Business Data Backup Services

If losing your business data will interfere with doing business, back it up now! You can reinstall software programs if you need to, but recovering the details of transactions or business correspondence is impossible if those files are lost or damaged beyond repair. TaylorWorks will work with your business to develop a data backup system that will effectively protect your critical business data from disaster.

Archiving business data could be a matter of your business's survival. All of the files that you’ve created and/or modified should be regularly backed up. For many businesses, this includes everything from accounting files through email. Contact TaylorWorks for more information on how to implement the proper Data Backup Solution for your business.

For  additional protection in the event of a complete disaster, data is securely  transferred to an off-site co-location facility on a daily basis. Then, in event  of such an occurrence, you will receive a new NAS device imaged with your  latest data. The storage facilities are two XO high-availability data centers  in Phoenix and Baltimore. They provide:

• Backup images stored at the data centers on a Storage Area Network (SAN) at the primary facility, then replicated to the secondary facility.
• Connectivity provided by multiple providers with automatic failover capabilities.
• Facilities provide two fiber optic network drops for our backbone.
• Full physical security at each facility including security cameras and key card access.
• Network is secured with high-end redundant, automatic failover firewalls.
• Fire suppression and environmental control provided.
• Automatic back-up power provided with on-site.

Tape vs. Disk  Backup

Magnetic tape and  disks are the two leading media for data backup storage. While magnetic tape is  currently dominant, analyst Dave Russell of Gartner believes that “Recovery  will move to online disk-based storage in the future. This will cause a major  shift in the backup market during the next four to five years."

Smaller Companies  in particular will benefit from the shift, as recent advances in design and  manufacturing lower the total cost of disk-based storage in terms of storage  per bit. Falling prices, combined with the various performance advantages that  storage industry analysts cite, render disk increasingly attractive. Gartner  Group highlights the suitability of disk for these organizations by explaining  that, “The need for high-performance online recovery of data, combined with the  availability of low-cost disk arrays, has influenced enterprises and small and  midsize businesses to adopt a disk-based approach for backup and  recovery."

Tape, in contrast  to disk, is physically delicate and easily compromised by environmental factors  such as heat, humidity, and magnetic interference. Moreover, tape cartridges  must be replaced frequently (every 6-12 months). Tape’s innate sensitivity  contributes to high failure rates, with analysts estimating that anywhere from  42 to 71 percent of tape restores fail. Even when magnetic tape backups are  successful, tapes themselves are subject to loss or theft, and may be in the  possession of an employee or vendor unable to reach a recovery site. Thus, even  when physical backup and restoration processes succeed, tape may not prove to  be as timely and appropriate a medium for data storage as disk. Time is a  crucial consideration because each hour of server, application, and network  downtime endured until data restoration comes at a high cost, especially to  smaller businesses.

Disk offers not  only lower cost encryption but also other advantages. In contrast to tape,  “disks are more durable, last longer, withstand more overwriting and you don’t  need to clean any heads,” according to Rinku Tyagi of PCQuest.   Additionally, “When it comes to backing up using disks, they are easier to  manage. Disk backup systems include management tools, often browser-based, for  you to easily configure settings and check status from anywhere."

Other advantages of  disk storage are that data is backed up to disk much faster than tape, which  translates to less impact on production server availability. Disk is also a  more reliable media than tape and less prone to error, which translates to less  failed recoveries.

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