Backup and Recovery



FRom Data Protection to Data Management



Backup and Recovery has evolved into a very sophisticated range of solutions that encompass more than the basic functions of backing up and restoring vital business data. Modern backup tools could now be labelled more as Data Management solutions considering the vast portfolio of functionality embedded within them.

Lumen IT offers a range of Data Management solutions from a number of vendors, to suit all business requirements and budgets.

It is clear that most astute IT managers need more than an "its OK, its in the cloud!" backup regime. Backing up from the cloud to premise or another cloud is rapidly becoming a hallmark of hybrid cloud deployments.



Virtual Machine (VM) Protection





Virtual Machines (VMs) run the majority of the server infrastructure today, with virtualisation ratios that exceed 95% in most IT departments. Thus, backup technology with deep integration into hyper-visor data protection APIs are destined to offer the most advanced backup and recovery, tightly integrating with snapshot systems, (including even hardware snapshots), to effect off-LAN backup and restore, and importantly support replication to heterogeneous infrastructure (including the cloud) as and when required.



Sophisticated Agent Based Protection





Sophisticated data collections such as SAP and enterprise database solutions including Oracle, PostGreSQL, Microsoft SQL, DB2, Hadoop are the engine room of today's enterprises.Million dollar transactions rely on these platforms being highly operational and available. Protection solutions therefore need to respect the deeply embedded functionality and work alongside inbuilt tools such as Oracle RAC, SQL Always On, and other technologies to ensure protected data is appropriately recovered.



Protecting Cloud Workloads including SaaS & O365





With a strong takeup of Office365, even Microsoft will advise that clients should make another protection copy of their vital email data. Backup solutions designed to extract not just emails, but also SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and other cloud app (eg Salesforce.com) content and copy it in a manged way back to premise, or indeed another cloud, is key in today's world. Further, good backup solutions can enable cloud migration of VMs and content, but also facilitate disaster recovery to the cloud.



Content Indexing and Search - Files and Email





The evolution of a good backup product is through advanced functionality embedded into content indexing and search. In frequent use for legal purposes (eDiscovery), with parallels in government for FOI (freedom of information) preparation, content indexing can literally save months of work in sifting through aged content looking for that needle in the haystack.



Disaster Recovery





A robust Disaster Recovery plan is a mandatory requirement for all enterprises. Backup solutions, since they must touch every bit of data, are an ideal platform for the copying of content from a primary/source system to a target system, whether that be of like configuration, or completely dissimilar. Many clients use their backup solution to facilitate a cloud-based disaster recovery architecture.



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