Determine the administration and operations rights for the backup systems users.

Company XYZ

XYZ is a translation agency providing the following services:

Translation, localization, language editing, and proof-reading

Certification of translated documents

Simultaneous and consecutive interpretation

Desktop publishing and graphic design

Rental of conference interpreting equipment

XYZ is currently growing at 20-25 percent per year. Their current backup solution is not able to keep pace with this growth. The backup process is very labor intensive because of the manual process in handling backup tapes.

Environment

This section describes the present-day hardware and software environment of XYZ and how the data storage policy is implemented.

XYZ is divided into three departments, which are connected to a Corporate Network backbone:

English Department

Other Languages Department

Admin Department

The hardware and software environment of XYZ is depicted in Table 15 on page 299 and the current backup topology in Figure 91 on page 300.

Table 15 Hardware and software environment of XYZ

Depart.

#Servers

#Clients

Current

Projected

Current devices

 

 

 

data

data (in 5

 

 

 

 

 

Years)

 

English

1 Windows

15

35 GB

107 GB

3 HP

 

2000

Windows

 

 

StorageWorks

 

 

 

 

 

DAT24

 

 

 

 

 

autoloaders

Concepts guide

299

Page 299
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HP B6960-96035 manual Company XYZ, Environment, Hardware and software environment of XYZ