Evidence of the Backup & Disaster Recovery Monster• Excessively redundant backup operations• Inefficient backup and recovery processes• Inadequate system resilience• Disaster recovery performance overkill• Expensive and unnecessary infrastructure• Disproportionate backup and DR investment

QStar 3-2-1 Archive SolutionYou need to establish a working relationship with the Backup & Disaster Recovery monster. He can’t be eliminated because he does serve a useful purpose if properly contained, but you do need to focus his activities. All too often the role of backup and disaster recovery has been extended to include archiving, a task these applications are poorly equipped to manage. A 3-2-1 archive solution from QStar puts the Backup & Disaster Recovery monster back in his

QStar Contains the Backup & Disaster Recovery Monster • Eliminate backup overhead for archive data• Quick and simple content discovery• Highly resilient media, device and site redundancy• Advanced replication and mirroring options• Efficient and appropriate disaster recovery infrastructure

The Backup & Disaster Recovery monster is hiding throughout your data center. Originally contained in an isolated process designed to protect your digital assets, this creature now dominates administrative resources and invades IT budgets. You can find signs of this creature everywhere you look, and he’s begun to compromise the very business operations that he was assigned to protect. His standard modus operandi is to create an excessive number of data images, clogging storage, filling backup windows, and crippling the recovery process. His exuberant pervasiveness can increase corporate risk through strained procedures and a lack of structured data accountability. System and site protection is also impacted by his insidious activities. Disaster recovery strategies are fragmented, and expensive, high performance resources are unnecessarily deployed. The Backup & Disaster Recovery monster consumes a disproportionate amount of your data center resource. He costs time and money while distracting you from the fundamental priorities of your business.

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box and provides a robust platform for long term data management. The QStar solution removes archive data from the backup cycle, dramatically reducing overheads and streamlining recovery procedures. At the same time, data retained in a QStar archive can be replicated or mirrored for reliable access, and the multi-level storage architecture delivers cost effective disaster recovery with appropriate performance service levels. QStar contains the Backup & Disaster Recovery monster by providing a very robust archive designed specifically for the long term retention and discovery of business assets.

3-2-1 Archiving and Data Protection Best Practice

The 3-2-1 Best Practice is a simple design and deployment strategy that restrains the storage monsters in your data center by creating a highly resilient archive that reduces acquisition and operating costs through improved resource optimization.

The 3-2-1 Best Practice advocates the retention of at least 3 copies of all critical business data, these copies should be kept on 2 different types of storage media, and at least 1 copy should be offsite on removable media. When combined with an enterprise QStar storage platform, the 3-2-1 framework delivers a very cost effective and efficient archive and data management solution.

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More Storage MonstersBackup & Disaster Recovery isn’t the only storage monster lurking in your data center that’s costing you time, money and placing your business at risk. Visit the QStar website for an introduction to his loathsome friends and to see how a QStar archive solution can help tame your storage monsters.

Storage Monsters Prowling in your Data Center• Over Provisioning• Backup & Disaster Recovery• Preservation & Security• Compliance & Best Practice• System & Data Refresh• Power Consumption

QStar TechnologiesQStar has been helping customers restrain their storage monsters since 1987. With thousands of customer worldwide, QStar meets increasingly sophisticated requirements through flexible, industry leading solutions for today’s challenging business climate. QStar’s unique archive and data management platform enables companies to optimize their existing IT infrastructure while minimizing disruption and capital expense. “Securing the Future of your Data” – Without the fear of monsters!

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