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Remote Office Protection

The protection and recovery of data in distributed locations, such as remote or branch offices, is one of the most pressing challenges for enterprise IT. Regulators, shareholders, customers and partners don't make a distinction between your central and distributed data - losing or compromising the security of any data is a very big problem. Just ask the CEOs of any of the dozens of large companies that have had to disclose data loss incidents in the past few years.

One of the biggest problems associated with remote data protection is the continuing reliance on tape-based backup solutions. Most organizations report backup or restore failure rates of more than 50% in their remote offices. While the tape systems themselves are typically reliable, the manual processes of loading, unloading, labeling and transporting tapes - and the people who execute these processes - are not reliable at all. And the physical movement of tapes to off-site vaults for disaster recovery have opened the doors (the back doors of trucks, apparently) to serious security risks.

The bottom line: If you don't have experienced IT personnel in your branch offices (and who does?) you shouldn't be using tape to protect and secure your distributed data assets. And if you want to get a copy of your remote data off-site, it should be moved over a secure electronic connection.

The FilesX Xpress Restore® CDP solution for Remote Office Protection enables global multi-site enterprises to fully automate and centralize the management of all their distributed backup and recovery processes. Xpress Restore helps companies completely eliminate the use of tape in their remote offices, and therefore eliminate the enormous operational costs of associated with remote tape backup and restore.

Xpress Restore was built from the ground up to to cover all protection and recovery aspects of the Enterprise and its branch offices including:

  • A local disk-based protection and recovery solution for mission-critical applications for each site.
  • Non-disruptive to remote applications; no need to shut down; no more "backup windows".
  • Fast, granular recovery of any data entity including individual files, folders, or entire volumes; database tables; e-mail messages, contacts, calendars or mailboxes; or entire systems through Bare Metal Restore (BMR). Recovery can be user-initiated or done by a central administrator.
  • Through our integrated Xpress MountTM interface, users can Recover AnywhereTM over the Internet or WAN, to any location for complete/flexible Disaster and Operational Recovery.
  • Backup consolidation, via replication of the local Xpress Restoe repository, over the Internet or WAN to create a centrally-managed disk backup repository in the main data center.
  • Central monitoring and management console dashboard.
  • Seamless integration with popular tape backup applications for centralized, long-term archiving of remote data in the main data center.
  • Support for regulatory compliance initiatives associated with data protection and retention.
  • Simple, non-disruptive protection process allows more data to remain online longer, improving operational efficiency and reducing data management overhead.

FilesX' CDP On-DemandTM technology is redefining the shape of mission-critical data protection and recovery. By applying application-specific protection policies, eliminating operational costs and utilizing existing infrastructure, at the main data center and at each branch, FilesX offers a quick return on investment (ROI).

"Dealing with IT issues at remote locations is a complex challenge for many organizations", said Steve Duplessie, an analyst with Enterprise Storage Group. "FilesX' Xpress Restore for Remote Office Protection not only reduces costs by eliminating tape from the equation, but also eliminates the 'I forgot to do it' excuse that is the cause of many remote data storage issues."

There is a lot more to learn about Xpress Restore and how it can solve your remote office data protection problems. Please request a demo, or download our whitepaper and datasheet.