Berdon LLP

1. Berdon LLP New York City, NY Jericho, NY

2. Berdon LLPProfile • Berdon LLP. – A full-service accounting and financial management company • Ranks among the top 20 CPA firms • 350 professionals and staff at offices • Clients operate in a broad spectrum of industries and professions

3. VERITAS Portfolio at Berdon LLP Berdon LLP Solution Set Problem Statement • Backed up data separately at each location • Used tape drives and jukeboxes for storage • Nightly backups were time-consuming and difficult to manage • Firm was more vulnerable to data loss in the event of a disaster or system failure Description of Environment • 30 Servers - Windows 2000/2003 • 10 hard drive arrays • 230 Dell Latitude laptops Storage Replicator Backup Exec WS

4. Berdon LLPSolution Set • Replicates data from Jericho office to NYC office over T1 • Replicating data from multiple remote servers to central server • Company-wide backups are consolidated and performed at HQ • All backups are now reliably performed by trained administrator • Data also replicated from HQ back to Jericho office for data redundancy and disaster recovery • Initially deployed solution on 3 servers • Plans to scale VSR solution to 14 additional servers

5. What the customer is saying • “With VERITAS solutions, we are confident that all of our data, whether located at the central location or our remote office, is being protected by replicating all of our data using VERITAS Storage Replicator and VERITAS Backup Exec.” • David Pikelny – Network Administrator, Berdon LLP • “Working with VERITAS solutions is a pleasure, I spend less than five minutes a day worrying about data replication. VERITAS provides a ‘set it and forget it’ kind of solution that runs by itself with almost no effort on my part.” • David Pikelny – Network Administrator, Berdon LLP