Ineo Engineering & Systems Turned to Synerway

INEO Engineering & Systems
is an integration company positioned on the information and
communications technologies (ICT) market. These technological skills
legitimately enable INEO E&S to be part of the major players of the
INEO Group specialized division.

For IT security and data protection requirements, INEO Engineering &
Systems turned to the backup and restoration solution designed by Synerway.

The acquisition of their first Synerway Appliance in 2005 made for appreciable gains for INEO E&S: "At long last we no longer had to change the tapes in each server on a daily basis then move them to a safe location", recalls Daniel Wetzel, IT manager, who, over and above the reduced number of tasks, also appreciates the Synerway solution.

In 2009, with the ever-increasing amount of shared data, an additional,
higher capacity Appliance was required. INEO E&S renewed their trust
in Synerway and selected a DXL 9000 with a capacity of 9 TB. "Our cost analysis, familiarity with the hardware and our positive overall experience encouraged us to stay with Synerway", says Daniel Wetzel.

Switching from one appliance to another was straightforward. No backed
up data was transferred. The first appliance kept its tapes for 6 months
and gave time to perform new backups on the second which included Lotus
Notes mail servers, office documents, CAD (Computer-aided design)
files, SQL data and client applications.

The data volume currently stands at 1.6 TB. Backed-up data is stored for
two months on appliance disks and externalized each week onto tapes
which are stored in a secure location for 6 months. The server room is
also physically separate from the Synerway appliance.

With updated performance and operational conditions, the INEO E&S IT
department remain satisfied with the Synerway solution with the pick of
the crop being "quick-fire restorations from disk of any recently
backed up data (no more time-consuming searches through externalized
tapes), and, of course, the simplicity of managing this solution".