BACKUPS AND DATA RECOVERY

FULLY MANAGED BUSINESS CONTINUITY AND

DISASTER RECOVERY SERVICES
Reliable data and asset protection from a trusted IT advisor
Highlights
Nondisruptive, enterprise-wide DR services
Broad support for a wide array of platforms, including
Microsoft and other operating systems
Lower infrastructure costs with more productive
utilization of IT resources
Fast, reliable recovery for both data and applications
Cost-effective deployment in mixed physical and virtual
server environments
File-level recovery, including individual email recovery
for Microsoft Exchange
Safe, secure data recovery and immediate availability
at Warren Averett Technology Groups fully compliant
data center

With cloud computing and virtualization having thoroughly
won the enterprise and now in repeat life cycles, many
businesses are rethinking their backup and data recovery
(DR) strategies. High data growth rates driven by increased
competitive pressures are complicating traditional recovery
approaches, leading to a number of problems. Among
these are an inability to complete backups within allotted
time periods, labor-intensive operations, long recovery
times and poor recovery reliability.
Businesses now have a more reliable, cost-effcient solution.
Warren Averett Technology Group (WATG) has teamed
with InMage and IBMleading providers of disk-based
backup and recovery softwareto provide businesses
with comprehensive, fully managed business continuity
and DR services. Powered by InMage software-based
recovery technology and IBM systems, the fully integrated
solution combines remote disaster recovery, local backup
and application failover into a fexible, managed service
designed to support a wide array of enterprise storage and
server platforms.
BACKUPS AND DATA RECOVERY
Tailored to meet your specifc business requirements, our
expert-managed data recovery services allow you to address
key data protection and recovery problems such as backup
windows, data loss on recovery, poor recovery times and
recovery reliability. WATGs backup and recovery services
are built on next-generation recovery technologies such as
continuous data protection (CDP), asynchronous replication,
application failover/failback and WAN optimization.
Recover data faster and more reliably
By using CDP as a core technology component, we can
capture data changes on primary servers in real time at the
byte level. Whats more, youll never have to do another
scheduled backup, yet youll be able to recover data faster
and more reliably than tape-based infrastructure or other
disk-to-disk solutions. This enables continuous backups with
near-zero impact on primary servers and storage. It also
reduces the instantaneous data protection load on servers
and networks, effectively making backups transparent.
Thanks to the architectural design fexibility of our backup
and recovery platform, WATGs DR services are capable
of supporting a wide array of enterprise applications and
heterogeneous storage and server environments. Managed
from a centralized management interface, the integrated
recovery platform covers physical and virtual machine
environments and recovers data both locally and remotely.
This centralized recovery management approach lets
you replace multiple existing products and tools, such as
backup agents, replication software and failover clustering,
to simplify your IT environment.
Youll be able to easily replicate across geographic
distances while minimizing bandwidth costs, thanks to
advanced disk-based recovery technology with built-
in features such as compression, encryption, WAN
acceleration and bandwidth management. To further
minimize the amount of data sent across the network to
enable recoveries, WATG replicates data at the block level
instead of the fle level. We ensure this process whether
the recovery is remote, local, data-specifc or requires
full recovery of application services. Taken together,
these technologies allow us to protect large application
environments with minimal bandwidth while meeting
stringent recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time
objective (RTO) requirements.
Meet your recovery objectives with ease
and effciency
Data is protected and recoverable as soon as it is
created, not just once its backed upa very important
consideration for critical application environments.
Leveraging the advantages of disk-based data protection
software, we can continuously capture data changes as
they occur, and perform local backup or remote replication
simultaneously with a single data stream. The advanced
DR technology supports near-zero data loss on recovery
and provides a recovery within minutes from WATGs
enterprise-class data center.
Our granular recovery capabilities are designed to
meet the most stringent RPO/RTO requirements while
completely eliminating backups as a discrete operation.
Remote offces that previously were dealing with tapes and
other administratively burdensome solutions can now move
to tape-less operations and instead rely on disk-based
recovery that is centrally managed. Continuously dribbling
writes across the network as they occur puts no noticeable
load on the network, while periodically running a backup
puts a huge load on the network. InMage disk-based
recovery technology helps solve this problem using built-in
WAN acceleration and bandwidth optimization techniques
that minimize the amount of data that has to be sent
across the network to enable recoveries.
BACKUPS AND DATA RECOVERY
Instead of the manual process that conventional
replication products require to get an application back
up and running, our completely automated process
makes recovery faster and more reliable. We can enable
this automated recovery to occur from any retroactively
selected recovery point. This recovery granularity allows
us to recover from data corruption problems with minimal
data loss, perform better root-cause analysis of failure
events, and potentially recover an application to any
previous point in time that may be desired for reporting or
maintenance purposes.
Keep your business operational with safe,
reliable data access
Business continuity ensures the quick resumption of
operations following an outage, regardless of the
causes. But equally important, its also about having
quick access to data that isnt currently in use. Our fully
compliant, enterprise-class data center is equipped with
cutting-edge technology and protected through high-
level security measures and industry best practices. We
maintain a staff of highly trained professionals who are
available 24/7 to ensure a high level of responsiveness
and reliability.
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For more information
For more information about WATG business continuity and disaster
recovery services, contact WATG: www.watechgroup.com
Reduce your capital expenses and optimize
IT resources
WATG can help optimize your resources and focus on your
core competencies. We employ powerful data protection
and recovery systems and tools to reduce costs, minimize
complexity and maximize the return on your IT investment.
By allowing WATG to fully manage your DR operations,
youll spend less time worrying about rising hardware and
network costs and more time operating your business.
With WATG, you get all the advantages of a scalable, high-
performance DR infrastructure without any of the capital
expense. Our end-to-end data recovery services are tailored
to meet your specifc business requirements for uptime and
reliability. You get feature-rich data protection and recovery
services, along with the sophisticated expertise to manage it.
As with everything we do, WATG goes beyond the standard
to provide services that increase your business resiliency.
Were part of a network you can trust. As a division of
Warren Averett, and an IBM Business Partner, WATG has the
depth and experience to help you protect your business and
assets. Strategic partnerships with many industry-leading
vendors enable us to design, plan, implement and manage
the best possible solutions for your organization.