
OpSource provides complete cloud operations, infrastructure, and services for hundreds of companies that rely on these services to get business done, from software–as–a–service vendors to web companies to enterprises. To profitably manage these complex environments, OpSource places a premium on scalability, flexibility, and efficiency—attributes their existing online backup provider wasn’t providing. To grow their business and offer new services, they knew their backup needed an upgrade. Their choice? Atempo Time Navigator.
Long known for its secure records management and storage facilities, CUBE was tasked with the challenge of meeting clients’ evolving needs for protecting their digital assets. When you’re known as the “Fort Knox of the North,” digital files need to be treated like gold—just like all the paper documents and priceless works of art CUBE is entrusted with. That is why the company turned to Atempo to deliver its online backup and archive services.
EFILM is the market leader in digitizing blockbuster Hollywood films, with most of the major studios relying on them to convert and edit their films in digital format. With more than 250 terabytes of on-line disk storage, EFILM has a large amount of data from different projects to manage at any given time. Getting those huge chunks of data on and off disk and ensuring they are backed up presents a huge challenge.
Fox Sports had a traditional back office, running applications such as SQL and Exchange, plus print and file sharing in a Windows environment. They were using Symantec Backup Exec, with each server hosting its own tape drive. Fox Sports went through a period of rapid expansion and started exploring other systems. Their IT department was also expanding into the production side of the business, with the company moving to a server based, non-linear workflow, based on an archiving solution provided by Ardendo and SGI. As a result, the department's data protection policies had to evolve to take this new, heterogeneous infrastructure into consideration.
The Cimarron Group is one of Hollywood's largest and most successful entertainment marketing agencies. The firm generates massive video, print and multimedia data files during the production of their advertising and promotional campaigns. Cimarron's high profile clients include the major Hollywood studios, prime TV networks.
CBS Digital artists create visual effects and computer-generated imagery (CGI) across the entertainment industry, with the majority of their projects involving television shows and movies. This requires all digital assets to be properly protected and archived data to be easily accesible. After experiencing a near-disaster when the studio's NAS dropped offline during the editing stage of a TV movie, CBS Digital recognized the immediate need for a sophisticated data protection solution. CBS Digital turned to Atempo Time Navigator to manage over 50 TB of data in the studio's complex storage environment.
Over the years, the University of Utah's SCI Institute has seen tremendous growth in research areas such as biomedical computing, computational science, and medical imaging analysis. In turn, both the volume of high-value research data and size of the individual files had grown outside the capabilities of their existing system. SCI personnel had relied on other commercial and internal backup systems that did not offer the fl exibility or sophistication that suited the breadth of the research data. The SCI Institute sought a sophisticated storage system that would allow its IT team to manage, backup and recover the growing amount of data developed from the numerous research projects and collaborations supported within the Institute.
Credit Mutuel de Bretagne, Ocean and Anjou offer a complete range of products and services for the banking and insurance industries. To deliver more competitive and cost effective solutions for their customers, they first needed to maximize their resources. They turned to Atempo and VMware for their data protection architecture solution. Comprised of Atempo Time Navigator, VMware Enterprise Servers with Consolidated Backup (VCB) and a Storage Area Network (SAN), it offers a fast, cost effective and reliable data protection solution.
The publisher sought a reliable enterprise data protection solution capable of supporting Mac OS X on both server and client sides after experiencing serious scalability and performance issues with their previous backup solution. Grupo SM considered several Backup vendors but none were true enterprise solutions that could protect 12 terabytes and continue to scale with the company annual data growth.
From 1993 to 2001 EUSC has seen its storage requirements grow by 300 percent due to the increase of image sizes and also to the growth of operational needs. Storage is a huge issue for the EUSC because their work involves determining changes in images over significant periods of time, such as a period of several years. As a result, protecting its operational data set is one of the highest priorities in the EUSC's datacenter.