Backup Assessment

Backup Assessment > Business issues

Backups are performed night after night, day in and day out, yet few IT Managers can honestly say that they would be fully confident of a successful outcome if they had to recover some data. Too many jobs simply fail to complete with many experiencing success rates as low as 70% or worse.

Despite the adoption of disk-to-disk backup, virtual tape libraries and de-duplication techniques, there is still a huge reliance on tape and it can be subject to physical failure. There is also human error where tapes aren’t loaded properly or taken off site on time and the integrity of an organisation’s data is once again in jeopardy.

Whether you are protecting your data and applications in case of a disaster or simply mitigating the risk of accidental deletion, there is a duty on us all to provide good governance of data. For many operating in an increasingly regulated environment, the subject of compliance becomes ever more important as data has to be readily available in a short timeframe.

Backup Assessment > The Anix Service

Anix is able to carry out a nonintrusive assessment of an organisation’s backup environment and provide a clear assessment of how things look using firm data. This will show the true success rate of backup jobs, identify which datasets are most exposed through failure and provide throughput rates to indicate where bottlenecks are occurring.

More importantly, we relate this to the service levels you need to recover your data for the business and examine how your backup regime enables you to meet these requirements.

Anix’s experienced and accredited consultants are able to provide clear advice and guidance to enable customers to benefit from a greatly improved backup service. This could entail the recommendation of tuning and performance enhancements or designing a more efficient architecture to benefit from new technology. Additionally, Anix can provide a backup solution via a managed service, where we work to agreed service levels to enable customers to benefit from 24x7 operations with continual monitoring and management.

Backup Assessment > Key benefits

• Health check of the current backup and recovery environment
• Identification of data and application exposure
• Identification of under utilised resources
• Recommendations for performance enhancement
• The provision of real-time statistics through the Anix portal