Town of Dedham, MA Expands Use of Zetta

Zetta.net announced that the Town of Dedham, Mass. has expanded its
implementation of the appliance-free Zetta DataProtect online backup and DR solution
to all of its 60 virtual servers.

The cloud-based data protection solution has helped the growing town eliminate
outdated tape backup technology to safeguard its data while providing restore
capabilities in the event of system outages or natural disaster.

The Town of Dedham, first settled in 1635, is located about 12 miles southwest
of Boston, and is the county seat of Norfolk County. The town currently has a
population of about 25,000 for which it provides services including fire and
police.

Following a series of natural disasters, including flooding and major storm
systems, in many surrounding areas, the town’s IT staff decided that a better
solution was needed to safeguard its data. The municipality was using a
tape-based backup solution that was aging and cumbersome to manage. It didn’t
deliver the simplicity and reliability needed for its growing virtual
infrastructure, plus it required staff resources to physically manage the tapes.
Even more worrisome was how quickly the town would be able to recover from a
disaster using backup tapes. They desired an online backup solution that would
provide modern, reliable protection for their growing IT infrastructure.

After researching its options, the Town of Dedham discovered Zetta.net and its
appliance-free DataProtect online backup and recovery solution. It
integrates data protection elements, such as offsite backup, archiving and DR
in a managed service that requires no appliances and can be deployed within
minutes.

"With Zetta.net, restores
are as simple as three clicks away," said Veronica Barnes, director of
technology for the town of Dedham. "Before
Zetta.net, we would have to load tapes and wait for the information to be located.
Now we can find the information instantly and restore data nearly immediately.
It has made us so much better prepared in the event of a disaster, enabling us
to retrieve data more readily. If necessary, we could literally rebuild all the
town data in a couple of hours compared to days with our previous system. You
are only as good as your last backup, and with Zetta.net we don’t even have to
think about our data. We simply know it’s protected."

While the town started using the Zetta.net solution for six of its
virtual servers, it saw the value and decided to move all of its data to the DataProtect solution. Now it has eliminated
the use of backup tapes and hasn’t added any
new hardware to manage. The town is now protecting more than 55TB of data for
60 virtual servers using DataProtect.

"We’re seeing more and more
companies moving their offsite backups to the cloud," said Gary
Sevounts, VP of marketing for Zetta.net "Many organizations are abandoning their archaic appliance-based
solutions and moving to the cloud for performance, security and lower cost.
Once they have experienced the simplicity and reliability of Zetta DataProtect,
there is no return to daily backup chores."