The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the United States biggest federal employee union, is using CloudArray virtual solution of TwinStrata Inc. to increase the cloud storage capability of its Veeam Backup and Replication software. AFGE recently witnessed a quick increase in data growth and related data storage needs in its server virtualization system.
To handle this growing requirement, it decided to go for cloud storage for its VMware infrastructure. AFGE selected Amazon S3 for cloud storage solutions, Veeam Backup and Replication for backing up its software, and TwinStrata's CloudArray virtual appliance to establish a seamless connection via iSCSI to the Veeam backup software.
In a release, Taylor Higley, IT director at AFGE, said that, “The decision to move to cloud storage was certainly a lot easier once we discovered CloudArray. Now that we know the backup data is successfully and securely going offsite, we can rest easily. With the deployment of CloudArray, we were able to cut our storage costs, reduce data recovery times from one week to one day, and eliminate much of the manual work of handling all those tapes resulting in a savings of one quarter of a FTE.”
TwinStrata CloudArray comes in both virtual and physical appliance configurations. It can considerably decrease capex/opex by allowing companies of any sizes to easily use off-site disaster recovery and data protection solutions without any changes to their existing software y connecting to cloud storage providers. CloudArray together with Veeam Backup and Replication, the leading virtualization backup software, enables organization to easily access highly scalable and secure cloud storage for their VMware backups. CloudArray is simple, secure and affordable. It helps increase the efficiency and scalability of cloud storage while offering performance, security, and availability of a local storage. CloudArray’s features like unlimited elastic capacity, pay-as-you-go model, in-cloud snapshots, AES256 bit encryption, and off-site, on-site, or in-the-cloud data access offer considerable advantages over traditional storage solutions.
Dan Smith, federal sales director at Veeam, stated that, “With TwinStrata CloudArray, customers like AFGE are able to easily and securely extend Veeam's award-winning, best-in-class backup and replication solution with the availability, flexibility and efficiency of cloud storage.”
Calvin Azuri is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Calvin’s articles, please visit his columnist page.
Edited by Jennifer Russell