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.