Data storage and recovery has become big business as companies realise the true cost of losing all their strategic data to carelessness, fire or theft. Enterprise Strategy Group research indicates that primary storage is growing by nearly 40% annually, but overall IT spending and storage-specific spending are growing at nowhere close to that rate.
According to searchdatabackup.com, IT professionals are being forced to store data more effectively, while also increasing the types of protection and recovery capabilities. It continues that at first glance, those two trends might appear contradictory; but in fact the synergies between them are driving the most exciting parts of how IT is evolving from a backup mentality to a data protection strategy – including not only backups, but snapshots and replication, as well.
Finding the right company to provide this critical service is sometimes a minefield. “Let’s be honest, how do you know that the company you employ to store your data won’t lose or corrupt it? Sadly, many businesses only realise that their data is no longer secure once it is no longer available. The only way to provide the level of comfort required in a data storage and/or backup service provider is to reference the provider’s current client base. In addition, the service provider should be able to design a customised solution that takes your specific business systems and practices into consideration,” says Joshua Low, IFSEC SA event director at IFSEC SA show organiser UBM Montgomery.
IFSEC SA 2015, being held between 12 and 14 May at the Gallagher Convention Centre, provides a platform for exhibitors to discuss end-to-end data storage and backup solutions with a captive audience.
According to SearchStorage, storage inefficiency is caused by the deployment of isolated islands of underused and over provisioned storage which, in turn, produces high costs and reduced performance. To address poor data storage efficiency, administrators need to analyse and resolve its root causes.
They highlight three key factors when searching for inefficiencies in your storage systems: Knowing what data you have and how it is hosted; implementing a unified management capability that can integrate configuration details and operational status information into a single hardware monitoring and management system, if your environment has two or more storage arrays; using only disk, or only disk and solid-state, can make storage infrastructure more expensive over time, while introducing tape or the cloud as a Tier 3 can cut storage infrastructure costs by half.
GeoVision has a number of products available for data storage and backup including the GV-Backup centre program, which provides users with a secure and affordable remote backup solution for the GV-System, and GV-IP Devices. The GV-Backup centre can automatically store a copy of recordings and logs to the offsite location. If a disaster strikes where the GV-System and GV-IP Devices are located, the recording data remain safe in a different location.
The GV-Hot swap backup centre system, designed for large-scale video surveillance deployments, provides a secure remote backup solution with a powerful data storage capacity for the GV-System and GV-IP Devices. It comes with a selection of 4U (20-bay) or 3U (16/8-bay) hot-swappable SATA mobile racks. Depending on the HDD size, the GV-Hot swap backup centre system can store more than 60 terabytes of recorded data.
The GV-Redundant server is a video backup server designed for large-scale video surveillance deployments. It can record up to 128 IP channels of the connected GV-System hosts. It keeps an extra copy of IP channels from GV-System hosts.
GV-Failover server is a video backup server that records up to 128 IP streams from host GV-Systems when any of the following conditions occur: when the host GV-System starts up without monitoring; when file recycling fails; when there is an error in the hard drive; or when there is an error with the failover plug-in program.
“IFSEC SA 2015 will bring together specialists in the fields of security and fire who are able to assist risk and security managers, as well as other business consumers, in providing a cost-effective and efficient, future-proofed solution. We have already signed up a number of exhibitors who specialise in the data storage and backup arena and we invite other suppliers and manufacturers to contact us to discuss how we can build their brand,” Low concludes.
With 60% floor space sold, space can be booked through Sven Riddle on +27 (0)10 003 3077 or email svenr@specialised.com. Visit the IFSEC SA 2015 website on www.ifsecsa.com for further information on the exhibition.
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