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Education |
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Data Domain appliances significantly expand backup capacity and simplifies administration
for the Department of Computer Science, Princeton University. |
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Data Domain Restorers provide needed backup capacity and allow staff
to focus on other responsibilities. |
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Financial Services |
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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. |
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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. |
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The bank’s pension fund group successfully reduced its backup window from 12 hours to just
2½ hours. |
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Leading financial services group eliminates 120 tape drives,
streamlines backup, and centralizes management. |
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As a payment processor for banks, credit unions and credit service firms,
fast recovery from any interruption of their transactional operations is
essential to the successful completion of their daily fulfillment cycle. ORCC
implemented Data Domain DD560 appliances with Replicator software to relieve
their struggles with tape and to meet their daily closure requirements. |
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A leading investment bank reinvents its backup and disaster recovery using Data Domain. |
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Government |
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Lab can more rapidly backup and restore large genomic data sets. |
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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.” |
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Data Domain selected for its stellar recovery performance and low cost. |
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World’s largest corporate intranet chooses Data Domain for DR,
replicates backup data using satellite network. |
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Healthcare |
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Backups are no longer a constant struggle for top-ranked
pediatric medical center. |
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The company realized a return on their investment in a single year by eliminating
support for tape drives and the tape library, discontinuing tape purchases, and reducing off-site
storage requirements. |
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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. |
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Insurance |
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American Insurance deployed Data Domain systems to deduplicate and instantly
replicate data, applications and operating systems to a remote site, enabling
the company to develop a solution for agents to access the remote system via a
virtual network to maintain business continuity in the event of
disaster. |
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Legal |
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International law firm replicates to ten sites and eliminates tape for local backups. |
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Data Domain enables legal firm to increase the reliability of backups
while reducing security risks and liability. |
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Oil & Gas |
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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. |
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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. |
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Other |
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Leading Swiss energy company reduces administration time by 40 percent. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Manufacturing firm implements remote office backup and
full disaster recovery solution. |
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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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Retail |
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Purchase of seven Data Domain appliances enables fast and reliable data restores. |
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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. |
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Retail Publishing |
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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. |
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Services |
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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. |
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Data Domain enables Labor Ready to achieve nearly 100% reliability
for data backup and restores. |
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Data Domain enables centralized backup strategy and provides key
component to company’s disaster recovery plan. |
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Sports Entertainment |
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This Storage magazine feature story provides an inside look into the data
protection challenges of a professional sports team and how Data Domain has
helped them retool their backup processes. |
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Data Domain selected by Major League Baseball’s San Francisco Giants
for new backup and disaster recovery solution. |
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Technology |
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Digital imaging leader streamlines backup and saves money. |
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Headquartered in Munich, Germany, IZB Informatik-Zentrum implements and runs
financial applications and systems for 81 bank branches in Bavaria.
Deutsch (German language) |
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Leading IP hardware manufacturer enjoys huge cost savings and meets
demanding data retention requirements. |
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Data Domain enables OuterBay to keep more of its important data
onsite and ensures data is recoverable. |
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Data Domain plays an integral role in company’s business continuation
backup strategy. |
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Data Domain empowers America’s largest online mortgage
lender with daily full backups of Microsoft Exchange servers and
other business critical data. |
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Synopsys eliminated tape and saved 50% on backup costs at 6 remote sites by
installing Data Domain systems, and backup times were reduced from 18 hours to
2-6 hours. |
