NYU School of Medicine Selects Compellent Storage Area Network for Continuous Protection of Critical DataJanuary 16, 2006
More than 150 snapshots per week provide CDP-class backup and ensure instant recovery for school’s more than 12,000 users
Minneapolis, Jan. 16, 2006 — Compellent Technologies, a provider of modular and affordable enterprise storage solutions, today announced NYU School of Medicine, one of the nation’s leading centers of advanced biomedical learning, has selected Compellent’s Storage Center™ storage area network (SAN) for continuous protection of email and student data.
The NYU School of Medicine IT team manages email, file servers and other administrative software for the schools more than 12,000 faculty, students and staff, who rely on email as their primary communications tool. After three years of utilizing data storage and recovery tools that frequently required a day or two to resurrect a lost volume, the school recognized the need to move to an enterprise storage solution.
Delays in recovery and e-mail downtime can have serious consequences, resulting in the loss of millions of dollars in funding if grant deadlines are missed. “As a world-class medical school, our students and faculty rely on IT services to share research data, submit grant applications and distribute course materials,” said Jeff Berliner, director of systems for NYU School of Medicine. “Compellent gives me the security to know that I can immediately recover to any point in time in the event of data loss or even just a deleted file. Compellent allows me to perform as a world-class IT shop.”
With Compellent’s Storage Center, NYU School of Medicine was able to get reliability and recoverability together in one affordable package. Compellent’s Data Instant Replay enables Berliner to create an unlimited number of spaceefficient, point-in-time copies called “replays” that allow instantaneous restoration of data through a simple point-and-click interface. With automated Replays scheduled at 15-minute intervals during the day, NYU’s system captures more than 150 snapshots per week, delivering the continuous data protection that is so critical to the school.
Compellent distributes exclusively through a select national network of business partners that are trusted advisors on their client’s technology decisions. CPU Options, a national data storage consulting firm, worked closely with NYU School of Medicine to understand their requirements and design a solution that delivers high-end functionality at an affordable price. “With Compellent’s Storage Center NYU School of Medicine can provide its students and faculty with continuous protection of its e-mail and student data ensuring reliable operation 24/7,” said Debra Stephan, Executive Director for CPU Options.
About NYU School of Medicine
New York University School of Medicine (http://www.med.nyu.edu/), one of the nation's leading centers of advanced biomedical learning, spans a history of excellence of more than 160 years in the education and training of physicians, in patient care, and in scientific research. The School of Medicine’s mission remains the same as was at its founding in 1841: “The pursuit and delivery of the highest quality patient care, medical training, and scientific research must be accomplished in a setting of excellence at the highest level of human achievement.”
About Storage Center
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