Success Stories
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Founded in 1961, Computer Research, Inc. (CRI) provides securities processing services for regional brokerage and financial services firms across the United States,
including securities for brokerage processing and long-term SEC-required record-keeping. Dennis Noto, Chief Information Officer at CRI, needed one system to be
able to leverage disk speed to do backups versus relying on disparate tape systems and media formats.
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With a slew of data breaches in the headlines, Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) proactively decided to encrypt tape media stored offsite for a local government client.
Tasked with making sure data security is at the forefront while not slowing down any processes was the goal. "We need our government clients to know that we proactively prevent data breaches
to keep data safe and the county out of the headlines," said Welch. "I, personally, have received letters from former employers or credit card companies saying 'you may have
been affected by a loss of backup tapes,' so I am very aware of the importance of protecting data."
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Joe Ferrer, Systems Administrator at The Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission (The GSMFC), began searching for a way to centralize his backups and shorten his backup
windows. Like most small- to medium-enterprises, The GSMFC needs the same backup functionality of a large-scale enterprise but is working with a limited amount of
internal resources and requires a more budget-friendly option than buying a costly tape library. "Basically, we needed a solution that simply works and does not require
extensive resources to operate," said Ferrer. The GSMFC embraced the challenge of finding a backup solution with cross-platform capabilities, easy installation and the ability to reduce its backup window.
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The System Services department of ETH Zurich's IT Services under Jürgen Winkelmann is responsible for operating and supporting the main highperformance computer systems, servers and storage systems. The Storage Services
group with Dr. Tilo Steiger have taken on the responsibility for the concrete subject of data backup. If data is not only to be backed up reliably, but its accessibility is also to be necessary when data is recovered,
this makes great demands on the whole backup system. All too often, the backup stops unexpectedly, is not carried out perfectly or
the data can no longer be read following recovery - incidents, which must be avoided in the case of the research data of ETH Zurich, if the work and findings of our researchers are not to be lost irrevocably.
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The IT Services department of the ZIB, headed by Dipl. Inf. Wolfgang Pyszkalski, concerns itself not only with the planning, procurement and maintenance of IT resources but also pays particular attention to backing up data securely. The goal is to store data from
research projects and documentation safely and permanently. Today, more than a petabyte of data is created at the ZIB that needs to be managed and stored so that findings can be used long term. Despite the large volume of data generated, the IT
Services department is happy to reveal that it has no significant problems with its daily data backup and archiving.
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Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI) has made a decisive move towards fault-tolerant, high-availability systems designed to ensure 24/7 functionality. For data backup and archival operations, LONI relies on two tape
libraries, Sun’s SL8500 and Powderhorn 9310, to store mirrored copies of the facility's offline tape data. These tape libraries are housed in two different locations, ensuring that
catastrophic events in any one data center will leave a copy of all tape data intact in another data center. Twelve high-speed 40-gigabyte and two high-capacity 400-gigabyte tape drives
provide LONI's tape services. This complex, high volume infrastructure, combined with rapid data growth due to new imaging technology, is driving the need for better management of
the tape storage infrastructure.
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As a leader in data management for scientists and engineers, SDSC is driving high performance computing towards development of petaflop computers and extensive storage
management infrastructures. SDSC is actively collaborating with researchers and national scale projects to keep pace with public and private databases and data collections that
represent exceptional, historic work from a wide range of scientific domains. Backup and archival operations are complex and increasingly difficult to manage so new innovative approaches are constantly being sought.
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At its central data center, Farm Credit manages 120 file servers. Currently, the amount of data being backed up is four terabytes and growing - Farm Credit has had two terabytes of data growth
over the past two years. Farm Credit’s previous library processed two terabytes of data per backup session, but that was not enough. The bank’s backup window for a full backup has grown to 40
hours. After careful research, the company now backs up SAN and server data to a FC LTO3 ADIC iScalar 500 tape library that has six independently-addressable tape drives, which provides Farm
Credit with the performance it needs.
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Today’s state-of-the-art computer technology is old news tomorrow. Companies’ data and files are ageing even more quickly. Employees save minor changes to documents in a new version,
thus creating multiple versions of the same file many of which become outdated and useless. Files that are rarely or not at all used take up storage space unnecessarily – and more memory is needed.
When Windows servers with fibre channel connections are used, the resultant waste of resources is soon reflected in your budget. A solution which enables swap out of data to cheaper storage not only
reduces costs, but also saves backup time.
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As data volumes grew and regulatory requirements became more complex, KHN faced challenges in managing data protection operations. Backup windows began encroaching on transaction-heavy times of the business day. Data replication at the disaster recovery site required frequent human intervention. Restore events from physical tape were slow and unreliable. Aging DLT and LTO tape drives also contributed to system unreliability. A decision needed to be made about upgrading the current system to increase performance or taking a new, innovative approach to improving backup and restore operations.
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