COVER STORY
VEEAM WAS THE BEST OPTION FOR US BECAUSE IT’ S DESIGNED TO WORK SEAMLESSLY FOR DATA IN THE CLOUD AND ON- PREMISES.
3-2-1-1-0 rule: making three copies of our data, stored on premises, in Veeam Data Cloud Vault, and offsite, including immutable and offline storage – and we check every day to ensure that there are no errors. Veeam Data Cloud Vault gives us greater confidence that are backups are more secure than ever before without the headache of managing the storage ourselves.”
BMC is now better positioned to take on growth opportunities, with a scalable data resilience architecture that is designed for easy integration with a range of other technologies.
“ One of the best things about Veeam is that it doesn’ t limit you – in fact, it empowers you,” said Alsanbi.“ We have no doubts it will scale to accommodate our fastgrowing data, even when we open our new colleges and it rises suddenly, and that it will align with our future roadmap.”
Using Veeam, BMC has improved its ability to respond in the event of any incident affecting its IT services, such as unexpected outages or potential cyberthreats, helping us maintain strong Business Continuity.
“ It used to take us as long as two hours to get a vital system back online,” said Alsanbi.“ With Veeam, we can recover the data we need in just 15 minutes, which is a reduction of over 87 %. On average, we estimate that Veeam has slashed our data recovery times by 80 %, which is a huge boost to our Business Continuity.”
BMC is also taking advantage of built-in automation tools in Veeam to increase efficiency. The organisation is seeing significant improvements in everything from its backup times to storage utilisation.
“ A workload that previously took an hour to back up now takes just 30 minutes with Veeam,” said Alsanbi.“ Overall, Veeam has reduced the time and effort we spent on managing data resilience by around 80 %. And the storage compression feature has driven down our storage requirements by as much as 80 % in some cases. We’ re putting these extra resources toward strategic goals such as IT optimisation and cybersecurity initiatives, helping BMC take on new opportunities for advancement.”
The Results
Company:
Batterjee Medical College is one of the largest private medical colleges in Saudi Arabia. Established in 2005, BMC provides high-quality healthcare education that exceeds international standards.
Challenge:
BMC is entering an exciting phase of change as one of the fastest growing institutions in Saudi Arabia – including opening a new college in Dubai and rolling out hybrid learning services. To help support its fast-growing business, the organisation aimed to strengthen its data resilience capabilities.
Results:
• Scales seamlessly to enable rock-solid resilience for data growing at 20 % per year and accelerating
• Slashed data recovery times by 80 % to minutes rather than hours
• Cut backup times by 50 %, data protection workload by 80 % and storage requirements by up to 80 %
• Scales seamlessly to enable rock-solid resilience for data growing at 20 % per year and accelerating.
• Slashed data recovery times by 80 % to minutes rather than hours.
“ Shortly after deploying Veeam, our systems experienced a hardware issue,” said Alsanbi.“ Thanks to Veeam, we recovered vital services in just 15 minutes, minimising disruption to users and saving our developers from rebuilding a business-critical environment from scratch.”
• Cut backup times by 50 %, data protection workload by 80 % and storage requirements by up to 80 %.
“ Veeam is freeing up resources that we’ re putting to work for the benefit of BMC and its users,” said Alsanbi.“ Next, we’ re exploring options like Veeam Backup for Microsoft Entra ID as part of our ongoing security roadmap, as we know our user IDs are a magnet for cyberattacks, and we trust Veeam to help us keep them safe.” p
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