>Thanks, Chris, that was one enjoyable article.
lynn.
glad you liked it. here's a product-oriented excerpt from information week ...
-chris.
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Information Week
January 11, 1999, Issue: 716
Section: IT Management
Backup Plans Become Critical -- Companies Find Data Recovery Software Helps Save Them Time, Money
Jennifer Mateyaschuk
For companies that consider customer service a competitive advantage, downtime is lost business. Late last summer, Visa International Inc., in Foster City, Calif., finished installing EMC Corp.'s TimeFinder software for backing up data. Visa says the product helped its systems operate at maximum performance during the holiday shopping season.
TimeFinder creates multiple copies of data for backups, data warehouse loading, and year 2000 testing-and does it all while a system remains online. Once a job is completed, copies of the data are automatically synchronized with the primary data.
Using TimeFinder, Visa backed up 2 terabytes of data in 15 minutes, compared with the 10 hours it took previously. Because there was no downtime while data was being backed up, the company says, TimeFinder contributed directly to better customer service and increased revenue. It also helped Visa cut down on the money it was spending to test its data backup plan twice a year.
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