In the digital age, enterprises usually set up data backup systems to prevent huge losses caused by data loss in core businesses. Traditional backup systems often use general-purpose storage devices, which have low backup performance, high capacity expansion costs, complex operation and maintenance, low security, and are difficult to meet the needs of enterprises to reduce costs and increase efficiency. Symexo, a French technology company, chose Huawei OceanProtect dedicated backup storage to upgrade its backup system to efficiently protect customers' core data assets.

Symexo: the capacity, performance, and security of the backup system are highlighted.

Founded in 2002, Symexo is an IT company headquartered in Balma, France, and one of the leading IT MSP(Managed Service Provider) in southern France. Symexo provides customers with agile and personalized IT solutions, covering software outsourcing, server monitoring and management, and cloud services. As an IT hosting service provider, Symexo needs to process a large amount of customer core data every day. Once data is lost, IT will cause huge economic losses. To ensure data security and integrity, Symexo uses Veeam Backup software and purchases general-purpose NAS storage to establish a data backup system. As the business scale continues to expand, the data volume of Symexo core services has rapidly increased to hundreds of TB. Problems such as the capacity, performance, and security of existing backup systems are prominent, and comprehensive upgrades and replacement are imminent.

● Large occupied space and high power consumption:

currently, Symexo has deployed six sets of NAS backup storage devices with a capacity of 60TB, which is far from meeting the current network backup requirements of about 600TB. If you expand the capacity according to the original plan, Symexo needs to purchase at least five new devices. A total of more than a dozen backup devices will occupy a large amount of rack space in the data center and consume extremely high power.

● low backup performance:

symexo's existing network NAS storage is non-professional backup storage, which has low backup performance. It takes several hours to complete a 40TB full backup. Long-time backup tasks occupy production windows, affecting normal business and even causing data loss risks.

● Complex O & M:

due to the large number of devices, Symexo needs to spend a lot of time and labor costs to solve the complex and diverse problems and faults of different devices.

● weak security:

blackmail virus attacks are becoming more and more frequent. Symexo's existing backup storage does not have comprehensive anti-blackmail capabilities, and data faces great security risks.

Choose Huawei and Symexo to create an efficient and reliable backup platform

after repeated investigations, Symexo finally chose Huawei OceanProtect dedicated backup storage solution, and built an efficient and reliable backup platform through OceanProtect X6000 dedicated backup storage combined with VEEAM Backup software, provides efficient backup protection for VMware virtual machine cluster data.

Symexo uses an OceanProtect X6000 dedicated backup storage to replace more than a dozen existing devices. Up to 1PB of capacity resources can fully meet the fast-growing backup needs of the business. Symexo uses the dual-controller system architecture of Huawei OceanProtect X6000. Each controller manages two file systems, which are used for backup and archive storage respectively to ensure data security throughout the life cycle.

● higher performance:

with the efficient backup performance of OceanProtect dedicated backup storage, the backup duration is reduced from 8 hours to 10 minutes. Backup tasks have no impact on network performance and ensure continuous business stability.

● lower TCO:

replacing more than a dozen devices on the current network with an OceanProtect dedicated backup storage greatly reduces the data reduction rate, saving Symexo more than 30% of the backup data storage space and reducing TCO by about 40%.

● more secure protection:

apsaradb for OceanProtect uses key anti-ransomware technologies such as WORM file systems, secure snapshots, and end-to-end data encryption to prevent data tampering and leakage and effectively defend against ransomware attacks.

● More convenient O & M:

OceanProtect provides an intuitive and user-friendly backup management interface, allowing Symexo to easily manage backup tasks and perform simple and efficient O & M.

Because of professionalism, so efficient, because of professionalism, so trust. The successful upgrade of Symexo backup system not only improves backup efficiency, reduces data security risks, but also saves data protection investment. Symexo will efficiently protect customers' core data assets and continuously provide professional IT technical services under the professional protection of Huawei OceanProtect dedicated backup storage.