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Qwest® Storage Services are designed to reduce risk by protecting your business from revenue loss due to downtime, corruption and loss of your data. Services include Qwest Utility Storage, Qwest Managed Dedicated Storage and Qwest Point-in-Time Copy.
Qwest Utility Storage Service Levels
- Critical-99.999 percent–one of the industry leading service level agreements (SLA)
- High-99.95 percent SLA
- Basic-99.7 percent SLA
Qwest Managed Dedicated Storage
Qwest Managed Dedicated Storage is available for the above Critical and High Availability levels. You may choose to purchase equipment from a select list of Qwest-supported storage hardware and Qwest will manage it for you on a per GB basis in one of our state-of-the-art CyberCenterTM facilities.
Qwest Point-in-Time Copy
Point-in-Time Copy provides managed and secure copies of online data replicated within the storage sub system. It may be used to keep copies of your data within the array to facilitate rapid recovery in the event of data loss.
Benefits
Rapid scalability of equipment and services
Variable SLAs that meet your exact needs
Cost efficient, pay only for the disk space you need with our Utility storage
No capital outlay required may mean reduced investment in hardware, software, configuration, management and support
Opportunity costs of unplanned downtime minimized or eliminated
Economies of scale provide access to costly high-end resources and state-of-the-art technology
Improved availability, recoverability and flexibility of corporate data
Offers reduced risk and increased reliability through SLAs with predictable costs
Provides expertise necessary to build and maintain complex storage solutions allowing you to focus resources on core competencies and strategic issues
Avoid equipment obsolescence
Features
- Managed, online, protected primary disk storage delivered via a Storage Area Network (SAN)
- Infrastructure using multiple disk arrays
- Fully redundant switched fabric
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