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With Actifio, Wire Belt Eliminates Legacy Backup Software

And reduces bandwidth costs "by 70%"

Actifio,
Inc.
announced
that the Wire Belt Company of America has replaced its traditional legacy
backup software, eliminated backup and restore windows, and reduced bandwidth
costs by 70 percent since deploying the PAS platform.

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Wire Belt, a manufacturer
of conveyor systems and belts used in the poultry and snack foods industries
turned to Actifio to solve challenges associated with its data
protection and disaster recovery infrastructure.

With exponential growth in the size of sensitive
intellectual property-related data, Wire Belt was struggling to ensure that
data was protected and quickly recoverable to meet its business needs. The
company was increasingly unable to meet backup windows using its backup
software and hours of restore time resulted in unacceptable down time for the
business. An attempt to provide quick data restores with array snapshots
resulted in filling up the production storage device, prompting a need for
additional budget to purchase new production storage systems. Previous disaster
recovery practices of moving backup tapes to offsite storage
were
counter-productive since data was never recoverable in time to meet business
needs and objectives. After an extensive analysis of available backup
applications and deduplication devices, Wire Belt chose Actifio not only to
address data protection and disaster recovery with its virtualized data
management technology, but also to defer the purchase of a new production
storage device and free up the capacity being used by snapshot data – all at a
75 percent lower cost.

"We had
virtualized a great deal of our infrastructure, adding VMware machines and
implementing virtual desktop infrastructure. However, our data management
challenges were really holding us back from fully benefitting from the
streamlined operations and cost savings made possible by a virtualized
environment,
" said Jason Axne, systems administrator, Wire Belt.
"With its tremendous flexibility and
incredibly intuitive user interface, the Actifio PAS platform gets our vote as
the best data management solution for virtual and physical server environments.
We were able to deploy the Actifio platform within hours, with time and cost
savings immediately apparent. Actifio really delivered the best of all worlds.
"

Today, Wire Belt is able to increase business availability
by backing up its servers six times a day-with no backup windows-and restore an
entire server in minutes, even from an outside disaster recovery site. The
manufacturer replicates data to a remote co-location site daily for improved
business continuity and has recognized significant WAN bandwidth savings from
using Actifio’s  deduplication capabilities. Using the
integrated snapshot capabilities of Actifio PAS, Wire Belt was able to defer
the investment of a new production storage device by freeing more than 30
percent of production storage capacity
used for snapshot data and storing that
data on a lower cost storage device.

"Backup software
as we know it is dead. Obsolete,
" said Ash Ashutosh, founder and CEO
of Actifio. "With organizations
virtualizing servers in the data center, it is time to revisit the arcane
practices of backup, disaster recovery and business continuity. By getting rid
of the complex, expensive and inflexible collection of multiple point tools,
users like Wire Belt are rapidly embracing Actifio PAS to achieve the benefits
of virtualization – enhanced business availability, vendor independence and
improved utilization, all at a significantly lower cost.
"

The Actifio PAS platform is optimized for managing copies of
production data, eliminating redundant silos of infrastructure and data
management applications. By virtualizing the management and retention of data,
Actifio transforms the need for multiple data silos and point tools deployed
for backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, compliance, analytics, and
test and development- into one, SLA-driven, virtualized protection and availability storage device.

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