Leading Provider of Mapping Technology Deduplicates Its Data with NetVault: SmartDisk

BakBone Software, a leading provider of Universal Data Management solutions, is helping DeLorme manage their growing volume of mapping and GPS data with NetVault(R): SmartDisk.

News Highlights

• DeLorme, an innovative leader in mapping, geographic data, GIS and GPS technology, was spending too many hours purchasing and changing tapes for their growing stores of data and needed to reduce data storage costs.
• They selected NetVault: SmartDisk, BakBone's disk-based data deduplication solution and have recouped their investment in SmartDisk in less than six months.
• NetVault: SmartDisk has helped DeLorme simplify their backup process, reduce the number of hours previously spent on tape management and provides an added layer of protection to their data protection strategy.

The Challenge

• As the cost of tape libraries and the company's volume of mapping and GPS data continued to grow, DeLorme needed a solution that would save them a significant amount of time, money and space spent on their backup and storage drives and overall data management.
• DeLorme's mapping data takes up a lot of space in their database with its different formats and sizes; mapping data is the lifeblood of DeLorme's business and the company needs access to it at all times of the day.

The Solution

• With NetVault: SmartDisk, DeLorme's IT department has simplified their backup process by reducing the hours spent on swapping tapes and managing data and the deduplication saves a significant amount of space on their backup drives.
• Within minutes of installation, DeLorme was able to start deduplicating data.
• In addition, NetVault: SmartDisk shortens their backup and recovery windows and makes it easy for one person to handle all of the company's data protection needs.