Cayen Systems Selects TwinStrata CloudArray

TwinStrata Inc. announced
that Cayen Systems, LLC, developer of online data management software for educators and
nonprofit organizations, has selected CloudArray to provide
an extension to cloud storage.

The Cayen Systems IT infrastructure comprises hundreds of
Microsoft SQL databases and web services relied on by its customers.
Understanding that the workload of the environment required an infrastructure
that would scale in performance, capacity, reliability, and availability, Cayen
Systems conducted an extensive evaluation and decided to create a virtualized
environment built on an iSCSI Storage Area Network that could provide remote
disaster recovery services.

"It was
imperative to integrate new backup and data protection services into our
virtualized environment, and we chose TwinStrata to extend our Dell EqualLogic
solution to the cloud for offsite backup and site-level disaster
recovery," said Janessa Huber, general manager at Cayen Systems. "CloudArray integrated with our new Dell
EqualLogic environment so seamlessly that we were able to begin sending secure,
encrypted backups to the cloud in less than 30 minutes and achieve continuous
data protection with zero impact to our environment."

Just as important as quick setup and 
integration with its existing storage infrastructure were the cost savings. The
combination of using de-duplication technology with CloudArray’s compression
enabled Cayen Systems to shrink its backup footprint by 50%.

Available in both virtual and physical appliance
configurations, CloudArray enables customers to
expand their storage capacity without limits into the cloud and escape the
maintenance costs and data center overhead associated with traditional data
storage and tape backups. CloudArray integrates with popular backup
and archiving solutions and cloud storage providers. Other features such as dynamic
caching, in-flight/at-rest data encryption, de-duplication, bandwidth
optimization, in-cloud snapshots, HA and ability
to access restored data from anywhere make it easy for businesses to deploy and
use.

"Our IT staff,
once previously stretched from data restore requests, is now able to satisfy
these requests with the click of a button," added Huber. "We sleep better at night knowing it takes
only a few mouse clicks to restore an entire data center to another facility
should we ever be faced with a disaster scenario."