Un fournisseur de services d'intégration réduit les délais de sauvegarde et de récupération

Business Challenge
Data Lync’s client, a large healthcare services organization, wanted to transition its production and backup workloads from its legacy VMWare environment. Without a large, in-house IT department, the client needed a solution that was simple to manage, ultra-reliable and cost-effective.

Australian law mandates that healthcare data must remain in Australia; this, together with budget considerations, ruled out a pure cloud solution. In addition, the client needed a scalable solution to accommodate their evolving needs. To satisfy these objectives, Data Lync turned to Nutanix. This would enable the client to reap all the advantages of a hyperconverged platform that consolidates storage, server, virtualization, and networking resources, while keeping sensitive patient information compliantly stored on-premise.

As part of the client engagement, Data Lync provides backup and disaster recovery services, so choosing the optimal Nutanix backup solution was a critical decision.

Solution

Alors que le client utilisait Veeam pour la sauvegarde dans son environnement VMWare, Data Lync souhaitait une solution de sauvegarde et de restauration étroitement intégrée à Nutanix. Après avoir évalué plusieurs alternatives, HYCU est apparu comme le vainqueur incontestable, offrant la meilleure combinaison d'intégration Nutanix, de simplicité et de performance.

"Nous voulions que la sauvegarde et la reprise après sinistre soient aussi simples que possible pour le client. HYCU répond à ce besoin", déclare Chris Eather, directeur de l'infrastructure et des opérations chez Data Lync.

HYCU a également offert un niveau d'intégration Nutanix inégalé.

“The fact that HYCU was developed to be tightly integrated with Nutanix AHV and the Nutanix user experience is a big plus,” Eather says.

Another big plus is HYCU’s ability to perform backups from a replica.

This is an important advantage, given the limited availability of very high-speed connectivity in Australia.

“Being able to back up from a replica really helps with performance for noncritical machines,” Eather explains. “Having the option to back up some machines from the source and others from the replica copy gives us a level flexibility we lacked before HYCU.”

Based on the success of their HYCU experience, Data Lync is now looking to expand the use of Nutanix and HYCU to other clients seeking a greater flexibility and a simple, reliable backup and recovery solution.

Avantages

Une vitesse et des performances exceptionnelles

With HYCU, backup and restore times are significantly faster. Backup from source have gone from hours to a few minutes. “And backups from replicas are incredibly quick, just a few seconds,” Eather says. “Also, we’ve seen no impact on machine performance. This is a big improvement over the client’s old environment where backups sometimes impacted production workloads.”

Une fiabilité à toute épreuve

HCYU has proven extremely reliable and simple to manage. “It just works,” Eather says. “With most other products, there are always things you have to check. But not with HYCU.”

Évitement des coûts

The combination of Nutanix and HYCU enables Data Lync clients to avoid costly licenses, while providing failover with an active/active service. “We can offer our clients a high level of resilience at a price point that wasn’t previously achievable,” Eather explains. “They can have a file server, domain controller and other resources running on the DR side all the time, ready to go, allowing nearly instantaneous recovery. This reserve capacity is always there, whereas with cloud-based DR, you must pay for what you use.”

A propos du client

Data Lync est un fournisseur australien de services d'intégration technologique de premier plan, spécialisé dans le secteur des soins de santé et des services aux personnes âgées. Cette entreprise du Queensland propose des services de conception, de mise en œuvre et d'assistance technologiques, ainsi que des services d'infrastructure de serveurs et de réseaux.

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