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Don’t Underestimate Your Data’s Value

Companies understand that they need to protect their most important asset: their data! Data backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity (commonly known as “BC/DR”) were once low budget priorities. However, they are now at the forefront of IT planning and business strategy due to the plethora of threats companies face today like viruses, malware, hackers, natural disasters, accidents, and hardware failures.

Rightfully so, data backup and disaster recovery should be at the forefront of IT planning and strategy instead of a costly afterthought. Every business should plan and implement procedures for disaster recovery in order to prevent major data loss in the future, and also have a strategy in place should disaster strike. Data loss is a huge blow to an organization’s productivity and budget. Recover by Storcom™ is a disaster-recovery-as-a-service solution that can help companies prepare for the future, and also recover their data should worse-case scenario occur.

Scary fact: 50% of restores fail and 60% of backups are incomplete.

Often times, we do not realize how reliant we are on data. Imagine a scenario where your network goes down for days and you are unable to access critical files, client databases, accounting and financial documents, and just about every single file that your company has ever created or produced.

Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service Questionnaire:

  • Do you think your company could still function without access to any of your data?
  • How do you think you could recover from an outage?
  • How quickly do you think you would be able to get your network up and running again?
  • Do you have a backup solution for your data already in place?
If you struggled to answer any of these questions, then contact us today for a BC/DR solution!

A Preventable Mistake that Could Cost You Your Company

Storcom wants our clients to have comfort that they are dealing with thought leaders, subject matter experts, and a turnkey technology partner in disaster recovery solutions. Storcom understands the Cloud and we know when and where to leverage the private cloud and fit it into your disaster recovery strategy.

Storcom will help you determine if your organization can develop a hybrid cloud approach to data recovery. We provide cloud migration with reduced time and risk by understanding your applications. We will determine how disaster recovery will come into play if you move to a public, private, or hybrid cloud. In short, Storcom is our motto: Evolve to the Cloud™.

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Managed IT Managed Services for Large Manufacturing Company

Provided Full Managed Services for Entire On-Premises and Disaster Recovery Site Infrastructure for Large Chicago-based Manufacturing

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Multifaceted Solution Strategy for American Manufacturer

Designed and implemented multiple data storage solutions and data protection strategies for a large American designer, manufacturer, and marketer of high-end tools and equipment.

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DR/BC Strategy Implementation for Architectural Firm

Implemented a full DR and BC strategy for a large Chicago-based architectural firm.

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Data Protection Strategy for Large Non-Profit

Implemented a robust data protection strategy for large Chicago-based non-profit after they suffered downtime from ransomware.

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Storcom’s Process

  • Storcom starts with data classification
  • We apply a recovery time and recovery point to each type of data point
  • We take the time to learn about our clients’ applications and how users interact with them
  • Storcom understands our clients’ unique company requirements for remote connectivity
  • Storcom determines what technology options align with the necessary RPO and RTO
  • We know how the cloud can be leveraged to reduce operational expense
  • Storcom develops a comprehensive business continuity strategy custom-tailored to your needs

Notable Questions to Ask Yourself

Here is a checklist of questions you should ask yourself about your disaster recovery and backup strategy.

Can your organization…

  • Give end-users access to applications that meet your corporate SLAs?
  • Support your applications around the clock and around the globe?
  • Provide access to key data from multiple end point locations and devices?
  • Test DR with successful fail-back and restore undisrupted?
  • Provide a single management pane of glass into the health and current state of all data protection policies?
  • Develop a hybrid cloud approach to DR?

If you answered “no” to any of these questions, then Storcom can help with designing, implementing, executing, and testing a comprehensive DR/BU strategy.

Benefits of Working with Storcom

Storcom has been enabling small-to-mid-sized and enterprise organizations to make key decisions on the management, movement, and protection of their data for nearly two decades. From infrastructure and Recover by Storcom, to our Cloud Enablement Roadmap® and implementation of cloud migration solutions, our holistic consulting approach guarantees satisfaction from planning all the way through design, managed services, and support.

Executives can stay ahead of the IT curve when partnering with Storcom knowing that their data is secure and protected, and they have peace of mind with Storcom at the helm. Your office may be down but you’re still in business with Recover by Storcom. If a company’s goal is to safely back up and recover their data, then Storcom guides our clients through the complicated process with our Recover by Storcom solution.

Storcom has teamed with industry leaders to provide turnkey solutions to deliver data protection as a service at a cost that makes sense for any business size.

