Recognizing that many of their customers do not have dedicated IT staff, BackupWorks.com works with them directly to find the right storage solutions and also ensures that they are implemented correctly the first time.

With more than a decade in business, an established customer base, and select product lines in NAS, SAN, Tape and disk, BackupWorks.com is now becoming an important seller and supporter of the RDX® storage system technology. Evan Sackstein, Vice President of Sales for BackupWorks.com, is enthusiastic about the growing acceptance of the removable hard disk format.

“When we started the company 12 years ago, we were primarily a tape company,” he said. We didn’t really do any kind of disk-based backup, and our first few times entering that market were challenging. But when people started asking us about RDX media for drives from several manufacturers, we took a closer look.”

What started out as an experiment quickly became an important part of the business. “It just took off,” Sackstein said. “We got to the point where a lot of people were contacting us using old 4mm tapes, 8mm tapes, and they were looking to get away from tape. They had bad experiences with tapes. They didn’t feel it was reliable, and they wanted something different—and RDX was just the perfect fit.”

For many of these customers, reliability, ease of use, and cost were the main deciding factors. Sackstein estimates that customers who don’t already have backup hardware can save as much as 75 percent by choosing RDX instead of tape. “When I speak to clients about LTO tape drives,” he said, “they’re looking at a minimum of $1500, plus media, plus cleaning tapes, plus backup software, plus connectivity such as SCSI or SAS—that’s at least a $2000 investment. Then I show them how they can get complete RDX solution for under $500.”

RDX: RUGGED, EXPANDABLE STORAGE FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED BUSINESSES

According to Sackstein, RDX is ideal for home offices and small businesses with up to 10 or 15 employees. These customers often lack the resources to hire full-time information technology staff, and need to handle technology problems on their own. “It’s a very easy system to use, Sackstein said. “Anybody who has used a USB hard drive to drag and drop files will be able to use a USB RDX drive.”

That familiarity is a large part of the appeal. Sackstein said that tape drives are uncommon in people’s daily home and work lives, so they are often perceived as too complicated or challenging. “People get scared of that,” Sackstein said. “Especially small business people. Not IT guys, but small business, medium business. They’re a little bit skeptical of tape.”

MULTIPLE SALES CHANNELS, PRIVATE AND PUBLIC — AND ALL GROWING
One of the most important sales channels for BackupWorks.com is independent IT consultants, who provide advice and support for other companies. Equipped with demonstration models of RDX docking stations and cartridges, these consultants make test installations at customer sites. “As soon as they see the success,” Sackstein said, “they end up buying it for all their clients.”

In addition to small and medium sized businesses, BackupWorks.com is receiving more orders for RDX products from the public sector. Government agencies with specific requirements sometimes manage their own backups locally. These already include one of the National Laboratories and a regional Veterans’ Affairs office. They value the same benefits as business customers, and represent another growing market segment. And, as Sackstein says, “If the whole removable disk storage industry is based on RDX technology, it’s got to be good. That’s what we sell it on — what customers are looking for. It’s really easy to sell.”

Since this interview was conducted, RDX® hard disk-based storage libraries have been introduced and Sackstein and his team are excited because it allows their customers to operate in either JBOD or tape emulation mode. With the A8’s introduction to the RDX family, BackupWorks can now provide greater capacity solutions for small and medium sized businesses. In fact, they are currently conducting case studies with many satisfied customers.

What has not changed is the requirement for most organizations to have retained backups or copies of information that can be removed to a safe place, outside of the data center. True physical vaulting of copies of information is still a requirement and must be addressed even with the other data protection technology changes. The RDX removable disk technology is a new technology answer to meeting the removable storage requirement for protection of data. Available from different vendors, the RDX is an ideal choice for protected copies of information that needs to be retained for long periods of time. The RDX disk cartridges and the RDX USB-3 docks can be used to store information for years and still be able to connect the dock and read the cartridges.

The requirements for removable storage have not gone away and if anything, have proven to be necessary for true protection in disaster situations. The performance of disk with USB-3 speed and the random access of disk provide technology advances over previous removable solutions. And, the capacity increases with the RDX disk cartridges continue to track the overall disk capacity increases. RDX cartridges are also offered with Solid State Devices for greater speed and durability. As that technology continues to advance, the RDX removable technology follows.

