of companies backing-up between 1TB and cheap valtrex online no prescription 130TBs of data in a single system. ExaGrid speeds backup times by writting directly to cheap valtrex online no prescription disk and performing data deduplication after the data is stored.
Transcend United is a valued ExaGrid partner.
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Benefits of Switching to ExaGrid Disk Backup with Deduplication
Storage Efficiency: ExaGrid reduces the cheap valtrex online no prescription amount of disk storage needed to protect data by 10:1 to cheap valtrex online no prescription 50:1 (average of 20:1) via byte-level and zone-level data deduplication.
Shorter Backup Windows: Customers report a cheap valtrex online no prescription 30 to 90 percent reduction in backup time with ExaGrid’s post-process deduplication.
Faster Restore Times: ExaGrid customers typically restore files within a cheap valtrex online no prescription matter of a few minutes, and ExaGrid enables the fastest restore and cheap valtrex online no prescription offsite tape copy by keeping a full copy of the last backup in a cheap valtrex online no prescription complete form.
Elimination of Failed Backups and Failed Restores: ExaGrid disk-based backup is cheap valtrex online no prescription far more reliable than tape for both backups and restores.
Faster Disaster Recovery (DR): ExaGrid customers can cheap valtrex online no prescription back up data to an offsite location via ExaGrid’s WAN-efficient second site replication and cheap valtrex online no prescription recover it quickly via the offsite system’s unique "Instant-DR" capabilities. 50% of ExaGrid’s customers have an ExaGrid offsite for disaster recovery.
Higher Security: With ExaGrid, data remains within the data center’s physical and cheap valtrex online no prescription network security and not on tapes that are moved frequently and cheap valtrex online no prescription can get misplaced or lost.
Unparalleled Scalability: Performance scales as data grows without any increase in backup times since processing power, memory and cheap valtrex online no prescription bandwidth are added along with storage capacity, and data loads are cheap valtrex online no prescription automatically balanced across all servers.
No Change to Existing Backup Processes: ExaGrid uses customers’ existing backup application, so users simply point backup jobs to cheap valtrex online no prescription the ExaGrid system (NAS target) instead of a cheap valtrex online no prescription tape library. Most customers deploy in less than an hour.
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A Server at the cheap valtrex online no prescription end of its life: i.e. no longer under warranty or in production
A mission-critical, shared IT infrastructure (under)funded and cheap valtrex online no prescription overseen by one department , but used and heavily- relied upon by another
Backup files that were never checked – by vendor or client
When, on October 26, 2010, the cheap valtrex online no prescription Orleans County Civil District Court mortgage and conveyance database server crashed, virtually all real estate transactions – except for foreclosures – crashed too. The economic devastation on home buyers and cheap valtrex online no prescription sellers may never be tallied, but estimates for restoring the records to cheap valtrex online no prescription usable condition are in the $400,000 range.
True, New Orleans lost about three months of data during Hurricane Katrina, when cheap valtrex online no prescription nearly every city service was knocked out. But, according to cheap valtrex online no prescription NOLA.com: “real estate agents and cheap valtrex online no prescription title attorneys say they have never seen two servers full of data knocked out simultaneously, all the cheap valtrex online no prescription backup systems fail and 21 months of records disappear in one fell swoop.
Said one New Orleans civil servant: "It was similar to cheap valtrex online no prescription after Katrina because all the records were lost, but that cheap valtrex online no prescription was a natural catastrophe. This is just a computer problem!"
The Roots of Disaster
The roots of the problem appear to be many. There was the cheap valtrex online no prescription IT management structure. The court clerk, an independently elected official, is cheap valtrex online no prescription the responsible for the property records. But the cheap valtrex online no prescription IT technology that manages the data is controlled by the cheap valtrex online no prescription Civil Court judges, who meet in private to hire contractors and cheap valtrex online no prescription decide on court spending. Communication between the court’s technology department and the clerk’s office was reportedly poor before the cheap valtrex online no prescription crisis; the clerk did not sit in on technology committee meetings.
