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Manufacturer Saves $25,000 with a 20x ROI after Switching from Backup Exec and Tape Backup to Replay 4

May 10, 2010 – Reston, VA. AppAssure Software, Inc. announced today that its flagship backup and recovery product, Replay 4, has saved manufacturer Smith Brothers Furniture $25,000 after switching from Symantec’s Backup Exec product.

“We rely on our information systems to reap the benefits of lean manufacturing here at Smith Brothers,” explained Derek Augsburger, Systems Administrator.  “We have only a four- hour inventory on hand to build our orders each day.  If any part of the data systems goes down, it literally stops production.  If systems are down, we lose money.”

With production loss calculated at $10,000 per hour that systems are offline, downtime is not an option for Smith Brothers.

Traditional nightly tape backups with Symantec’s Backup Exec was both prohibitively expensive and inadequate for the amount of data Smith Brothers had, so Augsburger turned to Replay 4 and got exactly what he needed:

  • Continuous backup with a 15 minute recovery time objective
  • Recovery time reduced from days and hours to just minutes
  • Fast and easy object level recovery
  • Ability to set any time interval for backup snapshots
  • Easy, intuitive user interface

“Before Replay, data recovery took about 3 hours, pulling tape,” notes Augsburger. “With Replay, we recovered the necessary data in 30 minutes total.  You could say Replay saved us about $25,000 just over the last year alone – with much more savings to come.  We got about a 20x ROI with Replay.”

With Replay, Augsburger can now meet his main objective to support production uptime and business continuity. “This is a great product!  It does exactly what it’s advertised to do, and it’s absolutely cost effective. I know it’s something that will save us in the future.”

Replay 4:

  • Eliminates the backup window
  • Creates point-in-time images continuously
  • Reduces server down-time allowing users to access applications (including e-mail) during a live recovery
  • Reduces disk space upwards of 80% with built-in data de-duplication and compression
  • Allows for recovery or messages, files, databases, storage groups or the entire server from bare-metal in just a few clicks

Companies can download a free 14-day trial of the award-winning Replay 4 at:

http://go.appassure.com/free-trial?LeadSource=nonpaid_replay_trial

About Smith Brother Furniture

Since the 1930s, Smith Brothers of Berne has built a reputation for crafting fine residential furniture that is solid, comfortable, and stylish, combining combine old world craftsmanship – including Amish craftsmanship – with modern technology .

Located in the heart of rural Indiana, in Berne, Smith Brother Furniture is home to nearly 250 employees and sells to retail stores in over 30 states and in Canada.  Each year since 1976 —with the exception of 2001—has been more successful than the year before for Smith Brothers.

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.

Media Contact:

Steven Toole
703.480.0178
stoole@appassure.com

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