BACKUPS AND DATA RECOVERY

FULLY MANAGED BUSINESS CONTINUITY AND DISASTER RECOVERY SERVICESReliable data and asset protection from a trusted IT advisor

Highlights• Nondisruptive, enterprise-wide DR services• Broad support for a wide array of platforms, including

Microsoft and other operating systems • Lower infrastructure costs with more productive

utilization of IT resources• Fast, reliable recovery for both data and applications• Cost-effective deployment in mixed physical and virtual

server environments• File-level recovery, including individual email recovery

for Microsoft Exchange• Safe, secure data recovery and immediate availability

at Warren Averett Technology Group’s fully compliant data center

With cloud computing and virtualization having thoroughly won the enterprise and now in repeat life cycles, many businesses are rethinking their backup and data recovery (DR) strategies. High data growth rates driven by increased competitive pressures are complicating traditional recovery approaches, leading to a number of problems. Among these are an inability to complete backups within allotted time periods, labor-intensive operations, long recovery times and poor recovery reliability.

Businesses now have a more reliable, cost-efficient solution. Warren Averett Technology Group (WATG) has teamed with InMage and IBM—leading providers of disk-based backup and recovery software—to provide businesses with comprehensive, fully managed business continuity and DR services. Powered by InMage software-based recovery technology and IBM systems, the fully integrated solution combines remote disaster recovery, local backup and application failover into a flexible, managed service designed to support a wide array of enterprise storage and server platforms.

BACKUPS AND DATA RECOVERY

Tailored to meet your specific business requirements, our expert-managed data recovery services allow you to address key data protection and recovery problems such as backup windows, data loss on recovery, poor recovery times and recovery reliability. WATG’s backup and recovery services are built on next-generation recovery technologies such as continuous data protection (CDP), asynchronous replication, application failover/failback and WAN optimization.

Recover data faster and more reliablyBy using CDP as a core technology component, we can capture data changes on primary servers in real time at the byte level. What’s more, you’ll never have to do another scheduled backup, yet you’ll be able to recover data faster and more reliably than tape-based infrastructure or other disk-to-disk solutions. This enables continuous backups with near-zero impact on primary servers and storage. It also reduces the instantaneous data protection load on servers and networks, effectively making backups transparent.

Thanks to the architectural design flexibility of our backup and recovery platform, WATG’s DR services are capable of supporting a wide array of enterprise applications and heterogeneous storage and server environments. Managed from a centralized management interface, the integrated recovery platform covers physical and virtual machine environments and recovers data both locally and remotely. This centralized recovery management approach lets you replace multiple existing products and tools, such as backup agents, replication software and failover clustering, to simplify your IT environment.

You’ll be able to easily replicate across geographic distances while minimizing bandwidth costs, thanks to advanced disk-based recovery technology with built-in features such as compression, encryption, WAN acceleration and bandwidth management. To further minimize the amount of data sent across the network to

enable recoveries, WATG replicates data at the block level instead of the file level. We ensure this process whether the recovery is remote, local, data-specific or requires full recovery of application services. Taken together, these technologies allow us to protect large application environments with minimal bandwidth while meeting stringent recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) requirements.

Meet your recovery objectives with ease and efficiencyData is protected and recoverable as soon as it is created, not just once it’s backed up—a very important consideration for critical application environments. Leveraging the advantages of disk-based data protection software, we can continuously capture data changes as they occur, and perform local backup or remote replication simultaneously with a single data stream. The advanced DR technology supports near-zero data loss on recovery and provides a recovery within minutes from WATG’s enterprise-class data center.

Our granular recovery capabilities are designed to meet the most stringent RPO/RTO requirements while completely eliminating backups as a discrete operation. Remote offices that previously were dealing with tapes and other administratively burdensome solutions can now move to tape-less operations and instead rely on disk-based recovery that is centrally managed. Continuously dribbling writes across the network as they occur puts no noticeable load on the network, while periodically running a backup puts a huge load on the network. InMage disk-based recovery technology helps solve this problem using built-in WAN acceleration and bandwidth optimization techniques that minimize the amount of data that has to be sent across the network to enable recoveries.

BACKUPS AND DATA RECOVERY

Instead of the manual process that conventional replication products require to get an application back up and running, our completely automated process makes recovery faster and more reliable. We can enable this automated recovery to occur from any retroactively selected recovery point. This recovery granularity allows us to recover from data corruption problems with minimal data loss, perform better root-cause analysis of failure events, and potentially recover an application to any previous point in time that may be desired for reporting or maintenance purposes.

Keep your business operational with safe, reliable data accessBusiness continuity ensures the quick resumption of operations following an outage, regardless of the causes. But equally important, it’s also about having quick access to data that isn’t currently in use. Our fully compliant, enterprise-class data center is equipped with cutting-edge technology and protected through high-level security measures and industry best practices. We maintain a staff of highly trained professionals who are available 24/7 to ensure a high level of responsiveness and reliability.

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For more informationFor more information about WATG business continuity and disaster recovery services, contact WATG: www.watechgroup.com

Reduce your capital expenses and optimize IT resourcesWATG can help optimize your resources and focus on your core competencies. We employ powerful data protection and recovery systems and tools to reduce costs, minimize complexity and maximize the return on your IT investment. By allowing WATG to fully manage your DR operations, you’ll spend less time worrying about rising hardware and network costs and more time operating your business.

With WATG, you get all the advantages of a scalable, high-performance DR infrastructure without any of the capital expense. Our end-to-end data recovery services are tailored to meet your specific business requirements for uptime and reliability. You get feature-rich data protection and recovery services, along with the sophisticated expertise to manage it. As with everything we do, WATG goes beyond the standard to provide services that increase your business resiliency.

We’re part of a network you can trust. As a division of Warren Averett, and an IBM Business Partner, WATG has the depth and experience to help you protect your business and assets. Strategic partnerships with many industry-leading vendors enable us to design, plan, implement and manage the best possible solutions for your organization.