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Cohesity Helps German WestLotto Reduce Backup and Recovery Time

By up to "98%"

Cohesity, Inc., in hyperconverged secondary storage, announced that WestLotto, Germany’s largest lottery provider and the control centre for the transnational lottery Eurojackpot – including 18 European countries, has selected the company as its secondary storage platform.

Thanks to the partnership, WestLotto was able to alleviate the complexity of its legacy backup and recovery solution and reduce its rising costs. Cohesity allowed WestLotto to shrink its recovery time for a mission-critical gaming transaction server (1.5TB Linux VM) by up to 98%, from over 24 hours to a little more than 15 minutes.

Based on a proof-of-concept initiated and led by Computacenter, working closely with Cohesity, WestLotto selected the vedor and its partner Computacenter AG & Co oHG over a legacy vendor with a long history in backup and recovery for virtual environments.

For WestLotto, choosing Cohesity meant providing its customers and users with the highest level of security, privacy, and discretion throughout the game process, and also having access to a complete, well-rounded solution with capabilities that include dedupe, search and VM cloning. Cohesity allows deduplication across workloads: SAP, Oracle, DB2, MySQL. These workloads run on Linux / Window VMs (vSphere) and physical servers, which are consolidated on Cohesity DataPlatform.

WestLotto also wanted to find ways to develop products faster while reducing the time spent on backup and recovery. WestLotto deployed four Cohesity C2500 hyperconverged node appliances in each of its data centres, with Cohesity DataProtect backup and recovery software and Cohesity DataPlatform. The Cohesity test/dev and cloning capabilities help the WestLotto team accelerate the development of new applications.

Because of a very complex licensing model, we got used to seeing our license and maintenance costs increase on a regular basis with our legacy system. In addition to the lower TCO, further benefits of deploying Cohesity became apparent to us,” said Dr. Frank Wallow, department head, IT production, WestLotto. “The pay-as-you-grow model is perfect for our needs, and offers real competitive value from a management point of view. With Cohesity, our IT team is able to concentrate on applications and availability for our customers, not on backup and restore. Cohesity’s technology and its ease of use convinced us to change providers. We are very happy with our new system and we are looking to expand the number of VMs backed up by Cohesity.

The volume of data being processed and written onto the tape libraries by WestLotto’s legacy system reached several terabytes every day. Thanks to Cohesity deduplication, the data volume has been reduced to less than 100GB per day, resulting in savings. In addition, the hyperconverged Cohesity solution is scalable for the future.

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