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Mortgage Banker Gateway Funding Reduces Backup and Recovery Times for Virtualized IT Environment By More Than 50% with EVault f

^{Published on 2010-08-30 05:15:25 - Market Wire}
 

SAN FRANCISCO--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--VMWORLD 2010

"Automated disk-based backups, efficient and secure offsite replication, and simplified data recoveries allow companies such as Gateway to meet demanding availability requirements and to stay nimble by easing the burden on IT departments so they can spend their time on other projects that are more central to a companya™s growth."

[ i365 ]a", Inc., a Seagate Company (NASDAQ:STX), today announced that mortgage banker Gateway Funding Diversified Mortgage Services, L.P. has implemented the award-winning [ EVault Plug-n-Protect ][ backup and recovery ] appliance together with [ EVault Replication ] to provide reliable data protection capabilities. Gateway Funding called upon trusted i365 partner Contour Data Solutions, a premier provider of strategic IT solutions and data management, to help the mortgage banker identify a robust backup and recovery solution that would help them save time and money protecting the companya™s rapidly expanding virtualized IT infrastructure.

Gateway Funding recently made a switch to a virtualized IT environment based upon [ VMware ], which introduced new demands that were incompatible with its outdated tape-based data protection solutions. The growing company is 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 enlisted Contour Data Solutions to identify the best backup and recovery solution for their new environment. Contour recommended i365a™s EVault data protection technology because it presented a more streamlined, efficient, and cost-effective backup and recovery process.

aWea™ve been able to significantly reduce our recovery times. 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,a said Dan Catinella, vice president of Information Technology at Gateway Funding, who speaks highly of the EVault solutiona™s return on investment. aEverything is automated now and we dona™t waste any 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. Ita™s freed up our team so much that we are able to spend more time concentrating on our business and strategic initiatives.a

The company implemented two EVault Plug-n-Protect appliances along with EVault Replication to automate data backup of virtualized servers. One EVault Plug-n-Protect appliance is used as the active backup vault at Gateway Fundinga™s corporate office in Horsham, PA, and it is configured to replicate backup data offsite to the second 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 Fundinga™s recovery time of a server from more than four hours down to just 20 minutes.

aLegacy backup systems are often cumbersome, and the labor and media resources needed for these outdated tape processes really add up,a said George Hoenig, vice president, product operations, i365. aAutomated disk-based backups, efficient and secure offsite replication, and simplified data recoveries allow companies such as Gateway to meet demanding availability requirements and to stay nimble by easing the burden on IT departments so they can spend their time on other projects that are more central to a companya™s growth.a

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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 30,000 customers worldwide. [ www.i365.com ].

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