USAF looks beyond backup to data recovery

The Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence, with headquarters at Brooks City-Base, Texas, is a field operating agency of the Air Force Civil Engineer. The center provides Air Force leaders with the comprehensive expertise they need to protect, preserve, restore, develop and sustain our nation's environmental and installation resources. The agency employs 315 authorized civilians and 46 military members. In addition to its in-house staff, AFCEE has many of the nation's most respected and capable contractors as its partners. The center's multibillion dollar contracting capacity covers the entire spectrum of environmental and construction management services. AFCEE provides a complete range of professional and technical services, including IT, in environmental and installation planning and engineering and military housing construction and privatization.

AFCEE also operates remote facilities in Atlanta, Dallas and San Francisco. With the responsibility for protecting data at the central facility and remote sites it would be logical that AFCEE's search for a better backup option than traditional tape-based backup would conclude with a disk-to-disk configuration that would allow administrators at the main data center in Texas to also manage backup of the three remote facilities.