What is a Business Continuity Appliance?

The STORServer Business Continuity Appliance is the most complete recovery solution available today in lifecycle management offerings for your enterprise. The four major areas of data recovery include:

* Backup and Restore
* Archive and Retrieve
* Disaster Recovery – copies of your backups and archives off-site with a Disaster Recovery Plan for full recovery of your datacenter, or individual servers.
* Compliance – regulatory compliance for HIPPA, DOD, SOX, etc.

Today, the STORServer Business Continuity Appliance supplies everything you need to meet your business requirements around these four recovery areas.

The STORServer replaces the old-fashioned way to buy a backup, archive and disaster recovery solution. Typically, you buy a solution in pieces and parts, or the “5-legged stool.” The STORServer appliance is an easy-to-use, single operator interface, integration of matched and certified hardware, software, installation/configuration, warranty all with a single contact of support.

The STORServer Business Continuity Appliance, a turn-key solution, provides:

* D2D2T (Disk to Disk to Tape) or D2D2X (where X is either TAPE, CD-ROM, DVD-RAM, WORM, etc.)
* True On-line Backup with Online Restore
* Automated Archiving
* Disaster Recovery copies of both backups and archives for off-site
* Storage Pool Technology

What you get with a typical backup solution:

* Multiple Components
* Multiple Vendors
* Multiple Service Contracts
* Finger Pointing
* Lengthy Implementation
* Extended Learning Curve
* No Money Back Guaranty
* Vendor Specific Warranty and Support Policies

What you get with a STORServer Business Continuity Appliance:

* Integrated Components
* One Vendor
* One Service Contracts
* No Finger Pointing
* Short Implementation
* Minimum Learning Curve
* 30 Day Money Back Guaranty
* One Warranty and Support Policy

The Business Continuity Appliance is production ready into your environment in about 15 minutes, and will support both Ethernet and SAN attachments for backup/restore simultaneously.

A typical installation for a 1 TB enterprise will take 3-4 business days. It comes with all necessary hardware, adapters, cables, software, installation, and again, warranty and support.

The Business Continuity Appliances range in models for small single server operations to large enterprise environments with pedabytes of data. Multiple STORServers can be run by one manager, even if they are distributed throughout an enterprise, even over the WAN.