THE CHALLENGE When Senior Network Administrator Daniel Mayo joined PRG in 2010, the company was backing up all of its 40TB of data weekly to tape. “Backup was pretty much a full-time position. It was my primary responsibility for a few months,” explains Mayo. PRG’s mixed environment of physical and virtual servers posed a serious challenge for the 50-person IT department. Recovery of a single file took hours. A single weekly backup could tak

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