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Pump Solutions Group

Pump Solutions GroupWhitewater and Veeam work together to reduce date storage costs and improve the protection of virtual machines


Summary

With data storage requirements growing at a rate of 1 terabyte/year, and an aging tape backup system, PSG's Wilden Pump facility became a test site for cloud data storage. Amazon S3 was found to have competitive rates ($0.15/gigabyte/month) but even at that price, the cost to store 65.8 terabytes of information would have been prohibitive. The deployment of a Whitewater cloud storage gateway brought those costs back in line by deduplicating the data before sending it to Amazon. With a deduplication rate of 7.51x, the amount of data sent to Amazon is reduced to only nine terabytes—a savings of $8.5K/month, or more than $100K in a year. The Whitewater gateway and cloud data storage also made the tape backup system unnecessary, saving the capital costs of upgrading the system as well as the operating costs of $5.6K (annual maintenance and upkeep) as well as two hours of IT staff time/day that were previously spent managing tapes.

The Wilden facility’s IT environment is 95 percent virtualized (six VMware hosts and approximately 100 guest machines). Backing up these servers was a time-consuming two-step process—a virtual backup to get the VM image, and then a regular backup at the client OS level. To streamline this process, PSG installed Veeam Backup & Replication. Now they can do one backup, which includes the functionality of a full virtual backup and a file-level backup, requiring 20 to 30 percent less staff time on the backup process. PSG finds the Whitewater/Veeam combination to be a very good solution for protecting virtual machines.

About Veeam Software Veeam® Software develops innovative solutions for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization management and data protection. Veeam Backup & Replication™ is the #1 VM Backup solution. Veeam ONE™ is a single solution for real-time monitoring, performance analysis, resource optimization and management reporting. The Veeam MP and SPI extend enterprise monitoring to VMware through Microsoft System Center and HP Operations Manager. Learn more by visiting www.veeam.com.

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