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Disaster-Proof Storage for Distributed IT Environments
Challenges and solutions for IT organizations serving, storing, and backing up data.
Inside you’ll learn the challenges of distributed IT environments:
Business continuity & disaster recovery
Scalability & data archiving
Cloud services
Mobile employeees
Distributed IT environments have unique challenges that must be addressed.
As the needs of businesses change, as do the needs of employees tasked with growing business in current fast-paced environments. Once confined to single locations due to technological constraints, modern businesses are increasingly spreading out by taking advantage of tools, which make it easy to work remotely or set up satellite offices that are just as efficient as corporate headquarters.
The modern mobile or remote office requires a multitude of storage features in order to be convenient and effective for remote employees conducting business. For distributed IT environments, ioSafe recommends a multilayered data redundancy approach, combining fireproof and waterproof hardware with advanced software options for backup, replication and mobile access.
For IT organizations, serving, storing, and backing up data at a single location can prove difficult; however with multiple locations in a distributed environment this task proves to be much more difficult. In order to understand how to overcome the issues plaguing data management in a distributed IT environment; we must better understand why the issues exist in the first place.
Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
Data distributed outside of the primary corporate network may not receive all of the advantages of the data housed inside of the corporate infrastructure. Due to lack of competent remote IT staff, or power and cooling options, it’s less likely that data residing in small branch offices or home offices is protected with hardware redundancies such as RAID, clustering or advanced firewalls. It’s also unlikely that remote data is protected with software features such as snapshots, redundant virtual machines or enterprise backup applications.
