CASE STUDY
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mirates Steel has implemented
Commvault HyperScale to support
its digitalisation ambitions and
safeguard its manufacturing operations.
Headquartered in Abu Dhabi, Emirates
Steel is wholly government owned. At full
capacity, its 11 plants produce 3.5 million
tons of steel products, such as sheets,
beams and reinforced bars, every year for
the construction industry. The company’s
digitalisation efforts include moving its SAP
modules to the cloud through Microsoft
public cloud solutions.
“Backup was a challenge with underlying
technology scattered across different
environments and running on ageing
hardware,” said Mohammed Azam, IT
Infrastructure Head at Emirates Steel.
He said it was at Commvault’s GO event
that he discovered the company, which is
a recognised global enterprise software
leader in the management of data for
cloud and on-premises environments,
offered Commvault HyperScale. This, he
said, provided a user-friendly interface
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but was also easily installed and worked
‘perfectly’ across the organisation’s
complex environment.
Commvault HyperScale and Commvault
Complete Backup and Recovery protect 400
terabytes of data hosted across SAP systems
and including SQL databases, email archives
and 20 virtual machines.
“Commvault HyperScale is easy to install
and use,” said Azam. “Interoperability
with both public cloud and on-premises
environments means we can make IT
investment decisions that boost our
competitive advantage without having to
worry about backup.”
THE SOLUTION
PROVIDED BY
COMMVAULT
INTRODUCED A
NEW MILESTONE
FOR EFFECTIVE
DATA STORAGE.
less than 90 minutes compared with three
hours previously.”
Two Commvault HyperScale clusters
replicate data between the company’s data
centre and Disaster Recovery site to provide
robust Business Continuity capabilities. Commvault also helps accelerate Emirates
Steel’s digital roadmap by making it simple
to add new services and data sets.
“Commvault gives us confidence that we can
recover rapidly from any scenario, including
potential ransomware attacks,” said Azam.
“We can now restore a critical database in “Any disruption to our operational systems
and the production of steel would have
a national impact. By maximising data
availability, we can boost efficiency and
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