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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.
About McDATA (www.mcdata.com)
McDATA (Nasdaq: MCDTA) (Nasdaq: MCDT) is the leading provider of storage
networking solutions, helping customers build, globally connect,
optimize and centrally manage data infrastructures across SAN, MAN and
WAN environments. With nearly 25 years experience developing SAN
products, services and solutions, McDATA is the trusted partner in the
world's largest data centers, connecting more than two-thirds of all
networked data.
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Factors that could cause actual results to differ and vary materially
from expectations include, but are not limited to, McDATA’s
relationships with EMC, IBM and Hitachi Data Systems and the level of
their orders, aggressive price competition by numerous other SAN and IP
switch suppliers, OEM qualification of our new products - such as the
Intrepid 10000 Director, integration of CNT’s
sales and marketing functions, manufacturing constraints, constraints in
obtaining third party product for resale and other risk factors that are
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