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Replay 4 for Backup and Disaster Recovery Gives Flagler College Storage Savings of 84%

AppAssure’s affordable solution also provides Co-Location Facility Support with High Availability

December 7, 2009 – Reston, VA. –  Flagler College is a growing dynamic school with 2400 students and 300 staff members in St. Augustine, Florida.  With 34 protected servers and counting, Technology Services Network Engineer, Brendan Hourihan and his six-person IT department supports it all.

Hourihan was blown away by AppAssure’s Replay 4 backup and disaster recovery software because it gave him a solution that allowed the college to take a “quantum leap” in providing co-location facility support at a great cost with high availability. With AppAssure’s advanced deduplication and compression, Hourihan is seeing disk-space savings of 84%. With his previous solution, he was going through 9.6TB every 2 weeks; with Replay 4, he’s used just over 1.5TB in the same time period.

“There’s no way we could have been in this state before Replay 4.”

As Hourihan notes, “In colleges of our size, a student to IT staff ratio is usually about 1/144. Here at Flagler, it’s about 1/425. If it plugs into a wall, we support it. We are the focal point for everything: fax machines, telephones, computers, printers, you name it! We do quite a bit with not very much, but we’re able to do great things.”

Replay 4’s options and features are far simpler than anything else Hourihan had come across in his 15 years of working with backup and disaster recovery solutions. “Functionality wise, Replay 4 has an extremely easy, logical approach for set up. I did it in one night,” he notes.

Replay 4 backup and disaster recovery software:

Supporting Quotes:

Technology Services Network Engineer, Brendan Hourihan –

“With Replay 4, I thought I entered into a dreamland!  Finally I’m talking with somebody who has a philosophy about backups that makes sense – a more logical approach to how data is backed up AND what you can do with the backed-up data: you can replicate it, synchronize it, and more!”

AppAssure CEO, Naj Husain-

“We’re thrilled that Flagler College was able to save over 80% on their storage space. Our customers are consistently seeing savings between 70-90%. Our goal at AppAssure is to help our customers find storage savings and dramatically improve their restore time.”

About AppAssure Software

AppAssure Software is a provider of innovative backup and disaster recovery software purpose-built for Windows applications. Designed to protect the applications, not just the data, AppAssure solutions deliver high-value features for reliable data protection that is corruption-free. As a result, IT administrators can have the confidence that their Windows applications are completely protected and easily recoverable in the event of data loss or disaster. AppAssure’s flagship product, Replay 4 is an application-aware, disk-based imaging solution that automatically and continuously images your entire Windows application server delivering accelerated application backups and disaster recovery for Windows servers in minutes. Download a trial version now!

Media Contact:

Angela Lauria
703.480.0173
alauria@appassure.com

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