Data Protection

Addressing Data Backup & Recovery Challenges

By Paul Rummery, Securenet Consulting
How confident are most organisations that their backup and data recovery strategy will hold up in the event of a disaster?

Data growth is still without a doubt adding to the pressure on IT infrastructures to ensure successful data recovery strategies. In-between DR tests, data doesn’t just stop growing, thus making any DR plan out of date from the point in time it is signed off - thus leaving an element of unmeasured risk.

Virtualisation and cloud computing has provided business with many advantages but also introduces new complexities around data protection and data recovery.

The new question that we are looking to address is ‘how best to protect data across heterogeneous environments’. IT is now tasked with having to protect data across physical, virtualised and cloud-based systems and servers.

Software mess / sprawl: Many are struggling because they have adopted a multi-vendor approach over time to protect data, mainly because traditional data backup and recovery solutions do not satisfy requirements in virtual and cloud environments. At the other end of the spectrum, other data backup vendors only specialise in virtual and cloud-based data protection – thus resulting in the adoption of multi-vendor platforms, contributing to added costs being placed on budgets and administration resource time/costs.

Tolerance for downtime and data recovery puts pressure on IT management. Improving performance of backup windows, faster restore and recovery times and lower overall TCO (total cost of ownership) are being pushed from all angles within the business.
The other issue is of course budget constraints – not being able to do more with less – making it hard for organisations and IT departments to deploy and manage complex data protection platforms.

The truth is, you can get enterprise class data protection at mid-market pricing


Solving today’s critical backup & data recovery issues

Securenet’s goal is to present solution (or a solution) that fit in, works in complex, big data environments (support for different versions of servers, operating systems – Windows, Hyper-V, VMware, XenServer, Mac OS, Linux, AIX, Solaris, Exchange, SQL, Oracle, NAS, SAN), to make it easier to protect data across heterogeneous environments, that is both easy to use with a simple pricing model.

We work with companies who want an easy-to-use and affordable data backup and recovery solution, that they can plug in and trust to protect rapidly expanding volumes of data across heterogeneous environments.

We provide an audit service to customers to review the existing environment, look at the businesses evolving virtualisation strategy, the amount of data they need to protect, including internal SLAs, present optimal data recovery strategies.


All-in-one solution for data backup, archiving, instant recovery and disaster recovery for physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure.

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