Diligent Technologies' ProtecTIER Chosen by SKODA Auto

Diligent Technologies Corporation, a leading provider of
enterprise-class data protection solutions, and SIT, a value-added
reseller partner located in the Czech Republic, today announced that
SKODA Auto, one of the world's most established car manufacturers, has
successfully deployed Diligent's ProtecTIER Data Protection Platform
at its main two data centers. By installing ProtecTIER, SKODA's backup
and recovery environment not only performs faster on backup and
restores, but the solution has significantly reduced the amount of
backup disk capacity requirements by 90%. Handling a variety of data
types and retention times, SKODA handles the backup and restore of
450TBs of enterprise-class data on only 37TBs of disk.

SKODA Auto faced significant challenges in its data storage
environment. Multiple backup copies were not available and the system,
comprised of hardware from several different vendors, did not have the
capacity to allow tape backups to be recovered quickly or validated
for completeness and accuracy. The estimated time to recover an
individual lost file was a minimum of four hours and backups were
reported to be failing 70% of the time. SKODA Auto selected Diligent's
ProtecTIER over the competition on its merits of data factoring,
efficiency in remote backup, scalability, flexibility and its hardware
agnostic approach.

"We knew that we had serious issues with our backup and restore
infrastructure and with the growth rate that we were facing, we knew
tape was no longer the answer. With the help of SIT, we began
searching for a solution that could be effective and integrate easily
with our complex mix of storage architectures from several different
suppliers," said Jan Drbohlav, infrastructure manager, SKODA Auto. "As
ProtecTIER is an open solution that is hardware agnostic it was the
perfect solution for us. It integrated seamlessly into our existing
TSM environment and provided the flexibility and scalability we
needed. We are happy to have worked with Diligent and SIT and look
forward to continued efficiencies in our backup and restore
environment."

"Our task was to improve SKODA's backup operation in a secure and
reliable way. The flexibility of Diligent's ProtecTIER platform allows
us to implement a high availability infrastructure, with no single
point of failure, management capabilities and full transparency to
existing backup and restore applications. It also is ready to support
future challenges like instant restore, data categorisation and ILM
which are important features to our customer," said Radek Sousek, CTO
of SIT.

Diligent's ProtecTIER, an enterprise-class disk-based data
protection solution, enables customers to reduce their required backup
disk storage capacity by up to 25 times or more. Powered by
HyperFactor(TM), the industry leading data de-duplication technology,
ProtecTIER enables enterprises to eliminate redundant data resulting
in a large-scale reduction in the amount and cost of physical storage
required.

About Diligent Technologies Corporation

Diligent delivers scalable, proven, enterprise-class disk-based
data protection solutions. Diligent's ProtecTIER(TM) platform, powered
by HyperFactor(TM), a game-changing data de-duplication technology,
enables customers to protect more data while recording less of it, all
without disrupting existing policies, practices and procedures in
their data center. Diligent's solutions and professional services are
available through its reseller and partner channels along with sales,
service and R&D support located worldwide. Information on Diligent
Technologies is available on the World Wide Web at www.diligent.com,
tel: +1-508-663-1300 or e-mail: info@diligent.com.

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