Sql Litespeed Offers Server Backup And Recovery

Online Product News, July 1, 2003

Edgewood Solutions, Merrimack, N.H., a premier consulting company providing solutions for Microsoft SQL Server, has enhanced its efforts to offer SQL LiteSpeed as the definitive answer to SQL Server backup and recovery solutions.

SQL LiteSpeed is the new approach of backing up SQL Server databases quickly and securely. Unlike existing technologies, SQL LiteSpeed compresses and encrypts all data as it backs up. The size of the backup file is a significant reduction of the original database size, maximizing storage efficiency, while the state-of-the-art 128-bit encryption algorithm ensures that backups cannot fall into the wrong hands. In addition, significant savings in time for backup and restore operations are achieved -- far exceeding other database backup alternatives.

"Our database engineers have successfully implemented SQL LiteSpeed on a number of servers supporting 12 production financial systems, with databases encompassing several terabytes of on-line information. We are quite please d with the results we see in three key areas: a 80% reduction in backup time, a 2/3 reduction in storage media consumption, and a doubling of restore speed," stated Bob Riess, CIO of Ascend One Corp. Riess added, "SQL LiteSpeed will help us improve our disaster recovery capabilities and it will afford us more latitude during maintenance windows, as backups should face less contention for storage resources and thus should run significantly faster. During our three-month evaluation, we have recouped our initial acquisition costs in tape media alone. We believe that productivity improvements, together with time and cost savings associated with SQL LiteSpeed, will result in a significant ROI. In fact, based on the results we are observing wit hour core financial systems, we are now in the process of evaluating SQL LiteSpeed for other departmental and reporting servers."

"As SQL Server databases continue to grow for mission critical applications and downtime windows continue to diminish, this product clearly offers an outstanding opportunity to meet both of these obstacles", stated Greg Robidoux, president, Edgewood Solutions. "There is clearly no other product in the market that offers this functionality directly to the DBA."

About Ascend One Corp.

Ascend One Corporation, the parent company to a family of financial businesses that includes Amerix Corp., FreedomPoint, Amerix Mortgage and 3Ci. Amerix Corp. provides back-office processing and technology for credit counseling agencies and is the largest 3rd party service provider for the credit counseling industry. FreedomPoint provides consumers with multiple solutions to complex money problems. Amerix Mortgage uses call center technology to offer consumers access to a variety of mortgage products that can either b ring the advantages of home ownership within reach or help consumers leverage their home to address their financial needs. The newest member of the Ascend One Corporation family is 3Ci, a company that owns the CareOne Credit Counseling service mark. CareOne Credit Counseling is the premier level of service in the credit counseling industry. Ascend One is based in Columbia, MD.

About DBAssociatesIT

DBAssociatesIT, the vendor for SQL LiteSpeed, is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Software Products specializing in the development of high-performance backup/recovery and database management solutions for Microsoft SQL Server. DBAssociatesIT is based in Melbourne, Australia. For additional information on SQL LiteSpeed, visit http://www.sqllitespeed.com.

About Edgewood Solutions

Edgewood Solutions is a premier consulting company providing several key services to optimize the use of Microsoft SQL Server in the enterprise: Security, Disaster Recovery, Performance Tuning, Upgrades, Project Management, Design, Development and Change Management. Edgewood Solutions is based in Merrimack, NH.

For more information, call 603/262-9171, or visit http://www.edgewoodsolutions.com or http://www.sqllitespeed.com.