Storage and backup
With our deep expertise and strong heritage – including five years delivering consultancy as part of Symantec – c85′s holistic approach to keeping data secure, available, recoverable and discoverable can help you achieve rapid results and help drive costs down.
We provide strategic advice, project and programme management, and a range of managed storage and backup services, working directly with end user clients or as niche specialists supporting our partners.
Storage and backup
Well-governed data storage and management can reduce costs, boost efficiency and improve the audit trail. Consideration needs to be given to what data is stored, where it is stored, who is liable for it and how it can be audited to demonstrate compliance if required.
With its extensive data centre experience and its and Symantec heritage, c85 is ideally placed to advised on storage strategies that minimise business risk and ensure the right data is available for continuing operations and disaster recovery.
c85′s approach is just as appropriate when you factor in cloud. With some providers, your data and backups may well be held offshore. There’s also a tendency to keep adding more and more data without ever considering deletion. As with traditional storage, cost savings can be made if data is prioritised and managed accordingly, so the important questions are not about technology, but about process and governance.
When it comes to implementation, c85 has experience of designing and project managing everything from global corporate security infrastructures to point solutions that deal with identifiable points of potential failure. For example, the latter might include backup, recovery, email and social media security and much more.
For small and medium enterprises, we bring enterprise-class experience at an affordable price point, lowering the risks associated with project implementation and reducing time to market.
Data life cycle management
While the real cost of storage has dropped dramatically in recent years, this has led to many organisations holding far more copies of data than they actually need, on a mix of modern systems and aging archives. While this lack of structure can also hamper decision support, storing unstructured data on disparate systems in this way makes everything difficult to manage – compromising security and potentially negating the positive effects of proactive intrusion protection.
By understanding the data life cycle, from conception to disposal at all touch points in the business, it is possible to identify and structure information into an integrated strategy that balances availability, recovery, performance, security and capacity. This will allow you to meet your archiving, retention and compliance needs without compromising active content.
Our approach is especially valuable when considering outsourced or cloud storage options, where cost is related to the amount of storage required, as well as for mission-critical managed repository services.