Storage Solutions

Data and information storage and archival are critical to your organization's operational effectiveness. While data has varying levels of relevance to different stakeholders inside and outside your organization, any compromise to its integrity, availability or security can have serious ramifications on productivity, stakeholder satisfaction and regulatory compliance - all of which affect your bottom line.

Allstream has experienced and qualified storage professionals to consult and guide your organization - from designing and planning the optimal storage solution to building out the storage infrastructure that meets your requirements. This means we can help you improve your:

• Data availability. Electronic data and information stored on corporate assets are essential to your organization's day to day operations and overall performance. Any loss of that data, or loss of access to it, can significantly affect both your employees and customers. To mitigate this risk, you need to implement a high availability storage strategy as part of your larger business continuity plan, to prevent network disruption in the event of disasters or unforeseen events.
• Compliance. Increasingly, North American businesses and government organizations are facing the pressures and complexities of a variety of information management regulations. With legislation such as PIPEDA, Bill 198, Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPPA, regulated data has diverse retention requirements which affect how your files are stored, who has access to them and when they should be purged. A storage solution built on a proper storage infrastructure ensures your organization can remain compliant and minimize the financial and non-financial consequences of data misuse.

Features

At Allstream, we strive to ensure that your storage strategy and infrastructure are aligned to meet the needs of all stakeholders. From complex storage area network (SAN) infrastructure implementations to storage private line connectivity to server backups, Allstream has an extensive suite of services that can suit your needs:

• SAN Services. Allstream SAN Services provide your business with a comprehensive SAN solution to help you manage your data storage needs. From the initial discovery stage, we listen to your business needs and understand your baseline requirements. Allstream works closely with you to design and implement a relevant architecture that is vendor-agnostic and aligns to your business objectives and budget.
• Storage Private Line. Storage Private Line is a high-quality, dedicated, point-to-point service that provides reliable SAN extensions over Allstream's optical network. This service enables businesses to overcome storage protocol distance limitations by allowing SAN implementations to securely interconnect across hundreds of kilometers - enabling data accessibility and creating an inherent disaster recovery solution.
• Server Backup and Recovery. For Managed Hosting customers, Allstream offers server backups as well as offsite data storage options to ensure ultimate security and availability of the data that resides on your hosted servers.

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