Case Study: DXi7500 Cures Hawaii Department Of Health's Backup Ills

Hawaii may be known as a paradise where life takes on a relaxed pace, but even there, islanders grow impatient when a technology bottleneck interferes with their ability to get work done. So when the BT Emergency Preparedness & Response branch of the state's Department of Health realized that its weekend backup was still grinding away come Monday morning, the IT team knew it was time to find a new data protection solution.

Their choice was Quantum's DXi7500 Express disk-based backup solution with deduplication technology, coupled with a Quantum Scalar 50 tape library. The result? A much more reliable backup and recovery infrastructure with significantly greater performance.

After comparing products, Sakamoto soon settled on Quantum's DXi7500 Express, with 9TB of usable storage. He says the BT Emergency Preparedness & Response branch found Quantum to be a quality vendor with a great product that delivers high performance.

"Quantum provided detailed information on how the DXi7500 could be utilized and what the benefits would be," Sakamoto says. "The Quantum system also had a lot of options that other vendors did not, such as different types of connections, encryption of data and the full GUI interface. And we knew from previous customer references that the performance would be very good."