SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland, 31 July 2012 - Global
Production agency, hub+, part of the billion-dollar Omnicom group,
has announced that it has successfully installed Acronis®
vmProtect™ to backup and protect its entire virtual environment. In
doing so, it has cut the time taken to recover a failed virtual
machine by over a fifth.
Set up in 1971, hub+ has 85 employees based at its HQ in London
and across its network of offices in Singapore, Melbourne and
Atlanta. As a production agency it works directly with clients
including O2, Barclays and Sainsbury's in the UK, to create press
adverts, TV ads, produce and manage short films and interactive
websites. It also works with ING and AT&T in Atlanta and
Mercedes, Aviva and Singtel in Singapore. With so much data being
generated the company recently virtualised its entire
infrastructure to a VMware® environment to streamline its
processes, reduce its hardware footprint and help manage its
costs.
With its critical data now running on 42 virtual machines (VM)
across four HP hosts, it needed a backup and recovery solution to
safeguard its portfolio of work. If any of hub+' servers went down
and they were unable to recover their data quickly and securely it
could be detrimental to the entire business with lost projects,
revenue, and ultimately damage to its client relationships.
After researching the virtualisation software backup market,
hub+ initially picked a solution but was quickly faced with
spiraling costs. Crispin Green, IT manager, hub+, explained: "We
initially picked Veeam but realised quite quickly that when we
needed to add extra hosts and VMs the price went up considerably
due to the extra licenses. We decided to have another look at the
options and after carrying out numerous tests, we opted for
Acronis' fast and simple to use, Acronis vmProtect 7."
Acronis® vmProtect™, has been engineered exclusively for
VMware® vSphere™ servers (v4.0, 4.1 or
later) using ESX and ESXi hypervisors. It provides hub+ with a
simple-to-deploy, easy-to-manage disaster recovery solution for
agent-less back up and quick recovery of its VMware virtual
environments. By deploying Acronis, hub+ can carry out scheduled
daily incremental backups and weekly full system backups, which
take a full image of the virtual machines, including the
applications and operating system.
Green, continues: "Acronis vmProtect simplifies the management
of all our backups and allows even non-technical staff to carry out
virtual machine recovery to restore data as quickly as possible.
With Acronis it takes a matter of minutes whereas our previous
product took five times as long. Most importantly it's allowed me
the freedom to not worry anymore about our data, I know it's
protected and if a disaster occurs our mission critical data and
applications are safe."
David Blackman, General Manager for North Europe and MEA for
Acronis, said: "Protecting VMware environments shouldn't be complex
or costly. Acronis vmProtect is a solution that speaks directly to
VMware requirements, allowing businesses to accelerate their
virtualisation adoption. IT managers need never question the
status, availability or recovery time of their virtual data".
About Acronis:
Acronis is a leader in AI-native cyber protection, unifying data protection, cybersecurity, IT operations and hybrid infrastructure to deliver business continuity, security and compliance with less cost and complexity. More than 21,000 service providers trust Acronis to protect over 750,000 businesses in 150 countries. Acronis is headquartered in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. For more information, visit www.acronis.com.