Indiana Wesleyan University Deploys TwinStrata

TwinStrata,
Inc. and MMY Consulting, Inc. (MMY),
provider of IT consulting services, announced that Indiana Wesleyan University (IWU) has
deployed a storage modernization strategy based on TwinStrata CloudArray and
implemented by MMY Consulting.

The solution enables IWU to retire its old, overloaded
tape backup system and scale to meet the growing needs of the university. Previously, it struggled to keep up with the pace of backup
requirements, using aging equipment that often led to stuck tapes or failing
drives. The result was that backups could take days to complete and move
offsite, leaving data unprotected from onsite disasters.

Today, IWU’s offsite data protection strategy uses CloudArray to
ensure that its backup data is replicated
offsite in the Nirvanix cloud. With its implementation partner MMY Consulting,
IWU has found that the new solution provides the organization with greater
capacity to backup, leading to more data under protection than its previous
solution.

In addition, IWU’s recovery process has improved.
Previously, recovery required identifying the right tape, locating it offsite,
transporting it back to the main campus and reserving time for the tape drives
to do a restoration. Today, recovery can be nearly instantaneous, particularly
for smaller files.

"We had reached a point where our
tape backup system was both inconvenient and overloaded," said Brian
Israel, director of IT infrastructure, University IT, IWU. "With
the combination of MMY’s expertise and TwinStrata’s cloud-integrated storage,
we now have a new system that could accommodate our offsite data protection
requirements that was quickly scalable, as well as easily retrievable."

"Higher education institutions such
as Indiana Wesleyan University often have constraints around costs, equipment
life-cycles and maintenance," said Rod Rudd, MMY Consulting’s practice
director for cloud computing. "We
work closely with organizations such as those represented by the independent colleges of Indiana to help them identify the best solution to address their
storage needs."

"For educational and not-for-profit
organizations such as Indiana Wesleyan, cloud-integrated storage is a way to
move beyond the boundaries and limitations of traditional storage
infrastructure," said Nicos Vekiarides, CEO, TwinStrata. "With MMY, we provide organizations pay-as-you-go
storage solutions that address all their needs without the maintenance
headaches – whether it’s increasing capacity for encrypted offsite data
protection, archive storage or primary storage for local campuses."