  • Storcom’s solutions are built on the foundation of service-oriented infrastructure.
  • Customers can use Storcom’s private cloud as a target or we can simply help you manage on-prem within your own data centers to leverage existing infrastructure.
  • Storcom provides a data recovery solution to solve all common business challenges as they relate to off-site data retention and disaster recovery.
  • We don’t treat all data as equal; operational recovery is vastly different from the formula of traditional data backup and disaster recovery.
  • The Recover by Storcom solution provides a set of tools to give your team insight into capabilities to keep your business running.

5 Data Backup and Recovery Statistics that Every IT Professional Should Know

  1. According to the National Archives and Records Administration, 93% of businesses who lost access to their data for 10 days filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster, and 50% of those companies filed for bankruptcy immediately.
  2. Richmond House Group says that every 5 years nearly 20% of small-to-medium-sized businesses will suffer a massive disaster that causes loss of critical data.
  3. According to Symantec, 31% of targeted attacks are directed at businesses with fewer than 250 employees.
  4. National Cyber Security Alliance states that 20% of all small businesses will be hacked within a year.
  5. According to Gartner, 40% of small-to-medium-sized businesses who use the Internet and manage their own network will have that network accessed by a hacker. What’s even scarier is that more than 50% of these businesses will not even know that they were attacked.

Are you alarmed, worried, and concerned about your data? IT professionals need to protect and secure their valuable data, and not play a game of Russian Roulette. Now you can act: plan and implement a solution like Recover by Storcom to give you peace of mind.

Make Sure Your Data Backups are Complete

Did you know that 50% of restores fail and 60% of backups are incomplete?

Often times, we do not realize how reliant we are on data. Imagine a scenario where your network goes down for days and you are unable to access critical files, client databases, accounting and financial documents, and just about every single file that your company has ever created or produced.

Now try to answer these questions:

  • Do you think your company could still function without access to any of your data?
  • How do you think you could recover from an outage?
  • How quickly do you think you would be able to get your network up and running again?
  • Do you have a backup solution for your data already in place?

               If yes:

    • Are you positive that you can restore your data?
    • Do you know if your backups are 100% complete?

Are you alarmed, worried, and concerned about your data? Good. You should be!

IT professionals need to protect and secure their valuable data, and not play a game of Russian Roulette. Now you can act: plan and implement a solution like Recover by Storcom™ to give you peace of mind.

SAVE MONEY USING OUR DISASTER RECOVERY SERVICES


Learn how you can save money on backing up your precious data with Storcom. Storcom’s Ransomware Prevention and Recovery Roadmap™ solution can save your business thousands in the event of a disaster. While you may not be able to foresee an accident or a ransomware attack, you can rest assured that your critical data is safe with Storcom.

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STORCOM’S SERVICES KEEP YOUR BUSINESS RUNNING


Storcom can alleviate your concerns across the spectrum of information technology. We can create, design, and implement innovative solutions to keep your business operational and performing at its best.

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Disaster Recovery FAQS

Learn more about disaster recovery with Storcom’s comprehensive library of definitions and Frequently Asked Questions.

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What is Continuous Data Protection?

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Continuous Data Protection (CDP) allows organizations to automatically capture and track data modifications, saving every version of user-created data locally or at a target repository. With little-to-no production overhead, incremental writes are replicated continuously and saved to a journal file. CDP’s change block tracking also allows users or administrators to restore data to any point in time with remarkable granularity.

Real-Time Block-Level Replication

CDP utilizes change-block tracking to constantly replicate data as it is written to storage. Because CDP is always-on, it offers considerably lower Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) than snapshot-based solutions – this means almost no data loss.

 

Snapshots vs. Continuous Data Protection

Continuous data replication allows organizations to replicate data as changes occur, delivering recovery intervals of mere seconds. Snapshots are scheduled rather than continuous, because of their impact on production, meaning recovery intervals of hours.

 

Journal-Based Any Point-In-Time Recovery

Journal-based recovery keeps a constant log of all the changes users make to applications and data. Because the changes are continuously written to the datastore, CDP delivers any point-in-time recoverability to within a specified time frame.

 

No Performance Impact

Storing multiple snapshots on replica VMs incurs a significant performance penalty when attempting to power on replica VMs. Zerto’s continuous data protection uses a journal to commit to a point in time selected for recovery, with no performance impact.

 

Enterprise Scalability

The journal can be placed on any datastore with maximum size limits and warnings – preventing the datastore from filling which would otherwise break replication. Using snapshots provides no way of controlling the total space used, so snapshot solutions are not scalable in terms of SLAs and efficiency.

