Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning
Statistics show that on average, over 40% of businesses that do not have a Disaster Recovery Plan go out of business after a major loss like a fire, a break-in, a storm, or sabotage.
A Good Plan Increases Your Chances of Recovery
There is no reason a temporary setback should turn into a permanent failure - if you protect your organization before disaster strikes. The first step is to create a Disaster Recovery, or Business Continuity Plan. We can help you get started right away. We will put together a comprehensive plan for your entire organization, considering key components crucial to your recovery, and establish a formal process to be followed to restore your business continuity when a disaster occurs.
Your Disaster Recovery Plan will be a comprehensive, step-by-step process for you and your staff to follow, covering such items as contacting your local authorities and insurance carriers, re-establishing phone service, sourcing equipment, restoring data, and all essentials needed to restore your organization's operational capability.
Backup, Backup, Backup!!!
The most important part of any disaster recovery plan is that you have reliable and restorable backups. Geek Anywhere utilizes an enterprise-class offsite backup infrastructure based on the award-winning AhSay backup and replication platform. With Dell and EMC storage network spanning two continents, Geek Anywhere offsite backups deliver the security and reliability of enterprise design featuring triple offsite redundancy without the sacrifice of local storage. Best of all, the multi-platform offsite backups are all-inclusive and provided at an affordable rate competitive with what you would expect to pay for backup software alone.
Offsite Backups are currently available on two redundant grids in the United States and Europe. The United States replication grid consists of high density storage servers in Dallas, TX with replication partners in Chicago, IL and Los Angeles, CA. The European replication grid includes London, UK and Amsterdam, Netherlands. By uploading your critical data to Geek Anywhere you are not just shifting a single point of failure, you are introducing a geographically redundant storage network to secure your most critical data.
Continous Data Protection
Our Offsite Backup product features continuous data protection allowing you to upload snapshots of file changes as soon as they are made. This way you can always recover any changes made throughout the workday. Geek Anywhere does not enforce ratios of offsite to onsite backups so you can use any storage appliance of your choice to store data locally as well as offsite.
Built-In Retention Policies
Our Offsite Backup product is very useful for compliance and business retention policies by allowing you to design backup sets with specific retention intervals spanning years if necessary (for financial documents).
Seeding and Bandwidth Throttling Option
For small remote sites with slow Internet connectivity uploading large backup sets at full speed is frequently not an option. For larger companies, backing up hundreds of GB over the Internet can take a long time. Our offsite backup solution can help with both. Each backup agent can have its bandwidth throttled to a set rate so that the Internet connection is not fully consumed with offsite backup activity. For larger backup sets we do offer seeding services which involves mailing your data to one of the Geek Anywhere data centers for manual upload. This allows you to get the initial backup done quickly and only use your bandwidth for changed or modified files.
All-Inclusive Agents
Our Offsite Backup solution includes agents for Microsoft Windows XP, Vista (32bit and 64bit), Windows Server (32bit or 64bit), Apple Mac OS X 10.4+, Linux, Solaris and Novell. Backup agents also natively backup Microsoft Exchange 2003 and 2007, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL and Volume Shadow Copy snapshots. All of these are included in the monthly cost, with an optional addon to include Exchange brick-level backups (individual mail items).
Reporting, Access and Reliability
Offsite Backups include extensive reporting functionality, giving you true insight into what is being backed up. Offsite backups can be accessed at any time and restored over the Internet just by downloading and installing the agent. In case of a catastrophic event, your data is stored in multiple data centers. Security is simplest of all - all data is encrypted using a 256bit RSA key on the server or workstation and is transmitted via SSL to Geek Anywhere.
Best Practices
The cost of Geek Anywhere's Offsite Backup solution is lower than comparable server backup software alone. In our experience, we have found that most clients only offsite the most critical of data (financials, communications, contracts) and store the bulk of their local data on the local network. Many Offsite Backup providers will force you to purchase expensive systems for on-premise backups. With our Offsite Backup solution you can use anything - from the most expensive to the most affordable network drives. Because Geek Anywhere does not impose any restrictions on the offsite/onsite ratio you can create large backup sets locally and move only the critical data off site.