SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantum Corp.
(NYSE: QTM) today announced that leading French dairy cooperative
Maitres Laitiers du Cotentin (MLC) has deployed a combination of
Quantum DXi® deduplication appliances and Veeam software
to meet the challenges of skyrocketing data growth and malware
threats. In proof of concept testing the DXis provided over 300%
better results for primary backups than the nearest competitor or
the backup software's own deduplication, and production environment
performance has exceeded what was achieved in testing.
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Skyrocketing Data Growth and Malware Drive Data Protection
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MLC is a premier French dairy cooperative with 820 local farms.
Each year, it collects and processes more than 400 million liters
of milk, and distributes products throughout France, the EU and to China. A leading ultra-fresh milk supplier to
the private-label market and food services, the company creates a
wide range of products through its new brand "Campagne de
France" which promotes the French
Milk sector for production and transformation. MLC relies on robust
data management and IT services to track inventory, monitor
production and manage its complex business operations, including
payroll, HR and the service activities of the subsidiaries for
distribution.
Since 2010, approximately 98% of the company's 120+ servers have
been virtualized, a strategy with major implications for backup and
data protection. Most backup was carried out by Veeam software,
writing data direct to disk, with only a couple of physical servers
protected by the company's legacy backup application. As data
volumes rose roughly 25% annually, the systems began to fall
behind. In addition, the team started to see ransomware attacks
against MLC. While their backups protected them, they decided it
was time to upgrade their system.
Proof-of-concept Testing for Best Deduplication
Hardware
MLC wanted to remain with Veeam, which had held up well against
the ransomware attacks. The team decided that the best backup
hardware approach was likely to be deduplication appliances. "We
determined that using deduplication should let us store more data
on less disk so we could have a longer retention period, and we
wanted it to allow us to replicate backup sets between data
centers," noted Emmanuel Moncuit, the company's System and Network
Administrator.
The team found two Veeam-certified deduplication appliances
offering that level of integration: Exagrid and Quantum DXi. "We
heard lots of claims about what each would do but decided that the
only way for us to find out how the systems really worked with our
data and networks was to set up a real-world test of the hardware,"
said Moncuit.
The tests revealed several advantages that made the DXi system
the clear winner, matching performance with a much smaller system.
DXi deduplication results provided striking benefits, including
size of units required and replication effectiveness. "For our
remote site, the DXi required no physical appliance at all—we just
used the local VMware environment and built the virtual appliance
on it," Moncuit noted.
For deduplication, the DXis provided over 300% better results
than the competition for the primary backup jobs. For replication
that advantage was magnified because the DXi system leveraged its
global deduplication. When both units replicated new data from a
224-GB backup at one location to an appliance at the other, the
competitive system sent 21.7 GB of data—a 10:1 reduction—while the
DXi's virtual appliance sent only 1.4 GB—a 159:1 deduplication
rate.
"In our tests, the DXi replication started just after the first
file was backed up without waiting for the end of the Veeam task,
so our period of risk—the gap between when a backup is done and a
copy is safely off site—was incredibly short, unlike the
competitor's solutions that started the replication only when the
Veeam task was done," Moncuit adds.
Superior Production Environment Results
Based on the testing, the team installed the DXi units in the
production environment and was pleased to discover that the results
in the real environment were even better than they had hoped for.
"Thanks to the combination of DXi appliances and Veeam software, we
are backing up more data in less time, replicating backups over our
existing WAN, able to restore files quickly, and have DR protection
that safeguards our data from ransomware attacks."
Photo Links:
- Emmanuel Moncuit, System and Network Administrator at MLC
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- Headquarter and main MLC factory
https://quantum.box.com/s/ux928ob2rm0rnp013scrmnsgsq94fqbg
- Maîtres Laitiers du Cotentin Logo
https://quantum.box.com/s/tn7mv2rw69d1zjwcu2065n3ypwjm20nm
- Campagne de France Logo
https://quantum.box.com/s/47mdg5ysm9bpgecxsng5hqclm3j2si35
Additional Resources
- Read the Maitres Laitiers case study:
https://www.quantum.com/en/resources/customer-success/mlc/
- Learn more about DXi deduplication:
https://www.quantum.com/en/products/deduplication-appliances/
- For more about Quantum and Veeam:
https://www.quantum.com/en/applications/veeam-dxi/
About Quantum
Quantum is a leading expert in scale-out
tiered storage, archive and data protection, providing solutions
for capturing, sharing, managing and preserving digital assets over
the entire data lifecycle. From small businesses to major
enterprises, more than 100,000 customers have trusted Quantum to
address their most demanding data workflow challenges. Quantum's
end-to-end, tiered storage foundation enables customers to maximize
the value of their data by making it accessible whenever and
wherever needed, retaining it indefinitely and reducing total cost
and complexity. See how at www.quantum.com/customerstories.
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