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Backup, Recovery and Archiving Strategy OverviewToday the market is being flooded with new technologies that address backup, recovery and archiving, presenting organizations with the challenge of understanding what is best for them. Insight storage experts have the capacity to help you establish business requirements for data protection and to evaluate whether these many new technologies are met.

Backup, Recovery and Archiving Strategy Benefits •Onlineaccess—Improveinformationaccessbykeepingdataonlineandreadily

accessible and reusable. •Unchangeddataarchiving—Speedbackupandrecoveryprocessesbyarchiving

unchanged data. •Processautomation—Savetimeandmoneyandenablerapidinformation

retrieval with automated archiving processes. •Regulatorycompliance—Preserveimportantdocuments,e-mails,andother

critical data according to internal rules and external regulations. •Storageefficiency—Reclaimterabytesofstoragecapacitybymigratingolderor

infrequentlyaccesseddatafromprimarysystemstomorecost-effectivearchivalstorage.

OfferingsBackup,RecoverandArchivingStrategyWorkshop •Reviewclientenvironmentandinfrastructure •Reviewpartnerandplatformofferings •Reviewavailable/emergingstoragestrategies •Reviewavailable/emergingstoragetechnologies

OuR PROven MethOdOlOgy

Ourprocessisbasedonindustrybest practices and is enhanced with years of experience working with our clients in the complex, high end IT solutions space.

OurMethodologyisaphasedapproach: •discover–Assess•develop–ClientisProvided

SolutionOptions•design–ArchitectSolution•deploy–ImplementSolution•debrief–ReviewSolutionBenefits

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ABOut InSIght

Insight is a technology solutions provider serving global and local clients in 170 countries. Today, thousands of clients, including more than 80 percent of the Global Fortune 500, rely on Insight to acquire, implement and manage technology solutions to empower their business. Insight provides software and licensing services globally. In addition, we offer a comprehensive portfolio which also includes networking, hardware and value added services for our clients inNorthAmericaandtheU.K.Weare aggressively expanding our global capabilities by introducing new offerings, including hardware and services, to meet emerging needs for our clients worldwide. Insight is ranked No. 484 on the 2009 Fortune 500.

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Success StoriesnAtIOnAl heAlthcARe SeRvIceS netwORkSummary Insightwasabletomeettheclient’scurrentbusinessneedswithalong-term

strategy that lowered the client’s total cost of ownership and presented a responsible return on investment.

challenge Theclientwasoverrunwithnon-businesscriticaldataanddidnothaveaneffectivebackupandrecoverystrategy.Ashiftintheclient’sgo-to-marketstrategy created a greater need to turn reference data into information that could strengthen their industry position and enhance the client experience. This reference data was imperative to this new strategy and the ability to recoverydataincaseoflosswasofthehighestimportance.Recoveryfromtape archive was too slow and the client wanted to incorporate copies of data at multiple locations in case of site centric disaster.

Insight Solution Insight’spre-salesengineersarchitectedasolutionthatminimizesstoragecosts and offers unprecedented end user accessibility by transforming data intousefulinformation.Wealsoarchitectedacentralizedprimarydatastorage solution that adhered to the client’s outlook for data growth, met applicationspecificdemandsforinstantaneousreplicationforquickdatarecovery,andsimplifiedrecoverypointfromsnapshot.Thisoptimizeddatastorage and storage management, while reducing network infrastructure costs. And,webuiltadisasterrecoverystrategythatadheredtothecontinuityneedsof the client’s business and presented the highest levels of data integrity and security.

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