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Services and Products

Seamless Business Continuance and Rapid Recovery
Data is the lifeblood of your business. Protecting against data loss is important, but only half the battle. Rapid recovery of data after a failure or disaster is essential. Your disaster recovery and business continuance strategy must cover all important data elements and provide adequate recovery speed for each. High Plains DataBank delivers a comprehensive line of disaster recovery and business continuance solutions to facilitate rapid recovery of your file data, critical applications, and entire sites, facilitating the creation of complete data management strategies. By operating at the storage level rather than that of the server or application, our solution delivers the disaster recovery and business continuance solutions that reduce the load on your critical servers and that are integrated, simple to manage, and highly cost effective.

As your data volume increases over the years so does its value, mainly because so much of your work exists primarily in digital form. Data loss can cripple your business and send everyday users to the edge of despair. With High Plains DataBank data recovery capabilities, despair is unwarranted. Think about what that growing volume of data is really worth to you and let us help you figure out how to safeguard it before it overflows! Disasters may be unavoidable, but with the right tools and strategies, you can avoid losing what really matters. Let us help you choose from a variety of options or let us custom tailor one for your environment.

High Plains DataBank complements your business with a full range of disaster recovery (DR) and business continuance (BC) solutions to address every need from local data protection to online disaster recovery. Full protection can be achieved for databases and other business-critical applications, as well as file data. Rapid data recovery is considered to be of paramount importance, and every High Plains DataBank solution is designed to ensure that data can be restored and operations can resume as quickly as possible. In most cases, data can be recovered in seconds or minutes rather than the hours or days required by other solutions. Available High Plains DataBank solutions include point-in-time images, backup to disk, and asynchronous replication for the greatest data availability and currency.

Many small-to-medium businesses face difficult challenges when considering an effective and comprehensive disaster recovery (DR) and Business Continuance (BC) solution. The lack of adequate resources and limited budgets are usually the most common. High Plains DataBank addresses these challenges by providing a data managed solution specifically for your business. We look at your IT environment from a business perspective, identifying critical systems and dependencies. We leverage our expertise to optimize and improve your process, allowing the DR and BC planning effort to move forward at a faster pace while generating positive results. Our service offerings are customized to meet your specific needs and budget. Realizing that the “in-house” DR plan is often not financially realistic, we help you design a long-term strategy that will meet your short term needs and allow you to scale for future growth.

Comprehensive System Assessment
High Plains DataBank condcuts comprehensive system assessment is to produce a report and design to deploy an optimal combination of storage and archival technologies that:
 

1. Improves the quality of service across the customer’s organization,

2. Mitigates risks associated with data loss or unavailability,

3. Enables rapid disaster recovery and business continuance,

4. Integrates with the existing information/application architecture,

5. Scales to meet future storage and access requirements,

6. Scales across servers and operating software/hardware platforms to allow universal access to data,

7. Proposes an implementation and data migration/consolidation roadmap based on financial feasibility, organizational impact and prioritization, and

8. Implements enterprise-wide policies and procedures that enforce a highly available, resilient and self sustaining backup and recovery architecture.

Specifically, High Plains DataBank professional services conducts an assessments of customer’s current backup and recovery infrastructure. This assessment identifies gaps between the current implementation and the implementation necessary to meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and disaster recovery requirements, while providing the foundation necessary to make any decision for offsite data replication and monitoring that can exclusively be managed by High Plains DataBank.

The results from the assessment will:
1. Document backup and recovery requirements such as backup windows, service level commitments, and disaster recovery requirements.
2. Identify and document challenges and constraining factors.
3. Provide a gap analysis between current backup strategies and best practice strategies with respect to the business requirements.
4. Analyze the current environment's reliability - security, productivity and safety of backed up data.
5. Document the currently achievable Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) based upon the backup methodologies in place.
6. Provide insights that will increase data availability, backup and recovery efficiencies.
7. Describe ways to reduce the risk of data loss.
8. Verify and document the performance and supportability of current backup, and recovery software and processes.
9. Validate the integrity of your existing backup architecture.
When the assessment is completed, you'll have an accurate picture of the viability of your data backup system and where there are opportunities for improvement. Even if everything is running smoothly today, this process will provide numerous insights, quantify your current backup environment, and provide the first step in building a road map for a solid, secure disaster recovery.
 

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