Customer Case Studies

Since 2003, SEPATON appliances have been in production in a variety of industries and companies with some of the most demanding data management needs in the world. Click on the company logos to read their stories.

Customer Software Key Benefits
24 Hour Fitness
 Symantec NetBackup®
  • 33% faster restore times
  • Backup failure rates reduced to zero
"Our key evaluation criteria were scalability, reliability, and restore performance. We consider the SEPATON S2100-ES2 a key element of our Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) process and we plan to leverage the technology in every way we can." Eliot Kaagan, senior systems architect
AIP
 EMC NetWorker™
  • Backup times dramatically reduced
  • Find/restore any data in minutes
"We felt that SEPATON's forward-thinking roadmap would enable us to realize our vision of a tapeless environment and it would continue to be an industry-leading technology well into the future." James T. Wonder, Director of Online Technology
BAE
 BrightStor® ARCserve®
  • 50% decrease in backup window
  • Backup failure rates reduced to zero
"It's a very well-engineered product. The S2100 integrated right into our existing environment and we just started migrating backup jobs over to it. Within a few days, we saw that the S2100 was working beautifully, so we proceeded with wholesale migration." Chuck Berninger, Director of IT Operations
Baystate Health

IBM® Tivoli® Storage
Manager(ITSM)
  • Cut daily backup times by >75%
  • No need to change current policies
  • Works seamlessly in diverse environments
"The S2100 has saved us a lot of heartache. Our RTO has improved significantly. In the event of an outage, we can find and restore whatever data we need in minutes, versus the hours required by our previous system. Our goal is to move all critical systems to the SEPATON VTL." John Stabilo, Assistant Direcotr, Technology Management
Brookhaven National Lab

EMC Networker™
  • Cut daily backup times by 40%
  • Wide variety of applications and db technologies
  • Cut restore time from >1 hr to minutes
"So far, we have been unable to move enough data to the SEPATON appliance to make it break a sweat. We were impressed with how easily the S2100 adapted to our SAN Fibre Channel environment. " Andrew Ferguson, Manager, Enterprise Operations
Cambridge Health
 CommVault® Galaxy
  • 400% improvement in backup performance
  • Restore times decrease to minutes
  • Increase tape copy success rate to 100%
"The S2100® was up and running in a matter of minutes, and we were performing backups in our live environment within a couple of hours. Our CommVault software saw the SEPATON unit just like any other tape library. It took no special configuration whatsoever" Daniel Doherty, Systems Operations Manager
Citistreet

VERITAS NetBackup®
  • Cut backup window from 24-30 hours to just 4 hours
  • Restores now happen in minutes versus hours
"The SEPATON unit scaled better and was furthest along from a feature standpoint than any of the others. We were most sold on SEPATON's product roadmap and its ContentAware™ software applications, such as remote replication and data de-duplication." Jeff Machols, systems integration manager
Egenera

VERITAS NetBackup®
  • Cut restore times from 6 hours to less than one hour
  • Improved productivity through faster restores of ERP data
"Using NetBackup with the SEPATON S2100 really elevated our backup administration to a whole new level. Now it's much easier to find the data, making it quicker for us to restore when there's a need. It just flies. We love it." Ray Anderson, Director of IT
Foxwoods

ITSM
  • Cut backup time by 33%
  • Restore time by 50%
  • Maintain investment in tape technology
"Because we came from an IBM TSM environment, we would have had to learn a whole new application if we went with any other solution. The SEPATON system was the only VTL certified for use with TSM and SEPATON support is our single source for all of our backup/restore questions." Michael Grillo, Principal IT Engineer
Geico

VERITAS NetBackup®
  • Reduced backup window by 50%
  • Eliminated tape drive failures
  • Streamlined remote-site backup processes
"The SEPATON system solved several problems for us. We didn't want to get locked into a trendy technology that would only suit us for a year or two. SEPATON designed a product that will be a valuable asset both now and well into the future." Manager of system software support, GEICO
Interstate Hotels and Resorts

EMC Networker™
  • Reduced full backup times 70%
  • Microsoft and IBM servers
  • Exceeds Sarbanes-Oxley requirements
"The price per disk, the overall performance of the VTL, and the simplicity of the GUI made the S2100-ES2 the best choice. Our investment in SEPATON has paid off many times over." Vesal Tirgari, Network Engineer
Federal Agency

IBM Tivoli Storage
Manager(ITSM)
  • UNIX servers and mainframes
  • Finding and restoring data is nearly instantaneous
"By eliminating unnecessary media management tasks, the SEPATON VTL has freed a significant amount of staff time for more valuable activities." Storage and Backup Team Leader
Leading Chemical Manufacturer

EMC Networker™
  • Cut backuptimes 40%
  • Freed up significant IT staff time
"The SEPATON VTL is so fast and reliable that it took the pressure off our tape systems and gave us the time we needed to keep our entire data protection process running more efficiently." Infrastructure Systems Analyst
Optelecom-NKF

BackupExec
  • Reduced full backups by 90%
  • Increased IT staff productivity
  • Continuous availability meets regulatory requirements
"The SEPATON system reduced our full backups by almost 90%. We went from 48 hours for 300 GB to just four hours for 750 GB, while freeing the network for end-user access. Our restores have been just a few files at a time. But it's almost instantaneous with the S2100." Tony Gaeta, Director of IT Operations
Telecom Company

ITSM
  • Reduced backup window from six hours to <1 hour
  • Significantly reduced migration and reclamation time
  • Cut operating expenses through reduced media, tape drives, data center floor space
"We configured a virtual tape library to our specific requirements. We are now in a position to retain a larger number of versions on the VTL and to reduce the number of tape drives we use, which will reduce maintenance, floor space and media operating expenses. Over time, we can redeploy 80 percent of our physical tapes." IT Manager, Verizon

UC Merced

NetBackup
  • 3-hour backups, instantaneous restores
  • Centralized management of both virtual and physical tape cartridges through backup application
"We can use the SEPATON system as an active archive and backup on a file-by-file basis with ease. The SEPATON system more than met our expectations. No other technology could deliver the three key features we wanted: linear scaling, high performance, and complete interoperability." Enrique Flores, Lead UNIX Systems Administrator

USE CU

Syncsort Backup Express
  • Cut backup times by at least 33%
  • Regulations require encryption of all data on tape
"We cut our backup times by at least one third and significantly reduced the amount of time we spent on media management. The SEPATON VTL was exactly what we needed." Scott Lane, AVP/Enterprise Network Manager

VMASC

Symantec BackupExec
  • Reduced backup time 85%
  • Reliability increased to 100%
  • Data restoration nearly instantaneous
"With the SEPATON VTL we are able to protect more data and to relieve our IT staff of mundane media management tasks. They now have time for more productive assignments." Bob Armstrong, Technical Director