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Case Studies by Customer Name

	Alaska Department of Fish & Game A legacy tape-based backup environment and decentralized management would not meet the demands of the State of Alaska’s Department of Fish & Game’s planned virtualization initiative. Deploying EMC Data Domain systems enabled the agency to complete its virtualization plans through reduced administration, replication of backups without additional bandwidth and lowered operational costs through centralized procurement and management of backup and DR environments.
	American Insurance American Insurance deployed Data Domain systems to deduplicate and instantly replicate data, applications and operating systems to a remote site, enabling the company to develop a solution for agents to access the remote system via a virtual network to maintain business continuity in the event of disaster.
	Associated Newspapers UK-based Associated Newspapers Ltd implemented VMware infrastructure in order to address space, power and cooling challenges in its primary data center, along with a combined disaster recovery solution using Vizioncore’s vRanger Pro™ backup and restore technology and Data Domain deduplication storage.
	Boston Medical Center Boston Medical Center meets its backup, recovery and DR ROI objectives within its VMware environment utilizing EMC Data Domain deduplication storage and EMC NetWorker.
	Britannia Building Society The second largest building society in the UK turned to Data Domain to better protect high-value customer data by enabling network-efficient replication to an off-site data center while eliminating the problems and risks associated with tape.
	Canadian Automobile Association With 140 offices across Canada serving more than 5 million customers, Canadian Automobile Association implemented Data Domain to streamline their backup process and increase their onsite data retention period from seven days to a month. Now they can meet their challenging backup windows and they saved the cost of upgrading their existing tape library system.
	Canadian National Railway Case Study highlighting the significant buisness benefits realized by Canadian National Railway from its deployment of EMC Data Domain deduplication storage. This major transportation company has signifcantly reduced backup costs, increased IT productivity and improved storage management by deploying Data Domain systems across its network of offices throughout North America.
	City of Houston The fourth most populous city in the U.S. chose Data Domain to reduce its reliance on its aging tape infrastructure. The ITD staff decreases backup administration by nearly 50%, significantly increases backup reliability and bolsters recovery time objectives. An ongoing NetBackup OpenStorage pilot demonstrates additional administration and management benefits utilizing Data Domain OpenStorage software for optimized replication.
	Cuatrecasas Cuatrecasas, a leading Spanish law firm employing more than 800 practicing attorneys, has implemented Data Domain DD565 and DD530 systems to solve its file restore and DR challenges caused by unreliable and slow tape. The firm now replicates between Data Domain systems which offers iron-clad business continuity. In addition the firm can now retain 1-2 months of backups online allowing fast and reliable recoveries.
	Financial Services Corporation Case Study highlighting the significant buisness benefits realized by this leading financial services corporation. This company has realized well over a million dollars in savings and cost avoidance by choosing EMC Data Domain over tape.
	Fortune 50 Financial Services Company This IDC Buyer Case Study describes the implementation of Data Domain deduplication storage systems at a Fortune 50 financial services firm. This company evaluated deduplication technology from several vendors in an effort to optimize storage infrastructure and reduce backup disk capacity. IDC conducted multiple in-depth interviews with the company’s IT staff in order to provide this detailed examination of the company’s evaluation process, competitive evaluation, proof-of-concept testing and implementation of Data Domain deduplication technology and systems.
	Fred. Olsen & Co. In business since 1848, Fred. Olsen & Co. and affiliates specialize in offshore drilling, tankers, renewable energy, cruise, IT, venture capital and real estate activities. Challenged by increasing data growth and interested in protecting their investment in VMWare virtualization technology, the company has deployed Data Domain deduplication storage systems in its data center and remote facilities - including on vessels at sea - to ensure system availability at all sites, reduce management overhead and to implement cost-effective DR via replication.
	Generali International Generali International optimizes its VMware environment with EMC Data Domain and reduces costs and risk by eliminating tape storage.
	Global Communications Firm Case Study highlighting the significant buisness benefits realized through the deployment of EMC Data Domain deduplication storage at this communications giant. The company estimates that it has saved $385,000 at each of its 27 sites where Data Domain is deployed, equating to more than $10.4M annually.
	Global Equipment Supplier Case Study highlighting the significant business benefits realized by deploying EMC Data Domain deduplication storage. This global manufacturer has reduced backup costs and increased IT productivity by replacing tape processes with Data Domain systems.
	Global Technology Company This leadinig EDA software company chose Data Domain deduplication storage to reduce backup costs and administration across its global data center and field locations.
	GMAC-RFC As GMAC-RFC shifts its focus from mortgage lending to asset management, it needed a more reliable backup solution than its failing VTL to protect its business critical applications. Data Domain has solved the company’s backup, retention and recovery issues, automated replication between its primary data center and DR site and has virtually eliminated tape from its data protection processes.
