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Technology in action: How a college uses FalconStor CDP to back up and continuously protect over 2TB of student data
Here is a great real-life example of how FalconStor CDP is being used to protect and back up growing volumes of data coming from student information systems, email, and other applications running on Microsoft Windows, Solaris, and Linux platforms.
Central Carolina Community College is a growing US college with more than 12,000 students and a data management load that is expected to double in the near future. The college’s IT team of 10 manages operations across three campuses and needs to provide uninterrupted application services for students and faculty. To manage the data center’s disaster recovery processes and ensure consistent data availability, the IT team protects its Datatel Colleague system and Novell GroupWise servers with three FalconStor CDP appliances. According to the school’s IT Director Tommy Holder, the solution “does what it is supposed to do with very little management or maintenance on our part. It just runs.”
Thanks to an open, scalable architecture, FalconStor CDP easily integrates with the college’s existing IT infrastructure and provides a solid foundation for data growth.
You can read the full case study here: Central Carolina Community College
FalconStor® Continuous Data Protector (CDP) with RecoverTrac™ technology has been chosen as a finalist in the backup and disaster recovery software and services category in Storage magazine’s and SearchStorage.com’s 2011 Products of the Year competition. This category covers backup and recovery software, cloud backup and recovery services, disaster recovery (DR), snapshot and replication, electronic vaulting, and archivers. FalconStor CDP was chosen for its unified backup and DR, local and remote data recovery, and its ability to provide automatic service-oriented recovery with RecoverTrac. The RecoverTrac tool simplifies and automates complex, time-consuming, and error-prone failover and failback operations of systems, applications, services, and entire datacenters, making FalconStor CDP the most comprehensive disk-based data protection system for backup and DR available.
Day two’s happy winner, Sebastien Hennuy, showing off his prize.
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Remembering ReiJane Huai Featured
In 1989, while working at Archive, the world leader in quarter-inch tape drives, Bernie Wu and I handed over a floppy disk and a QIC-02 controller to an obscure company in Roslyn, New York. In two weeks' time, a young developer named ReiJane Huai, integrated that code with his invention and delivered to us the world's first client/server tape backup application.
While Bernie and I continued to struggle with engineering delivery schedules at Archive, Cheyenne Software and ReiJane exceeded our expectations and rapidly turned ARCserve into a viable tape backup solution.
Little did I know that this rapid engineering development style was the hallmark of one engineer and a harbinger of many events to follow. In the early years of my time at Cheyenne, an amazing pattern emerged. I would visit prospects, secure requirements, and Rei would turn the code around often before I left the customer site.
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