 

Storage Savings

Because no snapshots are created, CDP typically uses just 15% of additional storage, resulting in dramatic savings and significant amounts of free space. Snapshot technologies require significant overhead on storage, often requiring an additional 20-30%.

 

Storcom is a top Zerto solution provider headquartered in the Chicagoland area in Lombard, IL. We service clients in Naperville, Geneva, Northbrook, Aurora, Joliet, Oak Brook, and many many more.

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What is the Main Issue with Public Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery?

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To put it simply, effective DR/BU is complex: it is not just about restoring VMs. It’s about the applications and the “what, where, and how” users will use these applications.

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What are the Main Issues with Basic “Cloud Backup” as-a-Service Solutions?

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The data is off-site but does not provide the necessary capabilities to recover applications and meet SLAs.

Traditional legacy backup software falls short in today’s IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) and virtualized environments.

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What are the Challenges, Issues and Complexity to Backup/Data Recovery?

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Issues with traditional approach to backup and recovery:

  • Full backup windows extend beyond SLA requirements
  • Lengthy recovery windows can drastically impact business operations, customer experience, and revenue
  • Difficult to orchestrate or automate DR processes
  • Tests are run infrequently due to complexity and disruption concerns
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How Do You Prevent Data Loss?

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Since ALL tape backups will fail at some point in time, organizations are quickly learning that tape is not always an adequate form of data backup. Tape drives can malfunction without showing warning signs, become corrupted due to accidental misformatting, mishandling, heat, or being hit by a virus, and this can make it impossible to recover your data. The best way to prevent tape backups from failing is to have a remote backup solution in place. Also known as “offsite backups” or “managed backups,” your data is secure and safe in a location that is not your office or data center.

It is more important than ever for companies to have a solid disaster recovery plan and data recovery strategy and an executable solution in place in order to prevent data loss.

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What is Business Continuity (BC)?

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“Business continuity,” or “BC,” is the way that a business can maintain regular operations during an outage or systems malfunction. “Business continuity” should not be confused with “disaster recovery.”

What is DR/BU?

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The IT term “DR/BU” is short for “disaster recovery and backup.” Backup and disaster recovery is also often referred to as “BU/DR,” “DR/BC,” or “BC/DR” (disaster recovery and business continuity).

“Disaster recovery” is the way in which data, servers, files, software applications, and operating systems are restored following a disastrous event or systems failure. It should not be confused with “business continuity,” although the two phrases are usually used in the same breath.

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What are the Different Types of Hacking?

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Hackers can access your passwords in a multitude of different ways. The most common methods are shoulder surfing, social engineering, dictionary attacks, and just attempting to guess passwords from information about the user that’s available to them. Email hijacking is widespread. Hackers, spammers, and social engineers taking over control of people’s email accounts (and other communication accounts) has become increasingly more common. Once they control an email account, they prey on the trust of the person’s contacts. Be sure that you protect yourself by being diligent.

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Is My Data Storage Protected in the Event of a Disaster?

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Not necessarily. The safety of your data is dependent upon a number of different factors from storage methods, firewalls, encryption, backups, how your company’s users are accessing the data, and a host of other variables.

Data protection is defined as the safeguarding of your organization’s important information from corruption, compromise, or disaster-induced loss. It is one of the most overlooked aspects of information technology. With Recover by Storcom, your data is always secure. We use best-in-class security vendors to ensure that your data is always available, even in the event of a disaster or ransomware attack.

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In our 25-criterion evaluation of data security portfolio providers, we identified the 13 most significant ones — Dell, Digital Guardian, Forcepoint, Google, GTB Technologies, IBM, Imperva, McAfee, Micro Focus, Microsoft, Oracle, Symantec, and Varonis — and researched, analyzed, and scored them. This report shows how each provider measures up and helps security and risk (S&R) professionals understand the respective strengths of each vendor’s portfolio.

