"We have implemented backup and disaster recovery facilities to maintain operations continuity between two distanced sites...and enabled daily backups to tape without impacting network performance," stated Yasuki Kaneko, IT Manager of the Information Technology Center at Keio University. As Japan’s first private institution of higher education, Keio University has played a significant role in laying the foundation for modern Japanese society.

In addition to the storage management issues faced by Keio, the university also needed a storage infrastructure that could address its data protection and Disaster Recovery (DR) needs. In the DAS environment, Keio lacked DR capabilities, relying strictly on tape devices for its backup needs.  Read Full Case Study