	Great River Energy Midwest energy cooperative chooses Data Domain as an important component of its award winning green data center design strategy. Great River Energy reduces storage power consumption by 45% compared to tape, significantly increases backup and recovery success and extends data retention by 3x.
	HNTB Corporation Architectural design and engineering firm keeps operational costs under control with EMC as information infrastructure grows.
	KPN Challenged by the administration burdens and failures of its tape backup systems, KPN Wholesale & Operations, a large division within this Netherlands-based communications giant, purchased a Data Domain DD690g for improved backup efficiency, simplified administration and seamless integration into its storage environment.
	Lancashire County Council Lancashire County Council (LCC) was storing about 100 terabytes of backup data. With consistent growth in its data stores and its backup tape library reaching capacity, it had become apparent that a re-evaluation was needed of its backup infrastructure. For LCC, “The trial was the deciding factor.”
	Large Networking Company Leading IP hardware manufacturer enjoys huge cost savings and meets demanding data retention requirements.
	New York Mets This Storage magazine feature story provides an inside look into the data protection challenges of a professional sports team and how Data Domain has helped them retool their backup processes.
	Oil & Gas Company This Canadian-based oil and gas company addresses in excess of 100 TB of data with a Data Domain gateway. In addition to achieving deduplication ratios of over 30x on VMware server backups, the client cites significant savings on disk costs, power, cooling and data center footprint. Combined with Legato NetWorker and Vizioncore vRangerPro software the company now enjoys a simplified solution to manage backups in their virtual server environment.
	O’Neill Europe The Netherlands-based retailer of boardriding products accelerated its data protection processes at five sites while increasing its online data retention time to a full year. Today O’Neill Europe “surfs” through backups and recoveries with Data Domain.
	Online Resources Corporation (ORCC) As a payment processor for banks, credit unions and credit service firms, fast recovery from any interruption of their transactional operations is essential to the successful completion of their daily fulfillment cycle. ORCC implemented Data Domain DD560 appliances with Replicator software to relieve their struggles with tape and to meet their daily closure requirements.
	Orchid Cellmark A leading provider of identity DNA testing services for the human identity and agriculture markets chose Data Domain to meet backup window limitations, improve regulatory compliance requirements and migrate away from tape.
	Ordnance Survey Since implementing its EMC Data Domain solution, Ordnance Survey now has complete confidence in its backups and restores, completely eliminating reliance on its previous tape-based infrastructure.
	Pharmaceutical Research and Development Company The company realized a return on their investment in a single year by eliminating support for tape drives and the tape library, discontinuing tape purchases, and reducing off-site storage requirements.
	Princeton University Data Domain appliances significantly expand backup capacity and simplifies administration for the Department of Computer Science, Princeton University.
	Roger Williams Medical Center Faced with burgeoning data growth and a tape backup system that could not scale with escalating archiving and compliance requirements, RWMC implemented a Data Domain solution that provides improved reliability, fast backup and restore times, near instantaneous network-efficient replication and the scalability they needed for future growth with less management overhead.
	San Francisco Giants Data Domain selected by Major League Baseball’s San Francisco Giants for new backup and disaster recovery solution.
	Teck This IDC Buyer Case Study features Teck, a $6.3 billion Canadian mining company with more than 9,500 global employees. Teck has implemented Data Domain deduplication storage across 20 sites as part of a global standardization and compliance initiative.
	Thomas Weisel Partners A leading investment bank reinvents its backup and disaster recovery using Data Domain.
	TiVo Frustrated by unreliable tape, and data growth challenges that could not be met with VTL, TiVo has achieved fast ROI and is saving 50TB of disk space per year by deploying Data Domain deduplication storage.
	Troutman Sanders LLP International law firm replicates to ten sites and eliminates tape for local backups.
	U.S. Army World’s largest corporate intranet chooses Data Domain for DR, replicates backup data using satellite network.
	Wavefield Inseis Wavefield Inseis is a Norwegian marine geophysical company, providing proprietary data acquisition services for the global oil and gas exploration community. Having implemented a VMware virtual server project, the company turned to Data Domain to provide cost-effective backup processes, meet 30-day data retention objectives, simplify remote office data protection — including business-critical applications onboard vessels at sea — via replication and minimize time-to-DR.
	The Westervelt Company This privately held land-resource organization chose Data Domain for a backup and disaster recovery solution that frees them from tape woes and has enabled them to achieve exponential acceleration of their backup and restore processes.
	Xcel Energy A leading electricity and natural gas energy company, Xcel Energy has reduced backup windows by 75% and can now complete remote site operational recoveries in 90-minutes through its successful deployment of EMC Data Domain systems across 44 remote sites and two data centers.
	XM Canada By Choosing Data Domain deduplication storage, satelite radio giant XM Canada has reduced its backup window by 40%, increased data retention to 45 days, regained confidence in its Microsoft SQL recoveries and has said goodbye to tape management woes.

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