Part II of II
How One Company Met the Challenge of Data Growth using EVault
One e-commerce management company recently faced several data storage challenges that were driving up costs. With new clients coming on board, leading to immediate increases in data storage, as well as multiple databases that needed daily backup, the company’s old tape backup system was no longer cost-effective or secure enough. Plus, too much data was bogging the system down, leading to long backup windows, a high risk of hardware failure and data storage loss.
As the company began to look at choosing a new solution, several key requirements were identified. The customer chose to use EVault SaaS online backup and recovery because it met all oftheir needs.
Key Requirements in Choosing a New Solution:
- Reliable and secure backup and recovery
- Ability to use storage space more efficiently
- Flexibility in determining the best solution
- Managing to budget
The most important factor in choosing EVault SaaS online backup was that it provided reliable and secure backup so that if the servers went down, data could be quickly and easily recovered. EVault provides end-to-end encryption for data security and has tier 3 and 4 data centers with SAS 70 Type II certification. This provided the customer with the assurance that their data would be protected and could not be accessed by anyone but specific individuals within their company. EVault is easy to use and provides fast recovery – no need to find tapes or take multiple steps to recover data. With 22,000 EVault customers, reliability has been proven over and over again.
As the company’s storage requirements increased, it became imperative that storage space be used more efficiently. With EVault, the customer no longer made multiple copies of the same data, only new or changed data would be backed up. Data compression also further reduced the amount of storage required driving down costs of storage and the backup window.
One of the most important factors in choosing the EVault solution was i365’s flexibility and customer service. i365 worked with the customer to determine the best solution – online, appliance, software or a hybrid. Multiple options and costs were available to meet the customer’s needs, allowing them to choose the best solution for their budget. i365 customer service was able to monitor the customer’s implementation and provide them with guidance.
After implementation, i365 was able to help this customer reduce the amount of time needed for backup, implement flexible retention policies to better match their business needs, and reduce their backup storage footprint. The customer’s total data storage footprint had swelled to 2.7 TB with a single critical database at 900GB. With data compression, deduplication and backup of only new or changed data blocks, the database was reduced to only 200GB of storage resulting in a savings of $2,700 per month. Over time, even larger savings will be realized as data growth is further controlled and reduced. The customer was also able to budget fixed costs for data backup that will result in additional savings, rather than always dealing with the unknown.
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