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RSSIdealstor's 4-Bay Backup Appliance Does The Job For The Bank Of Glen Burnie
July 17, 2008
•Case Study: Idealstor's 4-Bay Backup Appliance Does The Job For The Bank Of Glen Burnie
By Idealstor LLC
The Bank of Glen Burnie was challenged by increasing amounts of data at its main branch location. They were using a tape-based tape based backup system that had reached its limit and was no longer able to handle the amount of data that needed to be backed up. They also needed a faster method of backing up their data because it was taking them more then an entire night to complete all their backups. The bank relied on their data and something needed to be done.
They were considering purchasing another tape based unit, but this solution was not optimal. First off, the bank realized that if their data continued to increase at the same rate, that they would eventually outgrow that unit as well. They could have purchased a large tape autoloader that would have been able to handle the future data growth, but this solution was not cost effective. Not only was the cost of the equipment beyond their available budget, but the annual cost of media was cost prohibitive. The bank had a policy of replacing tapes every 6-9 months due to not trusting the reliability of old tapes to be able to restore and have reliable data. The added cost of replacing these tapes would have put even more stress on their annual IT budget.
The Bank of Glen Burnie implemented Idealstor's 4 Bay backup appliance. The 4 Bay allowed them to quickly backup their data in a much shorter time. The 4 Bay was also able to easily store the increasing amount of data they were backing up and still have the scalability and room for growth to back up additional data.
Idealstor enabled the bank to backup their 300GB Database and 75GB additional data from their SQL, Exchange and File Servers onto one appliance. The 4 Bay is capable of running simultaneous backups to all 4 drives. This enabled the bank to segment their backup traffic to backup specific servers to specific drives. The bank is now able to backup their data in half the time than it took before. The Idealstor Backup Appliance easily integrated into the bank's backup environment by using their existing Backup software without having to upgrade or change software.
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