Orange County, Fla., revealed today that it is using storage array technology to slash backup times for its critical security data. The Electronic Access Department of the Countys facilities management division keeps safe and lock combinations as well as other security information for all 6,000 county employees.
The new ESA1500 array from Adaptec Inc. (Nasdaq: ADPT), which has been in use for two months, can now back this information up in a matter of seconds, compared to between eight and 10 hours when CD-Roms were used.
Orange Countys employees need access to a wide range of government buildings. These include the county courthouse and jail, the sheriffs office, and parks and recreation facilities.
The County had already tried out a variety of methods to back up the data, which was held on five Microsoft SQL and Access databases. As well as CD-Roms, this included using tape drives and backup software. However, the end results were failed backups, lost data, and constant maintenance problems.
Ron Gawlik, East District Maintenance Supervisor of the facilities management division, says, We had one incident with a CD-Rom that was scratched and we had to bring extra people in to redo the database.
