Tucson Electric Power Accelerates Customer Response Time With NetApp

At the end of 2000, TEP was on the brink of enormous growth in its storage needs. The company was expanding its Geographical Information System (GIS) with more high resolution photographs, which required large amounts of storage space. TEP wanted to ensure its growing stores of data would be protected and replicated to a Disaster Recovery (DR) facility. Today, TEP protects all its business applications - including Microsoft Exchange, PeopleSoft, Oracle E-Business Suite applications, and multiple SQL and Oracle databases - via NetApp SnapVault, NetApp Snapshot, NetApp SnapRestore, and NetApp SnapMirror .