HVAC Control Manufacturer WattMaster Selects Actifio

Actifio, Inc., the Protection and
Availability Storage (PAS) platform company, announced that WattMaster Controls, Inc. has solved its
pressing data management challenges while implementing full DR with the PAS
appliance.

With its corporate data doubling in size every nine months since 2007,
WattMaster leveraged Actifio to reverse their data explosion and eliminate
their backup software and recovery windows.

Founded in 1977, WattMaster has established itself as an electronic controllers, growing its product line to include energy
management systems and building automation systems along with
OEM controls for many HVAC manufacturers and industrial automation
companies. With their business expansion, the amount of digital files and
corporate data has skyrocketed along with the increased requirement for data
protection and DR.

"Our business has
expanded dramatically over the past ten years, and as such, our digital assets
have grown exponentially," said WattMaster CEO Michael Hobbs. "To accelerate the development of new product
lines while managing our business more efficiently, we needed to find a better
way to protect our intellectual property data without squandering critical IT
resources. Fortunately, we discovered the Actifio PAS platform – which
carefully safeguards our data while more than doubling the productivity of our
IT team and significantly reducing overall data management costs."

WattMaster installed the Actifio PAS platform and within a few short
weeks eliminated their backup software and the associated
backup and restore windows while also implementing data replication for DR.
This enabled WattMaster to solve three data management challenges with a single
turnkey solution.

"With Actifio PAS
installed, I can sleep better at night knowing that our data can be restored
and brought back online quickly and efficiently," said Carlo Vasalle,
senior IT manager, WattMaster. "With
its intuitive user interface, the PAS platform is so easy to use that any one
of my technicians can easily restore and bring data back online within minutes
or a few short hours at the most. It is a highly versatile appliance that
solves multiple data management challenges simultaneously."

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, DR, business continuity, compliance, analytics and test and development
into one SLA-driven, virtualized Protection and Availability 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, organizations
like WattMaster 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."