Store and back up information more efficiently

Featured resources

Your guide to getting the best data centre
How to evaluate potential providers

3 critical factors for successful data risk management
How to reduce risks in-house, in the cloud and anywhere in between

More featured resources

Is the process of storing, backing up and archiving information becoming an increasing drain on resources?

The amount of data that companies store almost doubles every year, but that doesn't mean storage costs need to keep pace. Bell can help you simplify, consolidate and reduce costs through storage virtualization.

Storage virtualization minimizes the need for an expensive, on-premises storage infrastructure. It also provides improved storage capabilities through thin provisioning, and helps to allocate server storage space on a just-enough and just-in-time basis.

Reduce backup volume

Backing up an ever-increasing amount of data is costly, but there are three Ds that will help you cut costs and increase efficiency:

Data deduplication cuts the total amount of data to be stored by eliminating multiple copies of files, such as email attachments sent to a group
Delta differencing is a means of backing up only data that has changed, greatly reducing transfer requirements and bandwidth needs
Data compression is most effectively applied to seldom-used information, reducing storage requirements several times over

Improve compliance and continuity

The ultimate goal for compliance efforts in the data centre is to quickly meet regulatory requirements for reports and data storage.

Virtualization helps you achieve this goal by providing built-in redundancy. In the event of a failure, it's relatively easy for a healthy virtualized server to take over, allowing business to continue.

If traditional servers lose information that must be kept on file, there can be legal consequences and risk of non-compliance. Virtualization offers a safe and reliable alternative.

Why Bell?

Storage solutions from Bell help you optimize your information assets to manage growth more effectively.

With Bell, you're backed by certified professionals who have extensive expertise in storage, servers, networks and more.

As Canada's leading network provider, Bell is in a unique position to transform the data centre into a delivery centre with unified networking, security and virtual solutions.

To support your growing needs, Bell has launched a national initiative to increase the size of its data centre footprint in order to meet the growing needs of our enterprise and mid-market customers for co-location, hosting and managed services in Canada. By June 2011, Bell will have five state-of-the-art data centres in the regions of Montréal, Calgary and Toronto.

Learn more about this data centre build by reading the full news story.