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virtualTapedrive
virtualTapedrive manages the monthly leasing of storage space with five
classes of backups: archive, routine, snapshot, shared and critical.
Key Benefits
 | Securely warehouse your data at our storage site |
| Optionally protect your account with SafeNet's iKey series of digital electronic keys |
| Retain ownership of your data when an employee leaves |
| Recover lost data from a routine backup rotation (daily, weekly,
monthly) |
| Preserve historical records through archiving |
| Store critical documents as soon as they've changed |
| Automatically add new files, folders and sub-folders to your routine
backups |
| Automatically lease more storage space when you begin to run short
of capacity |
| Share available capacity with employees who need more space |
| Protect individual users with backups as well as servers |
| Keep traveling employees up to date with shared common files |
| Keep informed with daily e-mail reports and alerts on your secured
data |
| Know what happened with detailed access and process auditing |
| Protect your secrets with strongly encrypted files |
| Rest assured that files will safely cross the INTERNET |
| Get more rest by scheduling a backup or restore and going home |
| Reduce your work load with global policy management |
| Keep your INTERNET available to satisfy customers |
| Protect access to your stored data by restricting who has access to
it |
| Automate tasks with programmable macros
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Capabilities
Create secure identification using digital electronic keys
virtualTapedrive can use a pair of digital electronic keys to prove your
identification when you register a computer with the storage servers. It
takes two PIN numbers and a valid account login to register a computer
with virtualTapedrive. Each key comes programmed with your account
information. The account owner enter a unique encryption code in to the
keys to protect the files, then places one key off-site in a secure
location and uses the other key for day to day operations. In the event a
key is lost Data Systems Development can send you a partially programmed
key, then the account owner, and only the account owner can clone the key
from the office.
Protect your files so that the company owns the data, not the employee
By using a digital electronic key to register the business's encryption
code on a computer, virtualTapedrive protects each file on every computer
the same. If each user were allowed to specify their own encryption code,
then they would be the only one capable of decrypting their files. Since
virtualTapedrive encrypts using the business's code, the business owns the
data, not the employee.
Backup your files across the INTERNET to a secure location
virtualTapedrive protects your most precious and irreplaceable asset, your
data, by storing it daily on our secure storage service. In the event of a
disaster, or just a simple drive failure, virtualTapedrive can restore
your protected data.
Store individual user backups as well as servers
Unlike most storage services, virtualTapedrive does not require a separate
sub-account to extend its protection to the users' personal computers.
Perform a routine backup rotation (daily, weekly, monthly). Daily, at a
time set by the account owner, each computer that has scheduled a routine
backup will begin sending its changed files across the INTERNET to the
remote storage servers. virtualTapedrive provides a 7 day, 12 month and 52
week rotation for each routine backup.
The ability to recover any file from a routine backup in the last 7 days
extends your ability to recover from a recent data error. However, the
ability to retrieve a file from the last day in one of the last 12 months,
or a file on any Sunday in the last 52 weeks offers a tremendous
opportunity to track back into history.
Archive files in storage to preserve historical records
Many businesses are required by law, or just common sense, to preserve a
record of their historical operations. virtualTapedrive provides a cost
effective means of archiving and retrieving files from storage. Keep tax
records, legal documents, patient records, designs and other files safe
off-site and away from prying eyes.
Store critical documents as soon as they've changed
Sometimes a document is too important to wait for the routine backup to
start later in the day. To remedy this virtualTapedrive offers a critical
storage feature that can store files as soon as they are created or
modified.
Share common files with employees on-the-road
Keep your traveling employees up to date with the latest files from your
office using the shared backup feature.
Receive daily e-mail reports and alerts of your secured data
The account owner can direct virtualTapedrive to send out daily e-mail
reports. The account owner can receive an overall account summary for
every office. An account manager can receive an e-mail report summary an
office, and each user can receive an e-mail report detailing individual
backup and restore activity.
Review detailed access and process auditing
virtualTapedrive provides a detailed auditing log that tracks user logins,
scheduling of backups and restores, and computer connections to the
storage service.
Utilize a strong file encryption to protect your files
Files are protected with the Blowfish symmetric encryption algorithm. The
Blowfish algorithm has no known weaknesses and provides up to 448 bits of
encryption. Internet based credit card transactions typically use 128 bits
of encryption. For each additional bit of encryption the number of
possible combinations doubles.
Benefit from a strong transmission encryption
virtualTapedrive provides an equally strong transmission scheme based upon
digital signatures and Elliptic Curve technology. All transmissions are
serially chained and verified. False messages and random data are used to
mislead any potential spies. Access to the storage system is granted
through a separate security administration site.
Backup and restore files without being logged in
The virtualTapedrive can backup and restore files on a computer after the
user has logged off. This allows the service to operate without
compromising the security of the computer.
Benefit from a global policy administration
The account owner can globally manage system policies, different offices,
individual users and every computer. From the vtdManager program the
account owner can view a catalog of all files backed up for the business.
Furthermore, the account owner can review the backup and restore history
for the business, as well as for each user and for each computer.
Control bandwidth usage by site
virtualTapedrive gives a business owner the ability to manage the storage
service's use of the INTERNET capacity at each office by hour of the day.
This will keep users from taking up limited bandwidth during business
hours when it is needed to service customers.
Restrict users to backing up specific computers
The account owner can limit users to only login on specific computers. For
users with multiple computer assignments, the owner can optionally require
that all files be restored only to the computer that they came from.
Use programmable macros to schedule specific tasks
Simple to use macros allow a user to perform a task such as a database
backup to create a file that can be sent to the storage service.
Make file selection easy with custom user file filters
Simple to create and use file selection filters gives a user the ability
to rapidly select groups of files at once; instead of having to manually
scan the computer looking for them.
Firewall friendly
The virtualTapedrive has been designed to be firewall friendly. There is
no incoming data from the storage service to any computer.
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