City of Bradenton, FL Into Cloud Backup With Asigra

Asigra Inc. announced that the City of Bradenton, Fla. is relying on Asigra’s Cloud Backup solution delivered by service provider Yotta280, Inc.
for the automated backup of critical city data – protecting it from
potential natural disasters while streamlining data protection
management and resource requirements.

 
The City of Bradenton is the largest principal city in the
Bradenton-Sarasota-Venice, Florida area. Founded by the explorer
Hernando DeSoto in 1539 while he was in search of the "lost city of gold,"
Bradenton today is home to numerous businesses, including nationally
known Tropicana Products Inc., the juice maker; Champs Sports; the
corporate offices of Beall’s Department Stores and plays host to many
fun, family attractions and events.
 
After years of struggling to protect city data using an onsite tape
library, the city was quickly finding that its traditional data
protection solution was no longer adequate. The tape backup process was
resource intensive and required ongoing maintenance and tedious manual
tape management. Eventually, the city’s tape library became dated while
the city government’s data increased. Facing increasing staff management
time to monitor the backups and the annual maintenance costs for the
backup software, Bradenton’s IT department began to seek a new solution.
 
"Our data was growing and there was no IT budget to purchase another tape backup system," said Staci Cross, CIO, City of Bradenton. "Through
a referral we heard about Yotta280 and about Asigra Cloud Backup.
Because our area is particularly prone to hurricanes and tornadoes,
offsite data protection and disaster recovery is very important to us. A
cloud solution was exactly what we needed to protect the critical
systems we support including our ERP and public safety system."
 
Yotta280 helped the City of Bradenton deploy a cloud backup solution at
its city hall data center where the bulk of data was located. The backup
solution covers a mixed environment of physical servers and virtual
servers running a combination of VMware and Citrix – nearly 50 servers
in all. The data is then stored in Yotta280’s backup cloud which serves
as the offsite DR facility.
 
"By choosing the Yotta280 solution using Asigra Cloud Backup, we are
now able to get our IT group resources back for other mission critical
operations," noted Cross. "The cloud solution didn’t require any
significant up front capital and now we have a much better, more
automated and more reliable data protection process."
 
"Data backup can be a very thankless job and is often associated with high failure rate," said Reggie Rogers, Vice President, Yotta280. "By
implementing a cloud backup solution organizations such as the City of
Bradenton can achieve hands-off protection without a heavy investment or
resource drain. Furthermore, they can more effectively achieve true
disaster recovery preparedness by housing critical data at an offsite
location where it can be quickly and painlessly retrieved when needed."