{"id":1414,"date":"2020-10-02T09:20:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T08:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2020-10-06T14:09:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T13:09:35","slug":"californian-city-modernizes-data-protection-with-veeam-to-keep-residents-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/2020\/10\/02\/californian-city-modernizes-data-protection-with-veeam-to-keep-residents-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Californian city modernizes data protection with Veeam to keep residents safe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With the Californian city of Rancho Cucamonga looking to replace its legacy backup it turned to Veeam to modernize data protection by simplifying backup and increasing recovery speed 99% and ensuring public safety information is available around the clock.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rancho Cucamonga is one of the largest cities in Southern California and it\u2019s growing at a steady rate. According to the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), the city\u2019s population grew by more than 38% between 2000 and 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


There are a number of reasons for this growth. The city is brimming with sporting events, community festivals, diverse restaurants, historic sites and many housing opportunities. Residents enjoy countless amenities offered to them, along with the knowledge their safety is protected by the city\u2019s nationally recognized public safety departments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


There\u2019s no better time for public safety than during a pandemic. When COVID-19 reached American soil, cities across the country worked fast to ensure resources, mitigation strategies and tools were available to protect their communities. Rancho Cucamonga was one of them, providing extensive public safety information through its website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The site links residents to the nation\u2019s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for suggestions about how to protect against illness and what to do if symptoms arise. A link to the California Department of Public Health provides daily updates on the number of cases, tests and deaths, while a link to the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health maintains a COVID-19 Dashboard offering local information about testing, food assistance and business-partnership programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


In Rancho Cucamonga protecting residents is one of the highest priorities, so when COVID-19 hit, city leaders were grateful and relieved they had modernized data protection with Veeam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Protecting safety information had been challenging before Veeam. Backup was complicated, requiring someone on the IT team to monitor the process for approximately 40 hours each month. Recovery was time consuming too, taking hours or days to recover from tape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Darryl Polk, Chief Innovation Officer for Rancho Cucamonga<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n


\u201cKeeping life-saving information available to residents is a top priority during a pandemic,\u201d said Darryl Polk, Chief Innovation Officer for Rancho Cucamonga. \u201cDowntime isn\u2019t acceptable in today\u2019s world, and certainly not during COVID-19. This is when cities must-have complete faith in their data protection strategy – we have complete faith because of Veeam.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Rancho Cucamonga deployed Veeam Availability Suite in 2017 as the IT team began modernizing the IT infrastructure. Legacy backup had been complicated, requiring the team to monitor backup for 40 hours each month. Recovery had been time consuming too, taking hours or days to recover from tape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u201cOnly one solution fitted our roadmap for modernizing the IT infrastructure,\u201d Polk said. \u201cOur team has 100 years of combined IT experience, so we knew exactly what we wanted: fast, easy data protection. Everyone said the same thing: \u2018We\u2019re going with Veeam, right?\u2019 It was the easiest decision we\u2019ve ever made.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The Veeam solution
<\/strong>Not only was replacing legacy backup with Veeam the easiest decision the IT team ever made, it was also the smartest. Veeam modernizes data protection by simplifying backup and increasing recovery speed 99% for the city, saving 40 hours each month and ensuring public safety information is available around the clock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Veeam also protects the city\u2019s public safety video network that monitors areas for crime, the library\u2019s online system offering electronic reading materials (very popular during the pandemic) and the city\u2019s Adopt A Pet portal for fostering or adopting homeless animals (also very popular during the pandemic).<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u201cCities serve a digital world, so a city\u2019s best defense in a digital world is dependable data protection, and that\u2019s exactly what Veeam provides,\u201d Polk said. \u201cWe trust our data is backed up reliably and can be recovered fast. Veeam is the reason we don\u2019t lose sleep anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Veeam backs up 45 TB across 150 virtual machines on-premises for fast, local recovery and off-premises to iland, a Platinum Veeam Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u201cWe love that Veeam makes it so easy to extend data protection to the cloud,\u201d Polk said. \u201cWe talked to several of Veeam\u2019s Platinum Partners and chose iland because they\u2019re incredibly affordable for the level of service they provide. We know they\u2019ll get the city up and running again in a catastrophe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Backing up to iland\u2019s private cloud lets the city do something not possible before – protect data outside of its seismic zone. California is vulnerable to earthquakes, making off-premises data protection critical. The city backs up to a private cloud in a different state – a state that isn\u2019t vulnerable to earthquakes and has a separate power grid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u201cVeeam Cloud Data Management was part of our IT modernization strategy from the very beginning,\u201d Polk said. \u201cWe knew we wanted cloud backup and Veeam makes it simple. We\u2019re considering Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 next to protect our data in Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. We\u2019re also considering a public cloud for cost efficient, long-term retention. Veeam\u2019s got us covered.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The results
<\/strong>\u2022 Ensures public safety information, including COVID-19, is always available
\u201cDeploying Veeam was never a debate,\u201d Polk said. \u201cIt didn\u2019t make sense to look at anything else because there\u2019s nothing as reliable as Veeam for data protection and availability.\u201d
\u2022 Simplifies backup and increases recovery speed by 99%, saving 40 hours each month
\u201cVeeam enabled us to recapture 40 hours of productivity every month, allowing us to pivot on our strategic roadmap of modernization projects, including hardware refreshes,\u201d Polk said.
\u2022 Provides cloud data management to extend data protection to a hybrid IT infrastructure<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Rancho Cucamonga is considering Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 to eliminate the risk of losing access and control of data Office 365 data. The city is also considering a public cloud for affordable long-term retention. Veeam provides unlimited capacity for long-term retention through native integration with any public cloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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