Recorded webinar presentation. E xigent Technologies of Mount Arlington, NJ / Manhattan, NY. "Managed Backup & Disaster Recovery service for Small Business". PREVENT Webinar is hosted by Exigent Technologies President, Dan Haurey. March 3, 2009, 10:00AM.

1. BACKUP & DISASTER RECOVERY WEBINAR Presented By: Daniel J. Haurey, Tel. (973) 770-0500

2. ASSUMPTIONS You have at least one server running a Windows network operating system You're either interested in or participate in the ongoing safeguarding and protection of your organization’s data

3. TWO GOALS FOR TODAY To educate the attendees on technology and industry trends that are allowing us to take advantage of robust backup and business continuity options that were formerly out of reach for most organizations To inform you that you have a choice over traditional tape that offers rapid recovery time and continuance of operations during a failure WE WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO STOP RELYING EXCLUSIVELY ON TAPE FOR YOUR BACKUP NEEDS

4. AGENDA DEFINE THE JARGON TWO CRITICAL PIECES OF THE RECOVERY PROCESS CONFRONTING YOUR INDIVIDUAL RISK TOLERANCE INTRODUCTION TO DISK BASED BACKUP TECHNOLOGY INTRODUCTION TO VIRTUALIZATION AND CONTINUITY PREVENT, MANAGED BACKUP & DISASTER RECOVERY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

5. IMPORTANCE OF PROTECTING OUR DIGITAL ASSETS A recent study discovered that, of companies experiencing a “major loss” of computer records, 43 percent never reopened, 51 percent closed within two years of the loss, and a mere 6 percent survived over the long-term• •Cummings, Maeve; Haag, Stephen; and McCubbrey, Donald. 2003. Management information systems for the information age.

6. IMPORTANCE OF PROTECTING OUR DIGITAL ASSETS “Numerous surveys reveal that second to mis-configuration of the backup software, the leading cause of backup failure is human error”“As a monotonous, thankless job, the shuttling of tapes in and out of a backup tape drive is frequently delegated to employees without the benefit of professional training, who perform the task as their lowest priority on the way out the door”

8. Disaster Recovery typically refers how companies respond or recover from actual disasters, like a flood, fire, earthquake, theft, etc. TACTICAL

9. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TWO COMPONENTS OF BACKUP & DISASTER RECOVERY SAFEGUARD THE ACTUAL DATA PROVIDE FOR CONTINUITY OF IT SERVICES

10. SAFEGUARD THE DATA BACK IT UP! (make copies of the data) Most common backup destinations: Tape External hard disks Network Attached Storage Offsite services that backup over Internet to a remote datacenter

11. PROVIDE FOR CONTINUITY Allow for continuance of IT services: during failure during recovery process Allow email to continue to flow Allow access to documents Allow access to software Allow BUSINESS and IT to CONTINUE THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF PEOPLE ARE BACKING UP (COPYING DATA)BUT NOT PROVIDING FOR CONTINUITY

13. NOT COST-EFFECTIVELY

14. CLUSTERING?

15. SPARE SERVERS?

17. ADVANCES IN TECHNOLOGY AND OTHER TRENDS MAKE BUSINESS CONTINUITY POSSIBLE AND AFFORDABLE ENTER DISK-BASED BACKUP ENTER VIRTUALIZATION

18. WHAT IS DISK BASED BACKUP? Utilize fast, inexpensive hard drives, rather than tape for your backup operations

19. DISK BASED BACKUP?(IN LIEU OF TAPE) WHY NOW? WHY DIDN’T WE USE DISK EARLIER?

21. STORAGE PRICES HAVE PLUMMETED

22. STORAGE PRICES HAVE PLUMMETEDmassive storage / minimal cost

23. MASSIVE CAPACITYVERY LOW COST HARD DISK COSTS

24. Organizations need to look beyond just copying data to tape The simple copying of data to tape is not a strategy. Rather, when it works flawlessly, it merely safeguards your data and is one piece of a two-part process Providing Business Continuity, or the ability to keep working in the face of a failure is critical Most companies have a very false sense of security in tape or a distorted view of the recovery process and actual time needed to fully recover from a failure or disaster Industry pricing trends and technological advances have allowed for smaller organizations and those with a tighter IT budgets to move from tape alone, to robust disaster recovery which provides for business continuity Make no mistake about it, using tape alone leaves you and your organization vulnerable to considerable downtime SUMMARY

25. TAPE VS. DISK

27. HEALTH AND INTEGRITY OF BACKUPS MONITORED

28. BLOCK LEVEL BACKUP, VERSUS FILE LEVEL BACKUP

29. BACKUP IS ENCRYPTED FOR SECURITY REASONS

30. FAILOVER AND BARE METAL RESTORE CAPABILITIES

32. Failover capability through virtualization of servers

33. Backups are monitored 24 hours per day, 7 days per week

34. Security (256 AES encryption on and off-site)

35. Bare Metal Restores to dissimilar hardware

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