Protecting and managing information in retail organizations.

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Retail businesses have a continuous flow of file data. Moving the data for DR Disaster recovery readiness or backup is easy with FilePilot Software Copy™

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Retail operations have two factors that work against their IT departments: a continuous flow of new data and sales with thin profits. So how do retail businesses stay nimble?

Protecting and managing information in retail organizations can be challenging, especially for large regional or national chains with many locations and no IT resources at the store level.

Frequently, stores maintain sensitive or confidential information - such as customer credit card numbers, employee records, and inventory data - on local servers and PCs, where it is vulnerable to theft, inadvertent disclosure, and localized server failure. As a result, stores are ill-equipped to recover quickly from any type of disaster.

Retailers can gain a competitive edge with improved control of where and how data is stored. A key requirement is the ability to quickly migrate older data to lower-cost storage and keeping only the most relevant data on the fastest servers.

Another requirement is the ability to leverage data copy capability to provide inexpensive disaster recovery. This can be accomplished by copying all data to local DR system while moving older data to storage. This achieves two goals simultaneously: older data required to be saved by law is kept on lower cost storage and hot data is kept both up to date, and readily available for fast recovery from a disaster event. Without a store-level strategy for disaster recovery and data protection in place, this can lead to lost sales, corporate and legal liability, theft of inventory, and lost opportunities for cost savings.

Retail Data Migration Challenge	FilePilot Solution
Decommissioning leased servers	Leased servers impose a hard deadline to move data off of them. It's a final operation and all data must be accurately copied to a new system. With FilePilot Copy™'s simple licensing model you will not have to pay for a license for a server that is being retired. If the new system hasn't arrived, you can copy the contents to a temporary system. FilePilot Copy™ ensures that data is migrated off leased systems in the fastest possible time.
Support for PCI-DSS and SOX compliance	FilePilot Copy™ provides detailed logs of every migration performed to ensure that a legal trail of document location and changes to the document timeline are available. By using the FilePilot copier on a schedule, sensitive data can be quickly moved from front line production systems to back room systems affording greater data protection.
Archive Storage	In retail, daily sales result documents can choke up production servers. After primary analysis has been performed on the data, use FilePilot Copy™ to move the data files to less expensive, second tier storage where it is still accessible but not using expensive primary storage real estate. Simple desktop shortcuts enable users to access their information from each level of the storage heirarchy.
Disaster Recovery and System Maintenance	FilePilot Copy™'s simple site licensing model allows for multiple installations of the program. This enables copying multiple servers to multiple servers at a DR site. Because FilePilot isn't tied to any system architecture, the systems at the DR site can be different from those on the production side. Simply set up a copy configuration to sweep the system on the schedule that works for you, at lunchtime or daily after hours, the choice is yours. File filters mean that only critical files are checked to see if they were updated and only those are copied to the DR site. Network bandwidth control prevents overutilization of the network. When an event requires that the DR site become active, simply update the DNS to point to the DR server. When it's time to fail-back to the production server, run the fail-back copy configuration previously setup to update the production server. Then switch the DNS back to the production system. Using FilePilot Copy™, you can now perform system-level maintenance on your terms. It is a straight forward process to copy to a DR server, a temporary server or a virtual server in order to perform system updates in a timeframe that fits your schedule.

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