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Backup & Recovery

Computacenter's Backup and Recovery service enables customers to consolidate their backup infrastructure, gaining economies of scale and reducing management overheads

A service component of our Secure Information solution.

What we do

Computacenter's Backup and Recovery solution follows a structured approach and consists of the following stages: Analysis; Design & Planning; Environment Build and Testing; Migration.

The backup consolidation engagement begins with a storage assessment to gain a comprehensive view of the current storage estate, including recovery. The storage assessment report identifies areas for immediate and future improvement.

At the next stage, Computacenter will design a consolidated backup infrastructure. This includes ROI benefits, data volume and retention calculations, and implementation schedules designed to minimise disruption to your business process(es). This solution can be tested and demonstrated within our comprehensive Solutions Centre to prove functionality and performance.

Following your review and approval, we implement the design, with the final stage consisting of the migration of existing data and recovery processes.

How it helps

Reduced Expenditure and Increased Efficiencies
Backup consolidation offers your organisation a way of obtaining an immediate to medium-term ROI within the backup function. It achieves this through the reduction of complexity in managing the IT function, such as reducing the costs of hardware, software maintenance, and consumables, and increasing the throughput of backup.

Backup consolidation frequently uses technologies such as data de-duplication and Virtual Tape Libraries (VTL), which offer further ROI in areas such as reduced electrical power consumption, reduced rack space, datacenter floor space, consumption and reduction in data transport.

Investment Planning
The challenge for many organisations is to better plan for the investment in data storage coupled with the protection and availability of the data. Computacenter's Backup and Recovery service can improve the reliability of the environment and greatly reduce the time to recover data.

Why we are different

Computacenter offers complete end-to-end solutions, building the infrastructure to support the future needs of your business.

Vendor Independence
As a vendor-independent organisation, Computacenter has skills that reach across all major server, storage and application vendors to enable the delivery of an unrivalled level of infrastructure and software integration. This allows Computacenter to offer best-of-breed solutions without reliance on a single vendor.

Skills and Capabilities
Computacenter's consultancy capabilities cover all leading software and infrastructure vendors and we retain consultants with the highest level of accreditations and practical experience in their respective fields.

Our partner status with these vendors allows us to be involved in early adopter and consultancy programmes which provide us with leading-edge knowledge and practice, whilst allowing Computacenter to retain a vendor-agnostic approach to storage and data management.

Where we have done it

Due to the heavy reliance of today's businesses on IT systems, fast and reliable backup and recovery is essential for providing consistent customer services.

When an internal audit at a home construction company revealed that it would take several weeks to recover IT systems following a disaster, they decided to implement a new, more efficient back-up solution.

By working with Computacenter, the organisation was able to mitigate the risk associated with designing and deploying its new backup solution, which features a virtualised server environment and a rapid data replication link.

As a result of the project, this organisation has reduced its backup window by more than 1,800% and brought its disaster recovery time down from several weeks to under 24 hours.