Town of Dedham Adopts Zetta Online Backup

Zetta, Inc. announced that the town of Dedham, MA, is using Zetta Data Protect as part of the town's efforts to keep data safe on another site in case of a natural disaster.

The IT department installed the ZettaMirror agent inside multiple Windows and Linux virtual machines to backup user files.

"It took less than a minute to install a ZettaMirror agent, and everything showed up live," said Christopher Pohl, assistant director of technology for the town. "There were no problems."

ZettaMirror automatically replicates and then keeps synchronized the local data offsite into the Zetta Storage Service where it is recreated in a ready-to-access file system that mirrors the local file system. The data is transferred and stored in encrypted format and protected against multiple hardware failures. ZettaMirror automatically synchronizes changes to the data, so there is always a current, recoverable copy available. Access to the Zetta data is immediate through either an Internet browser or by directly mounting the remote file system.

"We like what we see and how easy it was to implement and integrate," stated Pohl. The system has been running so well, that the town is planning to implement new financial and general ledger systems, and will use Zetta to back those up from the start. They will be adding ZettaMirror into other twenty virtual servers over the next four months. "We are planning to push out everything to Zetta," said Pohl.

The town was happy with the way Zetta integrates with its existing virtual server and file server environment. "Zetta was very low impact to operations and very low impact to our bandwidth," stated Pohl.

"Before, we were going home at night worrying a lot. Zetta took a lot of pressure off us," added Veronica Barnes, director of technology for the Town of Dedham.