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Replay AppImage Helps Hitchcock School Protect SQL and IT Resources

Application Assurance software saves IT team real time and money

May 20, 2009, Reston, VA – The Hitchcock Independent School District educates over 1,200 students through 4 schools, a Head Start program, and special education services. Chris Armacost, Hitchcock’s Director of IT, leads a three-person team that is responsible for supporting every aspect of the school district’s infrastructure – end-user devices, the network, applications and mission-critical databases.

Backup and recovery for the SQL databases that contain student, application, and financial data was a big worry until Chris implemented Replay AppImage, application assurance software from Microsoft Gold Partner Appassure.

Replay AppImage takes snapshots of SQL databases, data, and associated applications every 15 minutes. Data is compressed and Replay AppImage checks all incoming data to make sure that backups are corruption-free. Should an SQL server crash, restoration would take minutes, not hours or days.

That’s a huge improvement over Hitchcock’s previous SQL backup and recovery solution. “Chris was also using shadow copy (VSS) to take snapshots of data which limited to 2 snapshots per day because of the limit in space. Replay AppImage continuously images the entire server including all the tables, indexes, system tables and the database objects in those tables and enables DBAs to restore SQL databases to a local or remote SQL Server in just minutes with just a few clicks of the mouse. The Replay AppImage SQL pack:

  • Protects the entire SQL environment — including system and user databases, logs, operating system and SQL binaries
  • Eliminates the backup window with off-host backup processing
  • Streamlines disaster recovery with push button failover to a virtual standby of production SQL servers
  • Simplifies management of all backup and recoveries through a centralized console
  • Enables continuous access to point-in-time databases for recovery

Besides saving Chris and his team time and worry, Replay AppImage also respects Hitchcock’s tight finances by making the installation process simple and affordable.

Supporting Quotes:

Chris Armacost, Director of IT, Hitchcock Schools:

- “I don’t spend hours on tape backups and then worry about dirty tapes anymore.  I don’t worry about a server going down now. I can just flip on a new server and it’s as current as 15 minutes ago. Budget is always a concern and it was nice that we didn’t have to purchase new server hardware to install Replay AppImage. I was able to use old servers after installing new drives and controller cards which all together cost about $800.”

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 AppImage, 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!

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703.547.8686

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