It’s hard to believe, but most companies and
organizations don’t keep archival copies of
their emails and other critical files. Most
can’t recover emails from even a year or two
ago. Why? Because even if system backups are being
performed, emails are often deleted from servers
during routine tape rotations. Tape can also
break, wear out and become demagnetized. But what
happens when some of those emails or files are
needed in a lawsuit? Or what if a regulatory
agency asks for specific emails and you can’t
produce them? The liabilities to an organization
can be substantial:
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Fines. Recent SEC
fines for deletion of emails have reached
hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Discovery costs. Finding
emails and other critical files on old
tapes can take hundreds of hours.
Losing a legal action. Even
a single unrecoverable email can decide
whether you win or lose a lawsuit.
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Introducing OptiVault
from Primera
OptiVault
is a new archival appliance that backs up and
quickly recovers all emails that are sent,
received or deleted through Microsoft Exchange,
including attachments. It operates unobtrusively
in the background of your Exchange server,
reliably backing up all emails on optical media.
When you need to recover emails from any mailbox
for any date range OptiVault finds them on the
appropriate backup discs and restores them
automatically.
Because it uses non-erasable, non-rewritable media
that can be stored off-site, OptiVault provides
true WORM (Write Once Read Many) compliance. This
is a critical specification for publicly-held
corporations, healthcare, brokerage and financial
institutions and others who must meet the strict
email, data and document retention requirements of
Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC 17-a, HIPAA and a host of
other government regulations.
WORM technology is also highly desirable for any
organization that needs to be able to quickly and
reliably retrieve data and files of all types
without over-burdening primary storage devices or
media. Experts agree that optical media is the
most rugged and reliable backup media available.
Its archival life is measured in decades — not
just years.
Fast and Easy Deployment
OptiVault is designed for use in a wide
range of environments that are already utilizing a
variety of primary backup methods such as tape or
RAID. It interfaces to your server(s) through a
single high-speed USB 2.0 port. An optional Rack
Mount Kit allows installation in a standard 19”
4U configuration. The lockable
front
panel door keeps media and the robotics safe and
secure.
Using the included software from EMC Dantz, emails
and other critical files are automatically
archived on optical media according to
customizable scripts. Each disc is also printed
with serialization — an exclusive feature of
OptiVault — for fast and easy cataloging and
retrieval.
With a capacity of up to 117 GB (234 GB
compressed) per backup set, OptiVault has more
than enough room for every email plus attachments
generated by hundreds of typical users per month.
You can archive and backup emails and other
important files not only from the server, but also
from networked client computers running Windows,
Mac OS, Linux, Solaris and Netware.
With OptiVault, there
are:
Quick
and efficient searches. The included
software from EMC Dantz has the industry’s most
sophisticated, high-speed indexing. OptiVault’s
built-in robotics finds exactly which discs are
needed to recover specific emails, files and
folders — even when a particular user’s data
is on multiple backup sets.
Fast, reliable recoveries.
Optical media is a fast, random-access technology
allowing quick searches and recoveries. Compared
to other archival methods such as tape, you can
recover mailboxes, messages and files in just
minutes instead of hours or days.
No more broken or damaged tapes.
Optical media is highly robust and reliable.
Industry studies show that up to 50% of backup
tapes will fail when restoring your company’s
critical data!
No more tapes or cartridges to manually
load. Advanced robotics automatically
load the backup media — day or night. Depending
upon the number of users, mailboxes and files you
are archiving, you may not need to replenish media
for several months. Recoveries are also completely
automatic.
Powered by EMC Dantz®
Retrospect® Software
Included with OptiVault is EMC Dantz
Retrospect, Single Server Edition with Retrospect
Agent for Exchange. This powerful, award-winning
software installs on any Windows® XP/2000 PC or
Windows 2000/2003 Server and provides
fully-automated, hands-free backup. Using patented
Progressive Backup technology, Retrospect only
backs up one copy of any targeted file – even if
it appears in more than one users’ mailbox or
directory.
Operation is fast, because Retrospect and
OptiVault utilize the industry’s most advanced
optical media packet-writing technology. This
combination of software and hardware achieves
exceptional data transfer and write speeds of up
to 60GB per hour.
Optional software agents are available for
backup of SQL and open files. There’s even a
disaster-recovery agent available for recovery of
your servers to the most recent system state down
to the “bare-metal” level. This saves an
enormous amount of time and effort in true
disaster recovery situations versus other methods
such as tape.
The Most Advanced
Optical Media
Primera’s
TuffCoat Archival Media is an advanced DVD
printable-surface recordable disc. Important
features include:
• 50+ Year Data Life
• Extremely Low Error Rates
• Fast-Drying, High-Resolution Print Surface
• Low cost per GB
TuffCoat Archival Media is packaged in clear,
50-disc polypropylene disc holders. Disc holders
can be stacked for compact and convenient on-site
or off-site storage.
Download
the PDF brochure here.