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Orange County Public Schools is using the Data Domain DD530, DD560 and DD580. The INI Group interviewed Rob Carlisi, systems engineer.
This is how Rob describes his role:
“I’m a
systems engineer and I’ve been here for a little over six years. Our group is
primarily responsible for anything that happens inside the data center that’s
not network related. I’m responsible for the backup/restore environment, SAN
and Fibre infrastructure as well as installing and maintaining the servers
themselves.”
The following is an overview of Orange County Public
School’s IT environment:
- Twenty-two thousand
Employees
- Four hundred physical servers
- Windows 2003 and Red Hat
Linux
- One hundred sixty VM's
- Tivoli Storage Manager
- One hundred terabytes of
online storage
- Four hundred fifty terabytes
of backup data on Data Domain
 
Listen to individual answers by clicking on the following questions:
- Why did you decide to implement a disk-to-disk backup solution that supports data deduplication?
- What was the process you used to make your final decision to go with Data Domain?
- Can you give us examples of how Data Domain provided real value to your company?
- Can you tell us how Data Domain has improved the overall economic effectiveness within your IT operations?
- Did you look at any other disk-based backup or VTL solutions?
- Did you look at any software-based solutions provided by the backup vendors?
- How has implementing Data Domain changed your usage of tape now and in the future?
- Can you give us any insights on Data Domain that would be useful for other IT professionals considering the solution?
- What are the next steps using your Data Domain solution?
- Would you recommend using Data Domain to other IT professionals? And tell us why.
For more information on EMC/Data Domain, go to www.datadomain.com
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