Whalen Furniture Speeds Application Backup and Restore With Replay

RESTON, VA--(Marketwire - August 18, 2009) - Whalen Furniture, a global furniture
manufacturer and distributor based in California, relies on Replay, application protection software
from AppAssure, to ensure constant access to business-critical
applications.

Ivan Breit, Systems Administrator at Whalen Furniture, was backing up data
to tape but realized that any data
restoration process would require days of work. He'd need to retrieve
tapes, rebuild servers, reinstall software, and then figure out how much
data had been lost in the time between the last backup and full restore. That wasn't
the only problem.

Ivan demoed Replay and decided to implement the application backup and disaster
recovery solution on 15 servers that run Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server, the Whalen Furniture
website, the warehouse management system, and other business applications.
Not only does Ivan know that application recovery will be fast, his
backup processes are no longer degrading system performance. Replay's
ability to quickly restore data and applications is giving Ivan real peace
of mind.

Replay:

-- Eliminates the backup
window

-- Creates point-in-time
images continuously

-- Reduces server down-time
dramatically

-- Allows users to access applications (including e-mail) during a live recovery

-- Reduces disk space by 70% with built-in data de-dupe and compression

-- Eliminates tape and tape infrastructure

-- Allows for recovery of messages, files, databases, storage groups or the
entire server from bare-metal
in just a few clicks

Supporting Quotes:

Ivan Breit, Systems Administrator, Whalen Furniture --

-- "With the sheer number of orders we handle every day and clients that
demand steady access to our systems, we need fast backup and restore
processes."

-- "I just have to log in to see that Replay is working. There's no
noticeable performance hit when backups are running. By eliminating those
long daily backups, Replay has actually improved system performance."

-- "Now we do backups of data and the entire application every 15
minutes. With Replay you can get in an insane number of backups if you need
to. In 24 hours I get 96 backups of SQL Server and I can restore the whole
systems to a virtual or physical server in minutes."

-- "It's extremely easy to implement Replay. You take the server down,
set preferences and install the software. That takes about 10 minutes. Once
that's done, Replay immediately starts making application backups."

-- "I like to sleep at night. I know that if we do ever lose important
data or have to recover from a system crash or disaster, we'll be back up
in a reasonable time. I haven't found anything else like Replay."

About AppAssure Software

AppAssure Software is a provider of
innovative backup and disaster recovery software purpose-built for Windows
applications. Designed to protect the applications, not just the data,
AppAssure solutions deliver high-value features for reliable data
protection that is corruption-free. As a result, IT administrators can have
the confidence that their Windows applications are completely protected and
easily recoverable in the event of data loss or disaster. AppAssure's
flagship product, Replay is an
application-aware, disk-based imaging solution that automatically and
continuously images your entire Windows application server delivering
accelerated application backups and disaster recovery for Windows servers
in minutes. Download a trial version now!