Cuscal Appoints Tecala to Implement Disk-Based Backup Project Based on EMC

Cuscal Limited, owner and operator of the RediATM
network and Australia’s provider of transactional banking, liquidity and capital management
products has engaged IT infrastructure services specialist, Tecala, to design and implement a new
disk-based backup system for the company’s Sydney production data centre and its Lane
Cove disaster recovery data centre. Work on the project began earlier this
month and is due for completion in late 2011.

Tecala’s solution is based on a number of EMC technologies, including an Avamar Rain backup and de-duplication device,
EMC Networker backup and recovery software and Data Protection Advisor for analytical and reporting capabilities. It also includes a specially
designed backup schedule that encompasses all Cuscal production IT workloads –
from email and file servers through to critical back-end banking and settlement
systems.

Michael Magoulias, Manager Infrastructure Services, Cuscal
says: "Our underlying requirement
for this project is to update the backup technology and where possible, to
realise efficiencies. We believe Tecala’s design will achieve this."

Replacement of the existing tape-based system with a disk
and on-line alternative is expected to reduce Cuscal’s tape media, library and
management costs by up to 90 per cent. The introduction of de-duplication
technology that identifies redundant data at source, thereby reducing the
amount of data being sent over the network is also expected to
decrease the amount of time required to conduct each backup.

Online storage of backup data will also
ensure that Cuscal has rapid access to backup data and, should the worst occur,
its production and disaster recovery data centres will be backup and running
as quickly as possible.

Magoulias adds: "Tecala
is a trusted partner of ours. We look to them for advice on a range of areas
including backup, storage and infrastructure. They first came on board to
assist us with an issue that we couldn’t get rectified by other parties almost
two-and-a-half years ago. They’ve since won a lot of our business because of
what they were able to prove back then."