Success Stories
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GreenBank’s IT department supports about 75 sites with their IBM i system. “It’s the bread and butter of the company,” said Jason O’Dell, AVP, IT Manager at GreenBank, “Without it, it’s difficult to do business.” GreenBank is a Tennessee-based commercial bank with its principal executive of offices in Greeneville, Tennessee with total assets of approximately $2.6 billion.
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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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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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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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