Information has become a very important asset in human lives, individually or professionally, personally or in business. The volume of information continues to grow at an astounding rate especially for businesses. This makes it critical for information to be available and secured at all times. The increasing dependency of people on information has amplified the challenges in storing, protecting and managing data. Legal, regulatory and contractual obligations regarding
data availability and protection further add to these challenges. Data Storage and Backup Services address these and other challenges.
This offering includes solutions that offer different types of storage implementations such as DAS, NAS and SAN whereby data will be stored on a central storage sub-system. This reduces complexity in data management, capacity, security and scalability (data written to storage sub-system is then written to a secondary sub-system). This protects data against corruption, be it human or system error and or an internal or external attack. Data can be protected in various techniques:
Data Backup
A technique of copying primary data to a secondary location with the purpose of restoring in the case of data loss
Data Replication
a technique of duplicating data from one server to another for a various reason, such as sharing data with different users, having production data to perform application tests, quality assurance and training.
Data Archiving
A technique similar to data backup that serves for longer retention periods.
