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“Thus far in our relationship, inherent problems old tape years or more, the
you can’t fault Coolspirit,” libraries gave. However, now subsequent offloading of
1-2-1 P
says Kennelly. “They’re a very with the Quantum DXi disk, these records for archiving
good company to talk to – coupled with the Quantum purposes is to be an integral
when they say they’ll do i500 tape library, all these part of the solution. The plan
something, they do it, and problems have been is to use iSCSI connected
they’re very hungry to answered.” NetApp filers. Longer term,
deliver.” Kennelly believes that storage
He continues: “Disk answers consolidation - hence
He adds: “Whenever we’ve the immediate backup and centralisation – is another
asked questions - whether it’s restore issues and there is no Trust objective. He explains: A
UL
been about sales, media, better place for archive, “At the moment, we have one
backup, or backup agents – disaster recovery, compliance backup server per site. The
KENNELL
they’ve been great. and regulatory data than time/throughput issue
tape, especially with inbuilt prevents centralised backup
“And Quantum’s after sale encryption with LTO4 and at the moment, so we manage
support is of a comparably capacities of 1.6tb.” backup traffic locally, via
Y
high level – I’m always VLANs. But it makes sense to
impressed when someone The future move towards a centralised
from Colorado rings through With business continuity high solution.”
to answer a query.” on the agenda for all
Commenting on the Trust’s businesses at the present Starting out as the Trust’s
decision to work closer with time – the recent Italian tape media supplier,
Coolspirit, Damon Robertson, earthquake just the latest Coolspirit has now
Coolspirt’s Sales Director, reminder that normality has a established itself as a key IT
says: “We are very pleased very fragile veneer between it supplier to the organisation,
that Lancashire Care NHS and catastrophe, currently, helping to implement
Foundation Trust chose the Lancashire Care NHS important backup projects.
Quantum disk and tape Foundation Trust is in the When the move to centralised
solution, after evaluating the process of implementing a backup begins, Coolspirit
competitors’ offerings. Three data replication (using would seem ideally placed to
years ago our customers were mirroring) strategy across its offer its services and support
asking for alternatives to tape two data centre sites in once again.
due to the shrinking backup Preston. With the requirement
window, data growth and the to keep patient records for 30 www.coolspirit.co.uk
“We are extremely pleased to be working with Coolspirit in
delivering optimised tape and disk backup solutions for
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust. The scalability and
manageability of the Scalar i500 tape libraries protects the
initial investment whilst saving resource in media and backup
management. The DXi is particularly strong in protecting
repetitive data sets seen in file systems on the corporate
network and provides high service levels for restoring
frequently used content. Coolspirit are one of our key partners who regularly provide the
skill sets required to understand our customers’ unique requirements and deliver the
appropriate Quantum solutions accordingly.”
Steve Mackey, Quantum’s Area Sales Director, Northern Europe
aWWW.SNS-UK.CO.UK MAY 09
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