Symantec Helps Copley Press Enhance Application and Data Availability and Reduce Storage Costs

Symantec Helps Copley Press Enhance Application and Data Availability and Reduce Storage Costs

Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced that Copley Press is using Symantec’s Veritas CommandCentral Storage, Veritas NetBackup, Enterprise Vault, and Live State Recovery to streamline its IT operations by improving storage utilization rates, enhancing the reliability of data protection and increasing information and application availability. With Symantec, Copley Press has reduced server recovery time from eight hours to one hour – representing an 87 percent improvement in server restoration and a 94 percent decrease in staff costs for server restoration. Symantec software has also enabled Copley Press to save an estimated $10,000 per terabyte by enabling more efficient storage allocation.

With more than 4,000 employees, Copley Press owns 10 daily newspapers, including the San Diego Union-Tribune, and nine weekly newspapers. The company also owns the Copley News Service, a full-service news syndicate with bureaus in California, Illinois, Washington, D.C., and Mexico.

With the proliferation of digital media and the fast-changing nature of newspaper publishing, Copley Press executives and staff rely on business intelligence applications to help them leverage opportunities in advertising, marketing, and editorial direction to stay competitive. Reliability and availability of the company’s business intelligence application and other services are critical to helping Copley Press grow its business. At the same time, the company is compelled to reduce IT overhead and storage costs, despite an annual data growth rate of 100 percent.

“Symantec’s solutions have enabled us to really streamline our operations by improving the availability of our applications and increasing data protection. Before we implemented Symantec, the heavy demand for our custom business intelligence application was resulting in significant downtime,” says Brad Storey, director of IT infrastructure, Copley Press. “It would frequently take one or two IT staff members up to two days to reconstruct application, data, and server configurations. With Symantec, we can now restore servers in one hour—greatly improving the continuity of our operations and maximizing opportunities for business users to build revenue.”

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