According to current industry research, up to 60 percent of a large organisation's information may be located away from the main data center in remote facilities; and, remote site data consolidation can eliminate many of the management and administration costs of delivering IT services to alternate site users.

The new disk-based solution from Syncsort for remote sites takes advantage of several state-of-the-art components and features offered by Syncsort and Network Appliance (NetApp). In doing so, it decisively meets each of the remote site and central data center needs. Backup Express copies data from the remote site to a central location on secondary disk.

Headquarters can attain immediate full access to the remote site's data for critical production purposes. With the Instant Availability feature of Backup Express, a permissioned administrator can simply map to the latest synthesized point-in-time backup snapshot on an iSCSI-connected secondary volume at the central data center. This results in instant access to remote site data without data transfer.

Unique Benefits of Syncsort Disk-Based Remote Site Data Protection

1. Data administration is centralized
2. All data resources ultimately accumulate at the central data center
3. Backups at remote sites run many times each day, yet LAN and WAN resources remain available and production is undisturbed
4. Folder and file restores are administered by remote sites
5. Disaster recovery is administered at headquarters
6. Past backups are available for restore or recovery
7. Solution is economical and tape free

 

Features	Benefits
Centralised backup reduces cost and complexity	Reduce the costs of hardware, media, support and administration for all remote locations
Reduce risk for critical remote site data	Save frequent, point-in-time images and manage the entire process with skilled data center administrators
Meet remote site recovery objectives	Information is copied in a non-disruptive, frequent process with the backup point-in-time image available for use at the central data center
Meet remote site business continuance objectives	Primary data center can offer rapid business availability if a remote location fails - data is immediately available
Replicating data from remote offices to a common data center standardizes data protection policies	When remote office data is replicated to a central location, it can be managed by trained personnel while leveraging equipment and software already established and proven
Ensure data protection for all locations while reducing costs	Ensures reliable remote site backups and quick recovery of business activities by integrating into the overall corporate process

The Solution Benefits:

Optimise Protection of Remote Site Data
By replicating data from remote sites to the data center, you now can take the backup out of the hands of remote site staff and move it to a central location. By performing regular, frequent backup of remote site information at the data center you better leverage your enterprise backup infrastructure such as equipment, software, media support and trained personnel.

Better Resource Utilisation
By consolidating data in the remote office from less-expensive servers and storage you have reduced costs, simplified management and have a scaleable storage system that can grow with you. Since archive backups are performed from secondary copies, the backup window is flexible and can be part of a standardized corporate schedule.

Reduce Risk
Since copies of the remote site data are now stored off-site at the alternate data center. This data is now protected from disasters such as flood, fire or damage that may take place in the remote location.

Standardise Deployments
The solution offers a platform to standardize alternate site deployments and synchronize branch content. Centrally manage remote locations and automate site recovery. The benefits to a standardized multiple site deployment include: reducing time, standardizing process and procedure and reconciling dated information.

Consolidating remote site data and enabling centralized backup operations delivers considerable savings by leveraging resources in the data center. Your organization could realize savings across many existing investments, including hardware, software, and media.