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Keep your business running with CDW |
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| Cisco® NSS3000 4-Bay Gigabit Storage System Chassis |
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| This chassis provides a wealth of features in a desktop-size system designed to deliver robust security and advanced data backup capabilities. |
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| Tandberg Data® RDX® QuikStor |
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| This external, removable 500GB hard drive with docking bay combines the simplicity of tape-based backup with the speed and instant access of a hard drive and removable cartridges. |
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| Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition with Universal Restore |
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Designed to provide centralized management of all workstation and server backup and disaster recovery activities.
1-9 user license with One Year Advantage Premier¹
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| Fortify and withstand power outages, natural disasters and system crashes |
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| Keeping the business running admittedly seems obvious, but it's hard to know exactly what's best for our business. Tools that offer protection from disaster and do double duty for daily operations might be a great idea for your business. These tools include thin clients coupled with remote access, backup and archival storage, and uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems. |
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| Thin-client tactics |
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| Thin-client architecture provides a secure infrastructure for data and provides a high level of security, ease of deployment and reliability. |
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user of thin clients for 12 years, FMSbonds, a brokerage
house in Boca Raton, Fla., has put its disaster plan
into action more than a half-dozen times. The company
runs a real-time, 24x7 replication of data over its
network using Double-Take and has a backup facility
in Asheville, N.C., that it can fail-over to on the
fly. This setup lets it restore services in 25 minutes for all of its
130 employees, no matter where they are, if any of its data services go
dark for any reason, says John DeVine, FMSbonds Vice President and Chief
Technology Officer. |
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| He also adds, "Test, prepare and document are the bywords of business continuity." |
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| Backup and storage strategy |
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| Keeping the network live during a crisis will prove irrelevant if employees can’t tap the data they need to do their jobs. That's where backup and storage strategies come into play. For Concerro, a software-as-a-service company in San Diego that provides Web-based workforce management software and services to healthcare organizations, the solution has been to back up its systems to a high-availability storage area network (SAN). |
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| Its fault-tolerant HP LeftHand storage units use hardware RAID 5 and network RAID 1 to parcel out customer data across multiple disks in multiple storage modules using hot-swappable Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) drives. "We can lose several drives across multiple storage modules or an entire storage module — a 12-disk system — without any loss of data or incurring downtime to clients," says Rod Longanilla, senior manager for IT. “Our main clients are hospital facilities, and quick data recovery in the event of a disaster is an automatic standard with our service.” |
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| The SAN archives files to a second storage server at a remote location in case of a complete host corruption or site disaster. |
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| Backup data verification is a well-known, yet often overlooked, step to ensure data integrity and recovery, says Longanilla. IT should establish procedures to verify data following the initial backup, as well as create a periodic procedure to do both manual and automated checks of archived data. |
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| Power plan |
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| In the end, a business must think through exactly which systems it can't live without, and then devise a plan for powering those systems for minutes, hours, maybe even days. |
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| The UPS system is the first stopgap in eliminating single points of failure from power outages and surges and is therefore extremely crucial to availability of the data center. |
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| Even in tight economic times, companies need to keep up with what's happening in the disaster preparedness and recovery marketplace because these technologies continue to evolve rapidly. |
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CDW Leasing
CDW offers four different leasing terms with three end-of-lease options. Leasing specialists are available to assist you with quotes, account information or any questions that you have. To learn more, contact your CDW account manager today.
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