Storage, Backup and Vaulting

Faced with considerable data growth, organizations of all sizes are looking for ways to store, manage, archive and retrieve all files in the most efficient and cost-effective manner possible. For companies contending with server sprawl, achieving lower cost of ownership, reduced management and improved productivity is essential.

You can rely on SAVVIS Storage, Backup and Vaulting services to safeguard your enterprise data from both external threats and internal breakdowns. SAVVIS’ suite of highly flexible Storage solutions includes Utility Storage, Utility Backup and Vaulting, Storage Care and Backup Care. When your data simply must be online and efficient, reliable storage management is vital to containing costs. SAVVIS Storage Services can provide the management expertise you need to increase operational efficiencies.

• Utility Storage provides your organization with carrier-class storage services without having to absorb the costs of a fully dedicated array and the supporting services to install, configure, manage and monitor the storage system. With SAVVIS Utility Storage services, you can benefit from a storage environment for applications that provides higher availability and scalability, lower total cost of ownership, simplified management and a higher return on investment. Utility Storage offers Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) connectivity options and multiple storage tiers to suit your requirements. The offering supports I/O-intensive production data that typically requires carrier-class performance and protection and is available in 50 GB increments. The service also supports persistent data, allowing for cost-efficient storage of large capacities of less frequently accessed data. This multi-tenant solution offers true capacity-on-demand storage, with the ability for you to add and pay for additional storage volumes as needed. 
• Utility Backup and Vaulting – Information preservation and on-demand recovery is vital for any business today. To deliver on your data backup needs, it is worthwhile to look beyond the direct costs of hardware and software procurement, off-site storage facilities and administrative staff. SAVVIS removes the overhead associated with provisioning, implementation and expertise in backup facilities management, so that your business can focus on its core competencies. SAVVIS Utility Backup and Vaulting services will help you to guard against the loss of essential business data – whether due to catastrophic disaster, human error, software corruption or hardware malfunction. Our pay-as-you-grow model provides scheduled backup of live business data, restore on-demand, and vaulting in an off-site location. As a result, you can generally benefit from a lower total cost of ownership and higher availability for important data than when internally sourcing these requirements.
• Storage Care – Recognizing your business may need to leverage existing storage infrastructure, SAVVIS offers Storage Care management services to monitor and manage certain storage arrays and Storage Area Network (SAN) fabric. For assistance with fine-tuning your storage configuration to your current business needs, SAVVIS provides Professional Services for activities outside the scope of standard services or requiring additional hours of support. As part of the Storage Care offering for customer-owned storage equipment, SAVVIS can assist with adding capacity and creating new LUNs, adding additional hosts to the SAN fabric, managing "break/fix" events, and planning and implementing technology refreshes and upgrades to meet changing storage demands.
• Backup Care – Backup management is often seen as a function that simply needs to exist. It is rarely a business’s core competency or revenue-driving function. However, it can be a drain on any business when it is not managed properly due to high staff turnover, inefficient backup times or an inability to restore data. For the occasional events that take place requiring minor, or sometimes major, adjustments to a backup environment, SAVVIS provides Backup Care services on customer-owned equipment. We offer tape backup and restore on-demand using customer-owned high-capacity and high-availability tape libraries. You can rest easy knowing that you can still use your dedicated backup solution in a SAVVIS data center without having to deploy additional staff or resources to manage it.

Utility Backup and Utility Vaulting
Storage Care, Backup Care, and Utility Vaulting