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A small or medium business SMB could protect all its important data by copying a handful of important files onto backup media and tossing it in a desk drawer. Things aren’t that simple today and amount of data on business computers has grown astronomically over the past few decades. Many SMBs now have databases, file servers, and e-mail systems with constantly changing data that is crucial to day-to-day business operations. If a company loses this data, business grinds to a halt.

A reliable data protection strategy is built on two key components: proven, dependable storage hardware, and backup and recovery software tailored to the needs of SMBs. Storing data on a server disk or a non-RAID external disk array With RAID you don’t have to worry about losing important information. Applications continue running, and your employees remain productive.


A disk array eliminates the need to constantly monitor storage on individual servers. Monitor storage for multiple computers from one central location. Allocate or reassign disk space to multiple computers quickly and conveniently based on each computer’s requirements without having to purchase new disks for each computer. If a computer is not making full use of the disk space allocated to it, simply reassign the storage to another computer with a few easy steps without having to manually shuffle disks between servers.


An SMB needs the flexibility to quickly and easily increase disk space for shared storage or backup capabilities. To provide backup storage for other servers, desktops, or notebooks, your shared storage solution must be easily expandable to deliver additional storage capacity.


Select business-class backup software, such as EMC Retrospect, that protects more than just files and folders. Backup software should protect all your computers, support the most popular operating systems, and back up all the data necessary to restore your computer in the event of a failure, you shouldn’t be forced to spend countless hours locating applications files, loading application CDs, re-installing applications, and re-configuring settings. Backup and recovery software make it easy to recover all your applications and settings.


Backup and recovery software should be easy to set up and manage, while still delivering the features you need to protect all your data. Select backup and recovery software with intuitive wizards that streamline setup, schedule backups, and perform restores. A built-in self-adjusting scheduler can ensure that all your computers are protected by recognizing computers that were not backed up and assigning them a higher priority for the next backup.

You can protect more computers in less time when utilizing disk as a backup destination. Backing up to tape is a cumbersome process. Tapes must be tracked, located, and loaded. It takes time for tapes to start, advanced to the correct position, and stop. With disk, backups can be streamed to the media at a constant speed. Use disk on a daily basis for simpler, faster, more reliable backups and restores


Protect your offsite backup media with 128-bit or 256-bit AES encryption to prevent unauthorized individuals from accessing information if backup media is lost, stolen, or misplaced.