A Backup Offering That's Good Enough for Cisco

 

When Bill Yu, an engineer for Cisco's (NASDAQ: CSCO) development and test lab in Boulder, Colo., was looking for a new a backup solution, he stumbled upon R1Soft at last year's Red Hat Summit (NYSE: RHT) in Boston.

The lab had been using an Amanda server to do tapeless backups for four years, but ran into performance and scalability issues with the open source offering.

"When I heard the pitch about fast backups, it sounded like the solution for us," said Yu, who also liked R1Soft's "pretty intuitive" Web-based interface.

The Boulder lab is now using R1Soft to back up about 30 critical servers and archive about a third of those servers. Backups are run nightly for most servers, with a few doing hourly snapshots. The servers range from Web hosting, virtual servers, software development and testing to E-Cloud services.

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