Complex Challenge
Backup is challenging on so many levels. It touches everything – the servers, their OS, their applications, the network, the storage, the backup targets – and is therefore a complex beast to manage. It grows in lock-step with data growth but the time afforded to complete its processes never grows with it. It is high profile when it goes wrong but rarely attracts the attention it deserves when it works. The business assumes it will cater for every eventuality, but IT assumes the business is aware of the gaps.
Backup is therefore a very dynamic, changing environment. It is demanded to be bigger and faster but to do more for less. It’s often difficult to attract investment and yet the business expects the service to be aligned to its needs without spending the time to define what they are.
Simple Process
Whilst challenging, backup need not be hard work. Union is on hand to make the whole thing much easier. We not only understand how all the moving parts work together but we also understand the latest technology to achieve it. Sprinkle on that a process that encourages the business to become part of the functional design, and you have the recipe for a modern backup solution that evolves and scales with your business needs whilst reducing cost and risk wherever possible.
Service Alignment
Union will help you define backup and service classes in line with recovery point objectives and recovery time objectives. We will design your reference architecture and harness the latest de-duplication and virtual tape technologies where appropriate, combining them with your existing assets wherever possible. Union will help you define new policies and processes and provide you with the reporting tools to effectively manage your environment.
Small or Large - We Do It
Whether you are looking to optimise your existing backup, consolidate a distributed setup, incorporate virtualised platforms that have their own unique challenges, centralise remote backups to the datacentre, or simply build a new green-field solution, WE DO IT. Union has both the answers and the experience.
