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Press Release (U.S.) Grand-AM Cup Racing Team Goes Hi-Tech with Asigra Agentless Backup to Protect Competitive Edge Toronto – August 1, 2005 - As DWW/GorillaRacing’s 400-horsepower Nissan race car takes a turn at 160 m.p.h., the vehicle logs track engine and G-force data for every move it makes. In racing, as in all business, data collection and analysis is taking a mission critical seat, and the ability to securely protect this data for future analysis is essential for success. Today, it takes more than precision driving to win races. The modern racing team is awash in data that allows pit crews to dynamically adjust cars during the race to create the most optimal conditions for winning. As mechanics fill up gas tanks and change tires when cars enter the pits, other team members connect laptops directly to the car and download a wide variety of data logged during the race, including lap speeds, turns, braking, G-forces, steering wheel position, and engine efficiency. Analyzing this data, and then using engine management software (also on their laptops), allows race mechanics in the pits to adjust the car’s electronic control unit (ECU) to set fuel mixtures and engine stress limits to customize performance characteristics based on exact car and track conditions. Data from the car, housed on multiple laptops, has become extremely valuable to drivers and pit crews during and after the race – since drivers can use this data to alter driving patterns and performance not just during the race but also when they return to the track for future races. Protecting this unique data in an environment where laptops can easily be damaged, resulting in data loss, becomes a top priority for drivers, mechanics and team owners. Facing the need to fully safeguard sensor data and engine management software, David Woodle of DWW/GorillaRacing examined the choices and turned to backup service provider SyncSave which uses Asigra Televaulting™ software with its agentless remote laptop backup capability. “With Televaulting, we can efficiently back up entire laptops – including our engine management and OS directories – as soon as new data is retrieved from the racing vehicle,” said Woodle. “In a world where our laptops can easily be run over or disappear in seconds, Asigra Televaulting allows us to quickly protect our data directly from the track so we know our information is safe and secure.” Whether the team is racing in New Jersey or California, data is remotely backed up to SyncSave’s data center in Rhode Island where it is encrypted and stored on disk. Since DWW/GorillaRacing requires regular full backups of team laptops, including operating systems, software and racing data, in addition to compression, Asigra’s data reduction capability recognizes multiple copies of identical files and backs up only a single copy, not just within a single site but across all protected sites, further conserving bandwidth and storage by transmitting multiple copies of files only once. From one stored copy, Asigra software can easily and automatically restore a file to its original locations even on multiple computers. Not only does data reduction reduce the time required to move data over the wide area network, it also reduces the amount of disk space required to store the data. The reduced backup size keeps this data protection process affordable since pricing is based on the amount of data protected and stored at the SyncSave vault, and a single Televaulting license will protect an unlimited number of computers. Asigra, which first introduced common file elimination capabilities as part of Televaulting more than a decade ago, has continued to evolve data reduction techniques throughout the years to deliver increased storage efficiencies and reduce bandwidth and hardware costs for business. Providing a level of simplicity in installation and going beyond what agent-driven, fixed-content solutions (such as content addressed storage/CAS, commonality factoring and data coalescence) can deliver, Asigra’s common file elimination provides an agentless method to intelligently remove duplicate files for both fixed and dynamic (database) applications throughout the enterprise. “The ability to intelligently eliminate duplicate files throughout the enterprise prior to backup – in DWW/GorillaRacing’s case, across laptops in high risk situations – allows companies to achieve storage efficiencies and cost savings, reduce WAN/Internet traffic, and restore data quickly to resume business operations,” said Eran Farajun, executive vice president of Asigra. “Today, distributed businesses are being created that take different shapes and forms, and Asigra is there to provide an efficient and effective way to protect their information.” About DWW/GorillaRacing About SyncSave About Asigra Contacts Asigra
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