Quick Facts
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With more than 90 years of experience operating as a family business, Interstate and Lakeland Lumber (ILL) has earned its reputation as a purveyor of quality contractor, architectural and building supplies.
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Well- known in the industry, ILL is the go-to company for creating and restoring architecturally distinctive dwellings that endure for generations.
Customer Need
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ILL grew tired of the trouble and technical difficulties of its tape systems. One incident caused them days rebuilding a server by hand; the loses associated with the subsequent downtime of not have a complete set of backup tapes caused them to explore how it could change its IT system.
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At the time ILL’s IT environment included six physical and 21 virtual servers using VMware, IBM AIX, Citrix, POS, Windows and Linux. These managed over 1 terabyte of data. Among ILL’s IT challenges were:
- Convoluted and clunky backup file servers;
- Deteriorating tapes and failing hardware;
- Pulling, cleaning and replacing tapes was tiresome;
- Transporting and storing tapes was burdensome and risky;
- Hours spent on backup duties was inefficient and costly.
- Through the suggestion of CDW, Interstate and Lakeland Lumber investigated a solution from Seagate EVault, which would make its backups quick, easy, reliable, and secure.
Why Seagate?
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“The setup was a breeze,” explained Tom Thogersen, IT Director at Interstate and Lakeland Lumber. “We pulled Seagate EVault Cloud Backup Service out of the box, put it in the rack, and had an implementation call. It was that easy.”
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ILL now operates with Seagate EVault Cloud Backup Service protecting its data through an intuitive web interface and snapshot bare-metal restores that automatically and securely save to two backup sites—one on the East Coast, and one on the West Coast.
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The Seagate EVault Express Recovery Appliance works in conjunction with Seagate EVault Cloud Backup Service and provides ILL a local onsite data cache for faster recovery times, and then replicates ILL’s data to the Seagate EVault cloud.
- ILL is now experiencing the benefits of the Seagate solution, among the benefits are:
- Fast, easy and automatic backups monitored through an intuitive web interface;
- No more tapes to pull, clean, replace, transport or store;
- Data is doubly secure: fast and reliable onsite and offsite protection;
- Reduced backup time saves six hours of IT staff time per week, and Saturday mornings are free;
- Comprehensive recovery solution, with the possibility for future disaster recovery service.
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