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How much is your most important data worth to your business?

Earthquakes, floods, power outages and human error – in the past year we have experienced first-hand that these things do happen. Losing your most crucial or sensitive data, be it due to a disaster or an everyday mishap, is many IT managers’ worst nightmare. Gen-i’s ReadyCloud Backup offering could give peace-of-mind.

Whether you store your business data on-premise or use a hosted or fully outsourced model, there is always some data or applications that are more important than others. In fact, keeping certain data safe may be crucial to the survival of your business.

While some IT managers might personally back that data up, constantly worry about its safety and be prepared to protect it with their life, Gen-i is now offering a secure, set-and-forget alternative to that. ReadyCloud Backup is a private cloud back-up and restoration service that provides businesses with a robust, secure and cost-effective way to automatically back up their most sensitive information.

As soon as you have set up regular back ups, you don’t have to worry about it anymore – the system will take care of the rest. Critical business data is automatically backed up to Gen-i’s highly resilient, Tier 3+ datacentres in Auckland and Wellington, which are managed by local experts.

In the unfortunate event of some sort of data failure, ReadyCloud Backup will let you access and restore the data you need, quickly and easily.

Watch a quick video of how ReadyCloud Backup works.

Another useful feature is the built-in de-duplication technology, which effectively checks what is different each time the data is backed up and only updates the data that has changed, rather than the whole set again. This trims down back up time, and won’t place a heavy burden on your network.

ReadyCloud Backup is flexible in nature and can be automatically expanded or reduced in size depending on the storage needs of the business. You will only pay for the volume of data that is backed up rather than accumulated data.

The solution also has a user-friendly portal, which gives nominated staff access to automated monitoring, alerting and reporting services.

The technology behind the system comes from global leaders EMC, VMware and Cisco. ReadyCloud Backup uses a hybrid of tape and disk back ups to be as cost- effective as possible.