Syncsort and NetApp Team Up for 'Virtualize without Compromise Tour'

WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J., Feb. 19 /PRNewswire/ --

News Facts:

• Syncsort Incorporated, a global leader in high-performance data processing, data integration and data protection and recovery software, announces the "Virtualize without Compromise Tour 2010," jointly featuring storage and data management provider NetApp.
• Syncsort and NetApp will offer free seminars to help attendees prepare for successful virtualization projects by detailing best practices to avoid the common pitfalls of virtual machine storage and data protection.
• The "Virtualize without Compromise Tour" kicks off in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on February 23, 2010, and will stop in cities across the U.S. and Europe.  Scheduled to run through April, the tour features seminars in Washington, D.C.; New York; Chicago; Irvine, California; Santa Clara California; London; Paris; and Utrecht, Netherlands.

Seminars Feature Live Demonstration of the Syncsort/NetApp Joint Solution

• Attendees will have the opportunity to view a live demonstration of the most complete end-to-end data protection solution for virtual environments.
• The Syncsort/NetApp® joint solution combines resource-efficient source-side data reduction with target-side deduplication, plus primary storage deduplication.  
• The solution enables users to maximize their virtualization investments by optimizing hardware utilization and reducing IT administration time.
• Multiple data recovery options including automatic virtual machine creation allow users to quickly address any challenge associated with data loss.

The Value of Attending

• Attendees will hear how others have accelerated and maximized their virtualization investment, including:
  • How a nonprofit health care organization saved 750 hours annually in IT administrative time using the Syncsort/NetApp solution  
  • How an international property developer reduced system administrative costs and improved SQL® database restore time from three days to one hour
  • How a health insurance company reduced its backup window from 45 hours to six hours

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Supporting Quotes

"The 'Virtualize without Compromise Tour' is an extension of our efforts to empower the world's most successful organizations to rethink the economics of their data," said W. Sean Ford, chief marketing officer, Syncsort. "As business environments are being burdened by exploding data volumes, NetApp and Syncsort are offering best practices for protecting and storing high volumes of data in a virtualized environment. We are sharing principles that can transform a company's ability to make critical decisions and drive measurable value to its bottom line."

"We are very excited to team up with Syncsort to host a series of informative seminars on the topic of virtualization," said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Solutions and Alliances, NetApp. "Virtualized data environments offer a unique set of challenges to data-dependent organizations and to the technology executives responsible for ensuring that their critical operational and business data is protected. At the seminars, participants will learn how the Syncsort/NetApp joint solution can address these challenges and offer capabilities that are well positioned to solve the most severe virtualization pain points faced today - all with minimum impact to the service levels they and their customers have come to expect."

 Supporting Resources

For additional information about the "Virtualize without Compromise Tour," and to register for a seminar, please visit:

www.syncsort.com/virtualization_tour

About Syncsort Incorporated

Syncsort is a global software company that speeds data processing, data integration, and data protection & recovery. Supported by a professional services team built on 40 years of expertise, Syncsort helps customers drive ROI with software solutions that combine high performance, optimal hardware utilization, and ease of use. With over 12,000 deployments worldwide, Syncsort customers include 90 of the Fortune 100 companies. Syncsort is headquartered in Woodcliff Lake, NJ, and has international subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, with support centers in the United States and Netherlands. An international network of partners, resellers and distributors positions Syncsort products as an integral component of IT solutions. For more information call 201-930-8200 (1-877-327-8951 in the US and Canada) or visit: www.syncsort.com.

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