Aks Backup and Recovery solutions enable you to strengthen your data protection, streamline backup and recovery, and meet a wide range of service levels, even for the largest data volumes. You’ll also reduce the amount of data to be backed up while optimizing your environment with a full range of platform, software, and subscription-based service solutions.

Key Benefits

Faster backup and restores — Meet more aggressive backup windows, and restore your key applications in minutes, not days.
Reduced backup windows — Minimize backup windows to reduce impact on your application and system availability.
Reduced business risk — Restore data quickly and accurately with built-in hardware redundancy and RAID protection.
More control — Protect key data with policy-based management of information retention and deletion.
Improved IT efficiency — Save hours of staff time and boost user productivity.
Reduced costs — Match infrastructure costs with changing information value via efficient, cost-effective tiered storage or low-cost monthly subscription services.

Business Examples

Backup and Recovery Solutions for Oracle - Ensure Oracle data and application protection, availability, and rapid recovery.
Backup to Disk - Improve performance and reliability of backup to increase application uptime and improve IT operational efficiency, with high capacity, low-cost disk-based backup systems that include data deduplication.
Backup, Recovery, and Archive for Tivoli Storage Manager - Dramatically improve backup service levels, shorten TSM backup windows, decrease time-to-restore, and improve regulatory compliance for Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) environments.
Bare Metal Recovery - Get proven, automated, and hardware-independent recovery after a catastrophic failure and smooth migrations across heterogeneous environments.
Continuous Data Protection - Meet operational recovery requirements with speed, ease, and confidence by bringing databases and applications back online with minimal data loss.
Data Protection for Microsoft SQL Server - Optimize your backup and recovery strategy and meet SQL Server requirements for availability and recoverability.
Desktop, Laptop, and Windows Server Backup - Lower your costs and maintenance requirements with secure, automatic, offsite backup services.
Recovery Management - Take a holistic approach to data protection with a solution that synergistically leverages backup, replication, continuous data protection, analytics, and reporting.
Remote Office Backup - Reduce transmission of redundant backup data at remote and branch offices.

Aks Archiving solutions minimize risk, control costs, and increase content reuse. Now you can focus on what matters most—active production information. With EMC Archiving solutions, you can apply common archiving services—such as retention, distribution, and security—across a variety of content types, while automating data movement to the most appropriate tier of storage. The result is secure archived data at the lowest total cost.

Key Benefits

Online access — Improve information access by keeping data online and readily accessible and reusable.
Unchanged data archiving — Speed backup and recovery processes by archiving unchanged data.
Process automation — Save time and money and enable rapid information retrieval with automated archiving processes.
Regulatory compliance — Preserve important documents, e-mails, and other critical data according to internal rules and external regulations.
Storage efficiency — Reclaim terabytes of storage capacity by migrating older or infrequently accessed data from primary systems to more cost-effective archival storage.

Business Examples

Enterprise Application Archiving - Provide automated, unified archiving and management for SAP, enterprise reports, document images, and databases for compliance and eDiscovery requirements, operational efficiency needs, and improved access.
File System Archiving - Automatically archive inactive file data from direct-attached storage, SAN-attached storage, and network-attached storage (NAS) in UNIX, Linux, and Windows server environments.
Integrated Content Archiving - Leverage a unified archiving software platform and common policies to strengthen compliance practices, create operational cost efficiencies, and enable improved information re-use.
SharePoint Archiving - The SharePoint Archiving solution provides an enterprise infrastructure for centralized control of SharePoint content.

Affordable Disaster Recovery solutions minimize exposure to data loss from a disaster, lowering your total cost of ownership. With Affordable Disaster Recovery solutions, you’ll meet today’s demanding service level requirements for recovery time and data loss. You’ll also rapidly restart applications upon failure and affordably replicate information at remote locations with technology that minimizes network costs and bandwidth.

Key Benefits

Dramatically improved service levels — Reduce your exposure to data loss with tools for both robust synchronous and scalable asynchronous remote replication.
Optimized wide-area network resources — Use applience's network fabric intelligence and service-level policies to manage your replication lag, data compression, and bandwidth prioritization.
Flexible recovery management — Recover locally to any point in time with continuous data protection, and remotely to a specific point in time with continuous remote replication.
Improved application recovery time — Leverage integration with your key enterprise applications such as Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, SAP and VMware virtual infrastructure.
Reduced cost of ownership — Leverage the built-in capabilities of tier 2 storage array to eliminate the need for separate host splitters or intelligent fabric configurations.

Enterprise Business Continuity solutions ensure that your applications and data are available during planned and unplanned outages. Enterprise Business Continuity solutions provide tiered storage platforms, software, and services that ensure high availability and robust data protection—and fit your budgetary and technology constraints. All work together to help you survive a disaster and continue your business operations.

