High Availability (HA):
Customers, employees, suppliers and business partners now expect access to your information at any time, from anywhere. Having your systems available 24 hours a day without interruption can be a major competitive advantage for some and a standard operating requirement for others. 

Does your organisation need to consider:

• Regulatory requirements to provide high levels of availability?
• Competitive pressures, legal exposure, reputation and brand loyalty and productivity targets?
• The possibility of external events impacting the business, such as natural disasters, security concerns and power/infrastructure problems?
• Requirements for core business applications to have a recovery time objective measured in minutes rather than hours?

If so, Apex can provide assistance in optimising the availability of systems, along with helping to define what factors could impact your business. We can help you to achieve high availability through site mirroring with automated failover, disk mirroring and software replication.

Backup and Restore:

Data is the most important business asset, and as such, needs to be protected with an equal importance. Apex, through ApexStore, can advise upon the most suitable route for the backup and restore method used for your data, whether this is the same for all your data, or tiered to match its importance.

Most companies will experience problems with their backups at some stage and will cover some, or all, of the following: backup speed, recovery speed, capacity or reliability.

Apex can investigate your infrastructure and work with you to ascertain the following variables required for a successful backup strategy:

• Duration of available backup window, if any.
• Quantity of data requiring backing up, including rate of change of this data.
• The recovery point objective (RPO) – maximum duration allowed between the last backup and the point-in-time which requires a restoration.
• The recovery time objective (RTO) – maximum duration allowed between point-in-time requiring restoration and restore completion.
• Most suitable backup medium.
• Regulatory or compliance requirements.

ApexStore offers a wide range of backup offerings ranging from entry level single tape systems and enterprise-class tape libraries, such as the TS3500, to disk-to-disk based offerings with the fastest restore times available, such as the IBM N Series range.