South Africa’s National Airways Corporation Deploying HP Autonomy

HP Autonomy announced that Africa’s largest
general aviation agency, National Airways
Corporation (NAC), is deploying HP Autonomy LiveVault to securely backup 20TB of company data.

NAC, a commercial aviation agency headquartered in Johannesburg, provides services for fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters, including sales,
maintenance, aircraft charter and pilot training.

The Autonomy LiveVault platform will be used in a large-scale deployment to
secure approximately 100 servers across South Africa. These servers are
distributed across NAC’s seven airports and airfield sites, and data will be
backed up securely to local HP LiveVault Turbo-Restore Appliances
and off-site to secure geographically separated data centers across South
Africa.

"We chose HP Autonomy’s LiveVault
solution because it offered proven scalability reliability and an attractive
cloud and on-premises hybrid approach," said Andrew McGurk, IT
manager, NAC. "The ability to scale without much capital outlay was particularly
important to us, because we need to protect such large quantities of data, which
is being created in numerous different sites across the country."

NAC was previously using disparate tape backup systems to protect company data.
The transition from a slow, complex and manual on-site backup system to the
hybrid deployment from Autonomy will deliver increased reliability and speed
for both the backup and recovery processes. The combination of on-premises and
cloud backup locations means that NAC data will be secure and accessible at all
times.

"HP Autonomy offers an
enterprise-grade intelligent backup solution designed to handle the vast
quantities of information that organizations produce today," said
David Jones, GM, data protection, HP Autonomy. "NAC is a prime example of why this matters-legacy backup technology
simply cannot offer reliable BC in the face of huge volumes of geographically
dispersed data."