Intelligent Data Centres Issue 05 | Page 48

END USER INSIGHT environments means we can make IT investment decisions that boost our competitive advantage without having to worry about backup.” Two Commvault HyperScale clusters replicate data between the company’s data centre and disaster recovery site to provide robust business continuity capabilities. “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 less than 90 minutes compared with three hours previously.” Commvault also helps accelerate Emirates Steel’s digital roadmap by making it simple to add new services and data sets. 48 Issue 05 “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 safeguard the manufacturing supply chain,” said Azam. “We are proud to expand our longstanding relationship with Emirates Steel by adding our latest HyperScale functionality and flexibility,” said Wael Mustafa, Area Vice President Middle East, South Africa and Turkey at Commvault. find out more about the challenges the organisation was looking to address ahead of selecting Commvault, and the main benefits of the solutions. What challenges were you trying to address ahead of selecting Commvault? We are doing an entire backup of SAP ERP data, as well as the files for each server utilised by every user across all our separate departments. “Our HyperScale solutions are offering increased data availability and business continuation assurance to many of the largest organisations across the region.” The previous solution that we had was unable to handle large data backup jobs, especially backup to disks and with no protection to SAP MaxDB. We spoke to Mohammed Azam, IT Infrastructure Head at Emirates Steel, to The document library, which contains extremely confidential information and acts www.intelligentdatacentres.com