Two Quantum Disk Backup Systems at Interoute Communications

Quantum Corporation announced its DXi6701/02 disk backup systems have helped Interoute Communications Ltd, owner operator of Europe’s largest cloud services platform, to enhance customer backup and address the growing demand for managed cloud services.
DXi6701/02 solutions give Interoute a scalable, performance approach to managing customer data which lowers their data protection costs, allowing them to re-coup their investment twice over.

Interoute previously supported customer backup and retrieval needs using local attached storage through multiple backup nodes. Growing demand for managed storage, the requirement to adhere to stringent customer SLAs governing data availability, performance and efficiency led Interoute to turn to Quantum for a more cost effective and reliable data protection solution. The move also coincided with Interoute offering customers near real-time replication of their cloud-based backup data sets to a second site.

Replication and Ease of Use
“We looked at other appliances, but the Quantum DXi6700 Series offers a best-in-class blend of enterprise replication, deduplication and ease-of-use in one disk-based backup solution,” said Sam Ludlow, senior cloud consultant, Interoute. “Quantum is helping Interoute to industrialise its managed services. As customers increasingly turn to cloud computing for the mission-critical applications, Quantum provides a stable, scalable, and high performance approach to managing customer data. It’s all delivered very cost-effectively – in fact, by standardising the two DXi6700 Series, we’ve has been able to free up the equivalent of 50% of one administrator’s time.”

Gabriel Chaher, VP, EMEA sales and marketing, Quantum added: “The improvements to service delivery and cost-savings clearly illustrate how solutions like the DXi Series can bring immediate results. With our experience in Data Protection, cloud and big data, we’re enabling our customers to quickly deploy solutions that improve business agility.”

Interoute deployed two DXi6700 Series deduplication appliances, each scaled to 48TB capacity, with Veeam Software providing the backup management software.

The solution currently protects up to 5,000 machines on the virtual cloud, and with 60 versions of each VM (i.e. 60 restore points for each guest), that means the Quantum environment is protecting up to 300,000 VM restore points. Backup is spread over multiple nodes, and Interoute has the flexibility to restore from any node.

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