The large amount of aggregate data on file servers and PCs in remote offices presents several data management challenges for IT Administrators, particularly when it comes to backup and restore. Traditional tape and disk based solutions can present several problems:
- There are generally few, if any, onsite IT resources to manage and troubleshoot backup operations. As a result non-technical staff is responsible for tape handling and troubleshooting tape backups – often leading to costly errors.
- Shipping tapes offline to a disaster recovery site is expensive and a security risk, if the tapes are unencrypted.
- Bandwidth constraints prevent backing up over the WAN to the datacenter using traditional solutions.
As a result the retention and protection processes for remote data are usually inconsistent or undocumented – many times running afoul of regulatory requirements like Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA.
The Copiun Solution provides a highly efficient disk backup system that dramatically improves recoverability of remote office data while simultaneously eliminating cost and complexity of remote office tape infrastructure.
The Copiun Solution is also:
- 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.
- 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 setup and maintain
- Easy install via group policy or standard install tools, making set up a breeze.
- Policy based management allows Administrators to create policies and apply them to several servers – no need to create per machine settings.
- Automated update and management of Remote Backup Agent software versions, reducing administrative burden and increasing reliability.
- Easy to manage and ensure recoverability
- Service Level based management – no need to follow up on daily individual failures: Copiun does that for you and only highlights real problems that require administrative attention.
- Automated, continuous backup, requiring no remote user action or management of backup schedules
- Integrated into the operating system, eliminating the need for remote user training
- Self managing, self-healing system – auto detects most errors and fixes them automatically
- Continuous Recovery testing – Administrators can be sure that valuable corporate data is always recoverable
- 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.