Making a backup of a company's servers is just one part of an overall data protection strategy. Zetta's DataProtect solution provides complete data protection to small and mid-sized companies by delivering each of the four components of data protection: online backup, disaster recovery, offsite data storage, and compliance.

Online backup is a simple and automated way to backup your company's servers and laptops and is the first piece of the data protection puzzle. With Zetta, incremental backups are completed quickly thanks to de-duplication and multi-threaded data transfer over https.

Disaster recovery is the most critical part of data protection – since backups are worthless if they can't be recovered. With Zetta's snapshot & replication approach, single files are just as easy to recover as whole file systems or databases.

Offsite data storage is another crucial component of data protection that ensures data loss in your data center or company headquarters doesn't also corrupt or destroy backup data. Zetta allows you an even greater level of data protection with the option to have your data replicated in both West Coast and East Coast data centers.

For those companies subject to HIPAA, FINRA, FIRPA, SEC 17A-4, or SOX – no data protection solution is complete until it's compliant. Zetta's audited data handling procedures and logged access meets these compliance regulations and more.

The three components of next generation online server backup are the backup itself, system snapshots, and replication of your data offsite.

Backup: Zetta's server backup solution uses the lightweight ZettaMirror software, with specific plugins for file servers, Exchange, SQL, and VMware and multi-platform support for 18 different flavors of Windows, Linux, and Mac. Server backup using ZettaMirror enables automated incremental backups with configurable retention settings.

Snapshots: Snapshots are Versioning-Enabled Backup copies that capture the state of your data at a point in time. Snapshots allow for server backup with a consistent backup state across your entire system, with granular versioning. Zetta's snapshots use byte-level change detection to optimize the amount of data being transferred across your network during each daily server backup job.

Replication: Zetta pairs snapshots with replication to provide the most efficient disaster recovery capability. Rather that storing your snapshots compressed, or in a proprietary format, replication makes your backup a fully instantiated file system – in its native format – so disaster recovery becomes as easy as pulling a file off a file server.

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The 5 components that make up the foundation of a managed backup service are security, speed, reliability, audited datacenters, and support. Zetta offers each of these components to our SMB customers at an enterprise-grade level. Here are details about what makes Zetta's managed backup service unique:

Security – the most crucial part of a managed backup service is that your data is encrypted both in transit across the internet and at rest in the data center. Zetta encrypts using 265-bit SSL, a military grade level of encryption.

Speed – Backup windows and data recovery time both depend on how fast your managed backup service provider can transfer data across the internet. Only Zetta has mastered using WebDAV at scale.

Reliability – High-reliability is fundamental to a managed backup service. Zetta's backup reliability runs at 99.99996%.

SSAE-16 Audited Datacenters – This service organization reporting standard insures that Zetta follows procedures for handling backup data. This includes logging access, and maintains compliance with major regulations.

24x7 US Based Support – All customers of Zetta's managed backup service have access to 24x7x365 phone support from engineers in our Sunnyvale, CA office.

Zetta's 3-in-1 solution is provided to every customer as a managed backup service, for one low price. Unlike traditional backup, with separate software, hardware, and support vendors – Zetta's managed backup service is integrated. In addition to the unlimited number of software agents, and scalable storage, engineers in our Santa Clara data center proactively monitor each customer's storage volume and will immediately notify you if an issue is ever detected.

The support that's part of Zetta's managed backup service is even more valuable during a disaster recovery event. Zetta customers have a 100% recovery reliability rate, a result of our unique use of snapshot & replication technology and an enterprise-grade foundation that will out-perform any other managed backup service.

Zetta has three disaster recovery solutions built-in. To recover data from Zetta you can use: the ZettaMirror software client, a web browser, or a mapped network drive.

To recover with the ZettaMirror agent simply use the “Restore Using Zetta Mirror” option when you right click on a file or directory from the admin interface. This is the most frequently used of Zetta’s disaster recovery solutions.

The web-based recovery will be the first of the disaster recovery solutions on your priority list if your data center has been damaged by a fire or tornado, for example. All it requires is logging into the system management portal, selecting the system you want to restore, then the snapshot of that system you want, and then click the blue URL link. A list of files for that system will then load in a new browser tab.

Mapped network drive based disaster recovery solutions are built into Windows Vista and Windows 7. Just go to “My Computer,” select map network drive, paste the URL link in, and click finish.