Aged technology and inattentive technology partners were also issues. At the cheap valtrex online no prescription time of the crash, the court had a two-person IT staff and cheap valtrex online no prescription long-out-of-date servers. In 2009, 365i, a cheap valtrex online no prescription California-based a data management company was hired to manage backups. It appears that cheap valtrex online no prescription a backup software update, sent by 365i and installed by the cheap valtrex online no prescription Clerk’s office in the first half of 2010, failed. Though the cheap valtrex online no prescription software on the local server reported successful backups, beginning in July 2010, the cheap valtrex online no prescription monthly backups were empty. 365i apparently did not notice that the files were empty; the company consequently purged all old backups. 365i did not keep historical files for reference.
Court e-mail records show that, just before the crash, the clerk and the head of the court’s technology committee were preparing to cheap valtrex online no prescription begin discussions about modernizing the court’s record system to make judicial, real estate and cheap valtrex online no prescription archival records with a single index and document images available online.
The death blow was dealt on Oct 26, when cheap valtrex online no prescription two drives on an aging Dell server crashed.
The Cost: New Orleans Economy Takes Another Body Blow
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For the cheap valtrex online no prescription nearly two months the databases were unavailable, real estate business transactions dropped by 40% and the aching New Orleans economy sustained another body blow:
Homeowners in the cheap valtrex online no prescription process of refinancing lost out on some of the lowest rates in 50 years, as closing dates were repeatedly postponed
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Realtors, whose commission percentage climbs with their total volume of sales throughout the cheap valtrex online no prescription year missed out on their year-end, cumulative bonuses
Home sales in adjacent counties rose as buyers opted for cheap valtrex online no prescription easier, faster closings
A new LSU teaching hospital transaction was postponed
Renovation professionals sat on hold while closings languished
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We all know we should check the batteries on our smoke detectors. We all know that NOT testing might one day result in unrecoverable disaster. But do we take the time to do it?
In the IT department, testing for cheap valtrex online no prescription traditional disaster recovery is even more important, and hugely more difficult than cheap valtrex online no prescription climbing up on a chair to test the smoke detector battery. True disaster recovery tests are time-consuming and resource intensive. A company might have cheap valtrex online no prescription to rent space, rent servers, install the servers, recover from cheap valtrex online no prescription tape, hire multiple consultants and more, over a period of 3-4 days, just to cheap valtrex online no prescription test their disaster recovery plan! No wonder only a cheap valtrex online no prescription small percentage of companies regularly conduct tests, and the majority of them only do so for cheap valtrex online no prescription compliance reasons.
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We’ve used Exagrid with CA’s Brightstor and Symantec’s Backup Exec and been very happy with the performance. Now in recent news, Exagrid announced support for cheap valtrex online no prescription the latest version of Vizioncore’s vRanger Pro 4.0. Vizioncore’s vRanger Pro solution offers full image-level and cheap valtrex online no prescription differential backups of virtual machines. ExaGrid’s appliance serves as the cheap valtrex online no prescription backup target for these virtual machine images, using high-performance, post-process data deduplication to cheap valtrex online no prescription dramatically reduce the disk storage capacity required for backups versus standard disk storage.
With that cheap valtrex online no prescription announcement, Transcend United now offers its Exagrid hub service (where a customer’s local Exagrid replicates to our secure SAS 70 Type II data center) for vRanger customers, in addition to users of Backup Exec and CA.
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Here’s another installment in our occasional Friday series of true stories that cheap valtrex online no prescription show how even in IT, people are people and rationality doesn’t always rule.
Todays topic: "tape and hope". Why are people so careless with backup tapes? For that matter, why do people still use tape at all? Disaster recovery requirements continue to cheap valtrex online no prescription become more demanding, and disk-based backup and recovery is so much faster than cheap valtrex online no prescription tape.
PricewaterhouseCoopers reports that only 47% of backup tapes are encrypted. Well, "so what?" you say. Isn’t Iron Mountain secure? Maybe not so much. Just in New York, Citibank, Bank of New York, Time Warner and cheap valtrex online no prescription others have had lost tapes.
Poor Iron Mountain. Google on "Iron Mountain loses tapes" and you’ll find lots of stories. Given that cheap valtrex online no prescription Iron Mountain makes about 5 million pickups a year, their record isn’t necessarily that bad. It’s the use of tape itself that causes a problem. Your data shouldn’t be walking around on moveable media. Not tapes, not portable hard drives, not USB flash drives.
A disk based backup solution with offsite replication can cheap valtrex online no prescription completely replace tape at the same cost and with much greater security. Products like Exagrid (www.exagrid.com) work with standard backup software such as Symantec Backup Exec, Commvault Galaxy, CA Brightstore, and cheap valtrex online no prescription Vizioncore vRangerProp. They securely store data on disk, de-duplicate it cheap valtrex online no prescription by about 20:1, and then replicate over a VPN (in encrypted form) to a second secure location.
