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St. Luke's Regional Medical Center uses two Data Domain DD690's. The INI Group interviewed Cory Matteucci, senior storage engineer. This is how Cory describes his role:
“I’m the senior storage engineer at St. Luke's and I’ve focused on storage for the past nine years or so. I've been with St. Luke's for about two and a half years and I oversee the SAN infrastructure and our backup architecture infrastructure where we utilize EMC’s NetWorker and we backup to Data Domain.”
The following is an overview of St. Luke's IT
environment:
- Approximately seven thousand employees
- Five hospitals
- Five hundred Windows servers
- AIX
- Solaris
- Open VMS
- Twenty-two ESX servers
- Two hundred and fifty Windows guests
- Linux
- Novell servers
- IBM SAN
- Compellent SAN
- Three hundred ten terabytes of SAN storage
 
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.
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