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Engineered Business Solutions
3311 Richmond Ave., Suite 317
Houston, TX 77098
Phone: 713.522.3480
Toll Free: 800.524.9095
Fax: 713.524.0871
Email: contactus@ebsit.com

Storage and Backup Options

Data storage and backup is critically important to your business yet it is a complex topic . There are a number of factors to consider in selecting options to provide information storage including:
Redundancy
Archiving
Recovery of data
Note that these are not at all the same thing!

Engineered Business Solutions will help you find the right storage and backup solutions to meet your needs - solutions that will consider the criticality of your data, security risks, privacy needs and cost considerations.

Storage Options

Server hard drive space
RAID 1, 5 drives
NAS devices
SAN's

Backup Options

External hard drives
External/internal shock proofed hard drive "cartridges"
Tape drives (DLT, LTO, VXA technologies)
Autoloader tape drives
Third party external storage
Remote server storage - colocated servers

Business Continuity while related to storage and backup is a topic in its own. Speed of recovery, accessibility, security of the data center, and other factors enter the equation. More

Key Requirements for Storage and Backup - Defined

Redundancy
Data Archiving
Data recovery

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Colocation

Colocation can be a cost effective backup strategy - meeting elements of both backup and recovery needs. To assess colocation contact EBS.

Offsite Backup

It is important to routinely get your backup data to a secure offsite location. If you can not get to the office or even if the server room is damage by say fire, water or malicious damage - a secured offsite backup will be crucial to recovery.