Safeguard your Data for Business Continuty

• Identify unstructured data for business continuity protection based on its business value
• Extend the life of valuable business information even after the retirement of host systems
• Automate backup and replication policies for targeted unstructured data
• Rapidly integrate new unstructured data resulting from M&A activity into your business
• Maintain security  permissions for preserved data
• Get an up-to-date backup copy of all your unstructured data in the event of a disaster 
• Leverage a single solution across your diverse management and compliance projects

The Business Continuity Challenge

To ensure business continuity, companies make substantial investments in the replication and backup of their critical databases and transaction processing systems.  Unstructured data, on the other hand, is often not protected—even though it can be as essential for business continuity as structured data.

This is because unstructured data is typically scattered across multiple systems and locations.  Essential content is mixed in with non-essential content.  Multiple copies and versions of documents add to the massive volume of low-value data that doesn’t require that same preservation as high-value business information. It is therefore neither cost-effective nor practical to replicate all of your company’s unstructured data in the same way you replicate your core ERP or CRM databases.

So how can you zero in on the unstructured data you really need to protect?  How can you ensure that new high-value content generated by users or introduced to your environment by M&A activity is properly protected?  How can you rescue information when you retire older systems?  And how can you identify and protect this content in a way that doesn’t drain your limited resources?

The Nogacom Solution

Nogacom delivers an effective solution and methodology to cost-effectively protect valuable unstructured data assets—so you can more fully ensure effective business continuity without over-burdening your limited IT resources.

Assess your data.  First, with NogaLogic, you can automatically identify, classify and assess all unstructured data based on its business value and get a clear understanding of how it is used throughout its lifecycle.  Through this process you will:

• Identify all unstructured data by its business value, including all copies and versions —regardless of formats, file names or storage location
• See where high-value business information assets are stored
• Identify how recently and how frequently assets are accessed, modified and shared—and by whom

Define your business continuity policies.  Once you have this granular visibility into your unstructured data, you can now centrally define policies that protect your most valuable documents.  For example, you can define a policy that automatically replicates all documents relating to tax liabilities within the last seven years—including all emails, formal correspondence and spreadsheets—to a secure backup server.  You can define a policy that selectively migrates information relating to active customers from a retired system while preserving their access controls.  Or you can define a policy that merges relevant business data from a company you’ve recently acquired into a single environment.

Enforce and monitor.  Once you have defined your data protection policies, NogaLogic will then automatically implement them. NogaLogic can also continue to automatically apply your policies to any relevant new or updated documents on an ongoing basis—including large batches of data introduced into your environment as a result of M&A activity.  In addition, NogaLogic can provide a full audit trail on each piece of data so you can document your activities for compliance purposes.

Measure your success.  After your initial implementation, you can further fine-tune your policies as necessary to better ensure business continuity.  You can also adaptively modify your policies and practices to respond to changing business needs and/or new regulatory mandates.

To better ensure the continuous availability of essential business information, contact Nogacom today >>>