Today companies
face the challenge of protecting data dispersed throughout multiple
locations including remote offices. This expansion and years of
decentralization has increased IT spending. File server and storage
consolidation offers one of the best opportunities for reducing
IT budgets. Consolidating data from remote offices eliminates many
of the hidden management and administrative costs of delivering
IT services to distributed users.
MDI's Express Stor solution
eliminates file servers and consolidates storage. It also includes
high availability replication software that provides data protection
as well as disaster recovery. User and data files are replicated
from the remote office to the disaster recovery location as well
as to a remote disaster recovery location. User and server access
to the Express Stor NAS automatically fails over to the replicated
data at the remote disaster recovery site in the event of failure.
It's completely transparent to users and applications – uptime
with 24/7 access to critical data is insured.
MDI also offers a centralized
backup and restore option for smaller, remote offices. There's no
requirement for multiple file servers or shared storage. It's the
same high availability software (mentioned above) installed on a
local server not the NAS. It provides the same benefits and eliminates
the need for backup hardware and software. Data replication –
files, data, and open databases – is synchronized with the
main office and then moved to tape at the administrator's convenience.
