Key Benefits
Vertical Industries
Remote Office/Branch Office
Desktops
Mobile Users
MS Small Business Server®

Enterprise organizations are faced daily with the challenge of managing data backup procedures across dispersed computing environments, while providing continuous access to applications
and data. Mission-critical Enterprise applications serving large numbers of users 24-7 make backup downtime windows of any significant length unacceptable.

The Ideal Backup Solution for Protecting Remote Office Networks

CRC DataProtection is ideally suited for managing data backup across distributed remote office locations. Enterprises operating at multiple sites such as divisions, retail stores, or branch offices are able to significantly improve the reliability and efficiency of backup procedures while simplifying and streamlining those procedures.

Optimized To Serve Enterprises & Vertical Markets

CRC DataProtection is optimized to deliver comprehensive protection and on-demand recovery of vital data to remote office environments in the following vertical markets:

In markets which collaborate and store critical data across multiple locations, complete data protection and preservation is critical for business operations and to achieve regulatory compliance (Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and SEC.)

How Does CRC DataProtection Meet Enterprise Challenges?

Challenge	CRC DataProtection's Solution
The many stages of data, and protecting each one correctly – and cost effectively.	As time progresses, data often moves from time-critically-restorable to something that can be retrieved in a few days, for perhaps, discovery. The real challenge is: how to keep all data equally protected, but only pay a premium for time-critical data. Enter: Backup Lifecycle Management (BLM). Backup data must be managed throughout its life cycle to provide the best data protection, meet compliance regulations and to improve recovery time objectives (RTO). The BLM Archiver offers policy-based file archiving and manages archiving and restoration of data from CRC Data Protection backup sessions, reducing the cost of keeping inactive files on-line. It creates restorable point-in-time copies of backup sets for historical reference to meet compliance objectives and creates Certificates of Destruction.
Need for “Bare Metal Restore” capability	There are several reasons why entire servers need to be restored: keeping administration simple and consistent, quickly putting servers back in action after a disaster, etc. The challenge has always been that most backup and restore programs do a poor job of restoring registry and system-settings – so IT professionals are forced to backup only the data; rebuild applications, and re-set operating system parameters manually. Enter: Bare Metal Restore. Easily deployed to address hardware failure and disaster recovery applications, CRC Data Protection’s bare metal restore is the first agentless solution for distributed environments that delivers reduced complexity and greatly reduced costs for IT professionals with mid-to-large enterprises. CRC Data Protection’s bare metal restore allows administrators to restore the complete system on new hardware – regardless of manufacturer – including local data, user profiles, registry/system state, service pack files and encrypted files.
Compliance	Laws and Regulations change constantly, and IT professionals and Business Leaders face stiff penalties for getting it wrong. Further, compliance regulations do not distinguish data center data from remote office data – both must be accounted for. CRC DataProtection addresses state, Federal and international regulatory compliance demands by backing up remote/branch office data to the data center. Data is encrypted both in-flight over the WAN and at rest. Enter: CRC Data Protection’s Compliance Consulting and Solutions. CRC stays on top of latest industry news and helps businesses ensure that they are always compliant.
The need for"Continuous Data Protection”	For some businesses, a small amount of data is created daily (and/or they are not subject to a high risk of litigation), and therefore they are quite well protected going 24 hours without backing up data. However, other businesses would be lost if even the last 10 minutes of data or email were to be lost. For those businesses, we offer: Continuous Data Protection: CDP provides a more efficient backup option based on its virtually unlimited granularity to remove the data loss vulnerabilities between regularly scheduled backups by optimizing Recovery Point Objectives (RPO). Customers can now restore data from an infinite number of RPOs, while the backup window and recovery time objectives are effectively reduced to zero. CRC Data Protection delivers these benefits without the need for excessive backend data accumulation to support the CDP functionality, minimizing capacity requirements resulting in additional customer cost savings. CDP can be applied to Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes, as well as SQL Server, Oracle, and DB2.
