Baltimore Ravens Replaces Tape Backup

Venyu Solutions, Inc. announced that the Baltimore Ravens selected Venyu RestartIT for
data recovery, protection and storage.

The National Football League (NFL)
team’s IT operations staff selected Venyu based on RestartIT’s
approach to data deduplication, cloud storage backup, disaster recovery and
overall TCO.

Tasked with supporting the front and back-office networking,
applications and data storage needs, the Baltimore Ravens Information
Technology staff grew increasingly frustrated by the hours of maintenance its
tape backup system required. In the wake of the destruction to the New Orleans
Saints’ Superdome caused by Hurricane Katrina, the need for a disaster recovery
plan became a reality. Rather than spending additional time and resources on
building a costly and time-consuming in-house solution, the Ravens turned to
Venyu for assistance.

"We’re a small IT
team, and we knew we couldn’t afford to burn cycles trying to create our own
backup and recovery plan based on the system we had. The turning point was a
data loss that happened during football season, which made us realize that our
tape system was not only cumbersome but also not reliable when we needed it
most," said Bill Jankowski, VP of Information Technology for the
Baltimore Ravens. "Venyu’s cloud
backup solution, RestartIT, was pain-free to deploy and has completely
transformed the way my team approaches data protection. We were also relieved
to find that Venyu’s business continuity offering met our need to have an
offsite disaster recovery plan in place, in the event of a natural disaster.
The offsite data recovery option means that even if our hardware is damaged or
compromised, our data is safe."

Venyu’s RestartIT is built on RTO
metrics, or the measurement of time between an outage and the moment that data
is available again. In addition, the solution combines DR-Grade, online backup
with the VMware-virtualized recovery platform to provide system recovery
when organizations need it most.

"The Baltimore Ravens may be a
professional football team, but their IT needs are no different than many other
organizations: they require reliable, easily integrated backup and recovery
solutions that get the job done," said Scott Thompson, Venyu CEO.
"We’re proud to be their disaster
recovery and data backup partner, and remain committed to providing verified
RTO documentation and contingency plans in case they experience a disaster."