Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 12 | Page 58

CASE STUDY Claude Schuck, Regional Manager for Africa at Veeam VEEAM IS THE OBVIOUS CHOICE FOR MODERN BUSINESSES. IT MAKES OUR IT INFRASTRUCTURE MORE ROBUST BY PROTECTING OUR DATA AND GUARANTEEING AVAILABILITY 24.7.365. connectivity become more cost-effective,” Ferreira said. “Mobile banking is more popular than ever and growing fast, making data backup and recovery even more important.” The Veeam solution BankservAfrica deployed Veeam® Backup & Replication™ in its new, modern data centres. Veeam helps BankservAfrica process payments continuously as Veeam delivers 24.7.365 data availability. “Veeam is the obvious choice for modern businesses,” Ferreira said, “It makes our IT infrastructure more robust by protecting 58 INTELLIGENTCIO our data and guaranteeing availability 24.7.365.” In addition, Veeam helps BankservAfrica meet SLAs with customers and saves 50% in backup costs. Meeting SLAs has been simplified and accelerated substantially with Veeam because backup is 60% faster and recovery is 98% faster. BankservAfrica can test the recoverability of backups using a Veeam feature called SureBackup®. Veeam was 50% less expensive than competing solutions. It furthermore provides BankservAfrica scalability and is designed to back up thousands of virtual machines and petabytes of data. “Veeam delivers a level of value that competing solutions were unable to meet; both monetarily and peace of mind,” Ferreira commented. “In December 2016, we processed 128 million transactions – unprecedented in our history,” Ferreira said. “That number will become the norm eventually. We have complete confidence Veeam will continue to deliver 24.7.365 availability of data.” The results • Delivers 24.7.365 availability of banking data. BankservAfrica www.intelligentcio.com