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supported virtualisation, Veeam had the
best overall package and by far the most
dedicated local support. They boasted
an impressive list of references and were
consistently recognised as a market leader
by independent research firms such as
Gartner,” said Foster.
ANGE deployed the Veeam Availability Suite
as a single solution for its backup, replication,
recovery and reporting needs. In addition,
the solution’s deep integration in the IT
environment meant it also offered powerful
monitoring capabilities, thus proving to be the
‘feature-rich’ solution Foster had hoped for.
“We have achieved 99.8% virtualisation and
Veeam offers us in-depth monitoring of 170
virtual machines (VMs) and the very limited
physical servers,” said Foster. The group
instantly realised a tremendous increase in
performance as backups were now smoothly
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executed in minutes, reducing RTO by 60%.
So, despite ANGE’s data increasing by over
200%, the IT team is now able to back up all
applications on a daily basis in real-time. This
assured backup and constant availability
of apps is fundamental to the group as it
utilises more than 20 different specialised
construction and commercial applications.
“These apps enable everything from design,
collaboration and communication to
customer management, logistics and other
mission-critical operations, thereby playing
an essential role in all the operations of our
organisation,” said Foster.
Through utilisation of existing investments,
Veeam has reduced the organisation’s need
to procure additional storage by 50%, taking
advantage of Veeam’s compression and de-
duplicate technology, thereby saving roughly
US$180,000 in capital expenses. This
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