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Written by Adam Gosling
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Monday, 03 April 2006 |
Telstra IT subsidiary Kaz has launched a solution for laptop users who never make it back to the office to back up their data.
As much as 60 per cent of an organisation is now stored either on desktop PCs or notebook computers, causing major headaches for corporate IT managers. This is particularly true for portable devices as their users rarely have them plugged into the corporate LAN when its time for client PC backup jobs.
Now you can back-up your notebook anywhere you can get a broadband connection, in the home, office, hotel room or on the road with a wireless broadband connection.
Appropriately called PC Backup, the service offers secure data backup and restore for all your data. The company operates big data centres in Sydney and Melbourne where all the backups are kept in a secure environment on systems provided by leading storage systems vendor provider, EMC.
The subscription-based service offers tiered levels depending on your needs and the size of your organisation. For larger companies, system administrators can access a web-based portal where they can perform adds, moves, changes and also access reporting functions.
Peter Wilson Product Manager at Kaz for the new service said the system can be set up to automatically carry out incremental updates as you work or, if you are offline for periods of time it can prompt you to do a backup as soon as you connect to a network.
A key technology enabler for the service is a feature called Delta Block Technology which applies some smarts to what is backed up. Under many incremental backup scenarios even a small change to a file will result in the entire file being backed up again.
With Delta Block, only the portion that has changed is required. Wilson explained that if you change one slide in a PowerPoint presentation, for example, only the change would be sent back to the host, not the whole presentation and not even the whole slide, just the changed data.
On its way back to the data centre your data is encrypted for security and compressed to minimise bandwidth. It’s immediately sent to the nearest location, Sydney or Melbourne, but from there it is also replicated to the other site. In this way your backup is safe even if some disaster stuck the data centre in either of those cities.
Cost begin from around $30 a month per user, plus whatever data costs are involved in the transmission of your backup.
Wilson said this sort of technology, couple with the increasing wireless broadband options is set to spark off major growth in corporate use of mobile applications.
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