Trion Industries Chooses AppAssure

AppAssure
Software Inc. announced that Trion Industries, manufacturer of display and scanning hooks, replaced Microsoft Data Protection Manager with
AppAssure’s Replay4 backup and recovery software for
Microsoft Windows application servers.

Switching to Replay’s
disk imaging backup and disaster recovery protection, the manufacturer is
reported to have reached server restores with a 492%
ROI.

"Trion’s average operating costs are about
$25 million dollars," says Dustin Day, Network and Systems
Administrator at Trion, "and we
service a global market, so we’re a leader in our field, but we were losing
money and staff resources with the backup and disaster recovery products we had
in place."

Day
estimated that the DPM tape-based solution, along with Windows Backup Utility
cost Trion $50,000 in staff time spent dealing with the inadequate backups and
systems that weren’t working for Trion’s IT needs.

According
to Day, he and his team knew they needed to find a better solution for Trion’s
burgeoning data, not to mention the protection of all the servers and disaster recovery solution.

"The catalyst was that we got a new server,"
recalls Day, "and I thought we’d
just use the same architecture for our backup and DR, so we considered getting
big tape protection for it. But I was very disappointed by the products we
looked at. I wasn’t really happy with what was out there, and didn’t have
budget for SAN. Also, I wanted to eliminate tapes and find a safer place to
store our data, much less eliminate the human error or transporting tapes. That is why it was decided to take a
completely different direction with Replay4,"

Switching
to Replay Day states: "Trion not only
managed to eliminate the backup window and the use of cumbersome tape, but also
came up with a sophisticated disaster recovery process, using virtualization."

"Replay is installed on the Hyper-V host,
which performs snapshots and stores them to a local RAID 50 2.7TB array,"
says Day. "Once completed, the snapshots
are replicated to our off-site DR location which has a Drobo storage array
attached to it. Our DR plan before was buying a new server and getting the data
on it if you can. Now we can go from virtual to physical with lots of
flexibility due to Replay’s ability to work with dissimilar hardware. Since we
know we have the data because of Replay, we can just get a rack server or
something from a local company and put the data back on there."

As
Day says, he and his staff are sleeping better at night because they know their
data is safe, their servers can be restored in no time at all, they’ve
saved the company money, and they don’t have to worry about carrying tapes
around all the time – due to Replay.
"The
pricing is reasonable, the software is powerful, and AppAssure’s technical
support is outstanding," sums up a satisfied Day.