Adding Disk To Improve Enterprise Backup: An ADIC Case Study
30 Januar 2006 - 2:00PM
Business Wire
Using solutions from Advanced Digital Information Corporation
(Nasdaq:ADIC), the leader in Intelligent Storage(TM) solutions for
the open systems market, Northeast Delta Dental has reduced the
cost and time associated with managing its enterprise backup.
Northeast Delta Dental is northern New England's premier dental
benefits administrator, covering more than 650,000 people and
processing more than 1.3 million claims per year. For the IT
department, protecting and restoring data quickly is one of its
most important jobs. When the backup team saw it couldn't restore
files as quickly as their customers needed, they upgraded their
backup system to make it faster, but also insisted on keeping their
existing data protection protocols intact. The answer was a new
backup system that combined an ADIC(R) Pathlight(R) VX disk backup
solution with an ADIC Scalar(R) tape library. "Pathlight VX gives
us disk backup advantages while keeping our tape-based security
practices, and it has worked wonderfully," said Dan Kaplan,
Northeast Delta Dental Manager of Networking and Technical Support.
"Now the tapes are created in the background and don't use our
backup servers and Storage Area Network (SAN)." Disk Provides a
Solution Northeast Delta Dental's IT department liked the idea of
getting disk into their backup, but they absolutely demanded the
security of off-site tape storage and wanted to decrease management
time. They looked at using backup software and conventional ATA
disk arrays as a backup target but rejected it. Kaplan said, "We
realized it was going to be hard to share our storage resources and
creating tapes was going to become even more difficult. We saw too
many steps, too much scripting, too many points of failure, and too
much extra management." Instead, the IT department selected ADIC's
Pathlight VX disk-to-tape backup solution, which they deployed with
an ADIC Scalar 24 automated tape library. Pathlight VX is a disk
backup solution that makes ATA disk arrays look like a tape
library, so existing backup software can write easily to it. It
also features an integrated path for creating physical tapes that
can be exported for long-term storage. Reducing Costs and
Management Time Pathlight VX also provided an elegant way for
Northeast Delta Dental to better meet its service level objective.
Every night the primary data is first backed up to the Pathlight VX
disk, and then Pathlight VX creates copies of the volumes on
physical tapes. The tapes are removed each day and secured in an
off-site facility -- just like before -- but now the IT team keeps
a copy of the files on disk for five days. That means that data
recovery now takes place in a few minutes instead of several hours.
Kaplan adds, "We find that almost all of our restore requests come
within five days of data creation, so we have effectively stopped
having to bring tapes back for recovery. The restore speeds of the
Pathlight VX system are simply awe inspiring -- much faster than we
saw before from tape." If the IT team does need to bring tapes back
for recovery, they can still do it. The tapes are written in the
application's native format, and they can be restored in a
conventional library if necessary. The best thing is how simple and
automated it all is -- one process creates tapes for export as well
as local copies for fast restores. "ADIC helped us look at our
needs and came up with a solution that really makes our backup life
easier," said Michael Bourbeau, Northeast Delta Dental, Vice
President of Information Systems. "We do less management, our
overall costs have been reduced, and our administrators are able to
help our customers solve other problems." A formatted copy of this
case study is posted at www.adic.com/deltadental. About Northeast
Delta Dental Offering the largest dentist network in its three
states, Northeast Delta Dental provides dental benefits to over
650,000 people in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. The Company
also extends its mission through its foundation, funding oral
health initiatives in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. About ADIC
Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC) is a leading
provider of Intelligent Storage(TM) solutions to the open systems
marketplace. ADIC is the world's largest supplier of automated tape
systems using the drive technologies most often employed for
backing up open system, client-server networks.(a) The Company's
data management software, storage networking appliances, and
disk-based backup and restore solutions provide IT managers
innovative tools for storing, managing, and protecting their most
valuable digital assets in a variety of disk and tape environments.
ADIC storage products are available through a worldwide sales force
and a global network of resellers, OEMs and partnerships, including
Apple, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP, IBM, and Sun. Further
information about ADIC is available at www.adic.com. (a) Market
Share:Gartner Dataquest, Tape Automation Systems Market Shares,
2004, F. Yale, August 2005. ADIC and Scalar are registered
trademarks and Intelligent Storage is a trademark of Advanced
Digital Information Corporation. All other trade or service marks
mentioned in this document should be considered the property of
their respective owners.
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