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Microsoft Exchange Case Studies
	City of Houston The fourth most populous city in the U.S. chose Data Domain to reduce its reliance on its aging tape infrastructure. The ITD staff decreases backup administration by nearly 50%, significantly increases backup reliability and bolsters recovery time objectives. An ongoing NetBackup OpenStorage pilot demonstrates additional administration and management benefits utilizing Data Domain OpenStorage software for optimized replication.
	Cuatrecasas Cuatrecasas, a leading Spanish law firm employing more than 800 practicing attorneys, has implemented Data Domain DD565 and DD530 systems to solve its file restore and DR challenges caused by unreliable and slow tape. The firm now replicates between Data Domain systems which offers iron-clad business continuity. In addition the firm can now retain 1-2 months of backups online allowing fast and reliable recoveries.
	Fred. Olsen & Co. In business since 1848, Fred. Olsen & Co. and affiliates specialize in offshore drilling, tankers, renewable energy, cruise, IT, venture capital and real estate activities. Challenged by increasing data growth and interested in protecting their investment in VMWare virtualization technology, the company has deployed Data Domain deduplication storage systems in its data center and remote facilities - including on vessels at sea - to ensure system availability at all sites, reduce management overhead and to implement cost-effective DR via replication.
	GMAC-RFC As GMAC-RFC shifts its focus from mortgage lending to asset management, it needed a more reliable backup solution than its failing VTL to protect its business critical applications. Data Domain has solved the company’s backup, retention and recovery issues, automated replication between its primary data center and DR site and has virtually eliminated tape from its data protection processes.
	Lancashire County Council Lancashire County Council (LCC) was storing about 100 terabytes of backup data. With consistent growth in its data stores and its backup tape library reaching capacity, it had become apparent that a re-evaluation was needed of its backup infrastructure. For LCC, “The trial was the deciding factor.”
	Large Networking Company Leading IP hardware manufacturer enjoys huge cost savings and meets demanding data retention requirements.
	Orchid Cellmark A leading provider of identity DNA testing services for the human identity and agriculture markets chose Data Domain to meet backup window limitations, improve regulatory compliance requirements and migrate away from tape.
	Roger Williams Medical Center Faced with burgeoning data growth and a tape backup system that could not scale with escalating archiving and compliance requirements, RWMC implemented a Data Domain solution that provides improved reliability, fast backup and restore times, near instantaneous network-efficient replication and the scalability they needed for future growth with less management overhead.
	TiVo Frustrated by unreliable tape, and data growth challenges that could not be met with VTL, TiVo has achieved fast ROI and is saving 50TB of disk space per year by deploying Data Domain deduplication storage.

Microsoft SQL Case Studies
	GMAC-RFC As GMAC-RFC shifts its focus from mortgage lending to asset management, it needed a more reliable backup solution than its failing VTL to protect its business critical applications. Data Domain has solved the company’s backup, retention and recovery issues, automated replication between its primary data center and DR site and has virtually eliminated tape from its data protection processes.
	Roger Williams Medical Center Faced with burgeoning data growth and a tape backup system that could not scale with escalating archiving and compliance requirements, RWMC implemented a Data Domain solution that provides improved reliability, fast backup and restore times, near instantaneous network-efficient replication and the scalability they needed for future growth with less management overhead.
	TiVo Frustrated by unreliable tape, and data growth challenges that could not be met with VTL, TiVo has achieved fast ROI and is saving 50TB of disk space per year by deploying Data Domain deduplication storage.
	XM Canada By Choosing Data Domain deduplication storage, satelite radio giant XM Canada has reduced its backup window by 40%, increased data retention to 45 days, regained confidence in its Microsoft SQL recoveries and has said goodbye to tape management woes.

