Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

Today's enterprises rely increasingly on 24x7 access to a growing set of business critical applications and sensitive data. These applications and data are more distributed than ever. In addition, overall data volumes are growing rapidly and widespread virtualisation means that servers and data are more mobile than ever before.

IT operations teams are struggling with flat or shrinking budgets in a tough economy. These combined challenges make Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) planning more difficult than it has been in the past, but they also make it more important than ever.

In order to meet current demands for application and data availability, successful enterprises are increasingly relying on the Wide Area Network (WAN) as a storage transport resource for BCDR. This enables BCDR operations to be centralised, reducing redundancy and lowering overhead.

Organisations are also leveraging innovative disk-based backup and replication technologies as decentralised, tape-based BCDR strategies become too costly and labour-intensive with increased challenges to meet the Recovery Time and Recovery Point Objectives (RTOs/RPOs) demanded by companies facing increasingly stringent customer service and regulatory requirements.

Riverbed’s WAN Optimisation solution from Teneo has been proven to immediately increases the ROI for its customers’ current network infrastructures and deliver compelling operational benefits including:

  • Greater Flexibility: More backup and replication to more sites.
  • Higher Cost Efficiency: Unlocking additional capacity extracts value from what you already own, and helps delay the need to purchase additional bandwidth.
  • Lower Risk: Consolidating backup reduces complexity, redundancy, and the potential for data loss.
  • Higher Availability: Protecting more data and workloads and taking advantage of more replication raises overall enterprise availability levels.
  • Shorter RPO: Replicating more often, while protecting service quality for other network traffic, ensures that the most current data possible is available as close as possible to where it needs to be.
  • Shorter RTO: Overcoming protocol inefficiencies and reducing data on the network allows faster backups and more frequent replication.