Managed Online Backup - Enterprise - VBAK

VBAK, InTechnology's automated offsite backup and recovery service, offers unparalleled data backup and rapid online restoration, completely eliminating the severe limitations of traditional tape-based backup solutions.

Overview

Manage complexity
Centralised and automated backup scheduling - with compressed data held on a dedicated disk for rapid restoration.

Reduce costs
Pay-as-you-go charging model means you only pay for the storage & service used.

Minimise risks
An improved backup process where encrypted data is sent securely and immediately off-site, with an optional second copy - supports disaster recovery and business continuity plans.

Support heterogenous  environments
Full support for Microsoft Exchange and SQL along with Oracle, Groupwise and others. File system agents provided free of charge.

Improve service levels
24 x 7 support and monitoring by highly skilled and experienced InTechnology staff with alerting capability.

How VBAK works [view Schematic]

Speed and security are central to the VBAK service

1. The VBAK user interface is installed to allow you to specify backup sets and create schedules, according to business requirements.

2. A Router/Switch and Firewall is installed on your network.

3. The backup application is installed on an InTechnology provided backup server or your target servers.

4. Data is encrypted and compressed prior to off-site transfer for greater security and speed of backup.

5. Data is transferred off-site to a resilient, remote InTechnology Data Centre via a secure private network.

6. Data is held on dedicated and resilient disk storage for rapid online restore when required.

Disaster Recovery

In the event of a major customer site disaster, InTechnology has invested in a 24 hour operations team who are on hand to respond to such an incident.

The team react in accordance with a defined service level agreement and will deliver the customer encrypted backup data to the chosen DR site anywhere in the UK in order to get the business back up and running.

Key DR benefits

• Operations team available 24x7x365
• Data recovered quickly from disk
• UK wide recovery
• SLA defined response times
• Complements full DR strategy