The University of Delaware needed an enterprise-class storage solution for backup and recovery of critical academic and administrative data. The University required a highly reliable, capacity-intensive, and scalable solution that was also cost-effective. 

The ETERNUS®4000 Model 500 is used for mission-critical backup services and intermediary disk storage for disk-to-disk backup. Currently, the ETERNUS4000 is backing up 250 servers across the entire university. Directly attached to a server that runs EMC Networker, the ETERNUS4000 is used to back up academic research, Oracle databases for PeopleSoft applications, email and Web servers, and the library catalogue. 

Fibre Channel (FC) compatibility and FC disk drives increase performance and redundancy as well as provide greater storage capacity at a lower cost. Leveraging the ETERNUS4000, the University can recover lost data much more quickly, and has noticed a significant reduction in the time required to copy to tape. Having capacity scalability has also proven to be a benefit, enabling the University to grow its storage as needs evolve. The excellent support provided by the Fujitsu team has also proven to be a major advantage. 

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