Achieving Business Continuity with BakBone and Mirapoint

Achieving Business Continuity with BakBone and Mirapoint
Email is the core of business communication. It’s what your business runs on, and in many cases your business would stop without email. But managing and protecting your messaging infrastructure is becoming an increasingly difficult task:

• Email is mission critical
• Mailbox sizes and attachments are growing exponentially
• Backup windows are shrinking while demands for higher availability and compliance levels increase
• Resources are limited and expensive

CXO’s must create and implement a comprehensive data protection plan which ensure business continuity and compliance under any circumstance. Meeting today’s business continuity objectives require solutions that deliver the highest levels of scalability, flexibility, and ease of use.

Secure Messaging Simplified
BakBone and Mirapoint offer you a wide range of fully-integrated storage, data protection and retention solutions built on the combined experience of two industry leaders. Mirapoint is the market leader in appliance-based solutions for secure messaging networks with more than 115 million mailboxes served and secured worldwide. Mirapoint’s unique appliance model simplifies the task of building and maintaining a Secure Messaging Infrastructure™ that can meet the emerging messaging needs of the enterprise. Mirapoint messaging appliances (Message Server™, RazorGate™ email security) intelligently serve, secure and manage email. They provide a centrally-managed messaging infrastructure that can meet today’s needs for security, reliability and compliance, and address new requirements like group collaboration, mobile access and instant messaging.

BakBone Software is a world leader in providing data backup, restore, disaster recovery, replication and storage reporting software. BakBone’s product line includes NetVault®: Backup, which makes disk-to-tape and disk-to-disk backup and data protection simple and easy. NetVault: Backup’s modular architecture sets new standards in integrated NDMP based network attached storage protection.

BakBone and Mirapoint have partnered to build an integrated solution that provides comprehensive data retention and protection for some of the world’s largest and most complex messaging environments. Together, BakBone and Mirapoint provide:

• Integrated Solutions: Improve recovery and continuity objectives with maximum data availability and manageability
• Flexibility: Cost-effective business continuity protection for small, medium and large e-mail environments
• Ease of Use: Get up and running quickly, with minimal training and resource requirements

Messaging and Data Protection Solutions from BakBone and Mirapoint
An effective business continuity solution has three basic elements: Appliance and storage hardware where the application data is stored, mission critical business applications, such as enterprise messaging, and software technology that drives and manages data protection processes. The BakBone-Mirapoint partnership is based on this idea - integrating two industry-leading solutions to create a complete messaging infrastructure that is simple, secure and proven.

Integrated Solutions
Together, BakBone and Mirapoint simplify secure messaging and allow for trusted data protection and archiving. From message creation to archive to deletion, BakBone and Mirapoint have jointly developed integrated solutions that can help you meet or exceed your compliance retention and recovery objectives.

BakBone and Mirapoint realized the need to efficiently backup and protect storage. Through joint support and certification of the Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP), an open standard protocol for enterprise-wide backup of data storage devices, the BakBone–Mirapoint solution offers advanced features, such as:

• Full NDMP Level 4 Support: Jointly, BakBone and Mirapoint offer the most complete level of NDMP integration
• Selective Restore From Image (SRFI): Enable quick and easy recovery of the mailbox of just one user, or a group of users
• 2-Way or 3-Way Operation:Whether connecting directly to the Mirapoint Message Server, or to a dedicated NetVault Backup server you can optimize time and resources (see Figure 1)

Our solutions are flexible enough to both integrate easily into the most complex IT environments, and scale with your business. We offer advanced data protection features, such as:

• Virtual Disk Library: Integrated with BakBone’s NetVault: Backup, recover faster by using higher-performance disk resources to simulate a tape device on a hard drive
• Incremental Backups:Take a complete image once per week and then incrementally backup only daily changes
• Multiple Server Support: Deploy NetVault: Backup on Linux, Windows, MacOS, or UNIX
• Broad Tape Device Support: designed to use a wide variety of storage devices from single drives (including disk, tape and DVD-RAM) to extensive libraries that may use a variety of media types

Optimized for Backup and Restoration of Email
Mirapoint and BakBone’s joint solution provides the best price performance to meet the disaster recovery requirements of your messaging infrastructure. This all starts with a joint commitment to open systems standards, and modular solutions. Email has far different requirements than conventional file and database servers. Mirapoint and BakBone have worked together to meet those requirements, while optimizing for maximum performance of email backup.