Advanced Data Protection

Combining Backup and Failover while Protecting Businesses from the Five Failures with a Unified, Simple, Cost-Effective Solution

You need to ensure you have frequent and reliable backups of your business data, preferably off site. Have the ability to fail over your entire IT environment to a remote site in the event of an incident at your business that prevents you from using your computers. This may be something as simple as a temporary evacuation and is not always a complete catastrophe.

GDV’s Advanced Data Protection solution provides a simple solution to these two needs in a single managed service. Data is encrypted and stored off site at GDV’s data centers. Additionally, the service is monitored and customers are contacted whenever maintenance or reconfiguration is required.

Backup

Backup as often as every 15 minutes
An agent is installed on each server and workstation to be protected. An initial
load is normally made to a supplied portable data device which is shipped to
GDV. Subsequent backups are incremental and done so that seamless access to
all data at each time point is provided.
Data is encrypted and stored off site.
An optional on site appliance can allow for faster local recovery of data
Works with SQL and Exchange servers and any VSS compliant applications
Incremental technology backups up only changed sectors after the initial data load ensuring rapid and efficient backups at all times.

Disaster Recovery Failover

When a failure or other incident prevents access to your primary IT infrastructure,
a complete infrastructure is built and is operational within sixty minutes using
virtual machine technology. The environment is hosted at GDV’s data centers on
an enterprise class VMWare server farm.
Recovery points can be chosen from 15 minute intervals over 7 days or daily intervals
prior to that.
Servers are isolated in their own Virtual Network and firewalled for security
One or more workstations, running the required applications, are included in the
solution.
Once the primary environment is operational again, or rebuilt, the data can be
“failed back” to it from GDV’s data center with minimal downtime.
Quarterly testing of the failover environment is included.