ElipServices™ - Remote Backup

ElipRemoteBackup is a Remote Backup and Disaster Recovery System

Maintaining the security of your information assets is critical, yet more often than not, adequate backup plans do not exist or are poorly planned. Larger organizations are typically geographically diverse with multiple departments, so less at risk of a catastrophic event that could jeopardize the organization’s future. Ironically, small businesses have more to risk, while at the same time are usually less prepared.

Data loss can occur from a number of different events, hardly limited to just natural disasters. More than 25% of all businesses experience a significant crisis in any given year – of those that do not have a recovery plan, 43% will not re-open¹.

ElipRemoteBackup protects against data loss

Partial list of how you could have a data loss:

• Hard drive failure/crash
• Power outages
• Theft of equipment
• Fire, flood, and other disasters
• Software failures
• User errors
• Viruses/malware
• Malicious employees

Now is the time to deploy a remote backup solution from Forval. You decide what to backup (an entire file server or a specific folder’s contents), and those files will be automatically saved to a remote data center. Keep a record of your most recent files (snapshot) or from the past two weeks (incremental backup), ensuring business critical data is always available, either from the confines of your business – or remotely, should
the need arise.

ElipRemoteBackup provides you a baseline of 5 GB of storage for your important data.  Extra space is automatically provided in 5 GB increments for a nominal additional monthly fee. Notification is provided as you approach your quota, with charges levied on the subsequent billing cycle.R

Remote backup, as a managed service, has significant advantages over traditional backup methods:

• Maximize systems uptime and availability – avoid losing productivity from a lost customer, financial or other mission critical data file
• No user intervention required – no requirement to change tapes, label CDs or perform other manual steps
• Data is securely stored offsite – the most important aspect of backing up your data is that it is stored in a different location; traditional backup
• approaches require manual intervention to take the backup media offsite
• Future proof your process – leveraging a managed service provider offering that includes equipment as part of the service removes the need
• to worry about device obsolescence
• Save time – traditional ‘do-it-yourself’ backup processes take considerable time and effort dealing with the implementation and management of the backup tapes or files
• Avoid process errors – automatic service operates nightly without reminder, avoiding bandwidth usage during business hours

¹ According to a January 2005 survey conducted by Continuity Insights magazine and KPMG Risk Advisory Services and The Hartford’s Guide to Emergency Preparedness Planning Guide.