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Cloud Storage Company Zetta Helps Town of Dedham IT Department Sleep at Night

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October 03, 2011

Cloud Storage Company Zetta Helps Town of Dedham IT Department Sleep at Night

By Anil Sharma, TMCnet Contributor


The town of Dedham, Mass., has selected cloud storage company Zetta (News - Alert) Data Protect for its mission-critical data as part of the town's efforts to keep data safe on another site in case of a natural disaster.


The IT department installed the ZettaMirror agent inside multiple Windows and Linux virtual machines to backup user files.

Officials with Zetta said that ZettaMirror automatically replicates and then keeps synchronized the local data offsite into the Zetta Storage Service where it is recreated in a ready-to-access file system that "mirrors" the local file system. The data is transferred and stored in encrypted format and protected against multiple hardware failures.

ZettaMirror automatically synchronizes changes to the data, so there is always a current, recoverable copy available. Access to the Zetta data is immediate through either an Internet browser or by directly mounting the remote file system.

"It took less than a minute to install a ZettaMirror agent, and everything showed up live," said Christopher Pohl, assistant director of technology for the town, in a statement.

Pohl said that there were no problems.

"We like what we see and how easy it was to implement and integrate," stated Pohl.

Company officials pointed out that the system has been running so well that the town is planning to implement new financial and general ledger systems, and will use Zetta to back those up from the start. They will be adding ZettaMirror into twenty other virtual servers over the next four months.

"We are planning to push out everything to Zetta," said Pohl.

The town was happy with the way Zetta integrated with its existing virtual server and file server environment.

"Zetta was very low impact to operations and very low impact to our bandwidth," stated Pohl.

"Before, we were going home at night worrying a lot. Zetta took a lot of pressure off us," added Veronica Barnes, director of technology for the Town of Dedham.

Zetta Inc. is a provider of enterprise cloud storage services for data protection.

Recently, the company announced that it has raised $9 million in its third round of funding, bringing the total funding to $31.5 million. Both existing investors Foundation Capital and Sigma Partners participated. Funds from this new investment will be used for sales, marketing and product development that will help the company increase market share of its award-winning cloud backup services in the small-to-medium business (SMB) market.


Anil Sharma is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Carrie Schmelkin







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