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GFK
Level 3
Partner Employee

The Technical Services team for Backup and Recovery have produced a number of documents we call "Blueprints".

These Blueprints are designed to show backup and recovery challenges around specific technologies or functions and how Backup Exec solves these challenges.

Each Blueprint consists of:

  • Pain Points: What challenges customers face
  • Whiteboard: Shows how Backup Exec solves the customer challenges
  • Recommended Configuration: Shows recommended installation
  • Do’s: Gives detailed configurations suggested by Symantec
  • Don'ts: What configurations & pitfalls customers should avoid
  • Advantages: Summarizes the Backup Exec advantages

This Blueprint is designed to help with customers who are utilising Backup Exec to build Private Cloud Services.

For MSPs (MSPs), backup and recovery continues to be the most critical service they offer their customers. Even a single instance of a managed service provider failing to recover a client’s data assets successfully, or failing to ensure a client’s ability to maintain business continuity in the event of a disaster, could result in the following:

  • Loss of that customer and associated revenues
  • Damage to the managed service provider’s reputation

In addition to the critical nature of backup and recovery services, compounding factors such as the explosive rate of data growth, the increase in complexity of business-critical applications, and the move towards cloud computing are compelling MSPs to modernize the backup and recovery solutions they offer to their clients to ensure they remain competitive in the IT services industry.

MSPs and Cloud Solutions

Market changes in recent years have made cloud-based backup and recovery technologies attractive to both small businesses as well as MSPs. Both are looking for better solutions to the problem of maintaining backups of critical business data at offsite locations to protect against disaster. For years, removable media solutions, such as tape, have been used to solve this problem and both small businesses and MSPs are looking to replace these legacy processes with automated, less complex solutions.

Responding to this market trend, MSPs are looking to leverage advances in internet bandwidth and cloud storage technologies to offer cloud-based backup as a service. Many MSPs are looking to leverage their own data center as a cloud resource to which secondary copies of customer backup data can be stored.

Backup Exec Private Cloud Services

Backup Exec™ 2014 allows partners to offer multitenant, offsite backup storage services to their clients leveraging their own data center resources as a cloud storage location. Known as Backup Exec™ 2014 Private Cloud Services, this capability is designed for MSPs looking to offer cloud-based, offsite backup storage to their clients. Backup Exec Private Cloud Services combines powerful data deduplication with multitenant cloud storage capabilities to ensure backup data is stored securely and enables the MSPs to leverage their own data centers as the offsite repository.

Backup Exec™ 2014’s Private Cloud Services capability allows MSPs to:

  • Offer cloud-based offsite backup storage to their customers
  • Leverage their own infrastructure as a cloud data center
  • Combine the speed of local site recovery with remote, cloud-based disaster recovery protection
  • Use Backup Exec deduplication technology to reduce storage costs
  • Leverage transfer drives to “seed” the cloud data center or to transport recovery data to a customer
  • Reduce the time spent managing removable media-based backup processes at customer sites
  • Protect both virtual and physical customer resources
  • Ensure customer backup data is encrypted and secure while in transit and while at rest
  • Secure the connection between client sites and the cloud data center with a choice of VPN solutions

This technical blueprint offers an in-depth, technical look at how Backup Exec™ 2014 Private Cloud Services can be leveraged by MSPs to offer efficient, multitenant cloud-based backup storage services to their clients.

This includes diagrams, best practices, prerequisites, and other key technical elements of the Backup Exec™ 2014 Private Cloud Services solution. Note: For detailed, step-by-step instructions on implementing and configuring the different elements of a Private Cloud Services solution, please refer to the Backup Exec Private Cloud Services Planning and Deployment Guide available: TECH172464.

You can download the Blueprint from the link below.

 

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