Customer Purchases Data Protect Vault and Ditches Tape
By ajohnson November 12, 2008 @ 12:11 pmOne of our customers, Savvion, was featured in a TechTarget article.
Savvion relied on tape backup and recovery. Instead of wasting more money to update their tape backup systems, Savvion decided to look into deduplication disc-based storage systems like Data Domain to improve their RTO. Here’s a summary and a quote from the article.
Software vendor Savvion signed up for Simply Continuous’ Data Protect Vault disaster recovery service using the leasing model. Vincent Kenny, director of IT operations for Santa Clara, Calif.-based Savvion, said he dealt with data deduplication vendors directly when he decided to eliminate tape. He decided Data Domain was best for him, but he realized the data dedupe appliances were out of his price range. Data Domain then steered him to Simply Continuous.
“We were thinking of buying two devices and putting one in our office in India and one here, he said. But we couldn’t afford to buy two devices outright. Instead, I got a solution where we could lease this for three years and the price was good. I solved my tape problem, and I have a DR plan.”
