Introduction
Even though you back up your LAN servers regularly, you know that users still store mission critical data on their desktop and laptop hard drives. Often this is information that is crucial for your day-to-day operations, as well as legal compliance. Yet, because it isn’t on the server, it isn’t backed up systematically. In fact, it probably isn’t backed up at all. Thankfully, OffsiteDataSync’s Next-Generation technology is aligned with Cloud Computing, designed to offer backup efficiencies unavailable with traditional backup architecture. You decide which information to store online and which to archive offsite, and you avoid costly downtime. If users lose data, your help desk – or the users themselves – can restore it immediately and since all your remote data is stored in a central location under IT control, it’s easy to administer, even if you use a central help desk.
Key Benefits
- Simple, fast installation: The service for mobile users is less than 15MB footprint and a GUI can be included or excluded.
- Accountability: Centralized administration gives network managers control over what gets backed up and how often.
- No user action needed: The fully automated process relieves users from making backup decisions and ensures all critical data is backed up regularly.
- Fast and efficient data recovery: Restore critical data quickly from the local storage on the LAN or from the online vault in the enterprise data center.
- Data security: Advanced security and authentication algorithms, including FIPS 140-2 certified encryption, ensure the safety, confidentiality, and compliance of the data at all times.
- Bandwidth and CPU throttling: End users can control the resources used by the backup application – so they can work on their laptops while a backup/restore job takes place.
- Unified Backup: Mobile users will be backed up whether on the road or on the company premises – to the ODS centralized data vault.
- Easy deployment across the enterprise: Automate and simplify backup processes to make your backup highly scalable. Installations can be fully automated across a variety of operating systems and network configurations, making deployment easy.
- Faster Backup, Faster Recovery: OffsiteDataSync automates and simplifies as much of the backup process as possible. Backups can occur as often as required, and only new, unique data is backed up, saving bandwidth and storage space. Sophisticated compression algorithms adapt to the types of files on users’ laptops – ensuring optimum transmission speeds while minimizing processing overhead. Network resources are continuously monitored during backup and restore operations to prevent data bottlenecks. End users can control how many resources are used by the backup application, so they can check email, browse, and do other work during a backup job.
