Founded in 1866, the University of New Hampshire is the largest university in the state and one of only nine land, sea, and space grant institutions in the United States. Its main campus in Durham, N.H., has more than 14,000 undergraduate and graduate students, along with another 2,000 or so faculty, administrators, and other staff. And Bob Rader, storage and backup manager for UNH, estimates the IT department for the campus is made up of about 150 employees.
UNH’s IT department is divided into two parts: academic desktop support for students and faculty and the administrative side, which handles backend business applications and general enterprise computing. Until recently, each sub-department had its own backup environment, and about two years ago, the university decided to consolidate the two backup environments.
After looking at data deduplication solutions from several vendors, UNH chose SEPATON’s S2100-ES2 VTL (Virtual Tape Library) and DeltaStor Deduplication Software (www.sepaton.com).
“I never expect technology to work as expected. To me, it’s hope for the best, plan for the worst,” Rader notes. “But SEPATON [works] as advertised, which is not necessarily as common a thing in IT as you would expect.”
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