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Law Firm Makes the Case for Engaging Enterprise Service Provider
Moss & Barnett move from tape to Storage Elements' digitiliti, a cost-effective, easy-to-use, reliable online solution
MINNEAPOLIS - June 4, 2007 - Storage Elements' digitiliti, a new paradigm in enterprise remote data vaulting, today announced that Moss & Barnett have chosen digitili for its remote backup and disaster recovery site.
Moss & Barnett is a full service, 70 attorney law firm, based in Minneapolis. For over 100 years, the firm's clients have come to expect high standards of integrity, along with skilled, innovative, and cost-effective legal services. As a result, Moss & Barnett has grown with its clients, building a rich resource of multi-specialty legal practitioners. Many of the firm's administrative functions are computerized, freeing attorneys to devote more time to the practice of law. The result is a sophisticated and cost-efficient approach.
According to Cheryl Thompson, Director of Information Technology at Moss & Barnett, "We were backing up to several devices, and generated several tapes a night, but the firm only sent tapes offsite once a week. That meant that the law firm risked losing a week's worth of data. Since working with digitiliti, we're moving data offsite once a day, cutting our risk considerably."
Ease of use is another huge benefit of digitiliti to Moss & Barnett, said Jon Murphy, Executive Vice President of Sales. Backing up to the digitiliti vault saves time and effort for the firm and for Network Administrator Bruce Garber personally. "Garber is their only IT administrator, so it takes a lot off his hands, since it's automatic. All backups are set and they just run."
Garber says, "The software is straightforward, and so is restoring data. Comparing the restore process with digitiliti to restoring data from tape, Garber says "The restore process with digitiliti is quick, simple and much faster than tape. The process of restoring from tape takes 10-15 minutes, if you can readily find the tape, and you can't do anything else on the server while it's restoring. With digitiliti it takes a couple of minutes."
The law firm went with digitiliti because of the wide-open architecture. digitiliti allows them to hold whatever data they need, for as long as they want. Other services may only let you hold a deleted email for example, for 10 days, because there is a limit to their space. With digitiliti there's no limit.
digitiliti provides security since the blocks of data are high compressed and encrypted, along with savings since customers only pay for the space they use. Moss & Barnett may not have set a legal precedent on digitiliti, but has definitely made the case for the company as its enterprise service provider.
digitiliti is a new paradigm in enterprise remote data vaulting, providing on-demand backup services featuring unlimited scalability to support spiraling data growth rates across distributed network infrastructures. First launched in 2003 as a software developer and hardware integrator Storage Elements, the company has repositioned itself to focus solely on servicing the storage needs of enterprise-level accounts. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Storage Elements is the majority shareholder of Digitiliti (PINK:DIGI) is a publicly-traded company and is completeing a merger, at which time its corporate identify will officially become Digiliti, Inc. More information is available at the company's website: http://www.digitiliti.com.