Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 46 | Page 49

COUNTRY FOCUS: QATAR The solution QIIB replaced legacy backup with Veeam Availability Suite. One year later, QIIB received a Banking Excellence Award from the World Union of Arab Bankers for excellence in straight-through transactional processing. “Veeam was definitely one of the reasons we won this award,” Mahmoud said. “Backup speed increased by 75% and recovery speed increased by 92% thanks to integration between Veeam and Dell EMC VNX, our primary storage.” Veeam delivers 24.7.365 availability of QIIB’s critical data, enabling the bank to www.intelligentcio.com “ SLOW BACKUP AND RECOVERY MADE IT CHALLENGING FOR US TO ENSURE CRITICAL DATA WAS AVAILABLE AT ALL TIMES. provide customers with fast, efficient banking solutions and a positive banking experience. “Veeam helps us deliver seamless, personalised service to customers, and Veeam supports the development and testing of new banking products,” Mahmoud said. “We learned this very quickly during Veeam’s proof of concept.” During the proof of concept, Veeam dramatically improved recovery speed of the bank’s virtual machines. QIIB restored them from a backup in three hours. Mahmoud said restoring them with legacy backup would have taken three days. INTELLIGENTCIO 49