Zetta Cloud Backup Helps Town of Dedham IT Department Sleep at Night

September 28, 2011

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Zetta Online Backup Protects Massachusetts Town’s Mission-Critical Data

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Enterprise cloud storage provider Zetta today announced that the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts, is using Zetta Data Protect for its mission-critical data as part of the Town’s efforts to keep data safe on another site in case of a natural disaster. The IT department installed the ZettaMirror™ agent inside multiple Windows and Linux virtual machines to backup user files.

“It took less than a minute to install a ZettaMirror agent, and everything showed up live,” said Christopher Pohl, assistant director of technology for the town. “There were no problems.”

ZettaMirror automatically replicates and then keeps synchronized the local data offsite into the Zetta Storage Service where it is recreated in a ready-to-access file system that “mirrors” the local file system. The data is transferred and stored in encrypted format and protected against multiple hardware failures. ZettaMirror automatically synchronizes changes to the data, so there is always a current, recoverable copy available. Access to the Zetta data is immediate through either an Internet browser or by directly mounting the remote file system.

“We like what we see and how easy it was to implement and integrate,” stated Pohl. The system has been running so well that the town is planning to implement new financial and general ledger systems, and will use Zetta to back those up from the start. They will be adding ZettaMirror into twenty other virtual servers over the next four months. “We are planning to push out everything to Zetta,” said Pohl.

The town was happy with the way Zetta integrated with its existing virtual server and file server environment. “Zetta was very low impact to operations and very low impact to our bandwidth,” stated Pohl.

“Before, we were going home at night worrying a lot. Zetta took a lot of pressure off us,” added Veronica Barnes, director of technology for the Town of Dedham.

Read the full case story at http://www.zetta.net/case-study_The-Town-of-Dedham.php.

About Zetta

Zetta Inc. is an award-winning provider of enterprise cloud storage services for data protection. With headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., Zetta was established in 2008 by successful serial entrepreneurs and technology executives from companies such as Netscape, VeriSign, Symantec, EMC, and Shutterfly. The company is backed by Sigma Partners, Foundation Capital, and its founders. For more information, please visit www.zetta.net.