Overview

Brighter Connections are a specialist IT Agent. Our commitment is to ensure we help you get the very best technical and commercial solution to meet your data management needs at a pace that suits your business, not ours or the vendors.

That said and based on the experience of many of our customers; we are proud to recommend Net App who themselves are a Global leader in Data Storage solutions. Time after time, customers choose Net App from a portfolio of solutions we can offer.

Organisations that recognise the absolute value of their data, and therefore want to protect it (not at all costs but at a cost that represents value for money) recognise there is a great match between their needs and what we and Net App can offer. In many cases this is based on the incredibly powerful software tools provided by Net App and the way these tools deliver real value to the clients own organisation.

No-one sets out to gamble with their data intentionally, however, our goal is to share with you a passion and a belief that once you have seen a Net App demonstration we are certain you will see the many advantages this solution gives you over the competition in the marketplace today.

Do not be put off by cost or fear of the credit crunch. Net App solutions scale right down from the biggest datacentre’s in the world to single solutions from £5000, all using the same operating system.

With Net App finance alongside us, we can also help you spread the cost of any investment helping you protect your cash-flow at the same time as your operational needs.

Please flick through the rest of the web site; it will take no more than 5 minutes. We hope you find it interesting and informative and that your curiosity is such you will accept our RSVP to a demo at some point in the near future.

The Problem

There cannot be a single more pressing issue for anyone in IT than protecting the availability of your data.

The second your customers lose access to your data, your business performance suffers; you are no longer operating at 100% of your potential.

No organisation wants to operate at less than 100% of their potential; the marketplace is challenging enough without internal disruption through losing access to mission critical data.

We know there are many reasons organisations lose access to data, the points below are just a few of the well documented facts.

  • 6% of all PCs will suffer an episode of data loss in any given year. This equates to approximately 4.6 million data loss episodes.
  • 30% of all businesses that have a major fire go out of business within a year. 70% fail within five years.
  • 34% of companies fail to test their tape backups, and of those that do, 77% have found tape backup failures.
  • 60% of companies that lose their data will shut down within 6 months of the disaster.
  • 93% of companies that lost their data centre for 10 days or more due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster.

Are you looking for quicker, cheaper more effective ways to protect your data? Prevention is after all better than a cure!

Prevention

Prevention is better than cure! So why take the risk with your data in the first place?

Expense and time are given as the primary reasons that organisations stick with the existing solutions they have in place, this is often the case, even in cases where there is an acknowledged risk that the organisation know they are potentially gambling with their data!

We want to show you how time invested now in meeting with us along with investing less cash than you might think in a class leading storage protection solution can pay you dividends in future.

  • With quantifiable data availability in excess of 99.95% (based on measuring over 40,000 live units) a Net App data storage solution is a key step in preventing data loss for any organisation.
  • Clustered technology at less than twice the price further increases resilience.
  • Redundant fibre channel connectivity gives you not only high performance, but high availability.
  • Multi-path connectivity ensures your mission critical servers can connect to your storage at all times.
  • Net App pioneered Raid DP! What does this mean to you? Put simply, Raid DP means you are 4000 times less likely to lose data as a result of a double disk failure.
  • Net App Flexclone allows you to create read / write copies of your data with almost zero overhead in seconds. Prevent potential disruption by testing your DR strategy without business outage, or working out of business hours.
  • Free of charge de-duplication software helps you prevent your storage solution from being cluttered by multiple copies of data, speeding up backup and recovery.
  • Prevent server sprawl and wasted capital, serve your Windows home directories (CIFS) direct from Net App storage.
  • By giving you a choice of connectivity protocols, including iSCSI, Fibre channel and NAS, we can also prevent you making the wrong connectivity choice, or spending more than absolutely necessary.

Recovery

It happens; you lose data, for whatever reason. In the event you lose access to key applications, everyone knows there is a problem, there is nowhere to hide.

In this situation you are likely to be asked two critical questions by the Directors of your organisation:

  1. How long will it take us to recover the data (Recovery time).
  2. To what point in time can we recover (Recovery point).

For many organisations the answer to both the questions is likely to be hours, for some it will be more than 24 hours.

No-one in the market offers a more comprehensive suite of application specific recovery tools that ensure not only do you get your data back quickly, but it comes back fully verified and ready for your staff to access without delay.

Net App provides you with...

  • Rapid recovery of popular Microsoft applications including, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL and Microsoft Share Point means data is restored in minutes, not hours or days.
  • Equally rapid recovery of enterprise applications such as your Oracle Database and SAP.
  • Application integration is now extended to include key Virtualisation software, such as the market leading ESX Enterprise from VMware.
  • The ability to make up to 255 copies of your data (per volume) with zero impact on performance.
  • Snap Mirror and Snap Restore provide site to site copy and restoration of data (block level) minimising impact on your precious bandwidth, whilst maximising your ability to provide business continuity to your users.
  • Not only is there a brilliant range of tools available, the experts at Net App Global Service are there 24 x 7 to support you.

Resiliency

You want resiliency as standard, we can offer you this. If you want even greater resiliency then take a look at clustered storage, duplicate site protection or metro-cluster (multi-site).

  • Redundant power.
  • Redundant Fibre channel connectivity to all disk shelves.
  • Raid-DP, twice the data protection for less than twice the disk (when compared to Raid 10).
  • Redundant connectivity to all servers.
  • Available in standalone and clustered configurations.
  • Available as a single site, dual site or ultra-resilient multi-site metro cluster.

Support

There when you need us and still working in the background, even when you think you do not need us!

Net App offers comprehensive, proactive support to organisations who value the benefit of dealing with experts in their field. Data storage is the very core of Net App’s product offering, so you can be assured of great support.

  • Dial home support available. Proactive notification of possible component failure ensures resources can be despatched 24 hours a day, sometimes whilst you are still sleeping.
  • Premium support includes bi-annual site visits and analysis of your entire Net App environment to ensure you maximise the investment you have made .
  • Choice of support levels to suit your budget.
  • Procure support on a 12, 24 or 36 months basis and have the option of co-term support for upgrades to match your existing contract.
  • Access to the Net App NOW site. Provides you with on-line lab access, 24 x 7 dialogue with the team of Net App experts.
  • Direct access via Net App to application specialists from Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and VMware who work alongside the Net App engineers, helping shorten your time to resolution.
  • Evaluation licence programme allows you to try before you buy.
  • Accredited training programmes available on-line.
  • Localised support centre’s with follow the sun escalation.

Net App support is an Enterprise style support service, not just a pre-packaged point of sale add on as offered by certain other mainstream storage providers.

See For Yourself

Like many people we know that seeing is believing! If you share this sentiment and would like to witness the power of the Net App product in action then please call us to take advantage of either a group demonstration, or a one to one demonstration.

If you want to include discussions about popular topics such as Virtualisation, we can ensure experts are on hand.

Demo Cafe

A practical demonstration on pre-arranged dates in a relaxed, group environment. Typically lasting around 2 hours and supported by Net App technical experts covering:

  • Why Net App
  • Protecting key Microsoft applications
  • Snapshot and recovery technology

Or

One 2 One Demo

An in depth bespoke demonstration and discussion about ways we can help protect your data together with Net App technical experts at a date and time to suit your diary.

Please email or call to discuss which demonstration option best suits your needs.

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