Quantum and SecureData team to net Government contract

Enterprise storage systems provider Quantum and information solutions vendor SecureData Group have teamed up to provide the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) with an enhanced disk-based backup system to solve the Department's growing email problem.

The DEWR called for help after recognising that the backup and restore of its network drives was becoming a problem, as users were overloading network storage with huge Microsoft Outlook files.

The Department sought to have a system installed that would provide staff with a self managing email content service, relieving staff from having to archive their own emails and at the same time freeing up valuable network space while enabling high-speed retrieval of archived mail. To meet these requirements, the DEWR plumped for Quantum's DX30 system.

According to Tony Tyler, director of data services at the DEWR, the disk-based system – which was recommended to them by SecureData, who will help to implement the system in the coming weeks - provided the solution to their growing email problem, enabling the organisation to keep emails online for a much longer period of time before having to archive them to tape. The new generation DX30 system, with its fibre channel interface, acts as a buffer between the mail servers and the tape libraries and is managed directly by the department’s backup software.

“While physically a disk array, the cleverness of the DX30 makes it appear as a bank of additional tape drives to our CommVault Galaxy backup solution. This means we can simply slot it into our existing storage infrastructure platform and keep two or three months of emails on the DX30, then archive to tape at leisure. Pressure is released on Exchange disk storage and our network server storage will no longer be overloaded by staff archiving their own emails. A shrinking backup window for both e-mail and network storage is alleviated and the tape library becomes a real archive device which is what it is ideal for."

Tyler added: "Because e-mails will be managed independently by the e-mail system, our users can quickly recover individual emails from the DX30 in a fraction of the time it would take us to restore from tape."

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