Summary
Cyprus Trading Corporation Plc
Website
Industry
Retail
Headquarters
Nicosia, Cyprus
Employees
Approx. 2,000
Challenge
Cyprus Trading Corporation Plc (CTC) was using five different data protection solutions to back up and recover information across a disparate IT infrastructure. For resiliency purposes, the company engaged a third party to transport tape backups offsite. Efficiency suffered in this environment, as management and monitoring of data protection required one full-time equivalent (FTE) in staff time. The approach also raised compliance concerns and risked substantial data loss in the event of ransomware or other disasters.
Solution
CTC deployed a Veritas NetBackup Appliance in each of its two on-premises data centers and a NetBackup software instance on a virtual machine (VM) in each of its two Microsoft Azure cloud environments (North and West Europe Microsoft Azure sites). On-premises data backs up to a physical appliance first, then NetBackup Auto Image Replication (AIR) replicates the backups from the on-premises data centers to the Azure cloud. Veritas Resiliency Platform orchestrates the VM replications between all four sites (two on-premises and two in Azure). Meanwhile, the CloudPoint feature of the NetBackup VMs provides Azure-native snapshot backups for the company’s cloud applications.
Outcome
The Veritas solution has reduced the amount of staff time CTC must dedicate to data protection to less than an hour a day, eliminating almost all of the FTE previously required. Backups and data restores complete in a fraction of the time they required previously, and the efficiency of NetBackup’s approach to backup storage has reduced the company’s spending on Azure storage by 25%. Most important, stakeholders throughout the organization have a renewed confidence in CTC’s ability to recover should a ransomware or other disaster strike.