Trumpet provides data storage solutions designed for regulatory compliance, information security, business continuity, and legal discovery. Offered with the assistance of Trumpet’s trusted partners, we provide solutions to the data storage problems that CIOs, Network Administrators, and Information Technology Directors face on a daily basis.

Trumpet's data storage solutions include:

    Back up

Trumpet provides its customers with system-wide storage architecture, fabric assessments, and fabric intelligence.

    Recovery

Trumpet offers solutions for disaster recovery, operational recovery, enterprise recovery, and replication transport solutions to prepare your organization for most business-interrupting scenarios.

    Archiving

Trumpet can help your organization to adhere to compliance issues, such as data storage periods and user access management, by planning for the long term storage of sensitive data and records.

    Disaster Recovery

Trumpet's disaster recovery (DR) solutions, also provided in conjunction with its trusted partners, help Trumpet’s customers to become operational quickly after a disaster occurs. In designing a DR solution, Trumpet helps each customer to determine its Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO). Once the RPO and RTO are established, Trumpet helps the customer to develop a complete solution, including assessing data storage medium options, data accessibility options, and connectivity options, deploying WANconnect as required to provide a fully integrated DR solution.

Trumpet's broad range of data storage and DR solutions coupled with its technology-neutral stance permits us to focus on providing the best overall value for its customers, rather than pushing a manufacturer or technology.

About Disaster Recovery

Disaster recovery refers to the process, policies and procedures of restoring operations critical to the resumption of business as usual. These operations include regaining access to data (records, hardware, software, etc.);all communications (incoming, outgoing, toll-free, fax, etc.);, physical workspace;, and other business processes after a natural or human-induced disaster.

Most large companies spend between 2% and 4% of their IT budget on disaster recovery planning; this is intended to avoid larger losses. Historically of the companies that experience a major loss of computerized data, 43% never reopen and 51% close within two years. Only 6% survive long-term.

About Data Storage

Data backup is the process of replicating information to use as a restoration source in the event of damage or loss to the original data. Backups are a secondary source, or replication, of the primary data. Tape drives and hard disk drives are typically used to store the data.

Data can be stored using the following strategies:

     Unstructured

The quickest and easiest way to back up data is to burn disks or tapes and stack them in a drawer, but recovery with this method is time-consuming and incomplete if more than one file must be recovered.

     Full + Incremental

Full backup is the replication of all files on a drive or server. Incremental backups are replications of the files that have changed since the last full backup. Although this backsup all data in an organized manner, the recovery of a remotely maintained full backup and all incremental files can take hours or days, depending on the connection speed

    Full + Differential

Differential backups are complete backups of all data that has changed since the last full backup. This makes recovery much easier because only restoration of the full backup and the differential backup are necessary to restore operation.

   Mirror + Reverse Incrementals

Similar to Full + Incrementals, M + RI applies all incrementals to one mirror, instead of individual incrementals. This consolidates the incrementals into one restoration method, instead of individual restorations on top of the full backup.

    Continuous Backup

Instead of periodic replications, the system instantly backups up any changes to the data. The changes are typically made at the block level of the file instead of the entire file, which shortens the time for replication. Continuous backup allows for an easier rollback to a previous version in the event of a loss.

Data can be stored on the following types of media:

    Solid State Storage

In most cases, solid state storage is used to temporarily store or transport data on a flash drive, USB flash drive, Memory Stick, or other portable devices.

    Magnetic Tape

Although tape is the most commonly used media to store bulk data, the improvement in hard disk capacity/price ratios are driving the market away from tape. In addition, tape backup systems typically have slower access times and are less reliable than hard disk systems.

    DVD/CD

Optical disks such as DVDs and CDs are inexpensive and compatible with virtually every type of system; however they are limited in capacity, accessibility, and overall viability in the business network environment.

    Hard Disk

In a centralized business network, the hard disk is the growing choice of network professionals because of faster accessibility, increasing capacity and scalability, ease of use, and increasing capacity/price ratio. Hard disks include attached devices such as USB and Firewire drives, integrated network attached storage (NAS), and storage area network (SAN) devices.

Trumpet provides its customers with the latest in storage media management; selection, extraction, and manipulation of data; management of the backup process (RPO, RTO, etc); and process evaluation, reporting and validation.

Contact Trumpet for an evaluation of your network environment.