Explosive data growth is an inevitable reality of today's business operations. Companies have seen their data storage needs expand dramatically each year. IT executives are under tremendous, across the board pressure to increase operational efficiencies in their business. They must reduce cost, improve service reliability and performance, provide higher and quicker returns on storage asset investments, protect data, and meet deadlines.

Effective data storage management solutions can transform your IT environment by providing flexibility and systematically standardizing and simplifying your data storage systems.

Preventing data loss, corruption, and disclosure of sensitive information from unauthorized access, a server crash, human error or a natural disaster is critical to the long term success and staying power of any business. Implementing a data backup system that guarantees the full recovery of all data can mean the difference between seamless business continuity and complete paralysis of all essential business operations in the face of an unforeseen data loss emergency. However, it is not enough to simply implement an effective backup system. It must be continuously monitored to ensure all data is successfully backed up as scheduled.

Because of the time and capital expense involved with monitoring a backup system in-house, more and more business decision-makers are opting for a managed backup solution, outsourcing the management of their backup system to a company with special expertise in data backup and allocating in-house resources where they can be used more efficiently.

Your managed backup infrastructure is always in place. So you can run and restore business applications in addition to restoring data access. This lets you minimize downtime, quickly get business processes back up and running, and reduce impact to your customers and partners.

• Improve efficiencies by reducing administrative overhead and freeing up IT resources
• Provide a central data storage management system
• Reduce data storage maintenance needs and expenses
• Achieve greater scalability for future growth and flexibility Improve information access by keeping data online and readily accessible and reusable.
• Speed backup and recovery processes by archiving unchanged data.
• Save time and money and enable rapid information retrieval with automated archiving processes.
• Preserve important documents, e-mails, and other critical data according to internal rules and external regulations.
• Reclaim terabytes of storage capacity by migrating older or infrequently accessed data from primary systems to more cost-effective archival storage.