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1. 1. EMC uses new Absa leasing programme at Discovery

   www.itweb.co.za/sections/busin - [Cached]

   Published on: 8/25/2005   Last Visited: 8/25/2005

   Patrice Bouic, CTO of Discovery Health, said: "The combined financial offering of EMC and Absa enabled Discovery Health to procure the EMC Symmetrix DMX solution for our mission-critical environment as part of implementing our ILM strategy.

2. 2. EMC revitalises storage at Discovery Health

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   Last Visited: 5/27/2004

   Patrice Bouic, chief technology officer at Discovery Health, contacted EMC to build a robust solution suitable for the intended growth of Discovery Health due to excessive storage failures of the previous non-EMC equipment at the time.
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   "Speed of backups was also an issue, with our longest backup running at 15 hours a day," says Bouic. "We required effective backup platforms, offsite storage and a manageable backup window."
   
   He says EMC TimeFinder, and EMC SRDF (Symmetrix Remote Data Facility) have provided an enterprise-wide solution for remote replication of data, enabling rapid recovery at the secondary site. "If the primary site becomes inoperable, SRDF, an online, host-independent, mirrored data storage solution, enables rapid manual failover to Discovery's secondary site, allowing critical data to be available to the business operation in under an hour."
   
   "The EMC Data Manager (EDM) solution, implemented at Discovery, is a robust, centralised, consolidated and fully automated turnkey backup solution," he says. "It is fully integrated with TimeFinder and provides Discovery with fast and reliable backup and restores from and to BCVs (Business Control Volumes).
   
   "Furthermore, the EDM not only backs up information stored on the Symmetrix, but also network attached workstations and servers, whether they're Unix or NT," he says.
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   "With EMC's assistance, the transition was made over eight weekends and our system ran smoothly during the period of reorganisation," says Bouic. "We now have full business continuity and DR functionality within the storage infrastructure and our systems are not impacted by any of our backups."
   
   He adds that the partnership with EMC has been gratifying to date. "All our boxes are monitored by EMC 24 hours a day," he says.