Oracle Case Studies
	Britannia Building Society The second largest building society in the UK turned to Data Domain to better protect high-value customer data by enabling network-efficient replication to an off-site data center while eliminating the problems and risks associated with tape.
	Canadian Automobile Association With 140 offices across Canada serving more than 5 million customers, Canadian Automobile Association implemented Data Domain to streamline their backup process and increase their onsite data retention period from seven days to a month. Now they can meet their challenging backup windows and they saved the cost of upgrading their existing tape library system.
	City of Houston The fourth most populous city in the U.S. chose Data Domain to reduce its reliance on its aging tape infrastructure. The ITD staff decreases backup administration by nearly 50%, significantly increases backup reliability and bolsters recovery time objectives. An ongoing NetBackup OpenStorage pilot demonstrates additional administration and management benefits utilizing Data Domain OpenStorage software for optimized replication.
	Fortune 50 Financial Services Company This IDC Buyer Case Study describes the implementation of Data Domain deduplication storage systems at a Fortune 50 financial services firm. This company evaluated deduplication technology from several vendors in an effort to optimize storage infrastructure and reduce backup disk capacity. IDC conducted multiple in-depth interviews with the company’s IT staff in order to provide this detailed examination of the company’s evaluation process, competitive evaluation, proof-of-concept testing and implementation of Data Domain deduplication technology and systems.
	Great River Energy Midwest energy cooperative chooses Data Domain as an important component of its award winning green data center design strategy. Great River Energy reduces storage power consumption by 45% compared to tape, significantly increases backup and recovery success and extends data retention by 3x.
	Lancashire County Council Lancashire County Council (LCC) was storing about 100 terabytes of backup data. With consistent growth in its data stores and its backup tape library reaching capacity, it had become apparent that a re-evaluation was needed of its backup infrastructure. For LCC, “The trial was the deciding factor.”
	TiVo Frustrated by unreliable tape, and data growth challenges that could not be met with VTL, TiVo has achieved fast ROI and is saving 50TB of disk space per year by deploying Data Domain deduplication storage.

VMware Case Studies
	Alaska Department of Fish & Game A legacy tape-based backup environment and decentralized management would not meet the demands of the State of Alaska’s Department of Fish & Game’s planned virtualization initiative. Deploying EMC Data Domain systems enabled the agency to complete its virtualization plans through reduced administration, replication of backups without additional bandwidth and lowered operational costs through centralized procurement and management of backup and DR environments.
	Associated Newspapers UK-based Associated Newspapers Ltd implemented VMware infrastructure in order to address space, power and cooling challenges in its primary data center, along with a combined disaster recovery solution using Vizioncore’s vRanger Pro™ backup and restore technology and Data Domain deduplication storage.
	Boston Medical Center Boston Medical Center meets its backup, recovery and DR ROI objectives within its VMware environment utilizing EMC Data Domain deduplication storage and EMC NetWorker.
	Fred. Olsen & Co. In business since 1848, Fred. Olsen & Co. and affiliates specialize in offshore drilling, tankers, renewable energy, cruise, IT, venture capital and real estate activities. Challenged by increasing data growth and interested in protecting their investment in VMWare virtualization technology, the company has deployed Data Domain deduplication storage systems in its data center and remote facilities - including on vessels at sea - to ensure system availability at all sites, reduce management overhead and to implement cost-effective DR via replication.
	Generali International Generali International optimizes its VMware environment with EMC Data Domain and reduces costs and risk by eliminating tape storage.
	Great River Energy Midwest energy cooperative chooses Data Domain as an important component of its award winning green data center design strategy. Great River Energy reduces storage power consumption by 45% compared to tape, significantly increases backup and recovery success and extends data retention by 3x.
	HNTB Corporation Architectural design and engineering firm keeps operational costs under control with EMC as information infrastructure grows.
	Oil & Gas Company This Canadian-based oil and gas company addresses in excess of 100 TB of data with a Data Domain gateway. In addition to achieving deduplication ratios of over 30x on VMware server backups, the client cites significant savings on disk costs, power, cooling and data center footprint. Combined with Legato NetWorker and Vizioncore vRangerPro software the company now enjoys a simplified solution to manage backups in their virtual server environment.
	O’Neill Europe The Netherlands-based retailer of boardriding products accelerated its data protection processes at five sites while increasing its online data retention time to a full year. Today O’Neill Europe “surfs” through backups and recoveries with Data Domain.
	Ordnance Survey Since implementing its EMC Data Domain solution, Ordnance Survey now has complete confidence in its backups and restores, completely eliminating reliance on its previous tape-based infrastructure.
	Teck This IDC Buyer Case Study features Teck, a $6.3 billion Canadian mining company with more than 9,500 global employees. Teck has implemented Data Domain deduplication storage across 20 sites as part of a global standardization and compliance initiative.
	Troutman Sanders LLP International law firm replicates to ten sites and eliminates tape for local backups.
	Wavefield Inseis Wavefield Inseis is a Norwegian marine geophysical company, providing proprietary data acquisition services for the global oil and gas exploration community. Having implemented a VMware virtual server project, the company turned to Data Domain to provide cost-effective backup processes, meet 30-day data retention objectives, simplify remote office data protection — including business-critical applications onboard vessels at sea — via replication and minimize time-to-DR.
	The Westervelt Company This privately held land-resource organization chose Data Domain for a backup and disaster recovery solution that frees them from tape woes and has enabled them to achieve exponential acceleration of their backup and restore processes.

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