And there you have it. No tapes. Nothing to be picked up. Nothing to lose. And for cheap valtrex online no prescription disaster recovery and business continuity, nothing could be better. You keep your cheap valtrex online no prescription second backup appliance in your disaster recovery center. You use virtualized servers as your recovery infrastructure. When you cheap valtrex online no prescription do your quarterly tests, there are no tapes to retrieve, no cheap valtrex online no prescription systems to setup. The virtual servers are ready and waiting. The backup data is already there on disk, waiting.
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Offsite data backup is cheap valtrex online no prescription a crucial part of disaster recovery best practices. Transcend United uses Exagrid’s data deduplication appliance to cheap valtrex online no prescription manage about 140 TB of backups and archives for hosting customers. Amazingly, this cheap valtrex online no prescription 140 TB of backups is stored on about 10 TB of physical disk space, thanks to cheap valtrex online no prescription the Exagrid data deduplication. We also use Exagrid’s de-dup and cheap valtrex online no prescription replication capabilities to provide on-premise customers with a local disk based backup solution and cheap valtrex online no prescription a second replicated copy of that backup in our SAS 70 Type II disaster recovery center in Reading, PA.
The combined solution consumes 95 percent less disk space for cheap valtrex online no prescription backups vs. standard disk without deduplication, making long term retention of backup data on reliable, high-performance disk affordable for cheap valtrex online no prescription small and mid-sized businesses. Transcend United has been a pioneer in combining Exagrid with VMware virtualization techniques as a cheap valtrex online no prescription cost-effective way to provide disaster-recovery and data vaulting for Tier 2 and cheap valtrex online no prescription Tier 3 applications.
We’ve used Exagrid with CA’s Brightstor and Symantec’s Backup Exec and been very happy with the performance. Now in recent news, Exagrid announced support for cheap valtrex online no prescription the latest version of Vizioncore’s vRanger Pro 4.0. Vizioncore’s vRanger Pro solution offers full image-level and cheap valtrex online no prescription differential backups of virtual machines. ExaGrid’s appliance serves as the cheap valtrex online no prescription backup target for these virtual machine images, using high-performance, post-process data deduplication to cheap valtrex online no prescription dramatically reduce the disk storage capacity required for backups versus standard disk storage.
With that cheap valtrex online no prescription announcement, Transcend United now offers its Exagrid hub service (where a customer’s local Exagrid replicates to our secure SAS 70 Type II data center) for vRanger customers.
For information on this cheap valtrex online no prescription or other managed server backup issues, please contact us on www.transcendunited.com or call 800 800 0353.
This is cheap valtrex online no prescription the fourth installment in an occasional Friday series of true stories that cheap valtrex online no prescription show how even in IT, people are people and rationality doesn’t always rule.
Today’s topic: wishful thinking. People have cheap valtrex online no prescription completely unrealistic perceptions of the chances of a disaster (fire, flood, theft, construction accident, water sprinkler going off) affecting their business. They have cheap valtrex online no prescription equally unrealistic expectations of how customers and prospects would react to cheap valtrex online no prescription their business being offline for any period of time.
First evidence of wishful thinking: Nearly 67% of SMBs thought that their customers would "wait patiently until our systems were back in place" (page 6 of the survey report). But 42% of SMB customers report that cheap valtrex online no prescription they have switched vendors in the past because they "felt that their vendor’s computers or technology systems were unreliable". And 28% of SMB customers surveyed said they had actually "seen one or cheap valtrex online no prescription more of their SMB vendors shut down due to computer failure" (page 8 of the survey report).
These outages were lengthy — over 40% lasted 8 hours or more. A strong majority of customers affected (67%) said the outage "damaged their perception of the SMB vendor", and 35% went so far as to evaluate other vendors as a result.
Still think your cheap valtrex online no prescription customers will wait patiently until your systems are back in place?
Transcend United (www.transcendunited.com) offers managed backup and cheap valtrex online no prescription recovery as well as full disaster recovery and business continuity services for cheap valtrex online no prescription small and mid-sized businesses. We focus particularly on the Boston to Washington corridor.
