Missouri State Courts

customer and a user of HPE Data Protector
backup and recovery automation software
for nearly ten years, the court has achieved
greater business outcomes with its HPE
solution, hence it has long standardized on
HPE systems. In particular, it is pleased with
the reliability of HPE Data Protector and
how well the solution integrates with its HPE
hardware.
The solution consisted of HPE Data Protector
software and two mirrored HPE StoreOnce
Backup systems; one for the Jeerson City
data center and one for a disaster recovery
center 175 miles away. The entire solution on
both sites was setup, installed, configured and
up and running within three days.
Managing backup and replication with one
solution
Today 13TB of court data is backed up on a
daily, weekly and monthly basis and replicated
over a fiber optic network connection to
the disaster recovery center. The data that
is backed up includes case management
data, court documents, emails and working
documents.
The division currently replicates around 20
percent of backups to the disaster recovery
center, providing an additional level of
protection. The HPE solution has replication
capability is built-in and managed centrally by
HPE Data Protector.
Benefits
Seven-fold reduction in backup storage
HPE StoreOnce deduplication significantly
reduces the amount of capacity required
to store backup data sets. The court has
seen on average a seven-fold reduction in
backup storage requirement, saving cost and
simplifying their environment.
To keep pace with data growth, Missouri
State Courts has scaled-out its raw capacity
using the simple capacity upgrade available
with HPE StoreOnce. The court originally
purchased capacity identical to that it had
previously because the deduplication rate
provided significant capacity savings. More
recently, however, the scale-out architecture
of the HPE StoreOnce Backup system has
allowed the court to increase the capacity
further to meet its growing needs.
Reducing the restore window from
hours to minutes
The HPE backup solution has enabled the
division to significantly reduce both its backup
and recovery times, with the latter shrinking
from several hours to just a few minutes.
Recently when it needed to do some larger
two or three gigabyte restores, these took
just a few minutes with HPE. It was so fast the
team didn’t even realize it was complete.
Furthermore, if a user is in court and needs
a certain document, it can be restored in a
few seconds as opposed to hours, boosting
productivity and making day-to-day business
much easier.
HPE Data Protector and HPE StoreOnce
systems seamlessly integrate as they are
built on the same common core technology.
This enables the court to manage, monitor
and control backup, recovery and replication
processes from a central easy to use HPE
Data Protector console.
Number of backup resources halved
Backup is now much quicker and easier to
manage, reducing the number of resources
required to manage backup and recovery by
half. Currently the department only needs
one person to manage backup and recovery
operations on day-to-day basis, just checking
the jobs each morning. Previously it needed
more people, including a dedicated resource
to help with configuration and modifications
of jobs.
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Case study
Missouri State Courts
Industry
Government – State
Court System