CDP Offsite Data Backup Service

Automatic, real-time backup—locally and offsite.

Small-to-medium-size businesses (SMBs) are more vulnerable to lost revenues and productivity when vital business systems and data become unavailable after a disaster. In today’s highly-competitive 24x7 marketplace, losing even a single day’s data—including communications and transactions with prospects, customers, suppliers and partners—can put an SMB at risk of going out of business. For fully effective disaster recovery, SMBs also need redundant backups at secondary data storage sites.

SonicWALL Offsite Data Backup Architecture
 

CDP offsite service features and benefits.

• Continuous Offsite Data Protection ensures that current copies of files and application data such as Exchange and SQL databases are replicated in real time to the Offsite Data Backup Portal for disaster recovery
• Minimal bandwidth impact on the network is ensured by only transmitting incremental changes to the offsite appliance
• Point-and-click data recovery enables the administrator to get business-critical systems up and running quickly and easily
• AES 256-bit encryption key ensures all data is securely transmitted and stored encrypted
• Confidential encryption key provides each end-user with total control of their data. SonicWALL employees have no access to the key
• Flexible configuration settings allow the administrator to send any or all mission-critical data residing on the CDP appliance to the Offsite Data Backup portal

Data center features and benefits.

• Uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems and emergency backup diesel generators are designed to keep power systems up and running even during a blackout
• Earthquake protection is ensured with sound structural systems that meet and exceed seismic design requirements of local building codes
• 24-hour on-site security with biometric identification and motion sensitive CCTV monitoring keeps the data protected from theft. The center is staffed with security officers around the clock
• Redundant fire prevention is ensured with Multi-zoned, dry pipe, water-based fire suppression system with sensory mechanisms (sniffers) to sample air and provide alarms prior to pressurization and dual alarm (heat and/or smoke) activation necessary for water pressurization
• Flood control is guaranteed because the facility is built above sea level with no basements, tightly sealed conduits, moisture barriers on exterior walls and dedicated pump rooms, drainage/evacuation systems and moisture detection sensors
• Environment control is maintained with redundant HVAC cooling and environmental maintenance systems to provide optimum conditions for equipment operation
• SAN environment SATA drives in a RAID5 configuration and multiple hot spares for ultimate local redundancy and safety
• Dual processor servers and mirrored boot discs share files, pointing data to an enterprise-class NAS device for storage
• Robust Switches (connections to servers), High availability (HA) mode and a load balancer keeps the system optimized
• All Equipment uses redundant power supplies and multiple connections
• Optimal Transmission at Gigabyte speeds for data backup through redundant connections via T-1 providers

Global data facilities.

The North American Facility resulted from SonicWALL’s partnership with Equinix to design and implement a world-class infrastructure that meets the demands of SonicWALL customers. Hosted by Equinix, the facility is the largest global network-neutral data center and Internet exchange services company in the world. More than 200 different carriers and ISPs now participate in Equinix IBX centers; including the world’s largest IP backbone networks.

The European Facility is the result of SonicWALL’s partnership with Easynet, the international managed network and hosting company that has a network of hosting and co-location data center facilities across ten European countries in 250 cities. Easynet sets itself apart through customer service excellence. Easynet’s approach is underpinned by professional excellence in understanding, designing, delivering and management of customer solutions, their ability to work successfully with partners, and their attention to quality. Easynet works hard to ensure its customers are its best advocates, and include the Ford Motor Company, Kia Motors, Calor, Tchibo and Kellogs Italia.