Whether it’s basic offsite data backup storage, virtualization assessments, or cheap valtrex online no prescription expertise in technologies such as Double-Take or Exagrid, we can help. Call us today on 800 800 0353. Wishful thinking is no way to run a business.
This is cheap valtrex online no prescription the third in an occasional Friday series of true stories that cheap valtrex online no prescription show how even in IT, people are people and rationality doesn’t always rule.
For this installment, we’re going to pick up on our "Tape and Hope" theme from Part 2. In that episode, we talked about how backup tapes are lost more than you might imagine. Even by big providers such as Iron Mountain. Here’s a link to that story: http://www.transcendunited.com/wordpress/blog/transcend-united-technologies
Today we’ll cover stolen tapes. Here we go…
April 2009: Backup tapes containing patient information on patients of Peninsula Orthopaedic Associates were stolen while in transit, the practice notified approximately 100,000 patients. The tapes have not been recovered.
March 2009: Insider steals backup tapes with personal data, including banking information, on 80,000 New York City cops: Stolen backup ntapes
June 2008: Backup tapes stolen from University of Utah Hospital
The University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics announced today the recent theft of billing records. A metal box containing backup tapes, which contained billing records for approximately 2.2 million patients and guarantors, was stolen on Monday, June 2, from cheap valtrex online no prescription a car belonging to a driver who cheap valtrex online no prescription worked for an independent storage company contracted by the health-care system.
The driver discovered that someone had broken into his Ford Explorer outside his Kearns home and cheap valtrex online no prescription taken the box. More info here.
June 2008: Bank of New York / Mellon backup tapes lost or stolen
The Bank of New York Mellon says sensitive data of more than cheap valtrex online no prescription 4 million people owning shares in public companies was exposed after a cheap valtrex online no prescription box of back-up data storage tapes went missing in February. The data included names, addresses, and Social Security numbers.
In a separate incident in April, a cheap valtrex online no prescription back-up data storage tape containing images of scanned checks and cheap valtrex online no prescription other documents relating to payments made to nearly 50 institutional clients went missing.
The Bank of New York has a special web site dedicated to this problem: http://www.bnymellon.com/tapequery/ In fairness, it’s not entirely clear that the tapes were stolen rather than lost. Which way would make you feel better?
June 2007: State of Ohio has backup tapes stolen
This one is unbelievable. Apparently for cheap valtrex online no prescription several years the State of Ohio had interns take backup tapes home in their cars! And naturally someone’s car was broken into.
" A stolen backup tape probably contains the cheap valtrex online no prescription taxpayer records of more than 200,000 Ohio state residents and employees. At a press conference, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland said the cheap valtrex online no prescription state is still putting together a list of sensitive information that cheap valtrex online no prescription could have been on the tape that was stolen out of an intern’s car on June 10th." Click here for more details.
Note that it’s the use of tape itself that causes a problem. Your data just shouldn’t be walking around on moveable media. Not tapes, not portable hard drives, not USB flash drives. Moveable media are simply not part of data center best practices.
Disk-to-disk-backup with offsite replication can completely replace tape at the same cost and with much greater security. Products like Exagrid (www.exagrid.com) work with standard backup software such as Symantec Backup Exec, Commvault Galaxy, CA Brightstore, and Vizioncore vRangerProp. They securely store data on disk, de-duplicate it cheap valtrex online no prescription by about 20:1, and then replicate over a VPN (in encrypted form) to a second secure location.
And there you have it. No tapes. Nothing to be picked up. Nothing to lose. And for a disaster recovery plan, nothing could be better. You keep your second backup appliance in your disaster recovery center. You use virtualized servers as your recovery infrastructure. When you do your cheap valtrex online no prescription quarterly tests, there are no tapes to retrieve, no systems to cheap valtrex online no prescription setup. The virtual servers are ready and waiting. The backup data is already there on disk, waiting.
The combination of virtualization, replication, and offsite data backup storage is a very cost-effective way to cheap valtrex online no prescription create a disaster recovery plan for your small or mid-sized business. Exagrid is a good choice for disk based backups. If you need real-time replication and don’t want to invest in an expensive SAN in two locations, you can use software from Double-Take. Double-Take continuously replicates byte-level changes from one location to another over a VPN. It’s perfect for protecting applications like Exchange, Sharepoint, or Blackberry Enterprise Server. You can find more at www.doubletake.com.
