esXpress Dramatically Reduces Seattle Financial Group's VMware Recovery Time by 92 Percent
PHD Virtual Technologies, the award-winning provider of esXpress,
the fastest multi-VM backup and restore solution on the market, announced that Seattle Bank has standardized backup of their virtual
infrastructure on esXpress, thereby enabling same-day disaster recovery
compared to their previous full day loss of business continuity.
Following the deployment of esXpress on two geographically distributed
VMware ESX clusters, Seattle Bank has reduced its recovery time from
one day to less than two hours with esXpress.
"Business
optimization and disaster recovery readiness were key objectives for
our organization," said Derin Bluhm, senior vice president and chief
information officer of Seattle Financial Group, the holding company for
Seattle Bank. "We needed to reduce our recovery point objective and put
the business back online much more quickly in the event of a system
failure. esXpress enabled us to do this."
With
over $750 million in assets, Seattle Bank is an independent, local and
entrepreneurial community bank based in Seattle, Washington. It has
five banking centers in the Greater Puget Sound area. Affiliated
companies include Seattle Escrow and Seattle Mortgage Company, one of
the state's oldest independent mortgage banking firms.
Seattle
Bank's growing data center, which holds almost 6TB of data, was
experiencing the strain of extensive recovery time, a common issue in
growing data centers. Using a traditional backup infrastructure with
software from CommVault, the company had a recovery time frame of more
than one business day with up to a day's data loss.
Looking
to improve the company's disaster recovery responsiveness, Bluhm was
introduced to PHD Virtual's esXpress and was impressed with how
esXpress was able to protect data from inside the virtual machine
infrastructure itself, without any added hardware or software
investments. What Bluhm was most pleased with, though, was how rapidly
esXpress could restore the company's systems in the event of a disaster.
"esXpress
has been a huge win for our organization," said Bluhm. "It has reduced
our recovery point from one business day to less than two hours, and we
are now working to reduce that even further to just 15 minutes. The
speed of esXpress, which was faster than any other product we looked
at, allowing us to fully restore a server and have it back online in
minutes. That peace of mind was enough to justify our investment in two
ESX clusters."
esXpress
is the market's fastest multi-VM backup and data protection solution
that backups and restores virtual machine data to existing disc or
tape. Key benefits of esXpress to Seattle Bank include:
- Being an affordable solution that works in concert with Seattle Bank's current storage and virtual environments
- Increasing the company's multi-VM backup speed via 16 concurrent backup streams per ESX host
- Reducing
backup window and storage capacity requirements through esXpress'
source-side global de-duplication across the company's ESX farm
- Reducing Seattle Bank's recovery time by 92% as a result of esXpress' multi-user instant file-level restore features
- Reducing
Bluhm's virtualization administrator's time through esXpress'
self-restore capability and self-extracting backup archives
- Peace
of mind as a result of genuine fault tolerance if one VM generated by
esXpress to backup fails, esXpress automatically generates another.