Backup Technologies, i365 | No Comments | August 30th, 2010
Trevose, PA, August 30, 2010–Contour Data Solutions, premier provider of strategic IT solutions and data management, announced that the company helped mortgage banker, Gateway Funding, identify a robust backup and recovery solution helping Gateway Funding to save both time and money protecting the company’s rapidly expanding virtualized IT infrastructure. Contour Data Solutions, a trusted i365 partner, implemented the award-winning EVault Plug-n-Protect backup and recovery appliance together with EVault Replication providing Gateway Funding with reliable data protection capabilities. Rocco Guerriero, CEO and Founder of Contour comments, “Our goal is to provide our customers with best of breed solution at the lowest total cost of ownership. Providing Solutions that fit our customer’s needs and budget is what we do. I365’s EVault Solution allows us to do that.”
Contour recommended i365’s EVault data protection technology after Gateway Funding enlisted them to identify the best backup and recovery solution. Gateway Funding’s rapidly expanding company is managing more data than they had in the past. Their outdated tape-based data protection threatened the company’s costs, personnel resources, and storage requirements. Contour recommended i365’s EVault data protection technology because it is more streamlined, efficient, and cost-effective.
Gateway Funding recently made a switch to a virtualized IT environment by VMware, which introduced new demands that were incompatible with its outdated tape-based data protection processes. The growing company was managing far more data than they had in the past, which threatened to increase costs, complicate storage requirements, and drain already limited IT personnel resources.
The company implemented two EVault Plug-n-Protect appliances along with EVault Replication to automate data backup for virtualized servers. One EVault Plug-n-Protect appliance is used as the active backup vault at Gateway Funding’s corporate office in Horsham, PA, and it is configured to replicate backup data offsite to the secondary EVault Plug-n-Protect appliance, which is a passive vault at their disaster recovery site in Reading, PA. This implementation provides efficient and secure offsite replication of the primary vault so that the passive vault
assumes backup and restore functionality should the active one fail. This implementation has significantly reduced Gateway Funding’s recovery time from more than four hours to just 20 minutes.
“We’ve been able to significantly reduce our recovery time objectives. In the past most of our time was spent making sure our tapes were working properly and shuttling tapes back and forth from storage when recovery was needed,” said Dan Cantinella, VP at Gateway Funding, who speaks highly of the EVault solution’s return on investment. “Everything is automated now and we don’t waste any more time troubleshooting remote office backup issues or digging through old backup data. All these time savings add up, and over a two to three-year period we expect the solution to pay for itself. It has freed up our team so much that we are able to spend more time concentrating on our business and strategic initiatives.”
About Contour Data Solutions, LLC
Contour Data Solutions is the premier provider for Strategic IT Solutions and Data Management. We specialize in implementing and supporting virtualized IT environments, building virtual desktop infrastructures, private and public cloud platforms, Disaster Recovery Solutions, Backup and Recovery Solutions and Data Management Solutions. Contour is comprised of senior technology experts. We maintain a small sales group and an even smaller management team. The core focus of Contour’s business strategy is the customer. Contour takes the time to know your team, know your technology, and know your business.
Contour helps you bridge the gap between the business and technology to avoid costly delays in projects and misaligned expectations. We will work with your team to identify the business goals, the budget constraints, and the technology integration issues. Contour will take your defined strategy and work with their extensive partnership network to get you the right deals on the products and technology you need to fulfill that strategy. In the end Contour will make sure that your solution is the right solution today and for the long term.
Contour’s goal is to work with clients to optimize IT environments for their systems and applications, whether built at the client's location or managed by Contour’s private cloud services and solutions team at our secure data center.
About i365
i365, a Seagate Company, provides on-premise and Cloud-Connected storage solutions to help small to mid-sized organizations protect and access their business data – anytime, anywhere. Through a uniquely integrated ecosystem of storage software, SaaS, managed services and appliances, we help our customers meet the challenges of maintaining business continuity in multi-platform, multi-site environments. Our EVault® data protection, disaster recovery and other solutions are optimized to perform in a distributed environment, supported by a secure, reliable Cloud storage infrastructure and backed by the highest quality customer service. Our solutions are sold through a broad reseller network, and power the products and services of Managed Service Providers, Data Centers, Telcos, Application Providers, and other technology partners for more than 28,000 customers worldwide. www.i365.com.
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