City of Hamilton dramatically reduces their backup window

[CalvinZito]

Today I have another podcast with a customer, the City of Hamilton, just across the US border between Buffalo, NY and Toronto. I grew up about 30 miles from Buffalo and always heard Hamilton on the local weather so I enjoyed doing a podcast with someone close to my hometown. 

I talked with Jonathan Mancini, Supervisor of Data Center Operations from the city. When he started to address the issues he was having with his backup window, partial backups were taking over 5 days. Over time the City of Hamilton moved to Nimble Storage and Cohesity, their incremental backups went from 5 days to 5 hours. 

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Summarizing the podcast

• 00:00 - 02:00 Introduction
• 02:00 - 06:30 Overview of the environment and results moving to Nimble Storage and Cohesity (backup window, and data efficiency)
• 06:30 - 08:00 Use cases at the City of Hamilton with Cohesity
• 08:00 - 09:30 Buying Cohesity with from HPE with OEM relationship
• 09:30 - 10:30 Other benefits of the Cohesity and HPE environment and where to find more about the solutions we discussed
• 10:30 - 12:30 Future potential changes with infrastructure at City of Hamilton (more hybrid cloud and getting rid of tape)
• 12:30 - 13:30 Wrap-up

Find more

• On hpe.com, hpe.com/storage/Cohesity
• On cohesity.com, here's the URL to go to: https://www.cohesity.com/products/hpe/  Note the URL in the podcast on Cohesity's website doesn't work. 
• Here are ATSB blog posts that are tagged with Cohesity. There are a couple of blog posts from industry expert Scott Lowe that are really good. I especially recommend this blog post that detailed the OEM relationship HPE now has with Cohesity and includes a video discussion and podcast that dove into the solutions we now offer. 
• There's also a Chalk Talk I did that is a good overview of the HPE and Cohesity solutions. 

About HPE Storage Guy (aka The Storage Godfather)

I'm Calvin Zito and November 16, 2018 marks 35 years with HP/HPE. I've worked in HPE Storage since 1990. I was just recognized as a 9 time VMware vExpert. As an early adopter of social media and active in communities, I've blogged for 10 years. You can find me on Twitter as @CalvinZito. If you don't follow me on Twitter, do it now! You can also contact me via email. 

Calvin Zito
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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