Assess Your Disaster Preparedness

Please help us understand enough about your environment to determine your disaster preparedenss AND if our service may fit your requirements. Once we have this information, we will provide you with a disaster preparedness assessment, data protection proposal and cost estimate.

Please complete the information below as best possible (don't worry, it's not the SAT exam!) and simply click the "Submit" button below OR call us at 800-704-3394 if you'd prefer to speak to a representative immediately for help gathering this information.

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1. Company Information
*First Name:
*Last Name:
*Company:
*E-Mail Address:	Subscribe. Unsubscribe. We will NOT sell or give your address to others.
*Phone:
2. Internet Connection (try using http://www.speedtest.net)
Upload speed:
Download Speed:
3. Estimated Amount of Data (try downloading and running the Belarc Advisor tool found at: http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html)
What is the total estimated amount of data (in GigaBytes or GBs) you are interested in protecting?:
4. How many servers would you be interested in back up offsite and protect?
Windows::
Linux:
Solaris:
5. Tell us about your most Critical Business Applications / DataBases; if known, please include the approximate number of GBs for each; for example: MS Exchange - 20GBs.
What are your most critical business applications and/or databases? IE: agency management system, MS Exchange (email) system, Electronic Medical Record System, financial application (QuickBooks, PeachTree, MAS90, etc), document management system, etc.?
App/DB 1:
App/DB 2:
App/DB 3:
App/DB 4:
App/DB 5:
App/DB 6:
App/DB 7:
App/DB 8:
6. Current Data Backup
How are you currently backing up data today? Please describe further if you wish. For example, what hardware manufacturer or what media size (20/40GB Travan or 36/72 DLT), etc.:
Did you back up your data in the last 24 hours?:
Did you or someone in your business review the logs to see if it worked?:
Did you take your backup disk or tape offsite in the last 24 hours?:
Have you tested your restore capability in the last 30 days?:
Do you have a written data backup policy and procedure?:
Are you 100% confident that your business and client/patient data can be restored?:
Are you confident that all critical business data is being stored on your servers rather than on desktop or laptop computers and/or is being properly backed up?:
Have you discussed and agreed upon a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) for your business; that is, how long you can afford to be 'down'?:
Have you discussed and agreed upon a Recovery Point Objective (RTO) for your business; that is, can you afford to lose a day's, half-day's, hour's, couple-hour's worth of data'?:
Do you have an overall disaster recover / business continuity plan?:
7. Chief Data Backup Challenges and Concerns:
Over the years, our clients have shared the chief data backup concerns or challenges or what keeps them awake at night regarding data backup and data recovery?
Using a scale of 1 to 5, please indicate the extent to which any of the concerns listed below are concerns for you/your business:
(1 = not really a concern/challenge; 5 = very serious concern/challenge)
Getting data/backup tapes or disks offsite on a consistent, regular basis:
Tape or disk drive/media reliability and recoverability; actual ability to recover from tape or disks:
Being able to do fast, easy data restores:
Assured data backup and recovery:
'Window of Exposure'; data can be lost between backups and we can't afford to lose day's worth of work:
Unproductive use of staff time; redeploy IT and other staff for higher value-added tasks:
Protection against disaster/total site loss/unavailability; e.g., fire, electrical outage, tornado, etc.:
Growing data backup requirements and burdens; additional staffing or constant DB cleanup or backups during day:
Backup window constraint; not enough time to back up all our data off hours:
Backing up open files and databases; e.g., SQL DBs, Exchange, Oracle DBs:
HIPAA, GLBA, SOX or other Regulatory Compliance:
Is it really working?; Lack of knowledge of tape or disk drive software and hardware (Veritas / tape carousel / Flash Drives, etc.):
Excessive time for tape and/or disk drive management - uncertainty about reliability:
What our recovery time may actually be:
Lack of security in taking tape backups to/from home or offsite storage location:
Lack of encryption of data if tapes are stolen:
Cost of all tape expenses versus poor tape restore track record - ROI:
Please tell us of any other data backup concerns, challenges or problems you may have::
8. In how many months do you plan on making a backup decision?
Number of Months:
9. How many office/plant locations require backup protection?
Number of Locations:
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Assess Your Disaster Preparedness

1. Company Information

2. Internet Connection (try using http://www.speedtest.net)

3. Estimated Amount of Data (try downloading and running the Belarc Advisor tool found at: http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html)

4. How many servers would you be interested in back up offsite and protect?

5. Tell us about your most Critical Business Applications / DataBases; if known, please include the approximate number of GBs for each; for example: MS Exchange - 20GBs.

6. Current Data Backup

7. Chief Data Backup Challenges and Concerns:

8. In how many months do you plan on making a backup decision?

9. How many office/plant locations require backup protection?