In addition to the removable data protection, the RDX technology continues to be used as a primary interchange technology. Distributing large amounts of data to remote locations is more practical and economic with RDX than many other alternatives.
RDX is a modern technology that is well suited to meet requirements for removable storage. The requirements will persist even though other protection methods are in place. It is another tool in the storage professional’s arsenal to meet requirements for protection and data interchange.

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What would you do with a 500GB thumb drive?
I’m not comparing RDX with a thumb drive, although I suspect more than a few users have done so as they drop an RDX cartridge into a bag or backpack. After all, a primary use case for this technology is replacing USB hard drives (and tapes) for getting data offsite. RDX cartridges have historically had spinning hard disk drives (HDD) inside. By using these commercial off the shelf drives RDX can leverage the latest and greatest of what the disk drive industry puts out. This design has allowed RDX capacities to keep increasing, with relatively little engineering work on their part (that’s a good thing).

Now, we’re seeing the wisdom of this design payoff again, with the Solid State Disk (SSD) RDX. They’ve taken a commercially available 2.5” drive form factor SSD and put it into the RDX cartridge. The RDX dock has also been upgraded to USB 3.0, giving this new RDX about twice the performance of its HDD counterpart – up to 180MB/s. The SSD is from Toshiba, an MLC NAND device, currently available in sizes from 64GB to 512GB.

Again, thanks to the RDX design, an SSD from any manufacturer could be used, keeping costs down and suppliers available. The Engineering folks at Tandberg told me it took longer to get brochures written than to do the actual engineering work required to release the SSD RDX product. Back to the thumb drive discussion; seriously, there’s really very little this product or any enterprise grade SSD has in common with a thumb drive.

Flash as a storage device
First of all, flash as a storage device needs a little help when it’s put into environments where users really expect to get all their data back. Unlike magnetic media, flash must be erased in full block segments, you can’t simply overwrite existing data a byte at a time. Also, the NAND flash substrate can only sustain a finite number of erasures and overwrites (called Program/Erase or P/E cycles). This means the flash controller has a few things it must do in the background in order to provide the reliability and longevity that enterprise users expect from their storage devices.

Garbage collection
When data’s written to the flash device, after all the cells have been filled the first time, the controller must go through and consolidate data to free up enough space to hold one or more complete blocks, depending on the size of the write. This includes “garbage collection” or the process of clearing out data that’s already been deleted. The controller must also spread data writes out onto as many cells as possible, called “wear leveling”, to make sure the individual NAND flash memory cells are accumulating an equal number of P/E cycles.

The thumb drive you picked up at the last trade show has a controller inside that may do some of these things – or not. Until they’re actually filled up for the first time, users will never know, which is fine since they’re not designed for any substantial long term use. But real SSDs that are used in real enterprise applications, like the RDX are different. They do all of those things (and more) to maintain reliability and consistent performance throughout their useful life – which is comparable with spinning disk drives.

OK, so let’s rephrase the original question and ask: “What could you do with a portable 500GB enterprise class solid state drive in an industry standard RDX cartridge?” According to Tandberg there are several areas that are using this technology.

Video cameras are now all digital, we’re talking about the movie and TV industry,. They store video ‘footage’ on memory sticks that go into the camera but need to transfer these videos back to the editing and production facility as quickly as possible. USB drives and disk-based RDX have been the technology of choice but SSD offers them some benefits. It’s about twice as fast in the transfer process and it’s more rugged than spinning magnetic disk media.

Scientific instrumentation generates a lot of data, with new higher resolution sensors and the increasing use of graphics for analysis. The oil and gas industry is a big user of portable digital media to collect well head data, seismic data, geologic data, etc. This often involves physically driving around to remote sites and changing out disk media. Again, RDX has found a home in this environment. It’s more ruggedized than traditional portable disk drives and more reliable than tape. Solid state storage is even more appealing here since it has no moving parts and can better withstand the bumps, drops and dirt associated with this environment.

The military is also interested in an RDX cartridge with an SSD inside. The “digital battlefield” is a term the DoD coined to describe their focus on imagery and seeing (literally) everything that’s happening, in real time. This means sophisticated systems, lots of sensors and tons of data. A lot of this data is transferred over a ‘boot net’ (the military version of sneaker net), and RDX has found a home here as well. With SSDs, they now have a faster, more rugged and potentially more reliable medium to capture this digital battlefield data and get it to the people who need it.