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I have previously discussed how HPE SimpliVity HCI solutions offer more than compute, storage, and storage networking. HPE SimpliVity converges IT infrastructure, enhances your security posture, and provides data services that include data efficiency, data protection, management, and mobility.Today, I’d like to cover data protection. It is one of the HPE SimpliVity services that other HCI platforms simply do not natively provide.This 3-part series explains HPE SimpliVity backups technology, h…

5 keys to supporting telework effectively and securely

The coronavirus crisis has greatly broadened the boundaries of the “enterprise” to an extent few could have imagined — in just a period of weeks. Suddenly, countless numbers of people are working from home and requiring access to company networks and data from remote locations. Companies are striving to maintain employee productivity, even as they shift to new working environments. The last thing they need to be doing is wasting workers’ time. This massive shift in work processes can have h…

Multifactor Authentication: The Next Battleground

X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS) has responded to multiple security incidents where multifactor authentication (MFA) was not implemented—but where implementing MFA might have significantly reduced the impact of the incident. Such incidents have even included destructive malware attacks, resulting in millions of dollars in losses and the irreversible destruction of thousands of machines on the network. In fact, unauthorized use of credentials accounted for 29% of all…

What is pretexting? Definition, examples and prevention

Pretexting is form of social engineering in which an attacker tries to convince a victim to give up valuable information or access to a service or system. The distinguishing feature of this kind of attack is that the scam artists comes up with a story — or pretext — in order to fool the victim. The pretext generally casts the attacker in the role of someone in authority who has the right to access the information being sought, or who can use the information to help the victim.Pretexting has …

Threat Landscape Trends: Endpoint Security, Part 2

Being aware of what’s occurring on the threat landscape can be a valuable tool when it comes to defending your organization. If you’re well informed, that puts you in a good position to decide how best to protect your assets and allocate resources accordingly. While it’s important to stay up to date with the latest ground-breaking attack techniques and new threats, it’s equally important to keep abreast of the overall trends.The fact is that, for every novel technique discovered, there are …

Foreign hackers are targeting federal, state and local IT networks, feds warn

Written by Sean Lyngaas Oct 9, 2020 | CYBERSCOOP Foreign government-linked hackers have been exploiting old software vulnerabilities in an effort to access federal, state and local computer networks in ongoing activity, the FBI and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned Friday.The federal advisory, which did not point the finger at a particular foreign government, said that the malicious cyber activity had in some cases “resulted in unauthorized access to election…

5 Core Security Functions to Operationalize

Effective cybersecurity depends on three things: people, technologies, and processes. If even one of these pillars is lacking, all the investment in the world in the other two won't keep your organization safe. Unfortunately, too many businesses approach cybersecurity on an ad-hoc basis. They focus on putting out tactical fires—without building a strategic operation that can suppress these fires before they really ignite. Even when they've made massive investments in people, technologies, an…

How did your continuity plan stack up against Covid?

Business continuity plans have typically been similar to things like flood insurance policies or advance health care directives – something that you know is important, save in a drawer with other important items, and hope (or even presume) you'll never need to use them. 2020 is like the 500-year flood or emergency hospitalization – the time you open that drawer and need the things that are in there. As we head into the ninth month of the covid-19 pandemic, we've already looked at and made us…

How to protect backups from ransomware

Despite a recent decline in attacks, ransomware still poses significant threats to enterprises, as the attacks against healthcare organizations demonstrated this month. It is also becoming more capable. In particular, ransomware writers are aware that backups are an effective defense and are modifying their malware to track down and eliminate the backups.Ransomware targeting backupsRansomware will now delete any backups it happens to come across along the way, says Adam Kujawa, head of malwa…

Why disaster recovery is the last line of defense against ransomware

Criminals need two things to make a ransomware attack work for them; a penetrated IT security system, and inadequate or non-existent backup and disaster recovery. Sadly, this is an all too common state of affairs, as illustrated by Garmin, the latest high-profile victim of ransomware. At time of writing, the company is slowly restoring its GPS tracker and navigation services. But it is thought to have paid up to $10m to the ransomware attackers to gain access to the decryption key, according…

Double extortion ransomware will be a big theme in 2021

The coming 12 months will bring increasingly aggressive cyber crime activities as malicious actors continue to pivot their ransomware attacks from data encryption to data exfiltration, and with much of the workforce remaining at home until the second quarter at least, the cyber security challenges that were amplified by Covid-19 will persist for the time being. That is according to new research data compiled by data protection specialist Acronis, which has highlighted a number of key trends …

5 business continuity priority shifts for remote working

Here are the top 5 critical areas for your business continuity planning today and in the new normal.In 2020, we are all living through a world-changing event. Huge chunks of the workforce are on lockdown. Pretty much all of us, our colleagues, and our families are seriously affected in one way or another.It is a unique, new, and unsettling situation that not many of us would have predicted or foreseen. I just wanted to share some of the issues we've encountered from an IT perspective, how …

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