What is NetBax?

The financial impact of information loss is high. It is costly to recreate lost data and there are significant related costs such as lost productivity and lost opportunity. Contracts, spreadsheets, proposals, minutes, contact lists, agreements are all crucial to the day-to-day business cycle, and downtime or complete loss of data due to failure, theft or error can spell disaster. The fact is that most storage management systems fail to comprehensively protect mission critical business information.

NetBax offers a real solution to the problem; a scalable, automated and secure solution that intelligently gathers critical data from fixed and remote desktops and laptops throughout the organisation. Netbax minimises data transfer and maximises security, allowing data to be backed up from remote laptops even across a dial-up connection. Pre-deployment administrator settings enable existing backup policies to be hard-coded into the client application, ensuring maximum user compliance.

Recovery is just as easy, either via an intuitive explorer-type interface on the device itself, or from any internet enabled device via a secure browser interface - including handheld devices and mobile phones.

Security
The transfer and storage of critical information poses several problems for organisations including financial services companies. Data privacy is high on the list of priorities. Netbax makes use of the SSL (Secure Socket Layer) protocol standard for secure data transmission (1024 bit RSA key exchange, 128 bit RC5 stream cipher and SHA-1 integrity checking). Data is stored using 448-bit Blowfish encryption in CBC mode. Encryption keys are not stored with the data and globally recognised techniques are applied to ensure the integrity and security of all data protected with Netbax.

Public Key Infrastructure
Netbax is the first data backup solution to integrate seamlessly with your existing PKI investment. Secure user passwords and user authentication are traditional weak links in any password based security implementation. Personal certificates managed by a trusted 3rd party ensure best-of-breed authentication and audit.

Reliability
Sophisticated scheduling and advanced data filtering are well and good but the most important feature of any backup system is its ability to get the data through. Netbax was designed from the ground up to ensure that users comply with policy.

A robust JAVA client works transparently on the user device in accordance with administrator enforced settings, making use of intuitive error trapping and fault recovery techniques to ensure that data is comprehensively protected. Similarly, Netbax employs audited best practice development and quality management methodologies to produce only best-of-breed products.

Scalability
The amount of critical data generated and stored by organisations is growing rapidly. Any solution intended to protect this data must be able to scale in line with this growth. NetBax makes use of multiple data servers controlled by a central registry to scale seamlessly to hundreds of thousands of users. It is a true enterprise solution, able to span continents, as well as accommodate complex network infrastructures and firewalls.

Central Administration
Total cost of ownership is largely influenced by the administration and management overheads. The Netbax Backup Server Console allows a single resource to configure, deploy, monitor and administer a large, geographically dispersed installation. Remote deployment and configuration, coupled to centralised monitoring and troubleshooting, removes the necessity for on-site support. This includes remote desktop and mobile laptop users.

Features and benefits

Intelligent file selection and exclusion facilitates rapid, transparent backups over low-speed and dial-up connections.

Administrator can customise user settings before deployment.

End user can be prevented from altering administrator settings.

Byte-level patch incremental backups minimise data transfer by identifying only the changed bytes in modified files.

This process is more efficient than block level comparisons and is not file type dependent.

All data is compressed in transit and storage, further minimising transfer times, network loads and storage requirements.

Data can be recovered from any previously backed up state allowing file and system rollbacks.

Disconnections are resumed from the last byte sent - no need to resend partially transferred files.

Advanced scheduling allows multiple backups per day.

Network detection initiates policy-based transparent backups, ensuring full user compliance.

Automated setup and installation reduces administration and support costs.

Single remote Backup Server Console allows management of multiple Netbax servers.

Administrator can remotely upgrade client software and adjust account parameters without re-installing software.

Status display shows optional progress bar for easy monitoring and estimates of backup completion time.

Adjustable thread priority for minimal performance impact.

Remote WebAccess and WapAccess for anywhere, anytime recovery.

Remote server testing tools allow administrators to troubleshoot network errors.

Client is 100% JAVA for OS independence.