LAN-Free Backup With Magnitude 3D Storage Clusters

Timely backups are crucial for the seamless operation of your businesses. Well-publicized disasters highlight the need for an effective disaster recovery plan, and frequent backups are the foundation for this strategy. Failing to perform effective backups can lead to lost of data. For instance, a lost database of customer or prospect information can take weeks or months to recreate—if you can recreate it at all. Not only does your business face a huge expense to rebuild the database, but may very well miss opportunities to generate revenue. The outlook is more grim if the lost data brings your company's website down, since fickle consumers are only a click away from the next e-competitor.

Finding time to perform backups, however, can present a challenge. Traditional backup methods clog the performance of the local area network (LAN) and provide a poor return on investment (ROI). Complicating the matter is the exponential growth of data faced by most businesses. It is anticipated that storage needs will grow 50 percent between 2005 and 2006 for compliance reasons alone. All this data must be accessible and protected 24x7x365, which provides little opportunity to perform the necessary backups.

Xiotech Corporation removes the challenges of implementing an effective backup strategy. With a Magnitude 3D® clustered storage system, your organization can easily back up data, during the day, with minimal impact on end users. Your critical applications and data will be protected and can be accessed quickly in the event of an outage or local disaster.