Case Study

Fortune 500 Energy Services Provider

Fortune 500 Energy Services Provider

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Data Growth Made Backup Process Cost-Prohibitive The organization maintains a diversified port - folio of midstream energy assets across the United States. Besides a central datacenter and a disaster recovery site, the data backup team in this large organization looks after over 40 remote locations. Backups are executed on a mix of physical and virtual servers. A full weekly backup covers 1.3 petabyte of data, with daily incremental backups to capture any changes. The company had used Veritas NetBackup as its backup solution for many years. The organization’s Senior Backup Spe­ cialist explains the challenge they faced: “With annual data growth averaging 30 percent, backup license and maintenance costs were growing exponentially. I was very comfortable with Veritas, but the

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