• Microsoft Exchange is mission-critical in most organizations
• Unplanned outages significantly impact an organization's productivity
• Email averages 300Kb of attachments in 30% of messages, causing further loss of productivity as users struggle with quotas or mailbox limits
• Network Appliance Filers and SnapManager for MS Exchange provide scalable consolidated Exchange storage with near instantaneous database recovery

Kanatek can help in the design and construction of solutions that enable:

• Microsoft Exchange databases to be fully functional
• Hot back-up of Exchange databases
• Typical database recovery times reduced from hours to seconds
• Minimal IT effort in recovering a user's “lost” messages
• Ability to add storage while in operation
• Increase performance by offloading storage management to Network Appliance filers
  

Data Growth Outpacing Backup Capacity

The explosive growth in the amount of data that enterprises need to back-up has left many IT organizations without sufficient server capacity and scrambling to add more on an ad hoc basis.

Kanatek has been implementing very large distributed enterprise backup solutions for customers for several years. It has watched these solutions evolve to meet expanding needs and, as a result, has established the practice of periodically evaluating the continuing effectiveness of a Symantec NetBackup solution and recommending improvements to the backup configurations when required.

Expert Capacity Planning

As specialists in backup systems including NetBackup from our partners at Symantec, Kanatek is increasingly called upon to assess the performance of existing backup implementations and processes and to deliver a systematic plan for meeting backup requirements a full year into the future.

Kanatek Capacity Planning begins with a complete audit and report on your existing backup facilities' performance and utilization detailing:

• CPU utilization and processes
• Filesystem and I/O device reports
• Memory utilization - Overall performance
• Data volumes and throughput
• Detailed System Recommendations

Based on the findings of the utilization analysis, Kanatek then recommends a complete server solution, including an item-by-item list of system components, all designed to accelerate your current backup process while providing enough backup capacity for up to one year into the future.

Kanatek monitors the running backups using a combination of commercial and custom-built tools to determine how well the backup system is performing. A capacity planning exercise determines any new backup requirements and sets any new backup processing requirements.

The process produces two deliverables:

• The Performance Monitoring Report which details the state of the existing backup configuration
• The Capacity Plan that sets out the expansion requirements, if any, for the next twelve months