Wilden Pump Moves Backup to Amazon S3

To speed backup data to Amazon
S3, Wilden Pump
Solution Group deployed solutions from Riverbed
Technology Inc. and Veeam
Software.

By combining Riverbed
Whitewater appliances with Veeam
Software’s Backup & Replication v6, backups to the cloud are
now completed in one step. As a result of the deployment, Wilden Pump
has reduced storage requirements by more than seven times and
management of backup operations by 30%. The storage requirements and
management save Wilden Pump more than $100,000 annually in cloud
storage fees while improving the efficiency of its DR processes,
leading to more reliable data protection.

Wilden Pump’s parent company, Pump
Solutions Group, has facilities around the world, including
China, France, Germany, India, and the United States, that deliver
value-added pumps and systems to serve customers requiring safe
transfer of materials. The company operates global pump brands, each
with their own DR and storage processes that the company integrated
into a common IT infrastructure. Wilden Pump is responsible for
backing up data from its site as well as other PSG facilities, so it
has to protect more than 66TB. The corporate standard for
storing information at PSG is seven years. This coupled with the fact
that the company’s data grows at a rate of 1TB/year creates
challenges for the storage team using a disk-to-disk-to-tape backup
method. Another challenge is recovering data from tape, which could
take days or weeks.

The company made the decision to move
its backup to the Amazon S3 cloud to reduce capital expenses, improve
scalability, and to access backup at an offsite location. As 95% of
Wilden Pump’s servers were virtualized, backup required a two-step
process that took an average of two hours each day to get a VM image
backup and another regular backup at the client OS level.

To make cloud-based backup more
effective, the company deployed Whitewater appliances Veeam
Backup & Replication to manage data growth in the most efficient
way possible.

"We configured the settings on
the Whitewater appliances according to the recommendation for Veeam
from Riverbed and the setup was complete in minutes," said
Jeff Rountree, global network manager at PSG.

Whitewater appliances deduplicate,
compress, and encrypt backup data sets before storing them in a local
intelligent cache and accelerating them over the network to the
Amazon cloud storage environment. With Veeam, Wilden Pump eliminated
the backup processes and now completes virtual backups in 30% less
time.

"We’ve simplified our process
for backing up our VMs, improved our recovery times, and we’re saving
nearly $100,000 in cloud storage fees annually," said
Rountree. "The combination of Whitewater appliances and Veeam
Backup & Replication has provided us with phenomenal results and
strong ROI."

For Wilden Pump, the Whitewater
appliances reduced cloud storage requirements seven times and Veeam
made virtual backups a one-step process.

"The previous
disk-to-disk-to-tape backup method did not protect our data well and
didn’t automatically off-site replication of backups. Also, tape
backup may cause a company to lose part of a week’s data depending on
the time of the last backup," added Rountree. "The
Whitewater appliances back up faster, making full backups more
frequent. Now, we do multiple backups simultaneously and recovery can
be completed in just hours since the most recent data sits inside the
appliance."