Founded in 1904, Hogan & Hartson LLP is one of the
oldest and largest international law firms. It employees
over 2,000 persons in more than 20 offices around the
world, resulting in 5-6 TB of data being stored off site
(this includes all offices).
In the past, Hogan and Hartson LLP utilized DLT or
LTO Tape backups via Veritas. This old method created
challenges. The time it took to do backups and restores
often exceeded the window of time available, the tapes,
off site storage, and pick up were not cost effective
and technical problem with hung drives required servers
to be rebooted. There was also a heavy reliance on
man power within the various offices to swap the tapes
necessary for correct backups.
Michael
Lucas, Information Technology Director of Hogan and
Hartson LLP, set his mind on disk to disk off-site
data backup and restores with backup task and schedule
administration from anywhere. He looked at several
data backup and restore providers, including DS3 DataVaulting.
Lucas was impressed with DS3 DataVaulting because of
the “concept, presentation, favorable technical
expertise and willingness to work on customized solutions.”
In response to his experience, Lucas states, “a
recent disaster recovery effort to restore vault was
a success [and the] administration and scheduling much
easier. The vendor relationship is strong; DS3 DataVaulting
has been very reactive to our needs.” In the
end, Lucas says that switching to DS3 DataVaulting
has made it “much easier for [Hogan & Hartson
LLP] to perform, manage and monitor backups in all
locations.”
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"A recent disaster
recovery effort to restore vault was a success
[and the] administration and scheduling much
easier. The vendor relationship is strong; DS3
DataVaulting has been very reactive to our needs.”
Michael Lucas
Information Technology Director
Hogan & Hartson LLP |
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