Speed The Recovery

- Phil Albinus
- 01 Jun 2003

When Mitch Hodus joined the tech staff of Evergreen Investments, the Boston-based asset manager with more than $229 billion in assets under management for institutional and individual investors, the firm needed anywhere from 36 to 48 hours to restore 150GB of data stored on tape to a single server. Multiply that over 30 or 40 servers and restoring Evergreen Investments’s data could take weeks, which would be sheer suicide in today’s market.

Hodus and his staff had a mission: restore the

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