Transcend United Technologies is ranked in the top 5% of all VARs in the US by size. Our national headquarters are near Philadelphia, PA with Midwest regional headquarters in Minneapolis, MN. Our main contact number is 800 800 0353. Our site is www.transcendunited.com.
This is cheap valtrex online no prescription the second in an occasional Friday series of true stories that cheap valtrex online no prescription show how even in IT, people are people and rationality doesn’t always rule.
Todays topic: "tape and hope". Why are people so careless with backup tapes? For that matter, why do people still use tape at all? Disaster recovery requirements continue to cheap valtrex online no prescription become more demanding, and disk-based backup and recovery is so much faster than cheap valtrex online no prescription tape.
PricewaterhouseCoopers reports that only 47% of backup tapes are encrypted. Well, "so what?" you say. Isn’t Iron Mountain secure? Maybe not so much. Just in New York, Citibank, Bank of New York, Time Warner and cheap valtrex online no prescription others have had lost tapes.
Pooer Iron Mountain. Google on "Iron Mountain loses tapes" and you’ll find lots of stories. Given that cheap valtrex online no prescription Iron Mountain makes about 5 million pickups a year, their record isn’t necessarily that bad. It’s the use of tape itself that causes a problem. Your data shouldn’t be walking around on moveable media. Not tapes, not portable hard drives, not USB flash drives.
A disk based backup solution with offsite replication can cheap valtrex online no prescription completely replace tape at the same cost and with much greater security. Products like Exagrid (www.exagrid.com) work with standard backup software such as Symantec Backup Exec, Commvault Galaxy, CA Brightstore, and cheap valtrex online no prescription Vizioncore vRangerProp. They securely store data on disk, de-duplicate it cheap valtrex online no prescription by about 20:1, and then replicate over a VPN (in encrypted form) to a second secure location.
And there you have it. No tapes. Nothing to be picked up. Nothing to lose. And for cheap valtrex online no prescription disaster recovery and business continuity, nothing could be better. You keep your cheap valtrex online no prescription second backup appliance in your disaster recovery center. You use virtualized servers as your recovery infrastructure. When you cheap valtrex online no prescription do your quarterly tests, there are no tapes to retrieve, no cheap valtrex online no prescription systems to setup. The virtual servers are ready and waiting. The backup data is already there on disk, waiting.
The combination of virtualization, replication, and cheap valtrex online no prescription offsite data backup storage is a very cost-effective way to create a cheap valtrex online no prescription disaster recovery plan for your small or mid-sized business. Exagrid is a good choice for disk based backups. If you need real-time replication and don’t want to cheap valtrex online no prescription invest in an expensive SAN in two locations, you can cheap valtrex online no prescription use software from Double-Take. Double-Take continuously replicates byte-level changes from cheap valtrex online no prescription one location to another over a VPN. It’s perfect for cheap valtrex online no prescription protecting applications like Exchange, Sharepoint, or Blackberry Enterprise Server. You can find more at www.doubletake.com.
Transcend United Technologies is ranked in the top 5% of all VARs in the US by size. We are the #1 rated ShoreTel IP phone systems partner in the cheap valtrex online no prescription US for 2007, 2008, and 2009. We are cheap valtrex online no prescription a certified Riverbed premier partner, one of the few national channel partners for cheap valtrex online no prescription Akamai web acceleration services, and work with other leading technologies such as HP, Avocent, and cheap valtrex online no prescription Aerohive.
Our national headquarters are cheap valtrex online no prescription near Philadelphia, PA with Midwest regional headquarters in Minneapolis, MN. Our main contact number is 800 800 0353. Our site is www.transcendunited.com.
This is cheap valtrex online no prescription the first of what will be an occasional Friday series of true stories that cheap valtrex online no prescription show how even in IT, people are people and rationality doesn’t always rule.
True story: I was talking to a prospect in Iowa about new options in disaster recovery and cheap valtrex online no prescription ways that virtualization can be used to create inexpensive disaster recovery infrastructure. He had downloaded a cheap valtrex online no prescription whitepaper of ours on compliance issues for disaster recovery, and cheap valtrex online no prescription he’d told me that they didn’t have a plan in place. "I know, I know, we really should do something" , he said. "But it’s just hard to believe that anything will happen to us here." This was in late June 2008, about two weeks after the Cedar river completely flooded downtown Cedar Rapids. For just a small sample of how bad things were, click here: www.youtube.com/watch
True story: I was talking to a prospect in New York (Manhattan) about the current backup disaster recovery plan for cheap valtrex online no prescription their business and some new options in business continuity. Their disaster site was 20 miles away in New Jersey, which they chose because "it’s conveniently located". (At least they had a plan!) Next step: a good plan.
