If you are a network or system administrator for an educational institution, take note of what some of your colleagues are doing. Here are two examples of how AppAssure Continuous Data Protection Software  helps a public charter school and a major university protect critical email information.

Imagine Schools operates 72 public charter schools that serve 37,000 students. Although the schools are spread out across 12 states and the District of Columbia, critical systems such as finance, student information, school websites, and email are all managed through a central office in Arlington, VA. They tried several backup and restore solutions before finally selecting AppAssure.

Rich Frangiamore is the corporate network administrator for Imagine Schools. “Email is our biggest responsibility. We manage 3,300 mailboxes. Wouldn’t you know, the first time I used Replay was to help the CEO. His Blackberry synchronization didn’t work and he lost his calendar. There’s a lot of important data on that calendar. I had the CEO’s assistant in my office yelling, ‘He lost his calendar! He lost his calendar!”

And in 5 minutes, Rich became a hero.

“I hopped right over into the Replay, mounted a snapshot, pulled up his calendar data, and told it to restore differences. Now there he is, 5 minutes later, with his full calendar back in one piece! Needless to say, I am the hero of the day, all thanks to Replay.”

The Institute for Systems Research, Electrical Engineering, and Physics departments at the University of Maryland faced many challenges associated with managing their email systems as they transitioned from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007. With difficulties associated with backing up critical information and no disaster recovery capabilities, the school recently turned to AppAssure for a solution that could better address their evolving needs.

“We were using a plug-in for a backup solution which worked but was a nightmare to use,” said Carlos Luceno, system analyst, University of Maryland. “Additionally, it wasn’t going to work at all for Exchange Recovery and disaster recovery and we wanted to be able to bring the whole system back up quickly if necessary. All our servers run virtually and Replay works extremely well in that situation.”

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