COUNTRY FOCUS: SPAIN
“
WITH THE DEPLOYED
ARCHITECTURE, ACENS CAN NOW
SAFEGUARD ITS CUSTOMERS’ DATA,
WITH THE OPTION FOR THEM TO
AUTONOMOUSLY RUN RECOVERY
EFFORTS WHEN NECESSARY.
offers a strong market tool with a solution
base to meet all current needs ensuring
continuity and evolution of the product in
the future.”
An innovative approach: multi-site
management, but still centralised
To meet this need, Acens has chosen
Commvault. “The main reason is that this
vendor meets all our requirements with high-
level software that fully fits with our needs.”
De la Cruz also highlighted the consolidation
provided by the centralised management:
“After analysing the solutions on the market,
we saw that Commvault is a reference point
also in this regard,” he explained, “as it
guarantees investment in the future. It is a
technology that progresses through several
research and development lines, aligned with
market developments in the medium and
long term.”
Every day, Acens handles thousands of
dedicated servers and VMs from hosting
environments for tens of thousands
of customers, which means managing
hundreds of TBs, backed with source
deduplication, which in turn translates into
petabytes of information stored in its data
centres. In this sense, Acens provides all the
necessary resources to facilitate the use and
deployment of backup services ensuring a
good experience: “We offer everything they
need in terms of software, documentation
and support so that they can deploy the
solution in their facilities and make use of it
in a simple and self-managed manner.”
“
THE RISE OF
CLOUD MODELS
PRESENTS NEW
SCENARIOS
WHICH IN TURN
GENERATE NEW
CHALLENGES.
In addition to offering companies the
possibility of having a high-end cloud-based
backup with Commvault technology, Acens
makes use of this technology to support
its own critical environments, thanks to an
ecosystem of media agents that provide
platform for hypervisors, databases,
operating systems or mail, among others.
Benefits: flexibility, scalability,
security . . . no surprises
With the implementation of the Commvault
platform and through its data deduplication
and compression technologies, Acens has
leveraged the opportunity to consolidate
its backup services on physical disk to
the detriment of traditional systems,
enabling optimised processes to cover
large data volumes. “In addition, we’ve
had a reduction of around 60% in
dedicated storage costs,” explained de
la Cruz, “and improved service response
times by around 70%.”
Another key aspect is centralised
management. “It’s one of the main needs
we had; to have a data management
platform that allows an accurate approach
to the different service solutions.” With
the deployed architecture, Acens can now
safeguard its customers’ data, with the
option for them to autonomously run
recovery efforts when necessary. Apart
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