backup and recovery
CIOs are being torn in half by rapid data growth. On the right, Finance is pressuring them to shrink IT budget requirements. On their left, Legal is pressuring them to maintain compliance and force employees to follow data management policies.
The explosion of data growth driven by business demands puts a tremendous strain on IT resources and Green IT strategy. Green IT initiatives now often include projects looking at how to access and manage data more efficiently across areas such as disaster recovery, compliance, backup, eDiscovery, and archive. Inefficient management of applications and data significantly compounds the data growth challenge and improving upon this, affords a real opportunity to make an immediate and tangible impact on Green IT strategy.
With 160 programs and a 60,000 student body, the George Brown College Data Center Operations team needed to make sure it provided round-the-clock data service protection, including the ability to rapidly recover failed servers and an easier-to-use, and a faster way to deploy a rapidly-growing Windows server population. This case study looks at how the College switched to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced server with Acronis Universal Restore following realization that the Symantec Ghost solution was inadequate for the job.
Schleicher County Independent School District (SCISD) serves just under 3,000 people and 625 students. In this lightly populated area of the country, IT self-sufficiency isn’t just a virtue, but a necessity when you’re many miles away from the nearest small city and three hours away from a large computer retailer. This case study is about how lone IT support personnel, J.D. DOyle, uses Acronis as a DR solution.
The New York City Department of Probation oversees a 45,000-person caseload. The city sought to streamline the department’s 900 probation officers’ efforts to create and deliver more than 30,000 reports a year into the city’s court system. The result is a Reusable Case Management System (RCMS), deployed in 2008, literally eliminates ‘paper-pushing,’ saving nearly five million sheets of paper and increasing on-time delivery rates of court documents from 70% to 100%.
For businesses and government organizations to fully realize and protect the inherent value of the data within their service, they have to recognize the need to eliminate deployment of multiple point solutions and embrace a unified approach to data management. If they do this they are in a position not only to reap the benefits in terms of business continuity and disaster recovery.
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