Thomas & King is America’s 8th largest restaurant franchise company. They own and operate 90 Applebee’s and 7 Johnny Carino's Italian Grill restaurants in Arizona, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The IT staff struggled to keep up with its tape backups. Responsible for protecting the company’s critical business information, backups were split into four primary backup jobs, including incremental backup jobs for its file server, business data, SQL database and a nightly full backup of its Exchange server.

1. Jonathan DeMerssemanManager, Infrastructure ServicesThomas & King 1

4. Exchange Backup Server: Symantec BackupExec Vizioncore vRanger Pro Backup Server Off-site data center Thomas & King Environment Email Servers Virtual Servers File Servers Database Servers SQL Server Business Data Virtual Machine Backups Primary Site ExaGrid Optional Second-Site ExaGrid

6. ExaGrid backup to tape once/month for archives

7. Backup applicationsSymantec BackupExec and Vizioncore vRanger Pro

11. VMware images back up directly from vRanger Pro Result: 3 full VM backups now reduced by over 6:1

13. Allows IT staff to work in areas of specialization

14. Database manager can restore SQL data if needed

15. Realized high efficiency in our SQL backups

16. 15 weeks now take up the space of 1 backup

17. Support is very strong – know most of the techs by name

18. Great for VMware backups

19. ExaGrid is very nimble organization – upgrade to architecture

20. Makes tape elimination a real possibility

21. Wide vendor partnerships make vendor changes easy

22. Revolutionary early-to-market provider