Non-Profit Spreads 'Goodwill' When It is Needed Most

  
    
  
  
    
      Recognizing its services are critical to the well being of the 
      community, Goodwill Industries International deployed a new business 
      continuity and disaster recovery solution from McDATA Corporation 
      (Nasdaq: MCDTA) (Nasdaq: MCDT) to ensure its job training and placement 
      services are available to clients at all times. Nearly 850,000 people 
      took advantage of Goodwill’s employment 
      services in 2006 to get back on their feet, and the organization’s 
      ability to provide these services throughout the year is vital, making 
      access to Goodwill’s business applications and 
      client information a mission-critical issue.
    
    
      “Our existing tape backup solution just wasn’t 
      getting the job done efficiently. We had one instance where a failed 
      Exchange server took too long to restore and merge the databases, 
      adversely affecting business operations,” 
      said Steve Bergman, chief information officer, Goodwill. “With 
      the McDATA solution, we know that our business applications won’t 
      go down when needed the most and our data is protected and can be 
      recovered easily.”
    
    
      Tired of relying on inefficient tape backups and frustrated at the long 
      restore times, Goodwill tabbed McDATA to set up its Replicator 
      appliances that seamlessly replicate data over Goodwill’s 
      existing network infrastructure from a datacenter in Washington, D.C., 
      to a remote disaster recovery site in Milwaukee. High availability 
      connectivity to the remote site is provided by two McDATA Eclipse SAN 
      routers. In case of downtime caused by a corrupted server, a data center 
      outage or regional disaster, Goodwill’s 
      business applications — systems that 
      employees use to access client information, share best practices and 
      documents and communicate effectively — 
      automatically failover to the Milwaukee site.
    
    
      “While disaster recovery is critical to the 
      financial well being of companies in the private sector, non-profits 
      like Goodwill can not meet their basic mission goals without a reliable 
      system in place to ensure business continuity,” 
      said Raj Das, vice president of Product Marketing, McDATA. “We 
      are ecstatic that McDATA’s replication 
      technology can help Goodwill ensure that its services get to the people 
      who need them the most when they are needed the most.”
    
    
      In the future, the non-profit plans to offer replication services to 
      other Goodwill agencies, starting with three in the first quarter of 
      2007. Data that supports local operations such as Goodwill’s 
      retail stores will be replicated to the disaster recovery site, 
      providing even greater and more complete data protection.
    
    
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