Woburn, MA, August 8, 2012 - Global production agency,
hub+, part of the
billion-dollar Omnicom
Group, has announced that it has successfully implemented
Acronis® vmProtect™
to backup and protect its entire virtual environment. In doing so,
hub+ has reduced the time
needed to recover a failed virtual machine by over a fifth of what
it used to take.
With offices in Atlanta, London, Singapore and Melbourne hub+
works directly with clients including ING, AT&T, Mercedes,
Aviva, Singtel, O2, Barclays and Sainsbury's to create press
adverts, TV ads, and produce and manage short films and interactive
websites. To manage the volume of data being generated, the company
recently virtualized its entire infrastructure to a VMware®
environment to streamline its processes, reduce its hardware
footprint and help manage its costs.
With critical data now running on 42 virtual machines (VM)
across four HP hosts, it needed a backup and recovery solution to
safeguard its valuable portfolio of work. If any of the hub+
servers went down and the company was unable to recover its 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 virtualization software backup market,
hub+ picked a solution but was quickly faced with spiraling costs.
Crispin Green, IT manager, hub+ explained, "We looked at Veeam but
realized 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 the fast and easy-to-use Acronis
vmProtect 7."
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."
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. With the solution from 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.
Blaine Raddon, General Manager, Americas at Acronis, said,
"Protecting VMware environments shouldn't be complex or costly.
Acronis vmProtect is a solution that directly addresses VMware
requirements, allowing businesses to accelerate their
virtualization 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.