Let's start with some scary statistics:

1. 40% - 70% of companies that suffer a major IT outage are out of business in a year. *
2. 34% of companies fail to test their tape backups, and of those that do test them, 77% have found tape backup failures.*
3. 93% of companies that lost their data for 10 days or more due to disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster.*
4. 50% of businesses without their data for the same period filed for bankruptcy immediately.*

These are real statistics and those were real companies that went out of business.  Notice the wording in the above statistic - "without their data".  Keep in mind, their data may have been somewhere.....but what's important is they couldn't get it in time. 

There are a broad range of "recovery services" out there today.  Many companies feel that as long as they ship their critical data offsite in some fashion they'll be protected.  For very small companies, this is a perfectly viable solution.  But for companies with anything over a terabyte of data to protect and many servers to recover, this type of recovery solution just doesn't cut it.

KEY:  Focus on the recovery, not the backup.   

If you start from the end and work backwards, you'll quickly realize that there are simply too many shortcomings of most offsite data backup solutions.  Try to imagine yourself in a disaster situation - your data is somewhere offsite - how do you get it to your recovery site?  Where is your recovery site?  What about the applications....where are those install CDs and license keys?  Do we have spare servers to restore these applications to?  Who installed these apps originally and where are they now?  How long will it take to get the servers to the DR site and get the applications installed?  Now how long will it take to get the data restored to those servers?  How will the workers get access to desktops and other resources to continue operations? 

So, how does Flytrap provide a better solution?  We ensure that your application server images and desktop images are protected offsite for quick recovery.  We also provide automated data replication at the disk level, with tailored replication schedules to meet your Service Level Objectives (maybe sending data offsite nightly isn't enough.....maybe you want hourly).  All of your data is housed at one of our secure, environmentally controlled datacenters.  We provide simplified, scheduled testing of your recovery operations so that when a disaster strikes you are well prepared. 

Remember that a DR Plan is nothing more than an insurance policy.....a very important insurance policy that will allow your company to survive in the event of a disaster.  It's not something to skimp on.  Call us today.

* Statistics from the Gartner Group & National Archives and Records Administration.