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Thursday, April 22, 2004
Cebu companies protecting data through off-site storage facilities
SOME Cebu companies are using off-site storage facilities to protect their data, so they can easily recover the data if these are corrupted.
This was revealed by Jun Quintos, president of the Mactan Export Processing Zone-IT Users Group, during a press conference last week at Cebu City Marriott Hotel.
Other companies are leaving their “backup media” with banks for safekeeping, he added.
Quintos told the press that two telecommunications companies in the country will also soon set up off-site storage facilities.
“PLDT and Globe are about to launch off-site storage this year,” he said.
Jon Murray, regional practice leader for EMC Corp., the world leader in information storage and management, said data could be corrupted through power outages, human error or small component failures.
Ahead of the press conference, EMC gave a briefing on its transition from being merely a storage company to an information management company selling hardware, software and services.
Arnie Alvarez, solutions architect of EMC Computer Systems (FE) Ltd., said EMC can serve both small and big companies because it has “the appropriate storage for appropriate kinds of data.”
He said EMC makes external storage products that store data on multiple disk drives, allowing users to maximize storage capacity without sacrificing the speed of retrieval of the information.
Alvarez said EMC also helps firms manage their data over their useful life.
“We have solutions that migrate (data) automatically to a less
expensive storage,” when the usefulness of the data diminishes with time.
This would free up expensive storage for better performance.
According to Alvarez, some 98 percent of Fortune 100 companies use EMC.
In the Philippines, he cited the “top two telecommunications companies” as well as some companies at the Mactan Economic Zone (MEZ) in Cebu as EMC users.
Quintos said MEZ locators “invest a lot in providing redundancies in our systems and doubling our hardware, our telecom network infrastructures to ensure that downtime will be minimized, if not eliminated.”
EMC boasts of after-sales service available 24 hours a day, with an option for clients to be informed of potential disk failures before they occur. EMC would replace the disks online so there is no downtime.
EMC has two resellers in Cebu, Trinet and Open Arch Systems.
Raddy Diola, general manager of Open Arch, was optimistic about getting 10 accounts this year, saying banks were required by law to protect their information. CTL
(April 22, 2004 issue)
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