Today’s data managing challenges are taking the forefront in business and IT agendas. The concern to easily control, use, store and replicate for disaster recovery is spreading throughout all industries ranging across commercial and government. Organizations are faced with data management challenges in areas of:

• managing growth of data volumes

• operating within short, or non-existent, data backup windows

• supporting existing IT systems that cannot run the latest technologies

• ever growing information compliance acts, regulations, and governance requirements

• assessing data value so that the most appropriate strategies can be applied to each type of data

our approach

analyze

Lencor’s storage team will first analyze the design of data backups and recovery needs. We take into account business requirements, direct data usage, continuous creation of duplicate files, services level agreements (SLAs), required retention schedules, future projected growth, storage quotas, as well as our clients’ operational environment. Our plans and solutions focus around business predictability, reliability, and the quick process of data so that the end user has immediate access to information.

build

Our team of experts will provide your organization a cost effective storage and DR plan so that your business information is protected in an emergency, yet is backed up for daily use in a cost effective and time saving manner. & nbsp;Some of the areas which we include into our storage and DR plans are:

• initial data and file deduplication cleanup

• deduplication management strategies

• identification and classification of information and its business usage

• tiered storage planning per information classification

• permanent archiving

• retention schedule – creation and deployment

• multi data write paths

• offsite data and systems redundancy

• end user rollout training

test

Once our team has built a plan for business backup and recovery success, we will run test scenarios of different types of data, so that efficiency can easily be obtained in a production environment. We test data backup, cross over redundancies, deduplication management strategies, and tiered storage hardware.  All off storage facilities will be tested for bandwidth capacities, redundant connections and internet service providers (ISP) SLAs.

deploy

Once the plan has been tested, deployment will occur in a rapid manner. End user training around preventing file and data duplication and how to work with any tiered storage of information will be implemented by department. Depending upon our clients’ budgets and needs, any eDiscovery, network management and required hardware will be either pulled from the test environment to go in to production, or will be replicated in production so that the test enviornment remains intact for future tests.