Medical centre deploys Data Domain

Roger Williams Medical Centre, in Rhode Island, US, has selected deduplication storage systems provider Data Domain to simplify its backup, restore and disaster recovery processes, states CBR Online.

Following a brief evaluation, the medical centre deployed two Data Domain DD565s, one at the hospital data centre and one at a disaster recovery site approximately 100 miles away.

Data Domain Replicator software was used to enable secure network-based replication of the medical centre's backups, which include the Meditech database that runs the entire hospital management system as well as Exchange files, SQL server, Oracle and PACS systems data.

Plasmon, a manufacturer of mass data storage devices, is working with IBM to provide a disaster recovery solution that moves companies beyond a reliance on backup and gives customers trusted, timely recovery of critical data, reports CBR Online.

Plasmon's ultra density optical archive appliance is being combined with IBM's hot site recovery service to allow IBM FileNet P8 customers to leverage the strengths of archival disks and optical media in a single system.

This combination allows customers to address data accessibility, disaster recovery and other archive requirements in a way that traditional storage products cannot, said Plasmon.

EDsys Computers is to bundle ShadowProtect disk-based real-time recovery solutions from StorageCraft with its servers, says ARN.

According to EDsys marketing manager Steve Mitchell, the company is seeing more servers being sold without a traditional tape backup product in order to help reduce the price, even though this puts data and systems at risk.

EDsys has made a strategic decision to bundle StorageCraft ShadowProtect on its servers to deliver a turnkey, single, integrated and cost-effective solution for backup, recovery and disaster recovery.