Advanced Recovery Continuity Appliance

Can a tape do that?

ARCA will give you a complete business continuity plan, with no extra effort than your normal solution. Disasters do happen; a company with multiple locations can easily set up a replicated co-location for ARCA to ARCA replication, meaning that if one ARCA is destroyed, your business continuity plan will not suffer. Your organization can still run, even from an offsite/temporary location and all the time your data will remain completely secure with the ARCA's encryption technology. Our Secure Backups data centre can be configured to your ARCA, allowing it to replicate there, providing you with unparalleled, offsite, enterprise level security.

Replacing your current backup solution has never been easier; the ARCA offers many more features at a realistic price point than anything else on the market.

Larger sized companies are more likely to have backup and continuity plans in place while smaller business do not.

Continual backup testing to reassure executives is both time consuming and a costly use of resources. Being able to quickly recover a failed server and even perform routine file and email restorations can still be a struggle. Business continuity plans will often skim over, or completely overlook remote locations or staff. To address these challenges, the ARCA device will make a perfect addition to your existing solution.

In the event an exchange server fails, the ARCA device will allow you to virtualize your system, bringing you back up to full speed in moments, putting your organization back on line. Email functionality is maintained, even in a virtual state. Ontrack Power Tools enable simple and effortless restoration of single emails, attachments or individual mailboxes.

Does your current Disaster Recovery plan enable easy demonstration and testing?

In less than an hour, server virtualizations of your entire network, along with restore demos can be performed by logging into the ARCA device. By adding the ARCA Vault to your solution, remote locations can be backed up to your data centre or even a home office. ARCA to ARCA replication allows for co-location facilities to benefit even further from dual redundancy. Our Secure Backups data centre can be configured to your ARCA, allowing it to replicate there, providing you with unparalleled, offsite, enterprise level security. Imagine bringing up a downed location in minutes, without even being on site!

To keep things in perspective, the ARCA will allow for scheduled reporting. You will also be able to test software upgrades in the sandbox environment ARCA creates, without having to risk corrupting your current software or disrupt real-time operations. ARCA will allow for a Bare Metal Restore, even to dissimilar hardware. This eliminates the problem of outdated hardware. Performing server migrations has never been easier.

Rapid Failover Server

In just minutes, a simple configuration allows the ARCA to function as a failover server. Server failures and the costs from downtime are effectively eliminated. Backup images do not need to be converted to virtual hard disks as they failover directly from the backup image. End users will retain their original settings. For complete transparency, the virtualized server will keep the same system state. Failover servers will continue to back up when restoring back to repaired or new hardware. Therefore, the latest changes in the environment will be retained.

Virtual Test Environment

Virtual sandbox networks allow you to replicate production environments quickly and easily. Security patches, configuration changes and software updates can be easily tested by creating a virtual machine on its own private network, thus allowing any potential problems to be isolated from the production environment. No more costly, labour intensive test environments to maintain.

Sandbox Virtualization environments can be created in minutes on the ARCA.

• Updating Software
• Changing Configurations
• Testing Patches
• Always Synced With Test Environment
• A Separate Test Environment Is No Longer Needed

Disaster Recovery Testing on the ARCA is simple, by virtualizing to test images.

Three modes allow for Sandbox Private, Sandbox and Live Networks. Live mode is for a real disaster; Sandbox modes allow for testing and verification of images.

• Restore your system in minutes, not days
• Recovery Time Objectives are slashed due to built in redundancy
• Effective Backup & Application Recovery
• Experience incredible speed, simplicity and reliability when restoring files or a database with the ARCA.
• Time-wasted from switching tapes is eliminated, 15 minute snapshots allow for additional protection against corrupt open files.
• Incremental backups are performed after the initial full backup.
• Block level backups taken by the ARCA allow for backups below the file level.
• No additional agents – Databases, SharePoint and SQL backup and restores are supported.
• Drag and drop functionality allows for easy connection to your point in time snapshots and restoring important databases or log files.
• Windows file explorer can also be easily used for SharePoint document recovery on the ARCA.

For more information on the ARCA device call our office today. 204 943 4777