Key Benefits

Appropriate protection — Match protection levels to the business value of your data, so each class of information gets the protection it merits.
Tailored solutions — Suit your specific business needs with creative solutions developed by skilled consultants.
Reduced risk — Meet the most stringent information protection requirements of regulatory agencies, trade groups, and business owners.
Increased business resilience — Protect your business processes against disasters, system failure, and data corruption with an infrastructure that meets demanding recovery objectives.
Improved uptime and availability — Implement a comprehensive strategy to ensure continuity of e-mail and messaging, transaction processing, and web-based applications.
Wide range of solutions — Meet your recovery goals with high-performance, disk-based technologies, including continuous data protection, replication, snapshot, and virtual tape libraries.

Aks Records, Regulatory Compliance, and Governance solutions enforce your government, industry and corporate compliance and retention policies while ensuring your content remains complete, accurate and secure. You’ll stay prepared for litigation and audits by reinforcing proactive, systematic, repeatable business processes within your organization.

Key Benefits

Regulatory compliance — Reduce the likelihood of penalties and sanctions during litigation and audits across a variety of industries.
Increased efficiency — Enable information to be accessed quickly and reused for new submissions, and allow documents to be reviewed simultaneously by worldwide regulatory bodies.
Regulated content — Maintain audit trails of all actions performed on regulated content including standard operating procedures, material safety data sheets, and product and financial documents.
Automation — Automate the capture and classification of records to reduce the burden on end users.

Business Examples

Records Management - Aks Records Management helps you mitigate risk and achieve compliance via uniform policies for the creation, retention, and disposition of all electronic, physical, and e-mail records.
Regulated Products and Services - Aks Regulated Products and Services solution automates the entire lifecycle of your content so that its creation, processing, publishing, and administration is more efficient.
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance - Aks Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance replaces homegrown or point solutions with integrated content management capabilities for fast, accurate compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley, Section 404, and other regulations.

Access Control
Manage access, federate identities, and enforce policies across web resources, portals, and applications.

Authentication
Get a wide range of choices for assuring identities to a system, resource, information, or a transaction based on risk.

Credential Management
Get full lifecycle management and policy administration for credentials used in the identity verification and assurance process.

Data Loss Prevention
Discover, monitor, and protect sensitive data from loss or misuse whether in a datacenter, on the network, or out at the endpoints.

Encryption and Key Management
Protect critical data, both structured and unstructured, wherever it resides in the organization.

Fraud Prevention
Protect against identity theft and other external threats targeting customers—regardless of the channel they choose to conduct their business.

Physical Security Solutions
Integrate information management and storage technologies with physical security and video surveillance network devices to provide enterprise-class protection for your facilities, personnel, and physical assets.

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Transform raw log data into critical information to support your compliance, security, and IT and Network goals

Application and Database Consolidation Solutions

Aks Application and Database Consolidation solutions align your application and database consolidation requirements to the underlying information infrastructure. The result: you reduce complexity and cost, ensure flexibility and performance, and simplify management of your application and database information infrastructure.

Key Benefits
Lower cost: Leverage low-cost and consolidated tiered storage and infrastructure strategies.
Minimized risk: Eliminate complexity through validated solutions and integrated technology and services.
Improved ROI: Leverage the full functionality of industry leading technologies from Microsoft, Oracle,EMC,Hitachi and others.
Simplified management: Benefit from simplified integrated management technologies.
Increased productivity: Leverage the knowledge transfer from Aks experts to your IT staff.

Data Center Consolidation Solution

Aks Data Center Consolidation helps you align your data center infrastructure to support business requirements. With data center consolidation technologies and services you’ll be able to minimize risk and control the costs of your data center operations and facilities moves.

Key Benefits

Non-disruptive data center migration — Consolidate and relocate data centers more quickly, more cost-effectively, and with less risk.
Data center footprint reduction — Ensure more efficient use of data center floor space with server and storage consolidation, tiered network storage, and best practices.
Simplified management — Gain management efficiencies and cost savings through asset consolidation.
Increased asset utilization — Consolidate applications, servers, and storage to increase flexibility and reduce costs.
Lower total cost of ownership — Reduce capital and operational costs through asset consolidation, floor space reduction, and lower energy consumption.
Energy efficiency — Optimize energy consumption throughout your infrastructure and achieve green IT data center goals.

Storage Consolidation Solution

Storage Consolidation brings you industry-leading technologies and expert services to optimize your data center, maximize storage assets, improve efficiencies, and increase service levels even as you reduce overall costs.Aks provides cost effective Storage consolidation provides you advanced capabilities, including server and storage virtualization and tiered storage, to address your organization's consolidation challenges.

