SEP Sesam Hybrid Backup and Disaster Recovery

Hybrid Backup & Disaster Recovery

SEP sesam Hybrid Backup - the Hero of your Data Successful companies and organizations trust in SEP Hybrid Backup Human Nutrition on the safe side ”We needed a reliable backup solution supporting our heterogeneous IT landscape, in particular our Novell environment.”

Any Corporate Data The Challenge Made For Emergencies The mission of the German Institute of Human Nutrition The Institute needed a reliable solution for high speed data The German Institute of Human Nutrition relies on SEP SEP sesam: Security (DIFE) is to conduct experimental and clinical research backup and recovery with automatic migration capability sesam for all data recovery jobs. in the field of nutrition and health. The goal is to to perform regular backups in a small time frame. Across the Enterprise understand the source of nutrition-dependent diseases In the past, data had been accidentally deleted from time on a molecular basis and to develop new strategies for The DIFE only has a small window of time to perform to time. Since the implementation of SEP sesam, this + Physical servers prevention, treatment and dietary guidelines. regular backups and sought a solution that could perform is no longer a concern. All data habe been successfully under these constraints. recovered. + NetIQ eDirectory DIFE conducts research in many areas, for example in “The biggest nightmare for me would be a lightning strike + NetIQ Identity Manager pharmacology, clinical nutrition, fat cell development “We produce a huge amount of data and therefore we or a damage by fire or water in the server room. That could and much more. needed an extremely reliable backup solution for our + Novell GroupWise & Novell Vibe as E-Mail/ destroy many or all critical server data. If the backups valuable research data,” explains Wolfgang Lux. collaboration platform for 450 User “SEP sesam is one of the few products suitable for respectively the recovering would fail in this situation, we our entire server environment which contains Novell would have a real disaster. In this case years of research + Windows servers Groupware and Novell file servers.” states Wolfgang Lux, would be lost forever,” explains Wolfgang Lux. Linux file-server-cluster IT director of DIFE. The Solution + “Due to our backup strategy and the outstanding + Accounting / finance and settlement systems After SEP sesam prevailed against the competition and was implementation with including an outsourcing of the The spirit of research needs recommended by araneaNET, an external service provider backup tapes to a different location eliminates the risk + Outsourced tape backups for DIFE’s Novell infrastructure with GroupWise, Filr, Vibe, of data loss.” ZENworks and NetIQ Identity Manager, they began with SEP sesam In the future the German Institute of Human Nutrition the selection and planning of the software and hardware SEP sesam Modules plans a long-term archiving of raw research data with SEP “As part of our research complex studies are often performed. installation. The inquiry of the research data is often expensive and time sesam. + Mail/Groupware: Novell GroupWise consuming“, knows Wolfgang Lux. The entire installation and configuration process was managed by araneaNET and the Institute’s IT team was + Backup server: Linux A reliable backup is consequently essential for the actively involved in all phases. Client operating systems: Linux, Windows Nutrition Institute. “Various incidents could endanger + the availability of data on our servers, for example if a “SEP sesam meets all requirements. All backup and + 50 Slot Autoloader Support recovery jobs are performed successfully. Since the storage media fails due to a blackout of the power supply. Backup to DISK Protection against cybercrime, computer viruses, theft and implementation of SEP sesam, there hasn’t been a single + trojan horses also plays an important role for us. failure of a backup job. We are very satisfied”, sais DIFE + Bare System Recovery for Windows servers IT-Director Wolfgang Lux. User failures of the institutes’staff like an accidentally deleted file or the saving of a wrong version can also not be excluded.

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