What Is Your Business Challenge?
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Does your business perform routine data backups?
Do you know if there was a problem with your data backup?
Is your business at risk because desktop and laptop data is not backed up often enough?
Would you be able to retrieve critical data and applications if your server failed or became otherwise inaccessible?
"Prior to mindSHIFT, we had problems with tapes, which sometimes wouldn't work properly and sometimes weren't compatible with recovery systems. Now, with mindSHIFT, offsite backup and recovery is foolproof."
"Our experience with mindSHIFT regarding our backups has been absolutely phenomenal. Our data is not only safe and secure, but easily accessible for last minute restores."
To fully protect your company’s data assets, you need to backup all of your systems. mindSHIFT offers data backup and recovery services for servers as well as desktops and laptops.
Desktop & Laptop Data Backup Service
The mindSHIFT data backup solution for desktops and laptops enables the instant retrieval of lost or damaged files. It works in the background using minimal resources, so that users can keep working while backups are running. Automatic, non-intrusive online backups can be scheduled to run at the most convenient times.
If users ever need to recover information — from a single file to an entire system — they can either contact mindSHIFT or access the data themselves anywhere/anytime. In the event of a full failure, organizations that are using managed desktop services from mindSHIFT will get all data restored as part of the monthly fee.
Benefits of Desktop Online Backup
Online data backup and online storage protects your data, minimizes business risk, and enables quick, painless recovery of lost or damaged data. Specific benefits of online backup and online storage include:
- Automatic protection of desktops and laptops
- Eliminated risk of data loss
- Reduced storage requirements with patented deduplication and data reduction technologies
- Easy recovery by any user, any time, from anywhere, thus saving valuable user and IT time
Desktop Data Backup Features
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Automatic Data Backup. mindSHIFT’s automatic, non-intrusive workstation data backup and online storage occurs without IT intervention. The daily backup encrypts and stores the data at the mindSHIFT Network Access Center, which is a secured, enterprise-class data center. The data backup service works as follows:
- Scans the hard disk
- Applies patented technologies for data reduction and deduplication
- Compresses data
- Encrypts data
- Connects and sends data over the Internet to a secured, government-grade data center
- Disconnects and displays log of files successfully backed up as well as any failures
The data backup process typically takes 4 minutes or less if run regularly.
- Rapid Data Recovery by Users Themselves. When users need to recover their data, they can either ask mindSHIFT to do the data restoration, or do it themselves without IT help. They can recover and retrieve any file directly from their desktop -- from anywhere, at any time. The requested files are decrypted, decompressed and then sent to the user.
Users have access to up to 20 versions of each undeleted file (which can be up to 90 days old). They also can retrieve files they’ve deleted for 30 days following deletion.
In the event of a full failure, organizations that are using managed desktop services from mindSHIFT will get all data restored as part of the monthly fee.
- Advanced Security. mindSHIFT online backup provides the highest levels of security available.
- All data is encrypted at the desktop, using government-level 128-bit, Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). Enterprise data remains encrypted both during transmission and in storage.
- Data is stored at mindSHIFT’s Data Center.
- mindSHIFT’s enterprise-class data center features comprehensive physical security, UPS, emergency backup generators and fire protection systems.
- Reduced Online Storage. Through advanced data reduction and data deduplication technologies, the mindSHIFT data backup service reduces online storage needs by up to 85 percent.
Server Backup and Recovery Service
mindSHIFT offers server backup and recovery as a component of the server management service.
With mindSHIFT’s server data storage and recovery services, all of the data on your organization’s servers is backed up to a secure offsite facility, eliminating problems inherent in faulty media, costly maintenance, unsecured data, and unreliable recovery. You will have access to lost data, as well as any data that becomes corrupted on your servers—provided that the corrupted file was backed up at some point, of course.
All data on all of your servers will be backed up as part of mindSHIFT’s fully managed service, unless you prefer otherwise. As a practice for the fully managed service, mindSHIFT backs up 13 versions – 7 daily, 3 weekly and 3 monthly.
Your server data will be stored on a fault tolerant, expandable storage area network (featuring RAID 5 disk array with hot swappable spare drives).
Benefits of Server Backup
- Exceptional service and support. Not only will you have engineering support in the installation process, but you will also have access to this experienced team of engineers for support on data backup issues, including failed data backups and restoration of data
- Peace of mind. There’s no need to worry about losing your data. Server backups are done automatically and regularly.. Should there be a server data backup failure for any reason, you are quickly notified. And in the event a server fails or becomes otherwise inaccessible, you will have the ability to restore the server from data backups completed on the failed device
Keep your Data Safe and Always Available
For complete protection and peace of mind, mindSHIFT recommends a three-pronged approach to securing confidential information on laptops and desktops:
- Full disk encryption
- Laptop theft recovery and data deletion
- Offsite data backup
Protect your mission-critical information and make it accessible in case of any unforeseen business interruption or accidental loss. Contact mindSHIFT at 877-227-5054 today.
mindSHIFT IT Management
In addition to data backup, mindSHIFT offers a wide range of other technology services:
- Managed Desktop — provides everything you need, from hardware, software and system implementation, to proactive network management, email, security and laptop recovery, with 24x7x365 Help Desk support. With mindSHIFT's managed desktop services, you get enterprise-quality desktop management at small- and medium-sized business prices.
- Server and Network Monitoring and Management — includes anti-virus protection, patching, operating system management and preventative maintenance, as well as Virtualization-as-a-Service.
- Legal Solutions — offers law firms a wide range of service options for the management and support of their technology infrastructures.
- Value-Added Services — provides a wide range of flexible services that address your IT needs, including hosting and Professional Services.
- Managed Hosting — Choose from managed dedicated hosting, managed virtual hosting and co-location options for Windows, IBM, UNIX and Linux servers .
Whatever level of service you choose, you gain the peace of mind that comes from always-there IT pros who find and fix your technology troubles…fast. So your organization keeps humming.
Contact mindSHIFT for more information or call 877-227-5054.
Data Backup Resources
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