business and growing data , which doubled in a threeyear period .” To meet the challenges of a legacy-based backup and recovery process , it became apparent that a transformation was required .

The legacy backup tool did not have built-in replication and WAN acceleration for disaster recovery ( DR ). To ensure availability for an always-on enterprise , the IT team required a fast and reliable way to replicate virtual machines ( VMs ) in 71 branch offices to the data centre in Johannesburg . Ready-to-use replicas would enable failover and failback in case of emergency . “ The manual backup process at the branch offices had to be replaced with centralised VM management , with no intervention required at the branch office level ,” added Smith .

The legacy backup tool no longer met the demands of the business and growing data , which doubled in a three-year period .

The Veeam solution

Barloworld Automotive addressed these challenges by deploying Veeam Availability Suite to enable 24 by 7 availability of critical systems . Veeam not only centralised VM management but also simplified recovery and improved SLA fulfillment .

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