Managed Backup Solutions

Backup as a Service

Backup and recovery is critical to business continuity. Your data is core to your company and managing it securely and expertly is core to ours. Constant changes to your IT infrastructure and the absorption of new technologies like virtualization and data deduplication require continual updates to your backup architecture. Without them, your ability to backup and recover critical data is constantly at risk. With Collective's Managed Backup Solutions, you can rest assured that your backup architecture keeps pace with your ever changing needs while your daily backup operations are being managed to the highest SLA based standards allowing your already overburdened IT staff to refocus their efforts on IT initiatives that are core to your business objectives.

Collective's Managed Backup Solution offering is the ideal managed service for customers whose data requirements make exporting backups to a remote location impractical. You've purchased the right data protection product and the needed hardware and storage, now its time to enjoy the full value of your investment by allowing Collective to effectively and affordably manage your daily backup and recovery operations while simultaneously ensuring your backup architecture remains in lock step with your ever evolving IT infrastructure. Your data and systems remain at your sites but we assume responsibility for managing your backup and recovery. Our service offers the right solution for every customer, no matter how unique your particular needs might be.

Collective is the acknowledged leader in backup design and administration. Our best of breed consultants have built and managed some of the largest and most complex backup implementations in the world. Along the way, we've gleaned the best practices and brought them together with our unique intellectual property, process and a highly leveraged team to create the ideal solution for managing your critical backup needs. Using a combination of on-site and off-site resources, we start by gaining a complete understanding of your current backup design, mapping it against your current and planned IT infrastructure requirements and making the needed changes to bring you into complete alignment with your organization's compliance and data protection requirements. Then, we relentlessly monitor and manage daily backup activities to ensure we meet the stringent terms of our SLA and your corporate needs all the while watching for environmental changes that require modifications to your backup structure.

As a monthly subscription service, your costs are predictable and fixed and you gain the assurance of an industry leading Service Level Agreement. Finally, you can enjoy the comfort of knowing your data is protected, your backup environment is keeping pace with your IT infrastructure and your staff is being utilized in ways that actually achieve your business objectives - Collective's Managed Backup Solutions.

Available Features

• 24x7 monitoring
• Daily backup operational outsourcing
• Recovery and restoration services
• Weekly reporting and analysis of backup results
• Re-architecture, optimization and reimplementation services
• Regularly scheduled backup HealthChecks
• Customer portal for up to the minute information
• Facilitated tape management
• On-site and off-site backup experts always available

The Benefits

• The peace of mind that comes from knowing your data is recoverable
• Fixed cost, guaranteed results backed by SLA
• Frees up your IT staff to focus on core initiatives
• Backup operations evolve to allow absorption of new IT technologies
• Comprehensive reporting and continual application of industry best practices