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Ensuring Business Continuity and Streamlining Backup and Recovery of Critical Data Systems : 

Ensuring Business Continuity and Streamlining Backup and Recovery of Critical Data Systems Enterprise Data Management Strategies for Business Continuity

Realities of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery : 

2 Realities of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Critical applications and data drive your business CRM, ERP, Custom and Packaged Applications Global threats to availability, integrity and security: Natural disasters, power failures, computer viruses, terrorist threats Corporate victims of disaster often face a long road to recovery, requiring time and resources to rebuild, recover and resume operations Planning becomes more difficult as databases continue to grow, new systems are added and the priority level for system recovery changes

What’s Causing the Data Explosion? : 

3 Mergers & Acquisitions Organic business growth eCommerce ERP/CRM Records retention: HIPPA SOX Data multiplier effect According to industry analysts, annual compound growth rates for databases will exceed 125% What’s Causing the Data Explosion?

How Does Data Growth Impact Disaster Recovery? : 

4 How Does Data Growth Impact Disaster Recovery? Managing years of current and historical data in the same database, even though historical data is rarely accessed Continued data growth expands backup and recovery windows which can delay the recovery process by hours or even days Without an effective archiving strategy that separates current from historical data: Both current and rarely accessed historical data are copied to a recovery storage medium Having to recover both current and historical data expands the time needed to resume operations

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5 Acquired archiving capabilities to align PeopleSoft HCM performance with expected service levels by managing continued data growth Developed an archiving strategy to increase application availability for HCM processing, reporting and daily operations, while providing authorized access to archived data Proved that archiving could reduce time for processing, maintenance and backup and recovery activities Automated enterprise data management and archive processing, based on user-defined business and data retention policies Implemented initiatives to control costs by reducing storage requirements across ten cloned test and development environments Controlled data growth and estimated more than $70,000 savings, reducing disk expenditures by archiving and compressing historical financial data and saving it to more cost-effective medium Projected more than $517,000 savings in infrastructure, server and storage costs by implementing enterprise data management strategies to simplify the IT infrastructure Improved batch processing and online response times to support daily business activities and timely reporting for lenders, creditors, investors and audits Achieved goals for faster maintenance and disaster recovery operations as well as time savings for PeopleSoft upgrades Archiving Controls Data Growth to Speed Disaster Recovery

Database Archiving Facilitates Faster Recovery : 

6 Database Archiving Facilitates Faster Recovery Database archiving streamlines production databases and shortens time to recover current data

Keys to Recovery Time : 

7 Keys to Recovery Time Defining the level of data loss (RPO) and downtime (RTO) that can be tolerated for each application helps determine the appropriate business continuity and recovery alternatives Archiving makes it easier to manage database size to accommodate disaster recovery windows and business continuity objectives, while still meeting daily business needs Archiving allows for recovering essential data first and non-essential data later to significantly reduces the time and resources needed to rebuild an alternate database and shortens time for the recovery and operation of critical systems

Benefits of Database Archiving for Business Continuity : 

8 Benefits of Database Archiving for Business Continuity Set functional business policies for archiving data, such as type of data, age and transaction status Preserve the business context of the data for audit and reporting purposes Archive and remove rarely accessed historical data from production databases Deploy cost-effective tiered storage strategies to manage archives based on business value and access requirements Provide native or application independent access to archived data on demand

Archived Data Remains Accessible : 

9 Archived Data Remains Accessible

Archiving Complements Backup Processing : 

10 Archiving Complements Backup Processing Database backup should not be considered a replacement for database archiving and vice versa

Archiving Mitigates Risks and Costs : 

11 Archiving Mitigates Risks and Costs Alternative disaster recovery sites offer cost and risk trade-offs

Include Archiving in Your Business Continuity Plan : 

12 Include Archiving in Your Business Continuity Plan Define your backup schedule appropriately to provide the necessary resources for recovery Define the data to archive based on your business policies Select appropriate storage media for archiving based on the business value and access requirements for each type of data Update your backup procedures to include archived data Select the appropriate low-cost storage media for database backups to ensure recovery and reuse

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