Travis Rice has entered a virtual world, one in which computer servers at his big credit union "kind of float around based on utilization" and are backed up at cyberspace speed.

Rice is IT systems manager at the $2.9 billion Mountain America Credit Union, which now backs up crucial data day and night using VMware virtual technology and the EVault data protection system from i365, a Seagate company.

"It's completely eased our workload," Rice said. "My other senior administrator and I manage the system and really it only takes one of us to do it because of the way it rates tasks and checks jobs."

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