Automotive Body Parts Manufacturer Mexicana Implements Veeam Solutions

Veeam Software, Inc. announced that Unipres Mexicana SA de CV, an automotive body parts manufacturer and exporter based in Aguascalientes, Mexico, has implemented Veeam Availability Suite Enterprise (VAS Enterprise) to guarantee operations and BC by providing HA rates for its IT equipment, applications and data, in addition to the Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) in its production area.

Implemented by Veeam Gold ProPartner T Networks Consultoría en Conectividad S. DE R.L, Veeam Availability Suite has helped to accelerate backup and recovery for the company as well as optimize costs by reducing the resources and time required to protect data.

The VAS Enterprise platform includes Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam ONE to cover both the backup and recovery of infrastructure, applications and data, as well as the monitoring and full visibility of the state of health of the IT infrastructure. In such a way, it offers availability for all workloads (from physical and virtual to those in the cloud) from a single management console.

For Unipres Mexicana, stalled production costs up to $12,000 per hour, which is why it is of vital importance that the company has HA to ensure business is Always-On. When it came time to renew the license of its legacy backup software, T Networks presented the Veeam platform as a better solution.

“The advances we made by deploying VAS Enterprise were massive,” said Emmanuel Román, data center administrator, Unipres Mexicana. “Veeam Backup & Replication has helped us both to protect our physical environment, where we store business applications which are critical for us, and to make backing up and recovering our virtual environment much easier. Additionally, Veeam ONE has helped us to continue our virtualization plan thanks to its real-time performance in addition to the monitoring, reporting and analysis it generates.“

With Veeam, Unipres Mexicana can backup its data on both disk and tape, so that data is protected even if one of the storage methods is damaged. In the past, when the company used a different backup tool, any damage or loss of tape led to major costs in terms of the man hours needed for the data recovery.

According to Román, it used to take 10 minutes to backup a file. With Veeam solutions, this process takes 30s, 95% less time compared to the previous solution. Recovering an entire VM takes 5 minutes. The increased speed and efficiency help Unipres Mexicana optimize costs, ensuring that both its IT department and lines of business take better advantage of the working day and are more productive as they operate without interruptions.

“For us, it is of critical importance that we are able to maintain total reliability, availability and speed,” said Román. “Thanks to Veeam, we have not only seen major improvements in the agility and efficiency of our backup and recovery processes, but we have also ensured that our business is always-on, which is essential in ensuring the success of Unipres. In the event of any contingency, we have the response capacity we need.“

Veeam VAS enables organizations to become Always-On Enterprises by ensuring availability for all workloads (whether physical, virtual or cloud-based) from a single management console.

Veeam ONE provides visibility of the entire IT environment (including physical, virtual and cloud workloads) through proactive monitoring and alert notifications so that IT professionals can always be aware of potential problems with physical servers, VMs, PC and cloud-based resources, before they cause any impact to the operation.