Data Recoverability and Reliability	Backing up is all about the data recovery. If backed up data can’t be recovered – it is worthless. CRC Data Protection’s autonomic self-healing ensures data is recoverable, solving the hidden corruption and data integrity issues that plague tape backup.
Hot Database Backup	In today’s 24x7 business climate, it is not reasonable to expect database applications to close down to enable backup. Databases contain up-to-the minute critical information necessary for ongoing business and must be included in all backup strategies. CRC Data Protection performs hot database backup for Oracle, DB2, MS-SQL and others. Further, with optional bandwidth throttling and local-restore options, it is possible to backup huge amounts of data without impacting your other operations.
Hot Email Backup	The agentless Message Level Restore (MLR) module allows users to selectively back up and restore individual mailboxes and email messages for one user or for an entire network, depending on needs. Using MLR’s selective filtering, administrators can save time, money and resources by restoring only selected mailboxes or emails, instead of having to restore the entire email database. CRC DataProtection erforms hot email backup for: MS-Exchange, Lotus Notes or GroupWise databases. With MLR, restoring lost, damaged or corrupted messages becomes a quick and streamlined process, allowing easy recovery to any existing hardware at any location.
Laptop Backup	CRC Data Protection for Enterprise Laptops allows laptop users to automatically and securely back up over an IT WAN to a central online repository. Client installations are fully automated across a variety of platforms. The Explorer-like backup interface makes it easier to administer centrally or on-the-road. Our unlimited-seat licensing model ensures that companies pay only for the aggregate amount of compressed data from across all laptops – whether ten or thousands.
Limited IT Resources	CRC DataProtection for Service Providers is delivered by leading service providers globally as a high-value protection service to businesses who lack the internal resources and technology expertise to adequately back up and protect their data to an offsite vault. In today’s complex IT landscape, many companies lack the internal resources and personnel to go it alone and require external assistance. CRC Data Protection’s service providers deliver an ever wider range of services that require expertise which would be prohibitively expensive for smaller companies to hire in and maintain.
Multiple Tape Libraries	Eliminate the costs, complexity and security issues related to tape-based backup with CRC Data Protection�s agentless remote office/branch office (ROBO) backup/recovery software package. This tool allows you to avoid lost or stolen tapes by sending encrypted backup data electronically to a centralized site, eliminating tapes completely from remote backup operations. While tape backup may be a viable solution for the data center, companies attempting to scale across a growing number of offices discover that tape for remote sites is a cumbersome process that has become a serious liability and impacts IT resources. While tape backup of corporate data at a data center carries some risk, ROBOs carry a significantly higher risk. Tapes become increasingly hard to manage, tapes are picked up at different locations with the risk of loss and even if tapes are securely stored – there’s a risk that the tape can’t be read upon retrieval.
Recovery Time Objectives (RTO)	CRC's DataProtection software allows multiple recovery methods so that IT managers can satisfy the varying RPO/RTO requirements of different classifications of data, business needs or industry requirements. CRC DataProtection nables local storage and recovery of the latest file generation.
Scalability	CRC Data Protection enables seamless scalability, allowing enterprises or service providers to instantly add capacity for growth or to enhance the speed and flexibility of recovery with multiple versions of backup data.
Security	Advanced security and authentication algorithms, including AES encryption (up to 256), ensure the safety and confidentiality of backed up data in-flight and at-rest. CRC Data Protection's agentless architecture adds a layer of security. “An agentless backup software actually reduces vulnerabilities, risks, and threats associated with remote backup through the use of SSH, encrypted password storage, and encrypted client/server traffic.” Enterprise Strategy Group
Shortened Backup Window	Backup windows are shrinking as businesses demand operations 24x7. Many organizations are finding it impossible to complete backups overnight or even over the weekend. CRC Data Protection is WAN optimized featuring data de-duplication across all sites, block-level incremental backup and compression to reduce the amount of data transmitted to vault. "These combined capabilities directly lower costs by reducing the amount of storage required for backups; and enables customers to use lower bandwidth connections.” Enterprise Strategy Group