These RDX multi-cartridge platforms are also compatible with popular backup applications to quickly and easily integrate automated removable disk into existing protection plans and ISCSI connectivity provides for easy integration into existing Ethernet infrastructure.

The growth of RDX technology has been phenomenal in the SMB market and as this important technology enters the SME market we are finding the same reception.

New RDX SSD Cartridges – A new line of RDX cartridges have been introduced that are based on SSD technology for demanding environments which require super fast, extremely durable and portable storage. Performance improves by up to eight times when used with USB 3.0 docks.

The new RDX SSD cartridges provide blazing fast transfer rates of up to 180MB/s when used with the RDX USB 3.0 docks. These cartridges are designed for mission-critical, data-intensive applications and work-flow applications such as medical, military, video editing and surveillance. The new RDX SSD cartridge capacities include 64GB, 128GB, 256GB and 512GB. Standard RDX media is available in capacities ranging from 160GB to 1TB, with an ever-increasing capacity roadmap that tracks with the 2.5-inch mobile hard disk drive industry.

RDX technology provides a safe, rugged and portable storage choice for SMBs and SMEs. Designed to store, back up and archive data from servers and workstations, RDX removable disk technology offers users higher capacity, faster speed and lower cost than low-end tape products. Its fast transfer rate of up to 180MB/second allows users to back up their entire server onto a single cartridge, quickly and safely.

The average cost per GB in the market has gone down from approximately $2.50 per GB in 2006 to below $0.50 per GB in 2011. The 1TB cartridge is even better positioned at around $0.30 per GB. This is a huge benefit to RDX customers, particularly since users can scale up in capacity and still use any RDX drive.

RDX has earned a standing in the data protection market. RDX technology offers the best that tape and disk have to offer, and it has been rapidly adopted by SMBs, mid-sized enterprises, and by systems integrators during server builds.

Every size organization is grappling with growing data stores and SMEs are certainly not exempt from that. As this occurs, they are finding that while they need more storage capacity for their primary data, they may need far greater amounts of storage capacity to store and retain their archival copies of data.

Historically, this role of storing archive data has fallen to tape because of certain properties that it possesses. But what SMEs may fail to realize is that removable disk media now possesses many of the same properties as tape. As such, it may now actually be a better choice than tape for storing archival data.

Consider the reasons that are typically cited for using tape and how removable disk now matches up.

Removable disk also provides at least one feature that tape does not offer: forward and backward compatibility. An issue that SMEs encounter when using tape is that when new, larger capacity tape cartridges are released, to take advantage of them they first have to upgrade their tape drive(s). However, upgrading their tape drive negates their ability to use their older tape cartridges since tape drives can only write to the current and the prior generation of tape cartridges.

Removable disk has no such limitations. It can read and write to any prior or future generation of disk drive since it offers a standard interface. This makes it more practical and even easier to manage than tape, especially when it comes to more quickly accessing, searching and retrieving archival data.

E-discovery and search are two other arguments for using disk instead of tape. Should an SME be subject to an e-discovery, their archived data will likely need to be accessed, indexed and searched, which will then lead to the retrieval of individual email messages or files. Since these are typically stored throughout the archival data store and not in just one location, this calls for random access to the data which plays to disk’s strengths, not tape.

These arguments for removable disk have now become so strong that tape’s last and best argument for use is its longevity as it is rated to last up to 30 years. But even in this respect SMEs need to ask the question, “What archival data do I need to retain for 30 years?”

Most regulations to which SMEs are subject only require that they keep data for three to seven years. In this regards, removable disks now have 5 year warranties so they are usable for at least that period of time and the data on them is in all likelihood good for a couple of years after that. Further, because removable disk is forward and backward compatible, it is a relatively simple task to copy data from an older disk to a newer one if a longer retention period is required.

So a better question for SMEs to ask is, “What is the best way to implement removable disk in my environment so I can best take advantage of the benefits that it has to offer?” In this respect, SMEs should look to solutions such as what Revinetix offers as it combines the best of what both fixed and removable disk solutions have to offer.

Revinetix offers fixed disk for daily backups and short term archival requirements (~1 – 12 months in duration, depending on amount of data and business requirements.) However, it also supports the use of removable disk technology so SMEs can keep archival data in a near line or offline state to meet their internal or external retention requirements.

