Cancer Research UK Consolidates 40TB with BakBone NetVault Software
Storage infrastructure includes two Apple XSANs.
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on March 13, 2008 at 3:29 pmBakBone Software announced that Cancer Research UK has
dramatically improved storage administration and data protection levels
by consolidating 40TB of data with BakBone’s
NetVault: Backup.
Employing more than 4,250 scientists, doctors and nurses throughout the
UK, this is the world’s leading independent organization dedicated to
cancer research. Cancer Research UK relies on BakBone to backup two
storage area networks (SANs) and several Mac and Linux servers at its
Cambridge and London facilities.
The Cancer Research UK data storage infrastructure includes two Apple
XSANs, one located at the Cambridge Research Institute and the other at
the London Research Institute, both backed up to tape libraries across
an optical fibre. These SANs are used predominantly by Mac users for
storing scientific research data, including large volumes of AVI and MPG
files, which are served to users via Gigabit Ethernet connections from
Mac Xserves servers acting as SAN clients.
“With so much data to manage and protect 24/7,
ease of use is of paramount importance for us both in terms of
configuration and day-to-day administration. BakBone’s
reporting tools and policy management have been highly effective in
helping us achieve this,” said William Harris,
technical solutions architect, Cancer Research UK. “BakBone
NetVault: Backup has allowed us to consolidate our data protection
strategy, saving us man hours, increasing data protection and giving us
piece of mind. It has been invaluable.”
“Before the deployment of NetVault: Backup,
the Cancer Research UK’s IT department relied
on separate backup solutions, making the data protection set up time
consuming and inefficient,” said Chris Ross,
VP of EMEA, BakBone. “BakBone provided a
practical and affordable solution for the organization’s
Mac environment that set us apart from the competition.”
After evaluating a number of options, Cancer Research UK selected
BakBone software because of its blend of high performance solutions,
post-sales Mac support and price; being a charity the organization has
an obligation to keep costs to a minimum without compromising quality.
Over the coming months the charity will look at leveraging NetVault:
Backup to protect Oracle and MySQL data with BakBone Application Plugin
Modules.
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