Dear Data-Diligent Reader,

Today everyone is looking to reduce costs, and a company’s IT environment can account for up to 40% of their energy consumption.  Smart IT departments are evaluating their IT environments for ways to reduce their energy requirements.  One obvious way is to not spend money on storage you don’t need.

There is no doubt that today’s data centers are huge energy consumers.  Some studies say that they account for between 1.2 and 2.0 percent of electricity consumed in the United States. It is also a known fact that many of the servers in the data centers run at a low utilization level of only 10% to 15%.

One way to reduce your power consumption is to adopt the cloud-computing model for infrastructure, applications and storage.  For instance, look at business applications that are not critical to your business or those you can’t afford to maintain with a separate IT group in-house – such as CRM apps, HR/HCM, Backup and Restore, Security etc. Instead of running these applications on your data center, you should consider using applications provided by third-party service providers. This, in turn, reduces the number of servers in your data center – which means you have less energy consumption.

Accurately forecasting your storage requirements is difficult.  You may be able to forward predict your data growth and purchase storage hardware on an as-needed basis.  But what if your business is seasonal or growing and you don’t have prior years’ usage patterns to rely on?  This is where cloud storage can help.  Instead of buying and managing hardware in anticipation of future requirements, cloud storage allows you to simply contract for storage “on demand.”

In the past “green IT” was a nice to have.  But in today’s economic environment power consumption costs are very visible and organizations are looking to the benefits of green approaches and expecting quicker ROIs for any incremental investments.

Data Mountain delivers on the promise of cloud storage for business data through its enterprise Storage-as-a-Service solutions.  As the trusted Storage-as-a-Service leader, Data Mountain solutions, utilizing Iron Mountain’s services, are based on enterprise storage infrastructure and requirements, which add levels of security, scale, control and access not found in standard cloud storage.  Contact us to learn how Data Mountain’s PC and server online backup and inactive data archiving services can make stored data actionable, reduces risk, creates efficiencies and controls costs, thereby creating peace of mind.  All with the added benefit of reducing your power consumption requirements and costs.

We would love to hear your thoughts. Please comment below!

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Bob Chaput wrote this blog. Bob is president of Data Mountain LLC, a data security, disaster recovery and data protection services firm. Data Mountain specializes in helping Covered Entities and Business Associates assure they are compliant with the Contingency Plan Standard of the HIPAA Security Law and The HITECH Act.

Dear Data-Diligent Reader,

We recently published a FREE WHITE PAPER entitled “Buyer’s Guide to Online Data Backup and Recovery Services”. Following below in this blog is a quick synopsis of the Checklist of Considerations / Buyer’s Guide for choosing an online data backup and recovery solution for your business:

Company Stability and Track Record

• Years in business
• Publicly-traded company
• Number of customer
• Amount of data under protection
• % Fortune 1000 customers
• Number of customer data recoveries performed

Complete Data Protection Process

• Continuous, Disk-Based Data Protection (CDP) – Protect data as it changes
• Offsite Protection – Accessible from anywhere – web enabled
• Integrated Archiving of Long Term Backups – Protects from virus, corruption and unexpected events
• Local Recovery Appliance – High speed local disk based restores

Reliable Data Protection

• Inherent Protection for Databases & Open Files – Exchange, SQL Server, Oracle, others
• End-to-end Security Including Encryption and Authentication
• Bandwidth Efficiency and Control
• Recovery Guarantee – SLA backing the recoverability of your data

Fast, Accurate Recovery

• Local Recovery Appliance – Restore at local network speeds
• Recover current data, not last night – Continuous Data Protection
• Granular Recovery – Many restorable images per day
• “Change Only Recovery” – Delta Restore – Huge performance improvement on recovery time

Fully Automated – “Hands-Free” Operation

• “Set-it-and-forget-it” capabilities – Managing error logs should not be your responsibility
• Web-based interface – Restore from anywhere, anytime with a browser
• Onsite devices must be “seamlessly integrated”

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To learn more about our online Server and PC backup solutions, powered by Iron Mountain Digital, please contact us or visit Data Mountain.

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Bob Chaput wrote this blog. Bob is president of Data Mountain LLC, a data security, disaster recovery and data protection services firm. Data Mountain specializes in helping Covered Entities and Business Associates assure they are compliant with the Contingency Plan Standard of the HIPAA Security Law and The HITECH Act.