What makes the union of Revinetix and removable disk based technology particularly appealing is two-fold.

First, should an SME have to quickly respond to an e-discovery request, they can optionally attach removable disks to another Revinetix system. This frees the primary system to do the daily backups, backups and ongoing archival of data while enabling them to dedicate a second system to do data retrievals or e-discovery searches.

Second, disaster recoveries get a lot easier and more predictable as well. Using removable disk means SMEs always have the right generation of technology at both the production and DR site so they can be confident they can recover. Further, removable disk opens up the possibility that SMEs can recover the application directly from it which may eliminate the need to have a separate storage solution at the DR site. SMEs could never do that with tape.

Tape is still a logical and cost-effective medium to archiving but its use cases are increasingly reserved for large enterprises. What SMEs will likely find is that new removable disk technology gives them all of the benefits that they associate with tape while preserving the benefits that disk affords. By using solutions such as what Revinetix offers, they can fold both fixed and removable disk technology into their environment and seamlessly manage them both.

About DCIG: DCIG analyzes software, hardware and services of companies within the data storage and data protection industries. DCIG’s goal is to provide an informed, inside look at the latest advances and developments for products and services in these markets in the form of blog entries, case studies and executive and full-length white papers. Visit DCIG at www.dcig.com

While I have a boat that I used for fishing I did not expect to bring it with me in anticipation of using it as a means of conveyance for this trip. So instead I drove south to Des Moines and then west to Omaha, which added a lot of time to the trip but at least I was dry and arrived safely.

I can’t honestly remember a summer that was so pre-occupied with flood threats, flood damage, and an overwhelming sense of disorder. My thoughts went out to the farmers, and businesses that were impacted by this flood, as they have lost a tremendous of revenue and opportunity.

But as I thought about it more, I was struck with the question of data protection and what were the businesses in the flood plain doing to insure that their data was protected and portable for the potential news of a broken levy along the Missouri River.

Data is the lifeblood of so many companies yet it is also an oft forgotten item in a disaster recovery plan for SMB’s of smaller size. Many do not have the budget or appetite for cloud storage and, in these parts of the county, may not be able to locate a provider that offers sufficient internet bandwidth for cloud access. Further, they do not always understand something that they cannot physically touch. That is the beauty of an RDX solution.

With an RDX solution many in the Missouri river area or indeed any flood plain can still backup and archive vital corporate data, inventory information, customer records, video, etc. But they can keep the portability and a high level of assurance that they have access to their data.

With RDX farmers, small businesses, and single site businesses in the path of the flood can back up to the RDX cartridge in an RDX docking station, eject the RDX cartridge and high tail it out of town in a matter of minutes with all of the data they need intact and ready to recover. Further, depending on how you back your data up, you can potentially even run your application directly from the RDX media without needing to restore it.

This portability affords a CIO, CEO, business owner or even a family farmer the certainty of data protection at an achievable cost with the flexibility to set it up wherever they have retreated as they wait for the flood waters subside.

I think that it would be an interesting and probably sad mathematical exercise to calculate the financial repercussions of data loss due to this one flood event in the Upper Midwest alone. Millions of dollars of property were certainly lost, but what is the cost of lost data? I would suggest that it is comparable in cost to real property and is sadly not an insurable item that one can receive payment on from their insurance company.

Natural disasters are certainly newsworthy on many levels, but resultant data loss need not be for the SMB that can avoid data loss by not thinking ahead. Using an RDX solution can, and will allow you to have a safe, ruggedized, portable data back-up solution when unexpected events like this occur.

About DCIG: DCIG analyzes software, hardware and services of companies within the data storage and data protection industries. DCIG’s goal is to provide an informed, inside look at the latest advances and developments for products and services in these markets in the form of blog entries, case studies and executive and full-length white papers. Visit DCIG at www.dcig.com

Multi-slot system libraries ensure reliable performance of data-intensive business operations, delivering the scalability, portability and total cost of ownership benefits, along with the speed and durability of disk. The multi-slot system library manages large volumes of data quickly and reliably. Operating in Tape Emulation mode, Multi-slot system libraries function as an 8-slot LTO autoloader. In disk mode (JBOD) mode, Multi-slot system libraries appear to the host as 8 individual and addressable disks with separate drive letters for each slot.

