--Krzysztof Waszkiewicz, VMware/WINTEL Server Support Team Manager, Bank Zachodni WBK
"In addition to drastically reduced backup windows due to Avamar's highly effective de-duplication, we find Avamar's simplicity and flexibility to be most impressive as a solution for the VMware platform. We have the flexibility to do both image and file level backups and we've found it to be equally cost effective for both our VMware and physical environments. In addition, a wide portfolio of plug-ins are available, which encompass a broad range of applications and operating system clients. Our Avamar implementation was simple and trouble-free, and now so are our backup and recoveries."
Complete Tape EliminationThe City of Oulu in Finland, population 141,671, had been backing up to tape. As they virtualized servers, their daily incremental backups began taking 12-14 hours and full backups were running through the entire weekend. It was fast becoming clear that, for their growing virtual environment, tape was no longer viable. To meet all their requirements, City of Oulu implemented a combination of EMC NetWorker® unified backup software, Avamar and Data Domain® dedpulication storage systems.
--Marko Niskala, Infrastructure Manager of City of Oulu
"With tape, we simply had no backup window left. With EMC, we've successfully solved our backup issues and reduced our data protection costs by 28% in the process. We are now 70% virtualized and have fast backups we can count on."
Eighty Percent VirtualizedUK-based Derby College, one of the largest further education colleges in the country, had tape-based backup processes that had become unmanageable and were inhibiting the completion of their server consolidation project. Tape backup and tape management were manually intensive and were consuming one full-time employee's efforts. Daily incremental backups were taking as long as 24 hours, and restores were taking as long as three days factoring in tape transportation services. Then Derby switched to EMC Avamar for backup of its now 80% virtualized environment. Today, the college performs full daily backups in only 3-4 hours and enjoys rapid restores and dramatically reduced management time.
--Ian McCormick, IT Infrastructure Manager for Derby College
"Backup at Derby College has gone from a full time job to essentially a no-time job. Our daily backup window time has been reduced by a factor of six, and time spent on managing our backups is negligible- basically more of a monitoring process. In addition, restores are simple- literally a few clicks and we're done. Avamar performs as promised, which is a testament to EMC. EMC has the expertise to make sure products like Avamar work well with VMware, and there's a significant level of comfort for us in that."
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Like Hannibal Smith I love it when a plan comes together.
I went through this story with 350 to 400 of my closest friends in EMEA Sales just last week at their 2012 kick off event and fully expect them to carry the message forward to all their customers. But it's so much better when other customers who are living it today say it in their own words.
