Real Estate Firm Purchases New NetApp Software

Florida-based CNL Financial Group has reduced its backup and recovery times by up to 90 percent with the upgrade to a tiered-storage infrastructure by NetApp Unified Storage Systems, VERITAS NetBackup software, and Decru DataFort security systems. The new system is designed to maximize availability while protecting client investment data, the new backup and recovery architecture provides CNL with data protection, business continuity in the event of disasters, as well as protection on data tapes sent off-site. "We began rethinking our storage strategy after witnessing firsthand the impact of three consecutive hurricanes in 2004," said Joel Schwalbe, CNL's vice president of technical services. "At the time we relied on a traditional tape backup strategy. Based on our experience, we know that restoring data from tape to remote backup servers takes at least 48 hours, which was no longer an acceptable timeframe for our business. Another thing we learned last year was that we needed to automate disaster recovery processes as much as possible to make sure that data comes online automatically even in the event of an emergency." Previously, CNL had relied on mixed-storage environments that included networked storage, direct-attached servers, and nightly tape backups. The new system, with Microsoft Exchange e-mail environment, will support over 1, 400 mailboxes, file shares and Windows boot images, is now sent from NetApp system in Orlando to a NearStore system in Georgia every 15 minutes. CNL also added clustered Decru DataFort storage security appliances to provide cient security by encrypting backup data on tape. By Patricia Fuller Miami Real Estate Sarasota Real Estate

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