Understanding the risk is not enough. Only through thorough preparedness can businesses and industries deliver proper value. Not to diminish the loss of life, jobs and the environmental damage, but as we read about pension funds, suspended dividends and the pain suffered by BP shareholders, let us in the information technology sector take that as a lesson.

It may seem self interested, since we’re in the business of protecting systems, but we’re on the front lines, and this much we know: Far too many companies take too much risk with their essential systems. Let’s let the BP disaster serve some good. Let’s all reevaluate our systems risks. Let’s give our stakeholders the protection they all deserve.

FalconStor Software provides comprehensive solutions that facilitate the continuous availability of business-critical data with speed, integrity, and simplicity. These solutions allow businesses of all sizes to overcome real-world data protection and storage challenges including dramatically increasing data, shrinking backup windows, and budgetary constraints.

Over the past several years, we have delivered not only high quality online backup for servers, as we’re well known for, but also high end infrastructure replication and failover. High end infrastructure protection and replication requires superior tools. As our offering has evolved through several releases, we have learned that only the best underlying technology can deliver the level of quality we believe is essential.

Global Data Vault leverages FalconStor technology. The tools provided by FalconStor are key components of our Advanced Data Protection product. These tools enable three critical components of our solution.

Falconstor technology enables local protection of every disk on every server in our customers’ infrastructure. Unique Falconstor technology allows this to take place with zero overhead within the customer infrastructure.

Second, FalconStor technology helps us replicate the data from the customer site to our secure data centers. This allows us to deliver fast, reliable recovery, bringing your business back online very quickly. This is a result of using sophisticated technologies like application integration, physical-to-virtual recovery, and WAN-optimized replication.

Finally, FalconStor technology helps us protect our primary customer facing data center through real-time replication to our secondary data center facilities.

So, are our customers so prolific in their generation of data that they could fill the library of Congress many times over? Not exactly. So what gives?

Data about data. That may sound strange, but consider this example. I examined a typical email message in my inbox. The content of the email, including the signature block and all the spaces between words consisted of 573 characters. When then saved as an Outlook message on my desktop, the file is 24,576 bytes. That’s almost 50 times larger than the content of the message.

The overhead comes from all the other things required in an email. A partial list of these being the formatting information like fonts and colors, the tracking and routing information, and the structural context information which is needed to allow the message to be accessible to Exchange and to Outlook.

In this case, the ratio of information, the actual message, to data is 2%. In other cases, it is even smaller. And the trend, as our systems become even more sophisticated in capability is to store ever more data about data.

High Profile has provided superior staffing assistance to Global Data Vault over the years.

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