What is a Backup Appliance?

The STORServer Backup Appliance is the most complete recovery solution available today in lifecycle management offerings for your enterprise. The four major areas of data recovery include:

• Backup and Restore
• Archive and Retrieve
• Disaster Recovery – copies of your backups and archives off-site with a Disaster Recovery Plan for full recovery of your datacenter, or individual servers.
• Compliance – regulatory compliance for HIPPA, DOD, SOX, etc.

Today, the STORServer Backup Appliance supplies everything you need to meet your business requirements around these four recovery areas.

The STORServer replaces the old-fashioned way to buy a backup, archive and disaster recovery solution. Typically, you buy a solution in pieces and parts, or the “5-legged stool.” The STORServer appliance is an easy-to-use, single operator interface, integration of matched and certified hardware, software, installation/configuration, warranty all with a single contact of support.

The STORServer Backup Appliance, a turn-key solution, provides:

• D2D2T (Disk to Disk to Tape) or D2D2X (where X is either TAPE, CD-ROM, DVD-RAM, WORM, etc.)
• True On-line Backup with Online Restore
• Automated Archiving
• Disaster Recovery copies of both backups and archives for off-site
• Storage Pool Technology
  • eliminates backed up data sitting hostage on a specific storage media
  • in addition this means you can seamlessly move from one storage medium to another without worrying about redesigning your backup solution every 15 months.

What you get with a STORServer Backup Appliance:

Integrated Components One Vendor One Service Contract No Finger Pointing Short Implementation Minimum Learning Curve 30 Day Money Back Guaranty One Warranty and Support Policy

What you get when a system is piecemealed together in a typical, do it yourself, backup solution:

Multiple Components Multiple Vendors Multiple Service Contracts Finger Pointing Lengthy Implementation Extended Learning Curve No Money Back Guaranty Vendor Specific Warranty and Support Policies

 

The Backup Appliance is production ready into your environment in about 15 minutes, and will support both Ethernet and SAN attachments for backup/restore simultaneously.

A typical installation for a 1 TB enterprise will take 3-4 business days. It comes with all necessary hardware, adapters, cables, software, installation, and again, warranty and support.

The Backup Appliances range in models for small single server operations to large enterprise environments with pedabytes of data. Multiple STORServers can be run by one manager, even if they are distributed throughout an enterprise, and even over the WAN.

To learn more, please explore the following links:

Backup Appliance Technology is Different

How Does It Work?

How Do You Configure Your Backup Appliance?