Atempo Live Backup Customer Story: How hi5’s IT Manager Protects Data

Customer Story: How hi5’s IT Manager Protects Data—and His Time

As an IT manager with hi5 Networks, Todd Poletiek comes into the office each day with too much to do and too little time to do it. With over 100 end user systems, server backups, email, and a host of other IT functions to support, Poletiek must carefully schedule his time. So after a sales rep lost his laptop—and he lost an entire day configuring a new machine and restoring data—Poletiek knew he needed a better way to manage backup and recovery. Full Story >>

Challenges

Minimizing the IT burden of system and file recoveries.
Protecting user data continuously.
Supporting backup of Macs and PCs in one console.

Solution

Atempo Live Backup continuously backs up user systems and enables efficient system and file recovery.

Results

Users can easily recover lost files—without IT involvement.
IT dramatically reduces time spent on file and system recovery.
Enterprise PCs and Macs can be protected at the same level and managed centrally by IT.

About hi5 Networks
Launched in 2003, hi5 Networks has established one of the world's leading social networking sutes. Ranked as a top 20 web site globally, hi5 is the number one social network in over 30 countries across Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Today, the site recevies more than 56 million visitors each month.

Profile: High Cost of Lost or Stolen Laptops

According to a March 2010 study by the Aberdeen Group, for every 100 enterprise laptops that are issued, five are lost or stolen and 11 are missing. Of these, only one is successfully recovered, for a loss rate of 15%. How much does this cost businesses? Summing up seven cost factors—laptop replacement, detection and escalation, lost productivity, forensics and investigation, data breach, and intellectual property—a Ponemon Institute study estimated the average cost of a lost laptop to be a whopping $49,246, mostly due to data breach and intellectual property loss. But even when no sensitive information was lost, they estimate the cost of a lost laptop is more than double the value of the hardware itself.