SolarWinds
Date
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8/1/2010
With the Dell PowerVault DL2000, we now have a solution that can perform incremental backups and full backups at any time without affecting the performance of any other applications.
— David Mills, IT director, SolarWinds, the United States
Challenge
SolarWinds, a global software enterprise, wanted to protect data, simplify backups from numerous physical and virtual servers around the world, eliminate the performance drain of running backup software on production servers and accelerate the recovery of data.Solution
SolarWinds selected Dell PowerVault™ disk backup appliances and added Dell PowerVault tape autoloaders — creating a single, dedicated backup solution that simplifies backups and speeds data recovery.Benefits
- Deployed solution in just one hour — facilitating a rapid transition to the new backup processes
- Reduced the time for full backups by 50 percent
- Simplified operations by moving from three data management products to one
- Decreased amount of storage capacity needed by 75 percent — enabling the company to store four weeks of backups on disk instead of just one
- Accelerated backup time — helping to keep the business moving even in the event of a disaster
