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September 28, 2011

Zetta Ensures Data Safety at Town of Dedham IT Department

Zetta (News - Alert), an enterprise cloud storage provider, announced that the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts, is using Zetta 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 has installed the ZettaMirror agent inside multiple Windows and Linux virtual machines to backup user files.

The town is satisfied with the way Zetta integrated with its existing virtual server and file server environment. 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 20 other virtual servers over the next four months.

“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. “There were no problems.”

Leveraging ZettaMirror, users can replicate and keep synchronized local data offsite into the Zetta Storage Service where it is recreated in a file system. The data can also be transferred and stored in encrypted format and protected against multiple hardware failures.

ZettaMirror 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.

Recently, Zetta announced the launched of an agent software upgrade named ZettaMirror 2.0 for its cloud storage solution. ZettaMirror 2.0 has enhanced controls and can increase the performance or the data transfer rate by nearly ten times. The agent upgrade software is part of the company’s Zetta Data Protect Solution.




Rajani Baburajan is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Rajani's articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Jennifer Russell
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