Medical Imaging is one vertical market where these multi-slot system libraries are being quickly adopted. Medical imaging devices (modalities) create data files which require large capacity storage solutions. Medical imaging is the technique and process used to create images of the human body for the purpose of diagnosing or examining a disease. In the past this meant hard copy analog “films.” Today, medical imaging encompasses radiology, nuclear medicine, investigative radiological sciences, endoscopy, thermograph, medical photography and microscopy. One certainty about medical images is that they are digital, higher in resolution and are often large data files.

RDX disk technology is proving itself in medical imaging where RDX Multi-slot system libraries are managing the complex data storage, backup, recovery and archiving functions of this file modality. Following are four emerging uses for multi-slot system libraries in the medical imaging market.

Primary Storage Overflow – Nearline Storage
RDX Multi-slot system libraries are being used as primary storage overflow for medical imaging. Tape has traditionally filled this role, but has had slow performance and lacks the ability to retrieve specific files. But now with the added capacity of a multi-slot system library that can accommodate medical imaging file modalities, not only does the solution deliver the scalability and portability of tape, but it provides the added benefit of the speed of write and retrieval and file format compatibility. It also adds the durability of ruggedized RDX disk technology.

Because RDX is a disk-based technology, the library can double as incremental nearline storage where image files can be retrieved quickly using random access in disk mode. Tape, as a volume-based media, cannot support the requirements of nearline storage where data must be available without the seek delays of tape. The competing technology for nearline storage is fixed disk arrays which lack the expandability, and portability of the RDX technology. RDX allows for simple incremental storage capacity without the investment commitment.

MO Disk library replacement
RDX multi-slot system libraries are also being used as a replacement for Magneto-optical (MO) disk libraries. Magneto-optical disk libraries are popular in some countries for storing medical images where high reliability, long life, and capacity have been driving factors for their use. Today, they are beginning to be replaced with the faster, higher capacity, portable disk RDX Multi-slot system library. An MO library can hold 16 or more disks, however their capacity only reaches 9.1 MB per disk vs. up to 1TB per disk with RDX. Unlike RDX, which is file-based backup, the MO disk library requires specialized archival software to store indexes of data and select disks. RDX Multi-slot system libraries allow the quick retrieval of images and also provide the portability capabilities to share images with other medical professionals.

Backup for Large Files – Medical Imaging
RDX direct attach storage is commonly used for the backup of company data in small and medium-size companies. Because of the increased library capacity of Multi-slot system libraries, RDX is suitable for the backup of the volume and large file modality of medical images. From backup, images can be quickly restored in a usable format through random access to select individual or multiple files thus avoiding the slower seek and restore nature of volume-based backup media.

Tape has traditionally been used for medical imaging backup. Unlike tape, RDX has no generational imitations and as such, is not limited by drive compatibility as tape is. All RDX docks, no matter what generation, can read all cartridges no matter what size; there is generational neutrality. Tape is generally limited in its backward compatibility to a two generation read limitation and a one generation write limitation on a tape drive. This means that data on tape media must be transferred every two to three generations to the current tape drive generation. RDX is compatible across all generations and therefore does not have to be transferred except as bound by the life of the cartridge (30 years). Additionally, because RDX is file based, it does not require the elaborate tape backup software and the overhead that comes along with it. Image file by image file backup is possible.

Medical Collaboration and Long Term Archives
It is a well known fact that network bandwidth can’t keep up with the volume of data companies produce today. Transport over the network is not practical. With medical units needing to share images for diagnostic and disease monitoring, the portability of RDX ruggedized cartridges offer a clear advantage. RDX ruggedized cartridges can withstand a drop of up to 1 meter onto a concrete floor making them ideal for hand-carried transport or shipping offsite.

RDX cartridges provide a simple, fast transport mechanism for hand, courier or overnight delivery. A Multi-slot system library cartridge can be extracted and transported to another Multi-slot system library or a direct attach RDX dock providing dock-to-dock connectivity. The RDX cartridge compatibility between Multi-slot system library and direct-attached RDX provides a means for medical personal to quickly share images.

