Indian-based subsidiary of Tata Group improves RTO and RPO from five and seven days, respectively, between four to six hours and one day or less.
Tata Steel was created to bring Steel Service Centre solutions for the first time to industrial customers and is the first organized Steel Service Centre capable of high tensile steel processing in India. The company has 10 large processing units and 14 sales and distribution locations throughout India, along with a very large partner ecosystem of external processing agencies and suppliers.
Despite a sophisticated IT infrastructure designed to support its nationwide supply chain, Tata Steel was operating with an antiquated approach to backup. Users performed manual backups by saving files in shared folders or external hard drives. In the event of a workstation failure or data loss incident, because users did not do regularly scheduled backups, RPO averaged seven days.
KEY CHALLENGES
- Manual processes.
- Very long RTO and RPO.
- Dependence on employee compliance.
KEY REQUIREMENTS
- Complete backup solution.
- Automation and control.
- Secure data center.
THE SOLUTION
Acronis Cyber Protect — which integrates data protection and cybersecurity in one solution.
THE IMPACT
Acronis met all of Tata Steel’s requirements, and the operational gains have been quite significant. Prior to Acronis, approximately 10 backups were done per day, covering about 10 to 20 workloads. With Acronis, this number jumped 50 times to 500 backups daily. Moreover, RTO and RPO metrics were dramatically improved. Before Acronis, RTO was up to five days, and RPO was seven days, sometimes weeks. After Acronis, RTO was four to six hours, and RPO was one day or less.
“With Acronis, we are controlling important data and are no longer dependent on our users.
With the Acronis platform in place and the success we have already seen, we are now looking at rolling out other Acronis solutions.”