The Objectives

Most businesses today are faced with the ever-growing data storage needs and are constrained by traditional backup devices and narrowed backup windows. As you start to design a solution to these issues you need to consider answering two basic questions first;

What is your Recovery Time Objective (RTO) or how quickly do you need to recover from a data disaster?

What is your Recovery Point Objective (RPO) or how much data can you afford to lose?

Once you have answered these two basic questions for each of your data sets then we can help you design a Data Protection solution with storage virtualization to address your ever-growing data storage needs.

Based on the objectives, we can then look at what level of protection best meets your Recovery Time Objective/Recovery Point Objective. We can look at File Level Protection, Disk Based or Block Level Protection, BareMetal Recovery, Continuous Data Protection (CDP), Continuous Data Replication (CDR), Off-Site Replication, and Storage Virtualization.

Data Protection Services
Disk Protection

• Block level protection for entire drive or partition
  
  • This approach protects the entire drive or partition from a block level. As the block changes it is recorded in a holding area to be flushed based on the type of protection.
    
• Continuous Data Protection
  
  • This flushes the block level changes from a cache area continuously to the primary and secondary drives. This gives you the best Recovery Point Objective in a hardware failure. Periodic data protection is then used to get the best Recovery Time Objective and protect against a rolling disaster such as a worm or virus.
    
  • Use of the cache area will improve overall I/O performance compared to disk I/O.
    
• Periodic Data Protection
  
  • This flushes the block level changes from the cache area at a preset point in time to the primary and secondary drives. This gives you the best Recovery Time Objective and protects against rolling disaster.
    

File Level Protection

• Periodic Data Protection
  
  • This flushes the block level changes from the cache area at a preset point in time to the primary and secondary drives. This gives you the best Recovery Time Objective and protects against rolling disaster.
    
• Selective data set
  
  • This protection allows you to select specific files or folders to protect. No need to protect the entire drive which reduces the amount of disk space required for the protection.
    

BareMetal Recovery

This is a block level protection that includes the OS drive which allows you to boot off a restore CD or Host Bus Adapter (HBA). While you are operating you can restore the entire primary data set.

This protection directly addresses Business Continuity. Combine this with Continuous Data Protection or Periodic Protection and a Host Bus Adapter and take the downtime from days to minutes and reduce the IT time required to install and setup the system.

Disaster Recovery (DR)

• Continuous Data Replication
  
  • This like Continuous Data Protection continuously flushes block level changes from the cache area to a DR site regardless if it is across the room or across the country This protection gives you the best Recovery Point Objective.
    
  • If the Internet bandwidth becomes constrained, the changes will queue up in the caches to be flushed when the bandwidth becomes available. If the cache fills, the replication automatically falls back to Point-in-Time replication.
    
  • Bandwidth may be throttled.
    
• Point in Time Replication
  
  • This protection flushes block level changes from the holding area to a DR site at a preset point in time. This protection gives you the best Recovery Time Objective.
    
• Business Continuity
  
  • This protection combined with redundant off-site servers reduces the downtime your business has in the event of a disaster that destroys your primary location.
    
• Data Vault Services
  
  • MapleTronics offers a premier data vault to house your off-site DR location with all the redundancies built in (Power, Bandwidth, etc.).
    

Storage Virtualization

• Easily meet your growing data storage needs
  
  • Increase or decrease your storage location need with a few mouse clicks. This will not extend downtime or labor costs like other direct attaché storage solutions.
    
• Storage Vendor Agnostic
  
  • We work with most storage vendors allowing you to pick the right storage device for your needs.
    
• Data Migration
  
  • This is a great tool to move data sets between devices without downtime. Because this is block level the ACL’s are preserved and is transparent to the host OS.
    
• Timeviews
  
  • Create a Timeview to run a test on software upgrade against current data without impacting the production data.
    
  • Timeviews allow you to look at data to pick the best restore point.
    Restore individual files to alternate locations.
    

Contact us for more information regarding TorQ47
TorQ is the Data Protection Suite available only through MapleTronics Computers.