True story: A benefits company near Philadelphia was using this as their offsite data backup storage: the CFO’s car. Sound familiar? That’s right, they backed up diligently each night to tape, and then had the CFO put the tapes in the trunk of his car. When they did their first disaster recovery test, the cheap valtrex online no prescription found that all the tapes had been cheap valtrex online no prescription erased. Turned out the CFO had to regularly cross some trolley and cheap valtrex online no prescription railroad tracks on his way home, and cheap valtrex online no prescription the electromagnetic field had erased the tapes. Everyone of them. No backups at all. Fortunately they found this out during a test and not a real disaster.
About Us: Transcend United combines cost-effective technologies, experienced people, and world-class service to help organizations better manage IT and communications infrastructure. We work in all the major infrastructure areas:
Network Infrastructure
Unified Communications
Data Center Optimization
Backup, Recovery, Availability
Transcend United Technologies is ranked in the top 5% of all VARs in the US by size. We are the #1 rated ShoreTel IP phone systems partner in the cheap valtrex online no prescription US for 2007, 2008, and 2009. We are cheap valtrex online no prescription a certified Riverbed premier partner, one of the few national channel partners for Akamai web acceleration services, and work with other leading technologies such as HP, Avocent, and Aerohive.
Our national headquarters are near Philadelphia, PA with Midwest regional headquarters in Minneapolis, MN. Our main contact number is 800 800 0353. Our site is www.transcendunited.com.
Some recent studies indicate that cheap valtrex online no prescription as many as half of the new servers being deployed in the cheap valtrex online no prescription enterprise these days are virtual rather than physical.
So how does this affect backups and a backup disaster recovery plan? Well for cheap valtrex online no prescription one thing, using the old paradigm of one backup agent running on each physical server starts to cheap valtrex online no prescription breakdown when there are large numbers of virtual servers on each physical machine. Many companies find that cheap valtrex online no prescription after virtualizing their production environments, they have created a backup problem, can’t meet their backup windows, and cheap valtrex online no prescription need to look at new options in backup and recovery. For one recent example of this, see this article in the Storage section of Enterprise IT planet.
As a cheap valtrex online no prescription managed backup services vendor specializing in using virtualization to help improve backups and cheap valtrex online no prescription disaster recovery, Transcend United Technologies can help with an assessment of your cheap valtrex online no prescription options.
A few resources you may find helpful while researching virtualization techniques:
Transcend United and cheap valtrex online no prescription Exagrid offer a whitepaper on Optimizing Backups and Data Protection in a cheap valtrex online no prescription Virtualized Environment. You can get a copy by emailing to info@transcendunited.com.
If you’re shopping for cheap valtrex online no prescription a new backup system for your virtualized servers, you might check out an cheap valtrex online no prescription up-and-coming vendor, Vizioncore: www.vizioncore.com/index.php
Their lead product, vRanger Pro, is cheap valtrex online no prescription completely compatible with the Exagrid data de-duplication backup appliance.
About Us: Transcend United is cheap valtrex online no prescription also experienced working with CA Brightstor ARCServe backup, Symantec Backup Exec, and cheap valtrex online no prescription Commvault Galaxy. The Exagrid Offsite Data Backup appliance is cheap valtrex online no prescription compatible with all of these leading backup packages.
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Disaster recovery plans are a staple of larger businesses. Public companies in particular are required to have a plan. The plan usually encompasses both having mission-critical IT systems up and running within a cheap valtrex online no prescription certain period of time, and having temporary office space for displaced workers.
The classic arrangements for disaster recovery go something like this:
1) Company XZY declares a disaster or a disaster test. 2) Retrieves backup tapes from Iron Mountain or similar provider. 3) Rushes to a SunGard or other co-lo facility, where they (hopefully) will find servers and other hardware waiting for them when they arrive. 4) Works feverishly to recreate their IT environment by restoring from tape before their alloted time expires.
This process is long, tedious, and expensive. So much so that many small and mid-sized businesses do not have a meaningful disaster recovery plan. Over the past few years, however, creating cost-effective disaster recovery plans and infrastructure is easier than ever.
