Customer Presentations

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Speaker: Michael Passe, Storage Architect for Beth Israel Hospitals
Beth Israel Hospitals employs more than 18,000 and carries an annual IT budget typically between $8-10 million. As Storage Architect, Mr. Passe is responsible for the “over-the-horizon” view of IT platforms, including storage. Mr. Passe discusses the hospital’s strategic rollout of Data Domain deduplication storage and the technical and business benefits he’s seen. (11:15)
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Regency Centers

Speaker: Richard Van Lare, Senior Network Administrator
Mr. Van Lare discusses Regency Center's integration of Data Domain with Veritas NetBackup and OpenStorage (OST) to increase backup performance and retention times and to simplify management and administration over previous tape and VTL approaches. (6:51)
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City of Mission Viejo, California

Speaker: Jackie Alexander, IT Director
After conducting an in-depth 30-day evaluation of Data Domain and comparing with a competing disk-based appliance approach, Ms. Alexander offers compelling factors for choosing the Data Domain solution to implement a city-wide disaster preparedness strategy and to eliminate the cost and administration associated with tape backup. (8:14)
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Utah State University

Speaker: Eric Hawley, Associate Vice President, IT for Utah State University
Mr. Hawley describes how the IT department uses deduplication storage to extend the benefits of their existing Dell/EMC SAN. (13:17)
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Speaker: Orrin Anderson, Systems Administrator for Utah State University
Mr. Anderson speaks to the requirements and benefits of their implementation of the Data Domain DD690g gateway for data deduplication. (06:45)
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Bank Midwest

Speaker: Bryan Wilken, Vice President of IT for Bank Midwest
Mr. Wilken describes his storage challenges in isolating a disk solution that would work effectively across his Windows server, VMware and IBM AS400 environment. By choosing Data Domain deduplication storage, Bank Midwest has successfully transitioned away from tape for backup and DR. (08:47)
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Gartner Data Center Conference Case Study: Architecting Deduplication and Virtualization for Best of Breed Data Protection

Speaker: Brad Blake, Director of IT for Boston Medical Center
Boston Medical Center details its decision process and successful implementation of Data Domain deduplication storage as well as the economic benefits received by going tapeless for backup and disaster recovery. Mr. Blake presented to an audience at Gartner's Data Center Conference.
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Gartner Data Center Conference Case Study: Phased Rollout of Data Deduplication Brings Practical, Enterprise-wide Business Continuity

Speaker: Greg Cleveland, Principal Data Protection Technology Consultant for a leading health care organization
Mr. Cleveland shares his experience piloting a disk backup solution utilizing Data Domain deduplication and replication to consolidate data protection processes across more than 700 sites for one of the nation's leading health care organizations. Mr. Cleveland presented to an audience at Gartner's Data Center Conference.
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End Users Join VMware, CommVault and Data Domain to Discuss the Impact of New Technologies in the Data Center

Panelists: Jon Robitzsch, Sr. Manager of Infrastructure Systems, Interactive Communications Inc.; Rob Rees, Senior Systems Architect, ICOS Corporation; John M. Thomas, Information Technology Manager, Troutman Sanders LLP
This audio program is a live, unedited recording of an end-user panel at Storage Networking World (SNW) in 2007. They discuss how they have leveraged server virtualization, data deduplication and a unified approach to data management to the benefit of their organizations. Tony Asaro is the moderator and VMware, CommVault and Data Domain also engage in the open discussion.
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ScriptPro Corporation: Building a Versatile Enterprise Application Protection Solution with Dedupllcation Storage

Speakers: Stanton Cole, Systems Engineer, ScriptPro Corporation; Daniel Budiansky, Principal Technology Consultant, EMC; Shane Jackson, Sr. Director, Product Marketing, EMC
Deploying a unified EMC Data Domain and EMC NetWorker solution has enabled ScriptPro to architect a versatile backup and recovery infrastructure that provides efficient, reliable data protection for business-critical enterprise applications.
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City of Mission Viejo: Implementing a Disaster Preparedness Plan with EMC Data Domain

Speakers: Jackie Alexander, IT Director, City of Mission Viejo; Daniel Budiansky, Principal Technology Consultant, EMC; Shane Jackson, Sr. Director, Product Marketing, EMC
In this deduplication eSeminar webcast, you will hear how the City of Mission Viejo has implemented EMC Data Domain deduplication storage to meet the stringent cost, recovery time, data retention and continuity objectives of its new city-wide disaster preparedness plan with confidence.
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Spartech Corporation: Tapeless DR Best Practices — Mitigating Risk with Deduplication Storage

Speakers: Mark Holland, Manager of IT Operations, Spartech Corporation; Troy Schuler, Technical Consultant, EMC Backup Recovery Systems; Daniel Budiansky, Principal Technical Consultant, EMC Backup Recovery Systems
EMC Data Domain deduplication storage has enabled Spartech Corporation to achieve a tapeless approach to DR that exceeds stringent recovery time objectives, reduces costs and delivers fast, reliable backup and recovery.
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HNTB Corporation: Eliminating Tape Backups with Deduplication Storage

Speakers: Wes Owen, Manaager of Infrastructure Services, HNTB Corporation and Daniel Budiansky, Enterprise Applications Technologist, EMC
Learn how HNTB Corporation implemented Data Domain deduplication storage as a cost-effective solution to eliminate tape. Re-architecting its backup and disaster recovery processes has enabled HNTB to achieve faster backups, meet stringent recovery time objectives of business-critical data, and increase overall data protection reliability.
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USC Marshall School of Business: Protecting VMware Environments

Speakers: Dan Lewis, Manager, Network Services for USC Marshall School of Business and Daniel Budiansky, Enterprise Applications Technologist, EMC Backup Recovery Systems
Listen to customer insights on the benefits realized through the combined use of VMware and Data Domain to minimize dependence on tape and to automate disaster recovery processes via efficient WAN-based replication at USC Marshall School of Business.
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: Scaling Multiple Data Domain Generations

Speakers: Michael Passe, Storage Architect, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Daniel Budiansky, Enterprise Applications Technologist, EMC Backup Recovery Systems
Hear how this Data Domain customer utilizes multiple generations of Data Domain deduplication storage to automate backups and DR processes amidst continued data growth at this large Boston-based hospital. Mr. Passe shares the business and technical benefits of deploying a NAS-based deduplication solution and the significant reductions in tape management and administration overhead.
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