A new DPM 2007 case study recently published on a great http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000001716 .
With 25,000 employees and $19 Billion US in revenue, AutoNation had a lot of data. One quote from Ed Olson,
Lead Windows Infrastructure Engineer, AutoNation:
" We were trying to shoehorn 12 to 15 terabytes of data onto 15 tape drives each night, and it just wasn’t working. "
The case study talks about protecting Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server and SharePoint data, along with disaster recovery capabilities - and ends with this conclusion:
Saving money was not an original impetus for moving to a new backup scheme, because the company had to make a change to accommodate rising data volumes. However, System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 cost one-third of what competitive products cost, and annual backup-related maintenance chores are today one-third of what they were.
AutoNation also expects to save $30,000 annually in offsite tape-storage fees once it sets up System Center Data Protection Manager to copy files to the company’s disaster-recovery site in Chicago. “The fact that Data Protection Manager has a built-in disaster recovery capability makes it an unbelievable value, considering that its closest competitor costs three times as much without this feature,” Olson says.
http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000001716 .
http://blogs.technet.com/JBUFF
