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remain elusive challenges for any IT
organisation. Businesses demand
instant recovery from failures, quick
access to test and development
resources and the latest data for
business intelligence and analytics.
of recovery. Deduped data often must
be rehydrated for recovery, this is a
time-consuming play because data
must be searched for and recovered
in large segments as opposed to
granular specific files, before the
rehydration process.
At Networks Unlimited we offer our
customers Rubrik solutions, which
redefine how data can be simply
managed across public and private
clouds for: data protection, disaster
recovery, archival for compliance
and long-term retention, application
development and data analytics.
What about cloud? As more
companies evolve their on-premises
infrastructure to private clouds and
build more applications in the public
cloud, infrastructure needs to adapt.
Companies need to protect, manage
and secure their data at a granular
level, with more intelligence, to capture
the economics of cloud.
Anton Jacobsz, Managing
Director Networks Unlimited
Snapshots
Most of the newer, more innovative
approaches to data protection have
their roots in snapshots. The term
‘snapshots’ here refers to disk-array-
based snapshots sometimes referred to
as hardware-based snapshots, SAN-
based snapshots or storage snapshots.
The key benefits of using snapshots,
compared to traditional backup
software, include considerably faster
backups and, more significantly,
restores. In addition, most snapshots
techniques are very space efficient.
So, are snapshots the complete
solution? No, they don’t provide
the functionality that users expect
from traditional backup applications.
Combining snapshots and replication
with elements of traditional backup/
recovery software, such as indexing,
cataloguing and scheduling brings
forth a more holistic solution.
Snapshots enable rapid (almost
instantaneous) recovery, while backup
software provides affordable retention,
catalogue-based searches and restores.
These hybrid systems can resolve the
two critical pain points of RTO and
RPO, as well as boosting efficiencies in
meeting SLA objectives.
Snapshots also have minimal or
no impact on the performance of
production servers and they enable
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The Rubrik converged data
management platform incorporates
modern design principles:
application owners to handle backup
and recovery tasks, thus reducing
backup-specific staffing requirements.
We see immediate longer-term
TCO reductions. •
However, as with everything there can
be drawbacks: •
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Making the wrong applications
decisions could lead to high costs
and complexity best avoided
Inefficient snapshot technology
could lead to large volumes of
expensive primary storage capacity
being used
Convergence and hyper-convergence
solutions address these issues in
next generation architectures, finally
bringing the data management
strategic solutions in line with modern
data centre delivery capability.
Moreover, solutions that have been
architected with the cloud in mind
should be able to manage and
orchestrate data quickly, intelligently
and efficiently from on-premises to
cloud and back.
Rubrik, the new standard in
data management
As has been established, instantaneous
application recovery and data delivery
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Software convergence: We distil
physically disparate components
that comprise multi-tiered, legacy
backup and recovery architecture
into a single software.
Simplicity: We solve for ease of use
through simplicity. For example,
our user interface displays only
information that requires user
attention, reducing cognitive
overload.
Web-scale: We adopt the same
web-scale technologies used by
Google, Facebook and Amazon,
allowing users to easily handle
rapidly increasing volumes of
information by adding more
appliances to the cluster.
Efficiency: We build intelligence
into our software to help users
efficiently manage data without
incurring unnecessary costs
and labour.
Rubrik pioneers a radically innovative
approach in data management by
distilling formerly discrete, complex
components that require manual
stitching into a single, elegant
software fabric packaged with
industry standard hardware. Thus, our
customers experience unprecedented
simplicity, ease of use and substantial
cost savings.
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Ground-breaking
payment technologies
on Microsoft Azure
PCI-DSS and MasterCard Certified Payment Processing
Compliance and Financial Control Solutions
Retail Management and Payment Systems
The deployment of secure processing technology environments is an arduous and
costly process. With legacy systems still mainframe-based; and even relatively recent
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The rulebook has now been re-written.
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Please contact us at www.necpayments.com to find out what we can help you
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Office 32 Classic Tower, Building 869,
Road 3618, Block 436, Seef, Kingdom of Bahrain
T: +973 1720 3000 E: info@necpayments.com
Licensed and Regulated by Central Bank of Bahrain.
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