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EMIRATES STEEL
ACCELERATES
DIGITAL ROADMAP
Emirates Steel, a national
steel producer, has
reduced its risk and
cost with Commvault
HyperScale and
Commvault Complete
Backup and Recovery.
E
mirates Steel has implemented
Commvault HyperScale to support
its digitalisation ambitions and
safeguard its manufacturing operations.
Headquartered in Abu Dhabi, Emirates
Steel is wholly government owned. At full
capacity, its 11 plants produce 3.5 million
tons of steel products, such as sheets,
beams and reinforced bars, every year for
the construction industry.
The company’s digitalisation efforts include
moving its SAP modules to the cloud
through Microsoft public cloud solutions.
“Backup was a challenge with underlying
technology scattered across different
environments and running on aging
hardware,” said Mohammed Azam, IT
Infrastructure Head at Emirates Steel.
www.intelligentdatacentres.com
He said it was at Commvault’s GO event
that he discovered the company, which is
a recognised global enterprise software
leader in the management of data for
cloud and on-premises environments,
offered Commvault HyperScale.
This, he said, provided a user-friendly
interface but was also easily installed
and worked ‘perfectly’ across the
organisation’s complex environment.
Commvault HyperScale and Commvault
Complete Backup and Recovery protect
400 terabytes of data hosted across SAP
systems and including SQL databases,
email archives and 20 virtual machines.
“Commvault HyperScale is easy to install
and use,” said Azam. “Interoperability
with both public cloud and on-premises
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