Tag Archives: Managed Service Provider

04.05.14
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A Two Part Answer to the Challenge of Increased Data Complexity

Data integrity in an enterprise must be maintained. However, the small and medium size enterprise needs to address two areas of increased complexity;  the increased complexity of data and the increasing complexities of IBM’s Tivoli Storage Manager to meet the requirements of complex data types and sources. These complexities stretch the ability of the IT staff  to handle even the minimum service levels of Data Backup and Recovery.Gear

Data a complexities are coming from the necessity for the SMB to understand sentiment, cyclical headwinds and other related influences. These non-traditional factors are contained in unstructured data from Social Media and News sources.

Tivoli addresses complex data, or otherwise termed as Big Data. The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager family enables outstanding efficiency, simplicity and scalability for virtual, physical and cloud backup environments of all sizes. TSM reduces backup and recovery infrastructure costs by up to 38% and protects up to ten times more user data per day per backup server.

The SMB generally has limited budget and Data Backup know-how. The question becomes where does the small and medium size business turn to develop and execute a sound data backup and recovery strategy – a strategy that will not reduce the company’s ability to compete, but, will increase its viability and sustainability.

The SMB needing to ensure data integrity across the enterprise should utilize Tivoli along with AAA accredited support personnel.

A Data backup and recovery Managed Service Provider (MSP) is an excellent solution to the new challenges of Big Data. An MSP can remotely executes the SMB’s business critical backup strategy. Salvus Data, a data backup and recovery MSP, centrally monitor and manage your backup environments more cost-effectively and with increased service levels. Salvus does this while the SMB’s data remains within the network walls of the SMB. This improves backup success rates and data recovery, as well as, dramatically reducing the cost of running TSM. Contact a Tivoli AAA certified MSP; Salvus Data Consultants

 

 

03.18.14
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Big Data Requires a Data Backup and Recovery Strategy

Because of the wide-ranging benefits that small and medium size businesses can gain from Big Data in today’s competitive world, many are implementing a local Big Data strategy.

Many companies feel that this is a monumental task that requires changes in all parts of the business. CITO Research developed a paper sponsored by Teradata called How to Stop Small Thinking from Preventing Big Data Victories. The paper states:Big data backup

“The right approach acknowledges that big data and data science efforts are evolutionary and incorporate new technologies and processes into existing ones. It is not about starting over, but about improving current models with new techniques and technologies, enriching those models with an ever-increasing amount of data: next-generation data architecture”

Although the transition to the benefits of Big Data are not a ‘all or nothing’ proposition, the data strategy does need to be evaluated. A data strategy is never complete without a Data Backup and Recovery strategy. A Big Data implementation presents a need for even more focus on the ability to recover from a catastrophic event quickly. However, the SMB is not often staffed or tooled to design and execute a backup strategy of this level of complexity.  The other consideration is that data backup and recovery can be managed remotely without having the live data be transferred to or running in a cloud environment.

There are Data Backup/Recovery Managed Service Providers (DB/R MSP) that provide remote management of the Backup process, along with professional Disaster Backup and Recovery consultation. Contracting an DB/R MSP with the model of remote DB/R management allows the SMB to maintain their data locally without the need to hire new staff or train existing staff in sophisticated data backup and recovery processes. Additionally, the SMB can have a comprehensive Data Backup and Recovery strategy while housing their Big Data locally.

As companies continue to require comprehensive data analytics using Big Data to remain competitive, then the need for sophisticated data backup and recovery processes will continue to increase in importance.

02.17.14
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Data Backup and Recovery is Critical and Specialized

Data backup and recovery is a learned discipline. Excessive time can be taken away from the main focus of the IT department in learning this discipline. Or, short cuts may be taken that cause severe issues when recovery is necessary.Data recovery 350

IT staffs are overloaded with mission critical day-today activities. It is understandable that Data Backup may be assigned to the newest member of the team and not deeply analyzed. However, it will become the most critical task the IT staff will undertake when that data needs to be recovered.

Salvus Data ConsultantsAn offsite data backup process performed by an experienced managed service provider (MSP) offers efficiencies in the backup process and effective recovery of lost, deleted or corrupted data. Time can be freed up to focus on core business instead of spending hours developing plans and then repetitive functions on a daily and weekly basis.

Salvus is an MSP that specializes in IBM’s Tivoli Storage Manger (TSM) backup environments, providing both tactical and strategic backup solutions. The benefits are:

  • Permits you to focus on your core business, while they address your immediate performance issues on your TSM server and clients.
  • A proactive approach to your backup and recovery:
    1. Fixing it (tactical repairs)
    2. Monitoring your backup solution (discovery).
    3. Tuning the backup environment (proactive)
    4. Planning your long-term backup solution (strategic).
  • Salvus maintains your system and keeps it updated within IBM’s support matrix.
  • Salvus designs and deploys your future state TSM architecture base on collected metrics and service agreements established in your environment.

Contact Salvus Data to explore the benefits that an experience data backup and recovery MSP can provide your business.