Data Protection

With the increasing importance that information technology plays in the continuation of businesses critical functions, combined with a transition to an around the-clock economy, the importance of protecting and securing an organization’s data and IT infrastructure in the event of a disruptive situation that results in data loss has become an increasingly more viable business priority.

Of companies that had a major loss of business data –

·       43% never reopen

·       51% close within two years

·       and only 6% will survive long-term

These potential business risks are looming for any and all organizations today and the financial impact can be catastrophic if you are not prepared.

Today, most data protection or backup solutions make restoring data a cumbersome and risky process. Manually retrieving off-site tapes, and recovering files from these tapes, can be problematic and costly to the business.  Tape Backup and Recovery processes often fail due to improper backup windows, out-of-date backup/recovery processing policies, tape media issues, change management, and unknown application dependencies.

New technologies are constantly being introduced that will vastly improve backup and recovery performance and reliability.  Are you ready and prepared to use these new technologies?  Is your business data safe and recoverable?  How confident are you?

Capstone has the experience and expertise to get you prepared.  We will analyze your data protection needs and match them to your business goals.  All without favoritism to anyone vendor - and with consideration for value, functionality, longevity for minimum capital and operating cost impact.

The Capstone Way

Capstone’s course to helping get you on the right track starts by performing a Data Protection Analysis. 

The Data Protection Analysis provides a breakdown of the organization’s systems, backup processes, and recovery capabilities, based upon b usiness requirements and industry best practices. This analysis provides the base information for architecting and deploying a backup solution that will not only meet your backup windows, but also meet your business required RTO and RPO.

With Capstone you will get:

·       A timely, practical, and valuable analysis of the systems, based upon business requirements and industry best practices

·       Complete definition of the organization’s specific needs in Information Availability and Availability Planning

·       Realization of higher levels of preparedness and risk mitigation

·       Reduced problem severity and duration of an incident while minimizing the consequential operational impacts

·       Improved coordination and communication internally and externally

·       Increased ability to respond with trained and knowledgeable personnel

·       Identification of data that should be in an archive environment

Capstone also has the expertise to design, implement and integrate replication services that delivers an extra measure of redundancy which can be invaluable if the main storage backup system fails to perform. Immediate access to the replicated data minimizes downtime and its associated costs. The service, if properly implemented, can streamline disaster recovery processes by generating duplicate copies of all backed-up files on a continuous basis. It can also speed up and simplify recovery from a natural or human-caused disaster.

Capstone services consultants are experts in implementing and integrating state-of-the-art data protection and replication software.  We work closely with our client’s staff to analyze their storage system, understand their requirements and design and deploy the optimal solution for their business. The three options clients can choose are as follows: 

o   Option1 - offers basic installation and startup services including configuration checks, installation testing and technical orientation.

o   Option 2 - provides additional services such as project management, solution design, basic integration into your management environment, functional testing and knowledge transfer.

o   Option 3 - provides all Level 1 and 2 services, plus integration of your solution into additional business applications.