What is dBRAIN?
Protection your information
Protecting a business’s vital information that is distributed across LANs in
offices across the country or around the world is a formidable challenge.
The same is true for laptop users who may be carrying important data
around on their mobile hard drives, without taking the necessary backup
measures to ensure data integrity and accessibility in the case of data loss.
Safeguarding your remote data
Safeguarding
remote
data
is
a
hit-or-miss
proposition
for
most
organizations. Backup quality depends on local staff and equipment. As a
result, information that is crucial for day-to-day operations and falls under
compliance regulations may go unprotected.
The solution to recover and protect your information
dBRAIN provides the ideal solution for organizations concerned with data
loss and regulatory requirements. It allows them to quickly recover lost files,
documents and critical data, protecting them from potential business
disruption and from the long-term damage that lost data can cause.
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Why use dBRAIN?
Curaçao, located in the Dutch Caribbean, is the best location for supporting the
Caribbean area with our DR and Data Protection Solution. The island’s location
outside the hurricane belt means the chances of a direct hit are close to none.
This gives Curaçao an edge in the Caribbean with its obvious threat of storms
which, according to predictions of climate change, will only increase in times to
come. Also, Curaçao boasts a stable political and legal climate, outside of US
regulations.
Most companies still trust the backup of their most vital resource - data - to a
fragmented and often ineffective policy of distributed tape devices, manual
routines and offsite tape storage.
dBRAIN addresses the drawbacks of this
common approach to backup with a unique service proposition giving you:
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Old vs. New Backup Method
Category
Customer pain points
What dBRAIN Cloud Backup
architecture does to address it
SLA Compliance
Recovery is too slow for large recoveries or disasters
dBRAIN cloud Back Up architecture offers local storage
option which provides fast backups & data recoveries
High rate of recovery failures & anxiety about the next
recovery
Autonomic healing & restore validation testing provides
certainty that data is recoverable
Not Remote or Branch Office Back Up & Recovery
optimized with way too high Bandwidth requirements
Incremental forever Back Up, block level dedupe, &
compression w/Bandwidth throttling
Laptop Protection
Laptops cannot be protected by current solution
Easy to use GUI enables laptop fast Back Up &
Recovery triggered by end user or MSP
Security & Compliance
Security concerns in terms of compliance to regulations
FIPS 140-2 certification guarantees compliance to
regulations and encryption standards
Too many data security issues including agent hacking
dBRAIN DS-client doesn't listen so is not hackable &
data is encrypted before sent over the cloud
Agentless Technology
Way too much application disruption or scheduled
downtime due to current Back Up solution
dBRAIN agentless mitigates or eliminates app
disruptions or scheduled downtime
Extremely high ongoing hidden agent costs
dBRAIN agentless eliminates hidden agent costs &
reduces Total Cost of Ownership
Overall cost of Back Up
Limited ability to reduce liability of aging backups nor
match them w/lower value storage
dBRAIN Back Up migrated to lower cost storage
w/policy based data destruction w/certificate of
destruction. Aligns value of data w/ cost of protecting it
Centralized architecture
Current backup solution not integrated in current
service bundle or not centralized
dBRAIN multi-platform is an all-in-one solution and
defines the industry standard for Cloud Backup
architecture
Expertise & consistency of Back
Up process
Lack of expertise leads to lack of consistency & lack of
trust of internal Back Up processes
dBRAIN offers Best in Class Cloud Back Up solution w/
extensive experience & knowledge
How dBRAIN works
The dBRAIN offering has two main components:
1. The dBRAIN DS-System is located in dBRAIN’s data center and stores data
received from various DS-Clients. Data within DS-System is always encrypted.
2. The dBRAIN DS-Client is located at customers’ sites and remote locations. It
collects data from the customers’ physical and virtual machines and transmits it
to the DS-System, over the WAN. The DS-Client performs deduplication,
compression and encryption before transmitting the data to the DS-System.
The DS-Client license is free of charge and customers may install as many as
required. It may run on a physical or virtual machine.
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Using cloud computing to your advantage
dBRAIN is a
cloud backup
and
recovery service
which has been developed
to address the drawbacks of the traditional tape based approach.
Currently dBRAIN is offered throughout the Dutch Caribbean, the service will be rolled
out to all geographic locations by 2013.
The service provides:
Centralized and automated scheduling of backups
Encryption of data both in-flight and at rest (from cradle to grave)
A Disk to Disk cloud solution for rapid and complete recoveries, with local and cloud
copy options.
Who is dBRAIN for?
dBRAIN is suitable for companies or divisions of organizations with:
High value/mission critical data
Data volumes of 50 GB or more
Typically between 1 - 100 users (including laptop users)
A current backup solution which is time consuming, complex or problematic…or no
backup solution at all (and all data is currently at risk)
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