Riverbed SteelStore Helps Australian Home Builder Metricon Back Up Data to the Cloud and Reduce Its Storage Volume by 80%
2014年6月9日 - 9:30PM
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Riverbed SteelStore Enables Low-Cost Data
Storage in the Cloud, Improving Security, Availability, and
Reliability of Data While Reducing Backup and Recovery Times
Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ:RVBD), the leader in application
performance infrastructure, today announced that Metricon, one of
the largest new home builders in Australia, is using Riverbed®
SteelStore™ (formerly Riverbed Whitewater) cloud storage gateway
products to gain control of the growing volumes of data that need
to be backed up and available for recovery. For Metricon,
SteelStore has reduced data storage costs and volumes by 80%,
shrunk data transfer times by weeks, and saved $28,000 annually on
tape costs alone, as well as saved the company more than 400 hours
annually that used to be spent backing up to tape. With its data
stored in Microsoft Azure, Metricon has also improved the
reliability and accessibility of document backups.
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Established in 1976 with its head office in Melbourne, Metricon
is one of the largest residential homebuilders in Australia,
building thousands of homes each year.
To run a national, multi-office operation, keep mobile employees
productive, boost employee efficiency and protect business data,
Metricon’s Information Technology (IT) Group continually looks for
the latest and greatest technology solutions. Data backups are a
critical part of Metricon’s Melbourne data center resiliency
strategy, but were consuming the IT staff’s time, budget and peace
of mind. In addition to home warranties, Metricon must keep copies
of contracts and other documents on file for seven years to meet
legal requirements. In 2014, after almost 40 years in business, the
company had accumulated nearly 40 terabytes of data that it backed
up to tapes and moved offsite for safekeeping. By early 2014,
George Chen, server engineer in the Metricon IT Group, and a
colleague were spending 10 hours a week managing backups. And, if
employees needed access to an archived file, it took hours to
retrieve.
“Our infrastructure team is not very big and backups were
becoming a big time drain,” said Chen. “They were taking time away
from other maintenance tasks and from managing and improving our
business-critical systems. Also, the integrity of tape backups was
a concern. Our homes come with 25-year warranties, so we keep our
backup tapes for decades. Tapes and tape drives break — we need to
ensure that we have warranties and other documents on hand if our
customers need them.”
The company decided to look into moving its data backups to the
cloud to reduce costs, improve speed of access, and simplify
management. Metricon deployed Microsoft Azure, the Microsoft public
cloud offering, and initially used another solution for backing up
data. But, after a month of data transfer, much of Metricon’s 39
terabytes still had not made it into Microsoft Azure due to backup
software working too slowly over a standard Internet
connection.
To speed up the transfer, Chen turned to SteelStore. Now, files
are backed up to a local SteelStore appliance, which uses
deduplication to eliminate redundancy in the data and then
transfers files to Microsoft Azure based on access frequency.
SteelStore keeps frequently accessed data cached on the appliance
to improve recovery time while also ensuring that the entire data
set is secured in Azure. SteelStore deduplication reduced the
amount of Metricon data stored in the cloud from 39 terabytes to
just 7 terabytes, accelerating the speed at which data was copied
to Azure. Metricon still has the same backup policies — daily
incremental backups and full weekly backups — but uses the
low-cost, more secure, more available and instantly accessible
public cloud as a storage tier rather than magnetic tape.
“By using Microsoft Azure and Riverbed SteelStore, we have
reduced the time spent on backup by 80% — we are spending two hours
a week instead of ten on backup work,” added Chen. “We can use
these eight extra hours for more important things such as rolling
out Microsoft Office 2013, upgrading to Microsoft System Center
2012 Configuration Manager and deploying new technologies that
improve the business. In addition, I worry less with all of our
data backed up to the cloud. We also have much faster access to our
files whenever we want them. Restoring files from SteelStore and
Microsoft Azure takes minutes versus the hours required to request
backups from offsite tapes. This keeps employees productive and the
business moving without interruption.”
“Our data is growing at a rate of about 20% a year, so reducing
storage costs is important as the business grows,” said Chen. “With
Microsoft Azure, we can now accommodate data growth
cost-effectively and with greater peace of mind. At their current
growth rate, in five years, Metricon’s storage footprint will be
close to 100 terabytes of data, but with SteelStore, their data
footprint will remain at a manageable 20 terabytes or less.”
Riverbed SteelStore (formerly Whitewater) and the Riverbed
Application Performance Platform™
Riverbed SteelStore seamlessly integrates cloud storage into a
company’s existing infrastructure to streamline data protection and
reduce risk while reducing storage and data protection costs by up
to 80%. With built-in replication capabilities, SteelStore provides
instant data access at a second location while leveraging the
industry’s most cost-effective cloud storage. By deploying
SteelStore as part of a company’s data protection or archiving
strategy, IT teams eliminate the headaches of tape-based systems,
improve disaster recovery (DR) readiness and seamlessly integrate
the cloud’s high data durability and declining pricing into their
infrastructure to deliver increased flexibility and ROI within
months. Named Product of the Year by Storage
magazine-SearchStorage.com in the category for backup hardware.
Riverbed SteelStore is part of the Riverbed Application
Performance Platform™, the most complete platform that enables
organizations to embrace location-independent computing, so that
business objectives — not technical constraints — drive how
applications and data are delivered. The Riverbed Application
Performance Platform™ gives companies the flexibility to host
applications and data in the locations that best serve the business
while ensuring flawless application delivery to better leverage
global resources, radically reduce the cost of running their
business and maximize employee productivity.
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