Key Benefits

Infrastructure consolidation — Optimize your computing assets, including data centers, applications, databases, servers, and storage, with a simple, cost-effective, flexible tiered architecture.
Server consolidation — Benefit from virtualization with comprehensive Server Consolidation and Virtualization Services that leverage powerful VMware software.
Data center consolidation — Identify risks and provide solutions that deliver significant operational improvements while minimizing business impact.
IP storage consolidation — Eliminate bottlenecks, optimize file server utilization, and boost performance while simplifying migrations and IP storage management.
Mid-range tiered consolidation — Get efficient tiered storage with leading vendors networked storage, which is easy to install, manage, and scale, and provides unmatched reliability.
High-end tiered consolidation — Meet a wide range of service level requirements with tiered storage options like Hitachi,EMC Symmetrix DMX networked storage systems

Archiving for Mail and Messaging Solutions

Improve efficiency, reduce the cost and risk associated with legal discovery, and automate retention and disposal policies for compliance.

Archiving for Mail and Messaging solutions help you manage vast volumes of messaging content more effectively, while reducing the cost and risk associated with legal discovery. Archiving for Mail and Messaging solutions integrate with all major messaging environments, including Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes/Domino, as well as Bloomberg and SMTP messages, and are fully integrated with EMC Centera.

Key Benefits

Improved operational efficiency — Proactively manage tier-one storage requirements by offloading content from the production servers to an online archive.
Proactively managed mailbox sizes — Achieve nearly infinite mailboxes by reducing the burden of aging messages and older attachments in the production environment.
Increased productivity of end users — Grant users instant online and offline access to their mailbox messages—regardless of the age of the e-mails.
Retrieval of relevant archived e-mails — Support eDiscovery requests quickly and efficiently with advanced search capabilities.
Risk management — Eliminate the need for users to create risky .PST/.NSF files and enforce consistent e-mail policies.

Business Continuity for Mail and Messaging Solutions

Increase service levels and availability, simplify manageability, and decrease recovery time for messaging environments.
Business Continuity for Mail and Messaging solutions provide the application and e-mail protection and manageability you need to achieve e-mail recovery time objectives for messaging environments. Business Continuity for Mail and Messaging solutions embrace native technologies and expand upon them with our advanced recovery protection capabilities.

Key Benefits

Improved recovery plans — Manage and automate processes required to restart and relocate applications.
Better recovery point and recovery time objectives — Expand upon native capabilities by providing proven and reliable recovery and availability enhancements.
Reliable preconfigured modules — Leverage pre-built availability rules that provide fine-tuned monitoring of messaging environments.
Highest levels of uptime — Decrease the time it takes for failover and restart of messaging applications while protecting the critical business messaging data.

Performance and Scalability for Mail and Messaging Solutions

Minimize risk and realize a fast, cost-effective deployment for upgrading your messaging environment.
Aks 's Performance and Scalability for Mail and Messaging solutions ease the disruption and risk of making changes to your corporate e-mail system. With our Performance and Scalability for Mail and Messaging solutions, you can realize a fast and cost-effective deployment for your messaging applications.

Key Benefits

Facilitated migrations — Quickly identify stale or unused mailboxes and delete them before upgrading or migrating.
Reduced storage costs — Minimize the amount of storage space required during a migration by creating a single, comprehensive, and authentic archive.
Lower migration costs — Significantly reduce message consolidation time and effort.
Optimal user productivity — Define automated archival policies and reduce the administrative burden on end users.
Consolidated data protection — Replicate Exchange data from remote branches to a central location where it can be centrally managed, protected, and archived.
Reduced risk — Leverage an authentic, complete archive for regulatory compliance and legal discovery.

Midsize Solutions for File System Archiving
Reduce backup complexity and cost of inactive content. Meet your information archiving needs with more efficient data management and quicker retrieval.

Midsize Solutions for Microsoft Exchange
Consolidate, back up, instantly recover, transparently archive, and protect your Microsoft Exchange 2007 and Microsoft Exchange 2003 environments, simply and cost-effectively.

Midsize Solutions for Microsoft SQL Server
Keep your SQL Server-based applications running at peak performance and availability. Optimize database and infrastructure operations simply and cost-effectively.

Midsize Solutions for Oracle
Enable your midsize organization to meet requirements for performance and availability through validated solutions for Oracle10g and Oracle 11g, including Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) Support.

Solutions for Backup to Disk for Midsize Enterprises
Leverage your existing LAN investments and current backup software with these Proven Solutions.

Block Storage Virtualization Solution

Get the right levels of performance, availability, and data protection with solutions that optimize your storage resources and allow you to move data nondisruptively while applications remain online.

File Virtualization Solutions
Optimize your NAS and file servers by tapping the power of file virtualization technology and services to manage more data with fewer resources.

Information Infrastructure Solutions for Microsoft Virtualization
Realize the benefits of Microsoft Virtualization with an optimized information infrastructure from Aks.

Information Infrastructure Solutions for VMware
Accelerate the value of VMware and create a flexible, powerful information infrastructure that meets your needs today and will grow with you in the future.

Virtual Infrastructure Data Protection Solutions
Maximize your investment in virtualization technology with solutions that improve disaster recovery, leverage high availability, and speed backup and recovery.

Virtual Infrastructure Management
Aks Virtual Infrastructure Management delivers cross-domain solutions and services that enable you to holistically manage networks, applications, servers, and storage environments.