With the ever growing amount of data that is currently being stored on PCs, there is a need for a simple, end-user friendly solution that can effeciently backup this data and enable end users to recover their own files. However, current backup solutions are faced with several challenges:
- They back up too much data, particularly multiple copies of the same or mostly similar data: e.g. two PowerPoint files on two different PCs that differ by only a slide are backed up as two separate files.
- They are hard to manage – requiring prohibitive administrative overhead to ensure recoverability across thousands of geographically distributed PCs, which are extremely volatile – as they can shut down or lose connectivity at any time.
- They require a heavyweight intrusive agent that interrupts users and ties up PC resources, affecting user productivity.
- End user self service recovery often does not exist and when it does, it requires end user training, which can be can be difficult and time consuming.
Mobile workers compound these challenges, as they also have a great deal of data on their PCs and are rarely and/or inconsistently connected to the corporate network, making the management of remote PC backups an administrative burden. This burden is exacerbated by the inability to perform risk assessment of stolen laptop contents.
The Copiun Solution is automated, secure, transparent to end users, and requires nearly zero IT administration, while storing and transmitting backup data that is up to 5 times less than current best-in-class solutions.
The Copiun Solution is:
- Storage and Bandwidth Efficient via Patent-Pending Object Based De-duplication technology
- Copiun’s patent-pending Object Based de-duplication technology can detect common objects across the entire company, e.g. the same image embedded in two unrelated PowerPoint document on two different PCs or the same PowerPoint attachment in two different PST files.
- Significant storage and bandwidth savings: Backs up unique data only once, providing storage and bandwidth savings that are up to five times better than current best-in-class de-duplication technologies.
- Easy to Use
- Non-intrusive agent - backups occur only when the user is NOT using their PC.
- Does not require any end user configuration.
- Integrated into the operating system via Windows Explorer and Windows Search – requiring no end user training to use the product.
- Full-text search based recovery using Windows Search integrates into existing end user workflows.
- Easy to setup
- Easy installation via group policy or standard install tools, making set up a breeze.
- Policy based management – create policies and apply them to multiple PCs – no need to perform per PC operations, which can be a real headache.
- Automated management and update of PC Agent software – keeps the agent software updated with latest versions without requiring administrator action.
- Easy to manage
- Service Level based management – no need to follow up on daily individual failures across hundreds of PCs: Copiun does that for you and only highlights real problems that require administrative attention.
- Automated, self-scheduling, continuous backup – no need to manage backup schedules.
- Self managing, self-healing system – auto detects most failures and fixes them.
- Continuous Recovery testing – Administrators can be sure that valuable corporate data is always recoverable.
- Remote Management
- No need to go to the PC for anything, manage all activities associated with the backup from the backup server.
- Secure
- All data is encrypted using 128-bit AES encryption before storage and transmission over the network.
- Integrated into Active Directory, providing single sign-on.