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Tellurian

Business Situation
Tellurian Networks wanted to provide reliable backups for their customers’ SQL Servers hosted at Tellurian’s data center and also was required to protect them from potential disasters. Tellurian was looking for a solution that will backup SQL databases faster and reduce the size of the backups and also automate the process of creating standby databases for disaster recovery purposes.

SonaSafe Solution
Tellurian Networks wanted to provide reliable backups for their customers’ SQL Servers hosted at Tellurian’s data center and also was required to protect them from potential disasters. Tellurian was looking for a solution that will backup SQL databases faster and reduce the size of the backups and also automate the process of creating standby databases for disaster recovery purposes.

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Ubisoft

Business Situation
Ubisoft is a leading producer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment products worldwide and has grown considerably through a strong and diversified line-up of products and partnerships. Ubisoft ‘s SQL servers are spread across three cities in three countries, namely, Montreal – Canada, Paris – France and San Francisco – USA. The data was growing rapidly and Ubisoft wanted to have data protection and high availability for SQL servers housing the databases.

SonaSafe Solution
Ubisoft leveraged SonaSafe’s backup/recovery and standby capability to offer reliable data protection. Sonasoft application not only gave the customer a better compression rate, but it also provided a good backup and disaster recovery solution.

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USC

Business Situation
The Information Technology department of Office of the Provost at University of Southern California (USC) used tapes as a backup medium, which they found to be unreliable and time-consuming. It was taking them hours and sometimes a full day to restore the backups. Also, they were looking for an integrated solution that would help with backup, recovery and high availability.

SonaSafe Solution
Following a careful investigation and research, USC deployed SonaSafe for Exchange for data protection, high availability and disaster recovery. SonaSafe not only offered reliable data backup and recovery but also enabled them to set up a failover server, giving total protection and high availability for the Exchange server.

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iMedica

Business Situation
iMedica was performing manual backup operation and it was a laborious and time-consuming process. iMedica wanted not only to automate the backup process, but if something goes wrong with the databases or emails, it wanted the ability to recover them quickly.

SonaSafe Solution
By implementing Sonasoft’s solution, iMedica was able to perform frequent and reliable backups. The company reduced backup time by 75% using SonaSafe for SQL and Exchange Servers. Also, it achieved quick recovery of mailboxes, emails and databases.

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Burnham Brown

Business Situation
Burnham Brown was performing manual backup operations using tape libraries. The backup was taking an enormous amount of time and quite often many attorneys who had problems with their mailboxes and critical individual messages wanted recovery to occur right away. Hence, Burnham Brown not only wanted to automate the backup process, but if something went wrong with the server, mailboxes or emails, it wanted the ability to recover them quickly.

SonaSafe Solution
By implementing Sonasoft’s solution, Burnham Brown was able to achieve quick recovery of mailboxes and emails. The overall backup time was reduced by 80% because of application specific disk-to-disk backup functionality. Using SonaSafe, the IT department at Burnham Brown was able to provide excellent service to its primary users, who are the attorneys, and the overall customer satisfaction increased by 100%.

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Heat and Control

Business Situation
Heat and Control was performing manual backup operation using tapes four times a day. It was a laborious and error-prone process, which was taking an enormous amount of time. Also, because of the manual nature of the entire process, Heat and Control could not backup more frequently. Heat and Control wanted to automate the entire backup process so that they don’t have to spend an enormous amount of time managing the entire process.

SonaSafe Solution
By implementing Sonasoft’s solution, Heat and Control totally eliminated all the manual effort involved in backup and recovery processes. Heat and Control is using SAP R/3 system in conjunction with SQL Servers. The total size of the database is almost 200 GB and using the SonaSafe application, a disk-to-disk backup happens according to a predefined schedule. The data is backed up to tapes for archival purposes once a day.

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Marketron

Business Situation
Marketron was looking for a disaster recovery solution that could provide both backup and recovery services at their production data center facility as well as replication of data to their remote DR facility. They needed a solution that was not only simple to use and cost effective, but also safe and reliable to protect valuable data.

SonaSafe Solution
By implementing SonaSafe, Marketron automated the process using Standby capability provided by SonaSafe for SQL Server. Using Sonasoft's solution, the customer is automatically updating the remote standby servers every 15 minutes.

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