Backup

The market puts higher demands on that all data needs to be available at all time, we believe that your backup environment must reflect this. 24 Solutions can, as an independent partner, offer the technology that we know best fits your needs and is most affordable for your company.

Basically there are three factors you should take into account when setting up a backup environment:

• RPO (Recovery Point Objective)
  As a business you must consider how far back you can afford to lose your data. According to the classical backup model one backup is made per day, but with new technology, a snapshot backup is taken every fifteen minutes. It is therefore a balance whether it is acceptable for your company to lose one days worth of data or fifteen minutes.

• RTO (Recovery Time Objective)
  You must also consider how long the restore of the data can take. Restore from tape takes longer than for example re-reading the disk, which also must be taken into consideration.

• SLA (Service Level Agreement)
  Something else to consider is how long your systems and applications may be unavailable for action. E-mail is an example of an area that is becoming more and more business critical, which means that these must always be usable.