Residential Building Company Meritage Homes Boosts Data Protection With Crossroads SPHiNX

Crossroads Systems, Inc. announced that Scottsdale, AZ-based Meritage Homes Corporation, a residential building company, deployed its SPHiNX virtual tape solution to protect its critical business records.

With more than 84,000 homes built since its founding in 1985, Meritage relies on the constant availability of important data, including blueprints and project management information as well as customer and employee data. Meritage IT administrators needed to find a solution that would reduce their backup volumes to meet strict backup windows in their IBM environment, while still offering top-notch protection.

Meritage selected the SPHiNX virtual tape system to aid their backup and data protection strategies. With SPHiNX, the company is able to expedite and simplify backup operations. Additionally, Meritage’s commitment to sustainability is evident in their data center, as SPHiNX helps reduce the physical resources, energy and manpower needed to carry out critical backup processes.

“SPHiNX has proven to be a very reliable data protection solution that has decreased our backup window and greatly increased our available data retention,” said Stephen Thompson, senior systems engineer, Meritage Homes.

“Crossroads is honored to provide high-quality, efficient data protection for Meritage Homes, one of the nation’s leading home builders with a clear focus on sustainability and innovation,” said David Cerf, EVP of strategy and business development, Crossroads. “SPHiNX is the ideal virtual tape solution for IBM environments and continues to prove its value by more than paying for itself in a short amount of time.“