Pironet NDH Offering Cloud Corporate Backup

With the ‘backup as a service’s solution
from Pironet
NDH Datacenter GmbH,
medium-sized enterprises have the option of backing up all their
information.

The procedure continuously creates
backup copies in the cloud computing provider’s data centre, which is
certified according to ISO-27001.

As all of the compny’s corporate
locations are situated in Germany and storage takes place in
Germany, the information stored is subject to German data privacy
regulations.

Medium-sized enterprises often have

no reliable backup strategy
"In particular medium-sized
companies which operate their own in-house IT solutions will profit
from the new solution, because they are often only inadequately
protected against data loss," says Khaled Chaar, MD business btrategy, Pironet NDH.

In many cases these companies operate
their backup and productive systems at the same location, only create
backup copies at irregular intervals, or data cannot be re-imported
within a reasonable time.

This is problematic because the
Principles of Data Access and Verifiability of Digital Documents
(GDPdU) require all tax-relevant documents to be archived with a
complete audit trail. Data loss or data failure over an extended
period of time would also result in financial and commercial damage.

Permanent backup of all data
This service offers regular backup of
corporate data in its business cloud. This solution saves all digital
information – in other words both data from standard applications,
such as an ERP system, and also information from customised corporate
applications. A prerequisite for this is the use of NetApp storage
technologies at the corporate location. In the future, the company
also intends to offer cloud backup for other IT environments.

The data is backed up incrementally,
i.e. only data which has been changed or created since the last
backup is transferred. Backup usually takes place on a daily basis.
The cloud computing specialist monitors the backup process and alerts
its customers if scheduled backups are not performed. The companies
also receive a monthly report on the backup cycles implemented and
the quantities of data transferred.