gingcom appliance:
The compliant backup and archiving solution based on Content Addressable Storage (CAS) with De-Duplication and indexing for the quick retrieval of information within your entire Microsoft environment. Pre-configured Software and hardware. Find a description of particular gingcom appliance components within this section.
nCDP
gingcom offers you reliable protection of all servers and clients in your network. After having specified the file systems and protection mechanisms these systems are being protected by means of Near Continuous Data Protection (NCDP). On each particular system an installed agent is responsible for communication with the gingcom server. For each system you can specify a group of protection parameters and granularity depending on the data.
MS Exchange e-mail archiving:
The e-mail archiving option of the gingcom solution offers you an automated and efficient possibility for permanent archiving of all e-mails which are being sent and received via your MS Exchange server. Doing so enables you to meet various compliancy requirements for your different data types. The archiving policies are managed centrally and the users cannot interfere the archiving process. Each user can search among e-mail data within thier archive by specifying content-related or other information, for example: Subject/To/Cc...
MS Exchange backup:
The MS Exchange backup option offers you the possibility to recover either your MS Exchange server in Disaster Recovery Mode, single Recovery Storage Groups or the entire mail data base. This allows for the optimal protection of your Exchange server.
File system archiving:
Long-term, compliant archiving of files including full-text indexing for consistancy with legal obligations and company-internal policies. Using this option, particular files or folders can be retrieved and recovered by ordinary users and not only by IT professionals.
File system backup:
Backup and recovery functions for protecting your data from getting lost. Using this option, files within a file system can be recovered in an automated and simple way. Particular files, entire folders or even file systems can be recovered.
Single Instancing:
For e-mail, file archiving, and backup the gingcom appliance uses „Single Instancing“ (also known as „De-Duplication“) to ensure that files and e-mails occur only once within the backup and archive. Through the CAS functionality all file references are being stored in a data base in order to gather this local information (e.g. browsing in the backup) about the original positions in the file systems that might differ from each other.
Enterprise Search:
Data inside the gingcom appliance is indexed. This index is used for searching e-mails and files. In doing so, information is only being made available to users which are listed in Windows ACL. These users and groups are managed by the Active Directory Services in Windows (ADS).
Compliance certified:
The archiving functionality has been certified in a legal opinion in accordance with the different compliance regulations.
Notebook protection:
The gingcom appliance offers special mechanisms for the integration of mobile users like automatic backup and storage features which do not require any specific interaction by the particular notebook user. The backup is based upon policies which are managed centrally by the IT administrator. At the same time the various restrictions of remote connections are being respected. This ensures that mobile users are optimally integrated into the backup strategy.
Offsite Management:
With the Offsite Management Option the active connection of a second LTO tape library is available from version 1.5 on. The second tape library is connected via an iSCSI bridge. In this second library the tapes of the second tape pool will be permanently kept online. Since those tapes are continuously online they enable a direct and automated access in case of a failure without needing an IT administrator to be on hand like with the Offline Option. Critical corporate data is protected - even in case of a disaster data can be recovered quickly.
Offline Management:
The Offline Management Option allows removal from the system of tapes from the second tape pool and their permanent storage in a vault. The tapes and their content are still being managed by the gingcom appliance. The first tape pool always remains in the library - containing all archived and saved data. When searching for a file, in case of disaster or tape failure which is actually on one of the tapes already vaulted, the system automatically requests the particular tape from the IT administrator. To recover the file, the tape merely needs to be reinserted into the gingcom appliance.
MS-SQL Option:
gingcom offers the possibility to include MS-SQL servers into the backup concept. According to the central data management strategy that gingcom pursues, activating the MS-SQL option means that a respective agent is being installed automatically. The parameters for the backup can be configured and monitored as simple as the standard policies for e.g. file systems, notebook protection, etc.
NAS & HSM (File Share)
gingcom offers an optional NAS File Share including HSM (Hierarchical Storage Management) for the offloading of inactive data to tape. The control of the HSM is carried out using watermarks: Thresholds are triggering the offloading process of the data from the commonly used NAS. The HSM module starts moving the data from the NAS as soon as the used space exceeds the maximum threshold. The offloading process stops once the minimum threshold is reached. This ensures the optimal usage of storage resources!