financial data was recovered days later, ensuring that IT was not an inhibitor to business continuity. Most importantly, no data was lost, recovered up to the last incremental backup even though the disk was found floating in six feet of water. Without the ability to salvage the disk, all data created or edited over the past month would have been lost.
In the future, Thorne is considering enhancing the organization’s disaster recovery strategy by implementing off-site vaulting instead of relying on an employee to manually take the disks off site. Unitrends Data Protection Vault (DPV) automatically replicates backup data over a Wide Area Network (WAN) each night to a secure off-site location, working in tandem with the DPU to ensure that backup data is protected from complete data center loss.
Key Benefits
100 percent of data was recovered
Email service and file access were up and running two days after the flood in a temporary facility
Mission-critical data from the organization’s accounting software was recovered several days later
Servers were redeployed easily when the data center was deemed hospitable again
Mark is the chief operating officer of Unitrends, www.unitrends.com and has been a member of the Board of Directors since September 2009.
Prior to joining Unitrends, Mark co-founded mindAmp Corporation which provided high-technology business and software development consulting. Previously, he worked as the Senior Vice President of the Systems Management Business at Legent Corporation and thus led over one thousand marketing, product managers, project managers, and engineers in the United States and Europe. Mark left Legent after successfully helping steer the company in its acquisition by Computer Associates. Before joining Legent, Mark was a vice president at NCR Corporation where he had profit and loss responsibility for its .5B+ server business. In this capacity he was responsible for over fifteen hundred marketing, product management, and engineers in the United States, Europe, India, and China.
Mark earned a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree, and a doctoral degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of South Carolina and a degree in international business from INSEAD.
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