Centralized data backup systems

Design and deployment of a centralized data backup system

For many companies, the value of business may equal the value of information accumulated over the company's lifetime. Events involving data loss, compromised integrity or credibility of business-critical data directly affect the overall stability and effectiveness of the company. Such changes in data status can be caused by employee mistakes, hardware malfunctions, etc. There is only one way to protect business from such events - a data backup system.

In essence, this process involves creation of data copies and their storage on external media. If data integrity or credibility is compromised, the backup system will allow you to go back in time and restore data to its last logically correct and credible condition. This allows minimizing risks of data loss while raising the company's market competitiveness.

The key purpose of data backup systems is protection from logical corruption of data. Data backup should not be viewed as a means of ensuring service accessibility (other technologies and methods serve this purpose).

The data backup system ensures:

stability and effectiveness of the company’s business through minimizing risks of data loss or corruption;
compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards;
data system resistance to human, software, or hardware errors.

De Novo offers design and deployment of a centralized data backup system. In designing and implementing the project, De Novo experts use technologies, hardware and software from the leading international vendors. Project success relies on the trademark methods of project implementation accumulating many years of De Novo experts’ experience, best practices, and recognized methods of the best vendors.

Standard project structure

A standard project comprises a set of interconnected stages which can be implemented as separate projects: assessment, design, and deployment.

Initiation, assessment, identification. At this stage, the project team:

identifies project goals and results;
draw up a list of systems subject to data backup;
determine the current status of the IT system;
determine the degree to which the IT system meets business needs, regulations, and industry standards;
determine requirements for the target centralized data backup system to be formalized as a technical assignment for design.

Design. Based on the technical assignment, De Novo specialists prepare detailed designs comprising:

the technical solution concept;
a list of systems grouped according to specific attributes;
data backup policies for each system group;
specifications for hardware and software;
a detailed description of target switching circuits, configurations, and settings for hardware and software services;
a detailed plan of acceptance trials.

Creation and testing. Using the Detailed Engineering documentation, De Novo certified experts perform:

installation and configuration of hardware and software;
testing for compliance with the declared requirements;
preparation of operating manuals;
introductory and basic training for the IT staff in the main techniques of system administration.

* System launch. At this stage, De Novo experts present the deployed data backup system to the client's specialists for industrial operation.

Auxiliary products

Design and deployment of IT infrastructure management and monitoring systems will enable effective management of data backup software and timely response to emergencies.
Computing environment consolidation and virtualization will reduce hardware requirements for both applications and the data backup system.