DS3 DataVaulting Extends Backup and Recovery Support for National Weather Service Southern Region
Chantilly, VA…August 19, 2008 - DS3 DataVaulting, a veteran data management solutions provider and the first in North America to manage a petabyte of customer restorable data, announced today a contract to provide comprehensive backup and restore services for the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) Southern Region Headquarters. The contract builds on the original 2005 award, with an option for a three year extension.
Under the terms of the contract, DS3 DataVaulting will continue to provide its market leading web-based solutions backed by unmatched service levels, to help ensure business continuity for the NWS Southern Region. The Southern Region is able to back up critical data mapped directly to mission requirements, and if necessary, conduct restores in as little as three hours. “Physically, our building could go away and when DS3 reestablishes the information for us, it could all be downloaded onto another computer in another location and we would be up and running in a few hours,” stated Mario D. Valverde, Chief of the Systems Integration Branch National Weather Service, Southern Region. The online, off-site approach enables secure and simplified backup of such key information as mail, financial and business documents, while eliminating the need for tapes, increasing reliability and reducing restore times.
In addition, DS3 provides Backup Lifecycle Management (BLM), an effective secondary storage solution for important but non-critical data. BLM combines online, near-line and off-line storage, utilizing restorable, searchable and fully secure data images.
“We chose DS3 because it has a continuity of operations that fits our needs in terms of technology, service and cost,” continued Valverde. “We don’t have to worry about hardware and we spend less time backing up data, with increased reliability. In addition, the DS3 team is extremely responsive, providing us with excellent customer service.”
Stacy Hayes, DS3’s co-founder and COO stated, “NOAA clearly serves an important government function and it is always gratifying to see our solution at work to help fuel such mission success. As the data management needs of the NWS Southern Region expand, DS3 will continue its collaborative, service-oriented approach to provide the most reliable and cost effective backup and restore solutions available. We look forward to maintaining a long partnership with them.”
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About DS3 DataVaulting
DS3 DataVaulting was founded in 2002 to provide offsite, online data backup and restore services which enable customers to rapidly and securely back up and restore files, databases and operating systems. DS3 DataVaulting is Asigra’s second and largest service provider, and the first in North America to manage a petabyte of customer restorable data. DS3 DataVaulting uses state-of-the-art software to schedule and perform backups. DS3 DataVaulting’s software detects and records only block-level changes, thereby reducing the amount of data which is required to be transmitted daily for backup. The data is compressed and encrypted onsite and transmitted via the Internet to the DS3 DataVaulting data vault where it is stored. Data files are available 24/7 in the event restoration is needed. Large data restores to support disaster recovery are managed by strict service level agreements with the customers. For more information, visit www.ds3datavaulting.com.
About NOAA
NOAA understands and predicts changes in the Earth's environment, from the depths of the ocean to the surface of the sun, and conserves and manages our coastal and marine resources. For more information, visit: http://www.noaa.gov.
Media Contact(s):
DS3 DataVaulting:
Kim Larkin
Larkin Communications for DS3 DataVaulting
(703) 250-3590, x3406
klarkin@larkincomm.com
www.larkincomm.com
NOAA:
Ron Trumbla
Public Affairs Officer
NWS - Southern Region
817-978-1111 ext.140
ron.trumbla@noaa.gov
www.noaa.gov
