PHD Virtual Protects Data of The Hill School Data

PHD Virtual Technologies, Inc. announced that The Hill
School, a coeducational independent boarding and day school for grades 9-12 and
post-graduates in Pottstown, PA, has chosen PHD Virtual backup and
replication to protect data needed to run the school with more than 500
students.

The Hill School has three VMware hosts and five Citrix hosts, so finding a
solution that would work with both types of platforms was critical. The Hill
School utilizes PHD Virtual to backup up the whole environment nightly, and the
virtual backup appliance design means The Hill School didn’t have to purchase,
install and manage additional hardware like some competitive alternatives.

"Before finding PHD Virtual, we were
only doing VMware snapshotting and that can get you into trouble especially
with database backups," said Kyle Jones, director of information and technology
services, The Hill School. "Data
can become corrupt, but the database can work fine for years with corrupt data.
When you finally do discover it, you have to sift through data to find the
corruption … if you don’t have a full VM copy. With PHD, though, all we have
to do is revert back to a copy of the VM before the database got
corrupted."

He concluded: "We used PHD’s unique Rollback Recovery
feature the other day to restore a server, and the process took 13 minutes.
It’s so easy."

"Keeping the process uncomplicated,
affordable and fast are the main reasons we hear customers consistently choose
us," said Joe Noonan, senior product manager, PHD Virtual. "The Hill School is another such example that
sees value in easy-to-manage, multi-platform hypervisors with outstanding
dedupe ratios ranging from 31:1 to 65:1 on machines with frequently changing
data, and much higher numbers on more static VMs."