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	In the 21st Century businesses have one thing in common. They create a never-ending stream of digital data. TLC Engineering for Architecture, headquartered in Florida, uses complex 3D workstations to design everything from tower blocks to airports. These huge digital drawings are the lifeblood of the company. Bob Wheeler　MCSE, CNE PRINCIPAL AND DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, TLC : “Frequently we will have clients come back and say “remember that building that we designed 10 years ago? We’re going to expand that building.” And so we have a need to go back to those original drawing files…” Massive data growth increases complexity, risk of data loss, and management burden. THE CHALLENGE This data must be stored, managed and protected to meet rigorous compliance requirements – while remaining cost-effective. This growing volume of data must be backed up on a daily basis. Historically this archive and backup process was done using tape. Scott Ashton NETWORKING SPECIALIST TLC : “Our tape strategy was to do a full tape backup every single night, Monday through Friday, whether the data had changed or not”. Backing up files to tape was a painstaking and lengthy process – and if there was data loss , recovery was even worse. Scott Ashton NETWORKING SPECIALIST TLC : “I’ve seen the restore process take anywhere from an hour or two up to a week, two weeks sometimes, depending on where the tape physically is located. Data volumes are increasing, while the time to backup and restore is shrinking. But this situation is a worry of the past, thanks to NEC. THE SOLUTION NEC has created a revolutionary grid storage platform known as HYDRAstor. It is the first unified disk storage architecture optimized for backup and archive data on the same platform. And it changes traditional backup and archiving storage rules – resolving the fundamental challenges – of complexity, and performance. THE TECHNOLOGY Traditionally, companies have wasted massive storage space by backing up and archiving redundant data files day after day. HYDRAstor solves this problem by cutting the backup, restore and archive time in half, and reducing storage capacity requirements by 95% or more. It does this through a patent-pending NEC technology called DataRedux which eliminates duplicate data within and across multiple data streams. Change just one chart in an existing file? HYDRAstor stores only that one change. Sending an email to 3,000 employees? HYDRAstor stores that email just once. With DateRedux, 20 terabytes worth of data can now fit on 1 terabyte of physical storage space. THE BENEFITS To a company like TLC, HYDRAstor changes everything. Scott Ashton NETWORKING SPECIALIST TLC : “We have 5 racks of equipment and we could basically condense that down into half of a rack of equipment using the HYDRAstor so our footprint definitely decreases and that has an impact on real estate, the air conditioning, the data center, heating, electrical power requirements and so on ..” The Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, needs to securely store thousands of patient records and is legally required to produce them immediately if asked. JIM PAULSEN IT MANAGER Baptist Memorial Hospital : “We can potentially put hydras in some of our other hospitals and if that server room caught on fire and the hydra failed we could still get to that data and perform backups and restores because of the other hydras that will be up and alive. Backed by the innovation and reliability of NEC, HYDRAstor is leading data backup and archive into the new century. “HYDRAstor is truly a next generation technology . . because here for the first time they see a vendor that is really stepping up to the plate to address the bigger IT challenges which are around – complexity, productivity, and costs.”
		NEC’s revolutionary back up storage, HYDRAstor enables both disk back up and archiving in a highly reliable and economical way. Duration: [ 04:22 ]
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