DIGI Digitiliti Inc (CE)

Storage Elements� digitiliti, a new paradigm in enterprise remote data vaulting, today announced that Koch Logistics chose digitiliti over replacing tape library equipment and upgrading software. Timing is everything. Certainly, a logistics company lives by that credo. For Koch Logistics of St. Paul, Minn., a division of family-owned, privately held Koch Companies, Storage Elements� digitiliti came along just in time. The company�s data storage requirements were growing each year and tape libraries no longer offered enough space; nor did they provide enough scalability for future needs. �I was at a point where I faced buying new libraries and changing to new software versions that supported archival and data retention,� says Bruce Waslie, senior systems engineer for Koch Logistics. �And that doesn�t include our concerns about disaster recovery. �That�s when digitiliti came along,� he says. An agentless offsite backup and recovery solution, digitiliti offers secure, online, remote backup and disaster recovery technologies -- technologies that provide Koch Logistics with a mix of benefits that no tape library, or any in-house storage solution, could provide. The financial benefit of using digitiliti, rather than purchasing new libraries and upgrading software and licenses, is huge. �It�s expensive to keep up with software changes,� Waslie says. �It�s expensive to keep up with tape libraries that can only scale so far.� With digitiliti, Koch doesn�t pay for an agent or for ongoing maintenance or support. Koch pays only for the storage space its data takes up on the system. And digitiliti�s unique compression technology ensures that space is minimized. Each day, Koch protects more than 2000GB of data from two locations with digitiliti through a bonded T1 line over the Internet. The system compresses that data to less then 900GB (about 2.4:1). Confidence in the system also is a big plus. �We had always been concerned about our backups � simply, whether or not they worked,� says Waslie. With digitiliti, he knows that the backups are being done, they are being done within Koch�s window, and that they are being done securely. �We started with just a few servers; now we have 11 servers backing up to digitiliti,� he explains. �It backs up my most critical data, the high-end servers I could not do business without, and it does it automatically and flawlessly. I have no worries � I know it is done and if I need to recover data I know I can.� Waslie is sure that business could go on with little interruption if a fire, tornado or other disaster destroyed Koch�s facilities. �This building could blow up and I could find HP boxes, install digitiliti�s client and be functioning again quickly.� File-level restore is as easy as system level. �With digitiliti, it is easy to get a single file back,� says Jon Murphy, Executive Vice President of Sales for Storage Elements� digitiliti. �We hold everything in random form, and our software manipulates files, building the single file back when you need it.� Waslie knows that to be fact. �One sales rep inadvertently deleted something, and I restored it. It was quick and easy � in minutes. There were no tapes to spin, I just keyed in the information. It was like doing a local restore on a hard drive. �I was happy. And,� he adds, �I had one very happy sales rep.� digitiliti is a new paradigm in enterprise remote data vaulting, providing on-demand backup services featuring unlimited scalability to support spiraling data growth rates across distributed network infrastructures. First launched in 2003 as a software developer and hardware integrator, Storage Elements, the company has repositioned itself to focus solely on servicing the storage needs of enterprise-level accounts. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Storage Elements is the majority shareholder of Digitiliti, Inc. (PINK:DIGI) that is a publicly-traded company and Storage Elements is in the process of completing a merger with Digitiliti, Inc., at which time its corporate identity will officially become Digitiliti, Inc. More information is available at the company�s website: http://www.digitiliti.com.