Did you know that:

• A hard drive crashes every 15 seconds
• 2,000 laptops are stolen or lost every day
• 32% of data loss is caused by human error
• 31% of PC users have lost all of their PC files to events beyond their control
• 25% of lost data is due to the failure of a portable drive
• 44% of data loss is caused by mechanical failures
• 15% or more of laptops are stolen or suffer hard drive failures
• One in 5 computers suffer a fatal hard drive crash during its lifetime
(University of North Carolina Technology Survey)

The quantity of the information SMBs generate and consume daily is estimated to be growing at an alarming rate of 60% annually. Just like their larger counterparts, SMBs must manage and safeguard this data and other physical records or face business disruption, devastating losses or potential failure of the business itself. SMBs storage needs are similar to those of large corporations, but the fact is that the storage solutions must be completely different. The key component of an effective data storage solution can enable SMBs to simultaneously establish practical and highly effective backup and archival practices.

A Convergence of Factors
The backup and storage capacity requirements have been fueled by a convergence of factors: companies today require 24×7 access to increasingly large amounts of data; compliance regulations now extend the retention periods for documents and data; and companies have gained a growing awareness of the need to back up their data as part of an overall business continuity or disaster recovery plan.

Instant access to data is now taken for granted, whether in the office, on the road or working remotely. This has become a business imperative as unmanaged or poorly managed data can bury decisions under even higher piles of conflicting data. This can also cause companies to waste time looking for information, reducing overall productivity and leading to missed opportunities to grow the business, from losing individual sales to losing customers.

At the same time, the expanding body of state and federal government legislation and compliance requirements now mandate how and when certain types of information may be used, stored, retained and destroyed. In addition, certain industries have regulations mandating how information must be stored and made available, and the Internet has produced a growing body of privacy laws.

Properly managed, data is a strategic corporate asset. Improperly managed, it can become a significant liability. In the case of a litigation request, for example, companies are responsible for producing the required information that is needed for its defense. Company executives have the responsibility of producing the right records at the right time.

Therefore, companies have a growing awareness of the necessity of disaster recovery programs that include the regular backup and archiving of data so that in the event of a natural disaster (fire, water damage, etc.) they can quickly access another copy of their corporate data and be back up and running again quickly.

However, while companies may recognize the value of their data and the negative impact of data loss on their businesses, many are still not adequately protecting their data. According to Small Business Computing magazine, 40% of SMBs don’t back up their data at all, and 60% of all data is stored on PC desktops and laptops. Looking at SOHO users, only 73% who have a personal backup device back up at least monthly, and only 40% back up daily. This failure to protect data adequately can have dire consequences. Disasters aren’t always extreme—an extended power outage can devastate a small business just as a major earthquake or flood. Personal disasters are even more likely, according to the following statistics from research at the University of North Carolina’s Information Technology Service:

40% of SMBs don’t backup their data at all, and 60% of all data is stored on PC desktops and laptops.

SMB Storage Gets Personal

Today’s Dynamic: Technology Evolves To Keep Pace with Storage Requirements
The good news is that the right storage devices, such as RDX Storage Technology, can help SMBs share data, collaborate in an automated way and protect their valuable assets. In addition to avoiding wasted time and improved collaboration, SMBs can move more quickly and arrive at key decisions more efficiently if they manage, backup and intelligently migrate data on an ongoing basis.

Unlike large enterprises; smaller companies usually have a systems administrator that will handle storage as an added task rather than a dedicated storage expert, necessitating that data protection be simple to understand, implement and administer.

SMBs require an easy to use, simple to integrate, fool-proof and cost-effective “all in one” storage solution. The key features that appeal to SMBs in any external storage device are capacity and throughput, with portability and an external button to start their backup as other key features. RDX Stoarge technology meets these.

Establishing Personal Storage Best Practices
There are numerous laws, regulations, standards and business practices that include data retention requirements. SMBs must comply with the record keeping requirements defined by regulators, their industry and by legal precedence. The retention requirements vary significantly from one type of data to another and the same data may be required to be kept for different time periods by different states.

SMB Storage Gets Personal - Today, RDX Storage Technology solves these problems for SMBs and SOHO.
Ultimately, by instituting a records management and storage process:
• Storage becomes highly reliable and error-free
• Archived assets are easy to preserve, locate, reuse and resell
• Archival storage becomes the standard, rather than a luxury
• Disaster recovery best practices can be instituted