Montal Secure Online Backup Solution
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- Many businesses do not do a complete daily backup.
- Upto 60% of backups can be incomplete.
- Restores often fail.
- Only 25% of tapes are stored off-site.
- End user compliance with backups is only 8%.
"In August 2006 a survey of IT managers in the UK found that almost all (92 percent) harbour concerns over their business’ approach to the management of data. The biggest concern lay in their company’s ability to react to a disaster situation, with 44 percent of respondents claiming to have little faith in their current data back-up and restoration processes in the event of an unforeseen catastrophe.
Over-reliance on manual tape-based back-up processes was cited by 29 percent of IT managers as a major factor in their concerns, with half noting that this was a ‘dated’ approach."
Source - Continuity Central
Introduction
Montal Secure Online Backup Solution provides industry-leading, secure data backup, recovery, and remote access for servers, desktops and laptops.
Montal Secure Online Backup Server Edition makes use of the Attix5 Backup Professional software to automatically filter, select, and copy data from your servers to a highly secure, off-site Data Storage platform. Thereafter the stored data is replicated every 15 minutes to a secondary remote data centre.
Attix5 Backup Professional is a small Java client, which is remotely deployed to user devices to automate the secure backup of data according to customisable file filters and scheduler settings.
Data transfer is reduced by as much as 98% by a proprietary incremental patching technique. Secure encryption of all data ensures confidentiality while an intuitive user interface allows users to recover data immediately, and from any point in time.
Montal Secure Online Backup Solution includes a centralised Monitoring and Deployment Console that allows the network administrator to customise departmental file filtering and backup schedules, as well as manage and track individual account usage. Using Montal Secure Online Backup Solution helps to maximise employee productivity, improve IT control and enables you to regain ownership of your most valuable asset - your data.
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Features & Benefits of Montal's Secure Online Backup Solution
- Automatic backups by scheduler
- Intelligent data filtering & selection ensures completeness of backup sets
- Runs as a service (no login required)
- Easy restore in the case of data loss, virus attacks, hardware failure etc
- Java client allows cross platform functionality
- Redundant off-site storage means less down time and greater security.
- Secure encryption of company data
- Easy to setup and use
- Reduced file server and network loads
- SnapShot option to address large data volumes during initial backup and in the case of data recovery
- Open File Management Plugins available
- Trickle transfer with up to 98% bandwidth reduction
- Centralised administration
- Administrator - level file exclusion with full logging and error reporting
- Fully scalable, available for servers, desktops and laptops
Finally, Montal Secure Online Backup Storage Platforms are hosted in highly secure disaster recovery buildings, which are owned and managed by IBM Business Continuity & Recovery Services, thus ensuring the highest levels of physical data security.
The advantages of Montal Secure Online Backup Solution vs Tape Backups
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How It Works - Technical Architecture & Description
Montal Secure Online Backup Server Edition is a key component of any enterprise backup solution. It ensures that all servers backup data automatically over the network.
Firstly, a full backup is made of the identified data set, compressed, and transmitted to the Storage Platform. Proprietary Snapshot technology allows for large initial data backups.
An incremental patch backup is then executed that sends only the binary changes made to data files and then copies the data to the remote server.
The backup works over any TCP/IP network. The administrator can access the data over the corporate Intranet, direct dial up or from anywhere in the world via the Internet.
All backed up data is stored on highly redundant Storage Platforms, using RAID5 file servers, in IBM secure Data Centres, which are located in disaster recovery buildings owned and run by IBM Business Continuity & Recovery Services.
The primary Storage Platforms, are used for processing backups and act as the primary data store; thereafter the data replication takes place every 15 minutes and is transferred (via a Private Network) to a second remote site, otherwise known as the Mirror Storage Platform, thus providing the highest level of redundancy for customer data.
How It Works - Software Components
Attix5 Backup Professional Server Edition - Client Agent
An, easy to use, Attix5 Server Edition client agent is installed on each server. The administrator will then choose an encryption key and ensure that the correct files and folders have been selected for backup. The Client Agent then automatically schedules backups according to the policies set up by the administrator.
Remote servers will automatically detect network connections and backup whilst online. The Client Agent is a 100% Java application and, together with the correct JRE (Java Runtime Environment), can be installed onto most operating systems.
Attix5 Backup Professional Server Edition – Database Agent
Backup Professional Server Edition supports most popular databases and applications. The Server Edition offers seamless integration with these databases and applications and enables online operations that do not eliminate end user access to data – through the backup of locked files. The ever-growing list of agents currently includes MS Exchange, MS SQL Server, Lotus Domino, Sybase ASE, Oracle, and GroupWise.
Attix5 Backup Desktop & Laptop Edition
Desktop & Laptop Edition (D&L) is a secure, automated backup system that intelligently backups critical data to secure, fully mirrored, offsite storage platforms in separate locations, ensuring that data is safe, secure and is available anytime, anywhere via the WebAccess interface.
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Security Features
Montal Secure Online Backup Solution ensures your data is protected every step of the way, incorporating the leading security technology available. Montal Secure Online Backup Server Edition uses the Attix5 Backup Professional software to power the solution and is the most secure product of its class in the world. This means that any sensitive data stored, transmitted or accessed online using our solution is protected by ‘bank-level plus’ security.
The Key Security Features of the Montal Secure Online Backup Server Edition:
- 448 bit encryption of all data stored on the Montal Storage Platforms.
- 128 bit SSL encryption for data in transit across the Internet.
- RSA KEON – PKI and SecurID (plug-in).
- Intelligent file selection.
- Advanced backup scheduling.
- Automatic offsite data transfer.
- Resume on disconnection.
- Network monitoring.
- Version control.
- LAN, WAN, and VPN support.
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Data Centres & Network Infrastructure
All of the Montal Secure Online Backup Storage Platforms are hosted using a combination of IBM secure data centres and fully resilient network infrastructure.
The backed up data, held on the Primary Storage Platforms, is replicated every 15 minutes and is transferred (via the IBM private network) to the Mirror Storage Platforms in a second remote data centre.The data centres are housed in highly secure disaster recovery buildings, owned and managed by IBM Business Continuity & Recovery Services.
The most important features of these disaster recovery buildings are:
- Private fully secure data centres.
- 24-hour security with monitoring of all access within the buildings by CCTV.
- Restricted access within buildings, controlled by swipe card access systems.
- Multiple, redundant mains power feeds with UPS and generator backup.
- Fire suppression systems.
- Monitored Air Conditioning.
The data centres are linked directly to a ultra reliable, dedicated hosting network, which has multiple, high speed fibre optic connections to Cable & Wireless, Energis and Level3 Communications, our Tier 1 Internet Backbone Providers.
These multiple Internet connections are bound together and managed using Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) technology, which provides full systems redundancy.
Montal Secure Online Backup Solution also has its own Autonomous System, otherwise known as an
“AS Number”, which allows us to send and receive Internet traffic via any of our Internet backbone providers, thus making our service totally ISP independent.
This fully resilient network system means Montal can offer up to 100% service availability and 100% redundancy across the Cable & Wireless, Energis and Level3 Communications Tier 1 Internet backbones.
All of Montal’s services are backed by industry leading service agreements, giving you complete peace of mind……so you can get on with business!