IT'S BLACKBOX: Continuous Data Protection Benefits and Features

BENEFITS

FEATURES

Superior Business Resilience

Data protected continuously, avoids possibility of missing a backup
No single point of failure like in tapes or multiple media infrastructure
RAID hardware redundancy virtually disk-crash-proofs data in the event of a harddisk crash
Mirror practically crash-proofs data if IT’s BLACKBOX server crashes
Data Protection against sabotage: Data that is intentionally deleted is retained on mirror opaquely as per pre-defined customisable policy
Data Protection against accidental deletion: Accidentally deleted files are not immediately deleted from LMS as per standard policy, offering the user a windows of opportunity to recover deleted data
Data Protection against disasters: Development is under way to take IT’s BLACKBOX off-site over standard IP-networks¹

Enhanced Profitability

Share data over network across multiple users, simultaneously
Data is stored and delivered in a fast, efficient manner
Version control improves data reliability and eliminates administrative overheads to control data explosion
Business interruptions minimized or eliminated, meaning revenue stream is uninterrupted
Superior Service Levels allow premium charging to customers

Improved Operational Availability & Productivity

Business operations can be restored within minutes; not hours, days or weeks of disk crash or computer crash
Near-continuous replication minimizes any possibility of data loss and subsequently also the operational efforts and resources to re-create it
No operational breakdown for hours, days or weeks during restore process - access the data in minutes, just as before the crash
Much faster than the process of loading multiple tapes (assuming you have the right ones and that they are in the right sequence)
Data is near-instantly available on IT’s BLACKBOX unlike the limited accessibility and availability on storage media such as tapes or DVDs

Cost-savings

IT’s BLACKBOX server is a full featured file server eliminating further need for another proprietary file server
Costs a fraction of commercial solutions: Charges levied only for implementation, support and for funding future development
Multiple backup resources redundant with IT’s BLACKBOX
Plugs into existing standard network cable; no need to invest in any specialized information infrastructure
Say good-bye to regular investments in changing tape infrastructure
Zero media costs otherwise required for multiple formats redundancy
No maintenance, cleaning and no administrative overheads those are so common for ensuring proper storage, tagging, etc. of media
Financial benefits vis-à-vis user or seat licensing, no software cost since based on free, open-source, Linux
Eliminates physical transportation cost for media carriage

Automatic & Unattended

Simultaneous write to multiple harddisks
A file saved and unlocked is synchronously written to mirrored disk and asynchronously written to mirrored server over the network
Automatic mirror save as often as every 1 minute
Automatic disk fail-over in case of single disk failure (requires reboot)
Policy based data replication, retention & deletion is automated

Secure

Control access to data with user password authentication
Policy based selective access to users and groups to ensure sanctity of data from prying by unauthorized users
Read-Only & Read-Write access customized per folder for users and groups as desired
End-to-end secure encryption with private-public key pair for server-mirror connectivity
Data is encrypted before sending over network
Virtually virus-proof: IT’s BLACKBOX is built on Linux platform

Blazing Fast Performance

Data transfer at over ½GB or 500MB per minute; over 30GB per hour
Disk crash fail-over can be achieved in less than 5 minutes & IT’s BLACKBOX main server crash fail-over within 30 minutes
Only the files change are backed up on mirror and data compressed before transmission improving throughput

Integrated

Can be integrated in existing Microsoft Windows Server / SBS / EBS networks vide drive mapping from Microsoft Windows Server
IT’s BLACKBOX Server can be configured as domain controller or Workgroup server or alternately even just a data store

Scalable

Future plan to implement IT’s BLACKBOX RPS shall make it possible to create and store unlimited time-in-point images or restore-points¹
Disaster Recovery: Development is under way to replicate data remotely at any distance over public IP broadband¹
Storage capacity tested up to 6 Terabytes (6000GB)
Built upon Open Source Linux using standard community tools

Simple and Affordable

Tiered with choice of hardware starting from 500GB to suit varying budgets and performance to suit many objectives
Simple management using any popular Web browser
Easy to define users, groups and data folders
Requires ZERO command line usage by users
Available from your current local IT service provider
Remote Infrastructure Management support included
3 year warranty
Also available on lease rental