HEIDELBERG simplifies backups with StoreOnce and HPE Data Protector - case study
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HEIDELBERG
HEIDELBERG achieved global
sales of around 2.33 billion Euros
in the 2014/2015 financial year.
Around 60 per cent of these sales
came from its new machinery
business, which covers everything
from printing presses for sheet
oset, digital and flexo printing to
prepress and postpress machines
and software which brings all of
a printing company’s processes
together. The remaining
40 per cent came from services,
consumables and replacement
parts. HEIDELBERG employs
around 12,000 people across
the globe.
Case study
HEIDELBERG
Industry
Engineering
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Benefits
High backup flexibility
One of the main benefits Böckler highlights
is the HPE StoreOnce deduplication
technology, which identifies and eliminates
redundant data before it is backed up
– either on the application server, the
backup server or even the target appliance
itself. This is because the deduplication
algorithm is fully integrated into the backup
and recovery process and not linked to a
hardware platform or an operating system.
“We are achieving a deduplication rate of
8.5 to 1,” says Böckler. “And by using new
LTO6 drives, we have managed to reduce
the number of tapes we store by 90 per
cent to just 200. This makes the backups
much easier for us to manage. The main
advantage for the other departments is that
we can restore data for them much faster
than we could do before as we now backup
everything to the HPE StoreOnce and only
store a few tape copies.” Brecht explains:
“We can even restore data from home if
an emergency occurs at night or over
the weekend.”
Another key benefit is that backups taking
24 hours to complete are now almost
unheard of. “We no longer have to worry
about getting backups completed within
certain time frames. The wide variety of
connectivity options the HPE StoreOnce
oers has removed the restrictions on
our processes and enables us to carry out
backups and restores simultaneously.
So we can backup data from catalogue
such as Microsoft® SharePoint much more
frequently and incrementally throughout
the day. It has made us much more flexible,”
says Brecht.
This backup flexibility could also be rolled
out to the company’s other sites, which
are currently running their own solutions.
The global data centre is considering
whether to connect individual sites to
the headquarters via HPE StoreOnce
Virtual Storage Appliances (VSA) so that
deduplication processes can be carried
out using one single technology. Böckler
comments: “This would mean that local
backups could be created on the appliance
and replicated to the HPE StoreOnce here at
the headquarters. The individual sites would
then no longer have to handle tape backups
at all.”
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Customer at a glance
Hardware
• HPE StoreEver MSL 6480
Tape Library
• HPE StoreOnce 4900
Software
• HPE Data Protector Software v9.0