Reduxio Instant Backup and Recovery Reduces Dingley Press’ Financial Risks

The Dingley Press, Inc., a catalog printer and distributor, is growing its business by reducing its financial risks and improving operational efficiencies using storage solutions by Reduxio Systems Ltd and implementation partner Northern Data Solutions.

Based in Maine, Dingley Press specializes in high-quality catalog printing for companies and started out as L.L. Bean‘s in-house printing operation. Since then, Dingley Press has expanded operations with customers in more than 40 states nationwide. In order to meet weekly mailings deadlines to more than 15 million US addresses, Dingley Press relies on its IT infrastructure to operate around the clock.

In the event of an outage during print production, every minute counts. Each hour is valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars. For this reason, Northern Data Solutions recommended the Reduxio HX550  multi-tier system with Reduxio’s BackDating  in order to recover data instantaneously, limiting lost productivity from 30mn to 2mn.

“The most critical part of Dingley’s business is print production,” said Dingley Press Systems manager Michael Martell. “An outage can have a domino effect where a missed printing target can require a reschedule of the entire week’s production processes from print through mailing. To meet business growth demands, we are optimizing our storage solutions, in order to reduce downtime while simultaneously managing our IT costs. Reduxio and Northern Data Solutions helped us vastly improve the performance and reliability of our existing solutions immediately, minimizing down time while limiting our potential financial losses and lost productivity.“

Reduxio HX550 multi-tier storage solution with BackDating is the core storage solution for all Dingley Press’s core IT applications.

• Dingley’s core industrial process and inventory controls, based on SQL Server Database, are running on tens of VMware-based virtual servers. Using Reduxio, Dingley is able to improve server utilization and save on hardware costs while reducing the time it takes to get back online after an outage. Dingley’s IT department is able to improve productivity and devote more time to advancing strategic IT projects to improve business operations.
• Dingley Press has more than 100 virtual desktops providing a centralized, consistent end-user experience using VMware Horizon View. This configuration expands Dingley’s system capabilities with almost five times more storage space using in-line, in-memory deduplication and compression.
  

“In partnering with Reduxio, Northern Data Solutions is advancing the next level storage solutions and data recovery,” said Northern Data Solutions chief architect Greg Brunelle. “Data recovery used to take days. Now, with Reduxio’s unique capabilities, it has been reduced to a few minutes. No other company is able to deliver the rapid data recovery that Reduxio delivers. Our joint customer, Dingley Press, has validated this quantum leap in speed of data recovery in their production environment on multiple occasions.“

Reduxio chief marketing and corporate strategy officer Mike Grandinetti, added: “We love working with forward-looking, technical, value-added resellers like Northern Data Solutions, who are willing to recommend innovative storage solutions to its customer base. Northern’s confidence in our HX550 system delivers Dingley Press with an ideal solution.“