Regency Centers is using the Data Domain DD690. The INI Group interviewed Richard Van Lare, Senior Network Administrator. This is how Richard describes his role: "I am a senior network administrator and mostly I'm doing development. I'm managing the IT projects. I'm designing them, deploying them and then I will turn them off to some kind of operations, a junior network administrator to actually run the facility."

The following is an overview of Regency Center's IT environment:

•   National developer, owner and operator or grocery anchored shopping centers
•   600 employees
•   20 sites
•   40 servers in 20 cities
•   110 servers in the data center
•   8 terabytes of data in entire organization (6 terabytes in the data center)

Listen to individual answers by clicking on the following questions:

1. Why did you decide to implement a disk-to-disk backup solution that supports data deduplication?
2. What was the process you used to make your final decision to go with Data Domain?
3. Can you give us examples of how Data Domain provided real value to your company?
4. Can you tell us how Data Domain has improved the overall economic effectiveness within your IT operations?
5. Did you look at any other disk-based backup or VTL solutions?
6. Did you look at any software-based solutions provided by the backup vendors?
7. How has implementing Data Domain changed your usage of tape now and in the future?
8. Can you give us any insights on Data Domain that would be useful for other IT professionals considering the solution?
9. What are the next steps using your Data Domain solution?
10. Would you recommend using Data Domain to other IT professionals? And tell us why.

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