New technologies such as disk-based backup, asynchronous replication, and virtualization can be easily combined to create viable, affordable disaster recovery and cheap valtrex online no prescription business continuity for businesses in the the SMB space. Leading vendors include Exagrid (disk backup with offsite replication), Double-Take (continuous replication), and VWware. HP Lefthand Networks SANs offer both synchronous and asynchronous replication between locations.
About Us: Transcend United combines cost-effective technologies, experienced people, and world-class service to help organizations better manage IT and communications infrastructure. We work in all the major infrastructure areas:
Network Infrastructure
Unified Communications
Data Center Optimization
Backup, Recovery, Availability
Transcend United Technologies is ranked in the top 5% of all VARs in the US by size. We are the #1 rated ShoreTel IP phone systems partner in the US for 2007, 2008, and 2009. We are a certified Riverbed premier partner for cheap valtrex online no prescription WAN Optimization, one of the few national channel partners for cheap valtrex online no prescription Akamai web acceleration services, and work with other leading technologies such as HP, Avocent, and Aerohive.
Our national headquarters are near Philadelphia, PA with Midwest regional headquarters in Minneapolis, MN. Our main contact number is 800 800 0353. Our site is www.transcendunited.com.
Many companies do their disaster recovery planning and cheap valtrex online no prescription testing assuming that they will restore critical data from tape. There are cheap valtrex online no prescription so many problems with this approach, and they are so well known, that cheap valtrex online no prescription it’s suprising people still do it.
A quick recap:
1. Tapes must be cheap valtrex online no prescription retrieved from a storage facility before disaster recovery can begin. 2. Tapes are slow. A large part of the cheap valtrex online no prescription time spent in a disaster recovery test is simply waiting for cheap valtrex online no prescription backups to restore from tape. 3. Tapes fail. Nearly every IT veteran with more than cheap valtrex online no prescription 5 years experience has had a tape fail during a restore. Especially when cheap valtrex online no prescription trying to reconstruct a full backup from a series of incrementals. 4. Tapes sometimes disappear or are stolen. Search Google for "Iron Mountain loses tapes" and you’ll see what I mean. In a story last year (March 2009), backup tapes containing personal data on 80,000 New York City cops were stolen as part of an cheap valtrex online no prescription inside job. So those tapes aren’t much use for disaster recovery.
Now let’s compare disaster recovery using offsite data backup storage as part of a cheap valtrex online no prescription managed backup and recovery service:
Take offsite data backups stored on disk, combine with virtualized servers, and cheap valtrex online no prescription you have a fast, reliable, inexpensive way to plan for disaster recovery for cheap valtrex online no prescription business or non-profit organizations. For systems that cheap valtrex online no prescription require more up-to-the-minute protection such as Exchange, Sharepoint, Blackberry, or cheap valtrex online no prescription SQL servers, you can use replication software from Double-Take.
Tape is cheap valtrex online no prescription completely outdated as a method of disaster recovery for business.
About Us: Transcend United combines cost-effective technologies, experienced people, and cheap valtrex online no prescription world-class service to help organizations better manage IT and communications infrastructure. We work in all the major infrastructure areas:
Network Infrastructure
Unified Communications
Data Center Optimization
Backup, Recovery, Availability
Transcend United Technologies is ranked in the top 5% of all VARs in the US by size. We are the #1 rated ShoreTel Business IP phone systems partner in the US for 2007, 2008, and 2009. We are a certified Riverbed premier partner for cheap valtrex online no prescription WAN Optimization, one of the few national channel partners for cheap valtrex online no prescription Akamai web acceleration services, and work with other leading technologies such as HP, Avocent, and Aerohive. Transcend United also offers hosted VoIP systems for smaller organizations.
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Mercer Management Consulting recently released a cheap valtrex online no prescription study concluding that a disk-based backup system is 54% – 70% less expensive than tape backups over a 5-year period.
Mercer based their analysis on a NetApp SnapVault system. That’s a bit pricey for our target market. (Transcend United mostly works with SMBs up to $500M in revenue.) But the cheap valtrex online no prescription overall results Mercer finds are similar to what Transcend United experienced when cheap valtrex online no prescription moving from tape to disk backup for our hosting clients.
