Makeovers are hot nowadays. There are makeovers for homes, faces, bodies, haircuts, skin, muffins, websites, buildings, even horses.
(Yes, horses - extrememustangmakeover dot com has all the bronco busting info.)
So with everyone and everything as fair game for a makeover, what about data? The data backup and recovery process can be a big, chaotic nightmare, and with data growth exploding each day at organizations of every size, there must be a better, less expensive, and more effective way to keep it all safe and accessible.
Consider the challenges:
- Virtualization is creating problems, including long backup times, network bottlenecks, and virtual machine contention.
- The increase in data is causing accompanying rises in costs for disk acquisition, power, cooling, and data center floor space.
- The success rate of most back-ups can be significantly lower than 100%.
- Recovery time can be vast, and recovery options can be few.
- Administration can be complex and costly.
We're not talking 1 or 2 split ends, pimples, or fashion fumbles here, folks: these are potential disasters-in-waiting that can threaten careers, obliterate balance sheets, and destroy companies. According to The Boston Computing Network:
- 34% of companies fail to test their tape backups, and of those that do, 77% have found tape back-up failures.
- 60% of companies that lose their data will shut down within 6 months of the disaster.
- 93% of companies that lost their data center for 10 days or more due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster.
- 50% of businesses that found themselves without data management for this same time period filed for bankruptcy immediately.
Help , however , is available, via an Xtreme Data Makeover. It's an honest examination, blemishes-and-all re-assessment, and strategic revamp of current practices that will eliminate glitches and deliver significant technical, operational, and cost savings benefits.
The downside of an Xtreme Data Makeover is non-existent, the benefits are tremendous, and it looks fabulous!
(Yes, horses - extrememustangmakeover dot com has all the bronco busting info.)
So with everyone and everything as fair game for a makeover, what about data? The data backup and recovery process can be a big, chaotic nightmare, and with data growth exploding each day at organizations of every size, there must be a better, less expensive, and more effective way to keep it all safe and accessible.
Consider the challenges:
- Virtualization is creating problems, including long backup times, network bottlenecks, and virtual machine contention.
- The increase in data is causing accompanying rises in costs for disk acquisition, power, cooling, and data center floor space.
- The success rate of most back-ups can be significantly lower than 100%.
- Recovery time can be vast, and recovery options can be few.
- Administration can be complex and costly.
We're not talking 1 or 2 split ends, pimples, or fashion fumbles here, folks: these are potential disasters-in-waiting that can threaten careers, obliterate balance sheets, and destroy companies. According to The Boston Computing Network:
- 34% of companies fail to test their tape backups, and of those that do, 77% have found tape back-up failures.
- 60% of companies that lose their data will shut down within 6 months of the disaster.
- 93% of companies that lost their data center for 10 days or more due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster.
- 50% of businesses that found themselves without data management for this same time period filed for bankruptcy immediately.
Help , however , is available, via an Xtreme Data Makeover. It's an honest examination, blemishes-and-all re-assessment, and strategic revamp of current practices that will eliminate glitches and deliver significant technical, operational, and cost savings benefits.
The downside of an Xtreme Data Makeover is non-existent, the benefits are tremendous, and it looks fabulous!
About the Author:
Peter Eicher is a Senior Product Specialist, Data Protection at Syncsort Incorporated, a software firm specializing in high speed sorting products, as well as data integration and backup/recovery software and services, for Windows, Unix, Linux, and mainframe systems. Syncsort products are utilized by over 90 of the Fortune 100 corporations and can be found in over 12,000 client sites worldwide.
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