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Harvard Vanguard Cures Data Backup Ills With EMC Avamar

Date:4/7/2009

Data Deduplication Technology Slashes Data Backup Size from 3.2 Terabytes to 1 Terabyte; Backup Time Reduced from 35 to 2 Hours

HOPKINTON, Mass., April 7 /PRNewswire/ -- EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, a multi-specialty medical group delivering care to 450,000-plus patients at more than 20 offices across eastern Massachusetts, has deployed an EMC Avamar(R) backup and recovery solution to significantly increase the reliability and efficiency of its growing backup operations while improving its IT efficiencies.

Harvard Vanguard previously performed tape backups of servers located at 18 different practice sites. Because the local staff could no longer keep up with longer backup cycles, failing backups, finding lost tapes and cleaning tape drives, Harvard Vanguard began sending its backups over the network to a large tape drive in the main datacenter, but this solution also presented issues.

"Our data requirements have increased significantly," said Rich April, Harvard Vanguard's Director of Network Engineering. "When we performed the tape backups locally, it was becoming too labor-intensive and failure-prone with bigger backups - especially across 18 sites. So we centralized our tape backups but it still would take 35 hours to complete. We'd have to run the backups at night; pause them while people were in the office and restart that night. Because the data had to be carved into different sections, it was a complex process. And when tape backup jobs failed, as they often do, it was a real headache because the backup window was frequently too congested to allow for rescheduling of a failed backup."

The physician group decided to replace its Symantec Backup Exec tape backup software with
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