INDUSTRY WATCH
OUR DATA GROWTH IS ONLY
GOING IN ONE DIRECTION
AND COMMVAULT HAS
PROVEN ITSELF TO BE A
KNOWLEDGEABLE AND
VALUABLE PARTNER AS
WE TRANSFORM TO AN
EVER MORE COMPLEX
HYBRID IT SETTING.
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ommvault, a global leader
in enterprise backup,
recovery, archive and the
cloud, has announced
that Laing O’Rourke, an
international engineering enterprise, has
implemented Commvault to centralise
and take control of its data management
in Europe through the scalable and
secure solution. Initially implemented
to address the backup needs of a
dispersed mobile workforce, Commvault
has now empowered Laing O’Rourke
to completely rethink its whole data
management strategy and has enabled
additional layers of protection and cloud
migration capabilities.
Laing O’Rourke brings innovation and
excellence to the sector through its digital
and offsite manufacturing approach.
It is an international organisation
with operations in the UK, Australia,
Canada, UAE and Hong Kong. Its project
portfolio in the UK boasts projects such
as London’s Heathrow Terminals 2 and
5, Crossrail stations and is currently on
site delivering the main civil package for
Hinkley Point C nuclear power station.
Initially, the company was in search
of a solution that enabled it to move
away from legacy tape backup, but
by switching to Commvault, it gained
the ability to accelerate its adoption of
public cloud, PaaS and hyperconverged
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infrastructure. Commvault’s software
is cloud-native, so migrating to the
cloud comes with the reassurance that
data is protected in the same way it
has been on-premise, which was a
key concern when looking to adopt
cloud. This capability has also enabled
Laing O’Rourke to adopt cloud native
applications such as Office 365, which
supports its agile business model.
“At Laing O’Rourke we are ramping up
our digital transformation activities
and have adopted a cloud-first strategy
to aggressively leverage public cloud
services. Where we have chosen to stay
on-premises, we are consolidating data
centres, introducing hyperconverged
private cloud and improving data
availability and business resilience across
the board,” said Gareth Burton, CIO
Europe, Laing O’Rourke.
The company currently has a portfolio
of 50 live construction projects across
the UK and is headquartered in Dartford,
Kent with a number of regional offices
and manufacturing hubs throughout the
country. The company’s IT infrastructure
consists of three data centres, which
are 85% virtualised using VMware’s
vSphere and Microsoft’s Hyper-V
platforms. It has 350TB of active data,
various application data sets including
Exchange, databases and web apps and
large unstructured file data.
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