How Oregon Agencies Rely on Backup as a Service
Oregon DCS, part of the state's Enterprise Information Services, provides IT infrastructure for 69 state agencies, which manage their applications on the DCS infrastructure and, increasingly, in the cloud. Among DCS’s offerings are Backup and Recovery as a Service.
Several years ago, as Oregon’s data was growing rapidly, DCS adopted Commvault Backup and Recovery as the basis of its “as a service” data protection strategy — a unified platform that could increase backup performance while making it easier for agencies to protect and manage their data on the DCS infrastructure. In addition to better handling more than 20 petabytes of deduplicated backup data, the Commvault solution provides a portal-based, self-service capability so individual agencies can run their own backups.
“Each agency can now log in and see what files have been backed up, what servers have been backed up, or if there have been any backup failures,” says Gary Kreiger, deputy director of Oregon DCS. “The portal also allows them to do backups on the fly; for instance, if they’re doing an application upgrade on a web server and they need to initiate a backup on demand, they can now do it without contacting us and opening a ticket.”
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