Grundy Online Backup Solutions

Your business data, whether it is your accounts system, computer databases, marketing materials, contracts or proposals, is the most valuable asset your business has. Therefore, making sure that you have an effective, secure and, above all, reliable backup solution in place is critical to the ongoing performance and success of your business. For your own peace of mind you have to be sure that your backups run successfully, otherwise the consequences for your business can be disastrous; especially as lost data can take days, weeks or even months to recreate, if at all, with all that implies for your business.

More than 70% of businesses still rely on tape systems for their daily backup, yet there is a growing concern over the reliability of tape media; consequently more and more organizations are using online disk-to-disk solutions for their business critical daily backup. So, why are so many organizations moving away from tape? Simple, online backup is more reliable and faster (for both backup and recovery), more secure and you can see, at a glance, that your backup was successful; something that cannot be done with tape, unless you do a full restore which nobody has the time to do. Moreover, when you use our online backup service, you no longer have to remember to take tapes offsite, as the backed up data is automatically and securely transferred

 

Our online backup service provides:

• Efficiency – after the initial backup, the daily backups contain only the changes since the last backup, which means that the amount of data sent offsite to our data centers is often so small that a standard ADSL line is usually all that is needed.
• Security – all the data is transmitted and stored in encrypted format so that no-one, apart from authorized users, can read the data. Plus the data is held in two offsite data centers within highly secure IBM business continuity buildings.
• Stress Free Backups – the backups run automatically in the background, leaving you to get on with other things in the knowledge that you data is being backed up.
• Anytime Recovery - when you need to recover a file all you have to do is “point and click” and in few minutes your data can be recovered.

 

Grundy Computers Online Backup safely and securely backs up most common operating systems as well as open files and databases running on them. Grundy Computers Online Backup currently supports:

Desktop & Laptop Edition

Operating Systems

• Microsoft Windows Vista (with administrative privileges)
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional/Home
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
• Mac OS X (from 10.4) – Intel Core & PowerPC G3 / G4 / G5

Server Edition

Operating  Systems:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2000
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (System State Plug-in not supported)
• Mac OS X (from 10.4) – Intel Core & PowerPC G3 / G4 / G5

Server Edition plug-ins:

• Microsoft SQL Server 2000 / 2005
• Microsoft SQL 7
• Microsoft Exchange 2000 / 2003 / 2007
• Exchange Single Mailbox Recovery for Exchange 2000 / 2003 (SMR)
• Microsoft VSS Database plug-in
• Microsoft SharePoint 2003
• Lotus Domino 5 / 6.5 / 7
• Sybase ASE 12.5
• Oracle 9i / 10g
• Email Notification
• Script Plug-in
• System State

The Grundy Computer Services Data Centre & Network Infrastructure

All of the Grundy Computer Services outsourced managed server solutions and the Grundy Computer Services Online Backup storage platforms are hosted using Grundy Computer Services own secure hosting environments, which combine our secure data centre facilities and fully resilient network infrastructure.

The Grundy Computer Services hosting facilities are linked directly to our own high speed, ultra reliable, hosting network. Our Internet network features diverse, high-speed 1GB connections, through Tier 1 Internet Backbone Providers Level3, Cable & Wireless and extensive peering arrangements at LINX and LONAP with the leading UK ISPs. Full redundancy of service is provided using Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) management.

Grundy Computer Services also has its own Autonomous System, otherwise known as an “AS Number” allowing Grundy Computer Services to send and receive Internet traffic via any of our backbone providers.

This fully resilient system means Grundy Computer Services can offer up to 100% availability and 100% redundancy across the Cable & Wireless, Energis and Level3 Communications Tier 1 Internet backbones.

The Grundy Computer Services Data Centres

Ideal for Business Critical applications, Grundy’s data centres, are housed in highly secure IBM Business Continuity buildings.

These IBM Business Continuity buildings offer the following benefits:

Private fully secure data centres. Buildings manned 24 x 7, with monitoring of all access by CCTV. Restricted access within building controlled by swipe cards. Multiple mains power feeds with building level UPS systems and full generator backup. Fire suppression systems.   Centrally monitored and controlled air conditioning.

Grundy Computer Services Data Centre

All of Grundy’s services are backed by industry leading service level agreements, giving you complete peace of mind……so you can get on with business.