Platinum Information Services

If you find yourself in a situation where you have to deal with an explosion in the volume of your business data, you are not alone. The accelerating pace of data creation, accumulation and diffusion is becoming an increasingly common phenomenon among companies throughout the world today. Data are growing exponentially due to widespread use of the internet, email and media-rich software. As early as 2002, International Data Corporation (IDA) projected a dizzying annual data growth rate of 80%.

Platinum’s advanced continuous data protection (CDP) technology captures every version of a file that has been saved to your hard drive. With CDP, even if your hard drive crashes completely after you have worked for a full day without invoking backup manually yourself, the saved copy of your working file will still be intact on the backup server. It provides a highly dependable means of real-time, continuous data protection for servers, desktops and laptops effortlessly and transparently without any human intervention. In addition, backup will only run when the computer is idle, or when the level of CPU utilization falls below a specific percentage leaving backup operation completely transparent to users.
Platinum Information Services, Inc. offers a number of options that can help your company combat growing amount of information and the disasters that threaten to wipe out your business data. With Platinum Storage Management and Recovery Tool (SMART) your company can be up and running quickly after a data disaster.

Platinum SMART-Basic
Platinum SMART Basic edition is comprised to two options that are suitable for backing up servers, desktops and laptops off site.

Platinum Online Backup Manager
A comprehensive client side backup application bundled with various database backup modules for backing up files and databases from client-side computers to Platinum Offsite Backup Server, which is most suitable for backing up servers
Platinum A-Click Backup
A light version of Platinum Online Backup Manager with all major features retained while having an easy-to-use interface, which is most suitable for backing up desktop and laptop computers

Platinum SMART-Enterprise
Platinum SMART-E is a solution for small to medium businesses that allows frequent and easy back up on-site or off-site with no minimum gig requirement. SMART-E can be configured to function as a rapid failover server in minutes which allows access to company data from anywhere using Terminal Server Technology. Eliminate costly downtime due to server failure. Failover servers back up directly from the backup image; there is no need to convert backup images to virtual hard disks. For file and database recovery, Platinum SMART-E brings simplicity, speed and reliability to an often painful task. By taking 15 minutes snapshots of each server, SMART-E eliminates the time-wasting tasks of tape recovery with the added protection against corrupted open files for databases that block level replication provides. Your restore time can be reduced to 15 minutes and it is not dependent on using identical hardware. SMART-E can help reduce downtime and administrative costs.

Conventional approach to back up are not optimal
“Unstructured” conventional backup methodologies, such as tape, CD Rom and external hard drive are not effective because:

• Increased likelihood of occurrence of negligence-induced problems (e.g. lost or misplaced data)