Quantum Enhances Managed Cloud Services Protection for Interoute
Quantum’s DXi6701/02 meets growing demand for reliable data protection for Europe's largest cloud services platform; helps recoup investment twice over
16.10.2013, London, UK – Quantum Corp.(NYSE: QTM), a proven global expert in big data management and data protection, today announced its DXi6701/02 disk backup systems have helped Interoute, owner operator of Europe's largest cloud services platform, to enhance customer backup and address the growing demand for managed cloud services. Quantum’s DXi6701/02 solutions give Interoute a scalable, high performance approach to managing customer data which significantly lowers their data protection costs, allowing them to re-coup their investment twice over.
Interoute previously supported customer backup and retrieval needs using local attached storage through multiple backup nodes. Growing demand for managed storage, the requirement to adhere to stringent customer SLAs governing data availability, performance and efficiency led Interoute to turn to Quantum for a more cost effective and reliable data protection solution. The move also coincided with Interoute offering customers near real-time replication of their cloud-based backup data sets to a second site.
Best-in-Class Replication and Ease of Use
“We looked at other appliances, but the Quantum DXi6700 Series offers a best-in-class blend of enterprise-class replication, deduplication and ease-of-use in one disk-based backup solution,” said Sam Ludlow, senior cloud consultant, Interoute. “Quantum is helping Interoute to industrialise its managed services. As customers increasingly turn to cloud computing for the mission-critical applications, Quantum provides a stable, scalable, and high performance approach to managing customer data. It’s all delivered very cost-effectively – in fact, by standardising the two DXi6700 Series, we’ve has been able to free up the equivalent of 50 percent of one administrator’s time.”
Gabriel Chaher, vice president, EMEA sales & marketing for Quantum added: "The improvements to service delivery and cost-savings clearly illustrate how solutions like the DXi Series can bring immediate results. With our experience in Data Protection, Cloud and Big Data, we’re enabling our customers to quickly deploy solutions that improve business agility."
Interoute deployed two DXi6700 Series deduplication appliances, each scaled to 48 terabytes (TB) capacity, with Veeam providing the backup management software. The solution currently protects up to 5,000 machines on the virtual cloud, and with 60 versions of each virtual machine (i.e. 60 restore points for each guest), that means the Quantum environment is protecting up to 300,000 virtual machine restore points. Backup is spread over multiple nodes, and Interoute has the flexibility to restore from any node.
Additional Resources
Read the complete Quantum case study on Interoute, visit: http://bit.ly/Interoute
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About Quantum
Quantum is a proven global expert in data protection and big data management, providing specialised storage solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments. From small businesses to major enterprises, more than 100,000 customers have trusted Quantum to help maximise the value of their data by protecting and preserving it over its entire lifecycle. With Quantum, customers can Be Certain™ they’re able to adapt in a changing world – keeping more data longer, bridging from today to tomorrow, and reducing costs. See how at www.quantum.com.
About Interoute
Interoute Communications Ltd is the owner operator of Europe's largest cloud services platform, which encompasses over 60,000 km of lit fibre, 8 hosting data centres and 32 collocation centres, with connections to 140 additional third-party data centres across Europe. Interoute’s Managed Application Services offers end-to-end hosted and on-premise support solutions for critical database and application environments, seamlessly integrating the management of critical applications with the network and infrastructure. Interoute’s full-service Unified ICT platform serves international enterprises, as well as every major European telecommunications incumbent and the major operators of North America, East andSouth Asia, governments and universities. These organisations find Interoute the ideal partner for computing, connectivity and communications and developing new services. Its Unified ICT strategy has proved attractive to enterprises looking for a scalable, secure and unconstrained platform on which they can build their voice, video, computing and data services, as well as service providers in need of high capacity international data transit and infrastructure. With established operations throughout mainland Europe, North America and Dubai, Interoute also owns and operates dense city networks throughout Europe's major business centres.
Visit www.interoute.com and www.interoute-IAM.com for more information
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