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Data Domain Storage

In business, information is power. Having the right information allows a successful business to make smart decisions and reasonable choices. However, a lack of information can prove to be a company’s downfall. Losing valuable information can cost money, time or both. That is why the proper information storage solutions are essential to a company’s survival.

As more data is stored electronically, it is essential that it is stored securely and in such a way that it is simple to retrieve. This will make for speedy data retrieval on a day-to-day basis and limit the amount of downtime suffered by a company if a disaster were to occur and all onsite data was lost.

Redapt offers two effective data storage solutions. These data domain solutions come in the form of deduplication services and disk backup.

The first solution, deduplication, is a process by which duplicated, unnecessary data is removed from a file storage system — be it in a local or offsite storage location. As an example, consider a text document. Each time the document is saved with a new title, the entire file is saved again resulting in multiple copies of what is essentially the same file. This ultimately bogs down the system.

Redapt’s deduplication services scan the storage device and remove the duplicate files, changing them instead to be references to the actual single, saved file. Not only will this reduce the amount of space taken up by files on a storage medium by 10 to 30 times, it will also allow for faster retrieval of information from the storage device.

The second Redapt solution for businesses looking to safely maintain data is disk backup service. Backing up files on an onsite server, as well as at an offsite location, can minimize the problems created when a disaster hits the company’s location and destroys all data. Redapt solutions help prepare for this.

Many companies, in preparing for a potential disaster, will identify a “Recovery Time Objective,” or RTO. This indicates the maximum amount of time that a system can be down to minimize losses and preserve effectiveness. The data domain disk backup system allows companies to make their RTO a matter of hours, rather than days. While older storage methods are feasible, they require days to transfer data back to a functional location. With data domain disk backup, the data is stored on a server both on and off-site, significantly reducing the time needed to recover from a data loss.

The offsite storage system also allows for long-term files, like those used for regulation compliance or litigation protection, to be stored indefinitely without bogging down a company’s day-to-day use of their existing network.

Redapt’s data domain solutions are market-current and can be easily adapted to work with any existing system. This means that even the installation/execution of the procedures will not cost time.

When combined, Redapt’s data domain deduplication and disk backup services produce a storage system that maximizes data efficiency without sacrificing security or longevity.