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Case Study: Global 500 Insurance Company

Challenges

Purchased EMC Data Domain systems with OpenStorage (OST) to:
- Improve backup and recovery performance
- Reduce operational costs
- Reduce administration costs and time

Environment

Used EMC Data Domain deduplication storage systems in their environment for between 7 to 12 months.
Protecting more than 100 TB of data, prior to deduplication, on their EMC Data Domain systems.
Implemented between 2 and 5 sites.
Performing replication between sites with their EMC Data Domain systems.

Benefits

Chose their EMC Data Domain OpenStorage (OST) solution for the following reasons:
- “Single pane” NetBackup-managed replication
- Reduce administration time
Reduced administration time by 30% compared to their previous backup infrastructure.
Very satisfied with their EMC Data Domain and OpenStorage (OST) solution.

Testimonials

“Utilizing EMC Data Domain, OST and a 10Gb Ethernet has increased our backup performance and greatly reduced the number of entities we have to manage. It has removed the need for individual tape device creation and management, and best of all we no longer have to contend with tape ejects and vaulting!”

Source:

TechValidate Survey of a Global 500 Insurance Company

TVID: 274-30E-F73

Case Study Details

Status:	Validated
Validated On:	Jan 29, 2010
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