Digitiliti Safeguards Design, Engineering Projects for Multi-Location Architectural Firm

Storage Elements’ digitiliti, a new paradigm in enterprise remote data vaulting, announced today that architectural and engineering firm Hammel, Green & Abrahamson Inc. has selected its advanced storage infrastructure service to securely protect design and engineering projects produced by more than 500 employees across six U.S. locations. A full-service architecture, engineering and planning firm with a 50-year history, HGA serves domestic and international clients from multiple locations in California, Minnesota and Wisconsin, creating voluminous amounts of data that includes detailed project designs and the communications and reports needed to support them. Growing tired of their inefficient and expensive tape-based backup solution, HGA sought out a storage solution that could help it transfer data files to an offsite location without additional layers of complexity. And due to the sensitive nature of company projects – including public facilities such as airports and public rail systems – HGA required an off-site storage provider who could offer long-term storage with the utmost security. "We were doing full backups every night and storing them offsite,” said Nancy Schmidt, director of IT at HGA. "If we had to restore, it would take hours or days to get the right file. It was a mess. We looked at all the money we were spending for an inefficient process and we started interviewing companies that did disk-to-disk backup. We felt Digitiliti built the best mousetrap. Digitiliti is cheaper than the tape and storage fees. We did a cost-benefit analysis that shows we’ve enjoyed sizable savings.” Schmidt said HGA selected Digitiliti’s Enterprise Backup System because of it offered security in a vault-protected, climate-controlled Fortress Storage Center; its quick restore capability; and an Exclusive Capacity Optimized Storage data reduction process that not only increases speed and reduces disk space while also reducing the cost of storage because Digitiliti customers only pay for the amount of space in actual use. "We were able to address all of HGA’s needs and concerns by offering a solution that allowed them to easily and automatically protect their entire network of data at one centralized vaulted data center while helping them eliminate the cumbersome process of tape management for their backup and restore operation,” said Jon Murphy, Digitiliti’s Executive Vice President, Sales. "With the expectation that data not only is saved forever but is also readily accessible and restorable when needed, tape-based backup no longer makes sense for organizations where an off-site tape warehouse is physically inaccessible. Digitiliti provides the security, efficiency and savings that multi-location organizations desire and need.” Digitiliti solves business problems that existing data management solutions can’t with its unique web-based solution. Digitiliti offers a world-class data storage infrastructure that includes superior block storage architecture, state-of-the-art encryption and protection, Digitiliti data collection software and offsite secure storage in its Fortress Storage Center with up-to-the-second replication out of state to provide ultimate peace of mind. A company’s critical data is guaranteed safe, yet accessible, allowing organizations the ability to back up or restore anytime, anywhere. About Digitiliti 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.