Warwick District Council Selects HP To Reform Its Data Protection Strategy

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•Case Study: Warwick District Council

Warwick District Council was missing a disaster recovery solution for its ground-floor computer centre, and was also struggling to complete its overnight backup within the available backup window.

To overcome the problem of slow backups, a new HP StorageWorks EML Tape Library E-Series 103e Tape Library featuring faster 800GB HP FC Ultrium 960 LTO tape drives was deployed. This has provided significant improvements as Bates confirms: "Previously, it was taking 23 hours to back up 480GB of data on our file server. With the new HP StorageWorks EML library, we can back up 925GB in just nine hours – and our Microsoft Exchange environment completes in just 19 minutes. The EML rarely uses more than one of its three drives and finishes all backups well within the backup window – so there's plenty of room for future growth as well."

The Fibre Channel connectivity of the EML tape library is a distinct advantage. Along with extra speed, it means backups can be performed from the safety of the disaster-recovery room upstairs, which ensures data can be recovered as quickly as possible. "If the tape drives were involved in a fire, it would take days, if not weeks, to configure them properly for recovery. By locating them in the disaster-recovery room, we'll be able to cut the lead time considerably and start recovery immediately," adds Bates.

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