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Hewlett-Packard (HP) Case Study: Tokio Marine & Nichido Financial Life Insurance Co., Ltd | 2009-01-01 | Hewlett-Packard (HP) |
| Using a unique business model which fully assimilated the two businesses of life and non-life insurance, the Tokio Marine Group has grown to become one of the world's leading insurance groups. They wanted to set up a DR framework for the accounting, operation and information systems that included the mail, web and file servers - in order to realize a higher level of business continuity. To achieve automated DR with HP StorageWorks XP Continuous Access, the company needed a data/disaster recovery tool of high availability that can support HP StorageWorks XP20000 Disk Array, and carry out remote replication using a hardware layer. The company standardized the IT Infrastructure along with the adoption of ITIL.
Tags: IT Infrastructure, Management |
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Disaster Preparedness: How to Develop a Business Continuity Plan | 2007-11-30 | CDW |
| Like most business development and major IT projects, a business continuity plan requires an investment of time and resources. Business leaders looking for the greatest return on their investment tend to put off business continuity until disaster strikes - a critical mistake that can jeopardize a business's survival.
Tags: IT Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure, Network Management, Data Infrastructure |
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Egyptian Credit Bureau Supports Growth With New Virtualization Technology | 2008-11-01 | Microsoft |
| With Egypt's financial institutions relying on it for service, I-Score wanted to ensure its own growth and availability while controlling costs. The bureau decided to build a disaster recovery center supported by Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtualization technology. I-Score also uses Terminal Services to deliver central access to office applications. The solution will minimize costs, streamline management, and enhance business continuity.
Tags: Server Platforms - OS, Server Hardware |
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AutoNation Achieves Backups 12 Times Faster, Cuts Costs With New Backup Software | 2008-03-27 | Microsoft Tips |
| Leading automotive retailer AutoNation watched its data expand as rapidly as its car sales. When its data stores hit 15 terabytes, the company could no longer back up all of its data in a 24-hour period. Also, the tape-based backup scheme required hours of management each week and was often unreliable. AutoNation decided to deploy Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007, a disk-and-tape backup system, to back up its Microsoft-based file, database, and messaging workloads. Since moving to the new software, AutoNation has seen a 12-times reduction in backup times and a six-hour timesaving each week for IT staff. Users are more productive because of the ready availability of disk-based backups, and backup maintenance costs have dropped by 30 percent.
Tags: Data Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure |
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GWU Improves Disaster Recovery With Business Continuity | 2007-12-01 | Sun Microsystems |
| Created by an Act of Congress in 1821, The George Washington University (GWU) supports over 70 research centers and institutes and offers comprehensive programs of undergraduate and graduate study as well as degree programs in medicine, law, engineering, education, business and international affairs. The company's challenge was phenomenal growth that poses scalability issues. The company wanted incompatible systems and files hamper productivity; and wanted to takes days to recover from a disaster. Sun helped GWU transition from tactical disaster recovery to strategic business continuity by migrating its data centers to a Sun-based business continuity infrastructure with increased flexibility and instant failover.
Tags: IT Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure |
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The Verdict Is in - UltraBac Software Is a Great Choice for Law Firms | 2007-10-29 | UltraBac Software |
| The data stored on the server is a vital part of Turner Padget's business. Critical summary judgments, motions, declarations, and other items filed within the courts need to be readily accessible. Losing any or all data would have a devastating impact on the firm's business. Therefore, a complete and dependable backup and recovery plan, as well as support for a wide array of servers and devices, is a necessity for Turner Padget's operations. Since UltraBac had provided Turner Padget with dependable file-by-file backup protection for the past six years, the company naturally looked to UltraBac Software again when they decided to add image-based disaster recovery. Their sales representative guided them to UBDR Gold.
Tags: Data Infrastructure |
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Strengthening Data Centers and Disaster Recovery | 2007-10-01 | BearingPoint |
| This leading U.S. financial services provider offers investment, retirement, insurance, and banking products and services. The company needed assistance in analyzing its data center operations and improving its disaster recovery capabilities had suffered several potentially disastrous events in its data centers. The company also wanted an evaluation of an existing facility not owned by the company. BearingPoint professionals conducted detailed assessments of the company's data center sites to observe and gather details on the centers' capabilities. They recommended a long-term data center strategy based on a dual data center design for production systems, along with a satellite site. BearingPoint provided the company with a cost-benefit analysis that was used for project approval and to create departmental budgets.
Tags: Network Management, Data Infrastructure |
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Archive Systems Improves Service Delivery and Reduces Costs With F5 Acopia | 2007-09-01 | F5 Networks |
| F5 Acopia ARX products have reduced Archive Systems' backup windows from days to hours, enabling the firm to meet compliance audits and rigorous service level agreements with its customers. The ARX devices have also facilitated a disaster recovery solution that allows Archive Systems to offer a premium service to customers. Finally, the virtualized file environment that F5 Acopia has enabled has dramatically simplified the day-to-day storage management operations and will allow Archive Systems to scale its business more efficiently.
Tags: Data Infrastructure |
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Phoenix Assurance Company Leverages Network Appliance Storage to Ensure Complete Operational Recovery Within 48 Hours of a Site Failure | 0000-00-00 | NetApp |
| The Israel Phoenix Assurance Company Ltd. specializes in general, life, health, and nursing insurance and is part of The Israel Phoenix Group, the third-largest insurance group in Israel. The company wanted to ensure rapid, uninterrupted access and streamline 15- to 20-hour backups. The company also tape recoveries take hours/days and remote DR prohibitively expensive. The unique capabilities of NetApp Snapshot technology led Phoenix to consider a NetApp storage solution.
Tags: Data Infrastructure, Management |
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The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Relies on NetApp Storage to Serve a Dynamic Academic Community | 0000-00-00 | NetApp |
| Established in 1924, the Technion is Israel's oldest university and top education institute for science and technology. The university wanted to implement a robust storage solution to meet rapidly increasing demand in high-volume NAS and SAN environments. They also wanted to deliver exceptional performance, flexibility, scalability, and availability, as well as support for a future Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) site, while reducing costs. As a solution the company deployed the NetApp cluster FAS3020 system which provides stability and redundancy in dual NAS and SAN environments while providing high performance, scalability, flexibility, self-management, remote system operation, and DRP readiness.
Tags: Storage Hardware, Storage Hardware |
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