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KOREA'S LARGEST IP SELECTS BakBone, STANDARDIZES ON LINUX

BakBone Software announced that Daum Communications Corp has chosen BakBone's NetVault software to provide enterprise level data protection and high availability of critical customer data to its more than 37 million users.

Recognizing the cost, stability and security benefits of Linux, Daum migrated more than 90 percent of its infrastructure to Linux. Faced with needing to protect several petabytes of data, Daum looked to BakBone to meet the data protection requirements of its environment and 24x7x365 business objectives. Daum selected BakBone for its full-featured capabilities on Linux, scalable architecture enabling high-performance backups, and ability to support and centrally manage the portal's heterogeneous environment.

"As the data protection vendor of choice for companies migrating their operations to Linux, BakBone is pleased to bring its leading edge Virtual Tape Library (VTL) technology and Linux expertise to South Korea's largest Internet portal, Daum Communications," said Howard Weiss, vice president of Pacific Rim at BakBone Software. "Fueled by the growth of information and data, Internet companies require solutions that guarantee high data availability in order to remain competitive. NetVault's true power as an easy-to-deploy and heterogeneous enterprise data protection solution, as demonstrated in Daum's rigorous evaluation process, ensures Daum complete reliability and protection for its hundreds of millions of files and several petabytes of data."

"Every one of our 37 million customers relies on Daum to keep their data secure and available," said Lee Joonho, CIO of Daum Communications Corp. "With NetVault's flexible architecture and built-in VTL capabilities, we are able to backup and restore PBs of data from several thousand systems with impressive performance. Additionally, we have been able to seamlessly deploy our backup and recovery strategy across multiple operating systems throughout the enterprise with the same levels of data reliability and availability. It's this guarantee of data protection that allows us to sleep well at night."

Using NetVault's VTL capability, Daum can quickly restore data in less than half the time of other backup methods. Often referred to as disk-to-disk (D2D) backup/restore, NetVault's VTL redirects the backup stream to disk rather than tape for high-speed backups and rapid application recovery in the event of a failure. Since the VTL emulates a tape library, but is really disk, NetVault achieves rapid restores, significantly higher backup and recovery performance as well as enhanced administration, despite ever- increasing volumes of data.