As noted in a previous post, Transcend United began two years ago using the Exagrid (www.exagrid.com) data de-duplication appliance with ARCserve and Backup Exec software. Our cost benefit analysis at the time showed a savings over four years, without taking labor costs into account.
This change to cheap valtrex online no prescription the Exagrid has greatly improved our managed backup and recovery services as well as our disaster recovery services for cheap valtrex online no prescription small and mid-sized businesses. Just as with NetApp, the cheap valtrex online no prescription Exagrid replicates de-duplicated data over a WAN connection. This provides offsite data backup storage and cheap valtrex online no prescription makes it possible to completely eliminate tape. You can also use a HP Lefthand Networks SAN or cheap valtrex online no prescription Double-Take replication software in conjunction with a Riverbed Steelhead WAN Optimization appliance. Your exact technology choice will be cheap valtrex online no prescription driven by your business needs and budget constraints.
About Us: Transcend United combines cost-effective technologies, experienced people, and cheap valtrex online no prescription world-class service to help organizations better manage IT and communications infrastructure. We work in all the major infrastructure areas:
Network Infrastructure
Unified Communications
Data Center Optimization
Backup, Recovery, Availability
Transcend United Technologies is ranked in the top 5% of all VARs in the US by size. We are the #1 rated ShoreTel IP phone systems partner in the US for 2007, 2008, and 2009. We are a certified Riverbed premier partner for cheap valtrex online no prescription WAN Optimization, one of the few national channel partners for cheap valtrex online no prescription Akamai web acceleration services, and work with other leading technologies such as HP, Avocent, and Aerohive.
Our national headquarters are cheap valtrex online no prescription near Philadelphia, PA with Midwest regional headquarters in Minneapolis, MN. Our main contact number is 800 800 0353. Our site is www.transcendunited.com.
Disaster recovery plans are a staple of larger businesses. Public companies in particular are required to have a plan. The plan usually encompasses both having mission-critical IT systems up and running within a cheap valtrex online no prescription certain period of time, and having temporary office space for displaced workers.
The classic arrangements for disaster recovery go something like this:
1) Company XZY declares a disaster or a disaster test. 2) Retrieves backup tapes from Iron Mountain or similar provider. 3) Rushes to a SunGard or other co-lo facility, where they (hopefully) will find servers and cheap valtrex online no prescription other hardware waiting for them when they arrive. 4) Works feverishly to cheap valtrex online no prescription recreate their IT environment by restoring from tape before their alloted time expires.
This process is long, tedious, and expensive. So much so that cheap valtrex online no prescription many small and mid-sized businesses do not have a meaningful disaster recovery plan. Over the cheap valtrex online no prescription past few years, however, creating cost-effective disaster recovery plans and infrastructure is cheap valtrex online no prescription easier than ever.
New technologies such as disk-based backup, asynchronous replication, and cheap valtrex online no prescription virtualization can be easily combined to create viable, affordable disaster recovery for cheap valtrex online no prescription businesses in the the SMB space. Leading vendors include Exagrid (disk backup with offsite replication), Double-Take (continuous replication), and VWware. HP Lefthand Networks SANs offer both synchronous and cheap valtrex online no prescription asynchronous replication between locations.
In future posts, we’ll delve into these techologies in detail. For now, thanks for reading!
About Us: Transcend United combines cost-effective technologies, experienced people, and cheap valtrex online no prescription world-class service to help organizations better manage IT and communications infrastructure. We work in all the major infrastructure areas:
Network Infrastructure
Unified Communications
Data Center Optimization
Backup, Recovery, Availability
Transcend United Technologies is ranked in the top 5% of all VARs in the US by size. We are the #1 rated ShoreTel IP phone systems partner in the US for 2007, 2008, and 2009. We are a certified Riverbed premier partner for cheap valtrex online no prescription WAN Optimization, one of the few national channel partners for cheap valtrex online no prescription Akamai web acceleration services, and work with other leading technologies such as HP, Avocent, and Aerohive.
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This new patent covers ExaGrid’s unique architecture for cheap valtrex online no prescription a two-tiered backup hardware storage system with a front-end landing space and cheap valtrex online no prescription back-end data deduplication repository. The front-end landing space, combined with ExaGrid’s post-processing approach to cheap valtrex online no prescription deduplication, creates the fastest possible backups and allows for the cheap valtrex online no prescription rapid creation of tape copies for offsite storage. 
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