Knowing and planning for an appropriate level of bandwidth is a key component of every DRaaS solution. In our most common DRaaS implementation, the data is moved from local repositories at the customer site over the internet or WAN to our data centers once per day,...
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Sizing for Local Backup Repositories
Sizing Local backup RepositoriesProper sizing for local backup repositories is a critical step in building a complete backup and disaster recovery as a service solution (DRaaS). Below, we will list the most accurate way of determining what your data change rate is and...
What is Veeam Backup
What is Veeam Backup? If you rely on virtualization then older backup and DR solutions that used to work effectively may no longer do the trick…
What is Cloud Disaster Recovery (Cloud DR)?
What Is Cloud Disaster Recovery? Often shortened to Cloud DR, disaster recovery is a plan put into place in case a disaster hits. Cloud DR refers to the component in your disaster recovery plan that involves the use of a cloud backup environment. The Cloud Component...
Data Protection Dashboard Provides Easy to Use Status Window
Global Data Vault Web Portal At Global Data Vault, we ensure the quality of your recovery environment through constant monitoring. Nothing is more important to your business operations than your data and the systems that support it. Not only do we monitor your...
Developing a Data Retention Policy: What to include in your data backup?
(The second in three part series on Developing an Effective Data Retention Policy. In our previous article, Developing an Effective Data Retention Policy, we outlined the history of and comparison of tape backup environments to disc backup environments. Understanding...
Data Backup: Developing an Effective Data Retention Policy
(The first in a three part series. Jump to Part Two: What do you HAVE to back up?) Archiving one’s data is a challenge for every business, whether the business is a billion dollar enterprise or a SOHO. Data loss can be devastating to the profitability of any...
Your Data – Making Sure It’s Protected
Computer hardware fails, and the result is often the loss of valuable data. At Global Data Vault, we have a front-row seat to this mayhem. To ensure your offsite backup solution provides recovery as you expect, you must make sure that all of your important data is...
Why Do Disk Drives Fail
Global Data Vault is inherently interested in data protection and providing disaster recovery solutions for when disk drives fail. Continuing in our series of weighing the differences between enterprise class disk drives and desktop class disk drives, we are now...
Backup Tips – 12 Things You Must Backup
There will come a time in your business life where you either have a computer crash, a large scale network disaster or you have to reinstall an operating system. In any of those dreaded events, you will thank your lucky stars if you have followed these computer backup...