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iland drives SLAs up and costs down with purpose-built
backup appliance
iland is a leading cloud infrastructure
provider for enterprises. Services include
iland’s flagship Enterprise Cloud Service
(ECS), private-cloud hosting, disaster
recovery as a service, and cloud backup
with Veeam.
provider for enterprises. Services include
iland’s flagship Enterprise Cloud Service
(ECS), private-cloud hosting, disaster
recovery as a service, and cloud backup
with Veeam.
iland operates eight data centers in the
United States, England, and Singapore.
In 2012, the company replaced its rack
servers with Cisco UCS blade servers and
Cisco Nexus
United States, England, and Singapore.
In 2012, the company replaced its rack
servers with Cisco UCS blade servers and
Cisco Nexus
®
switches. iland has earned
the Cisco Cloud and Managed Services
Provider certification, indicating elite
expertise.
Provider certification, indicating elite
expertise.
Challenge: faster backups and restores
at a lower cost
iland’s backup and disaster recovery
business is burgeoning. “Businesses need
to know they can quickly restore data and
virtual machines, both for compliance and
business continuity,” says Justin Giardina,
iland’s chief technology officer.
business is burgeoning. “Businesses need
to know they can quickly restore data and
virtual machines, both for compliance and
business continuity,” says Justin Giardina,
iland’s chief technology officer.
iland offers two popular backup services.
Enterprise Cloud Service customers receive
seven days of backups using Veeam
Backup & Replication, and private-cloud
customers can use Veeam Cloud Connect.
Enterprise Cloud Service customers receive
seven days of backups using Veeam
Backup & Replication, and private-cloud
customers can use Veeam Cloud Connect.
iland wanted a less costly repository for
Veeam backups. “Cloud storage prices are
Veeam backups. “Cloud storage prices are
going down, down, down,” Giardina says.
“We pay a premium for high-performance
production storage, and backups take up a
lot of space.”
“We pay a premium for high-performance
production storage, and backups take up a
lot of space.”
iland decided to use the Cisco UCS
C3160 storage server as its new Veeam
backup repository. “When we heard about
the UCS C3160, we borrowed a demo
unit and tested it by backing up 200
terabytes,” Giardina says. “Compared to
our SAN array, the UCS C3160 backed
up five times more data in the same
amount of time. And the five times better
performance came at one-fifth the price.”
C3160 storage server as its new Veeam
backup repository. “When we heard about
the UCS C3160, we borrowed a demo
unit and tested it by backing up 200
terabytes,” Giardina says. “Compared to
our SAN array, the UCS C3160 backed
up five times more data in the same
amount of time. And the five times better
performance came at one-fifth the price.”
Installation in less than 5 minutes
iland deployed multiple C3160s in each data
center, one each for ECS customers and
Veeam Cloud Connect customers. The IT
team installed Linux on the two solid-state
boot drives and ran a script to configure the
RAID as a back-end storage pool.
center, one each for ECS customers and
Veeam Cloud Connect customers. The IT
team installed Linux on the two solid-state
boot drives and ran a script to configure the
RAID as a back-end storage pool.
Then, the team had to only connect the
C3160 to the data center fabric. “We
automated everything except connecting
the cables,” Giardina says.
C3160 to the data center fabric. “We
automated everything except connecting
the cables,” Giardina says.
Storing a gigabyte costs 55% less
iland can store 360 terabytes of backups
in four rack units (RUs). “One cabinet—40
RUs—of the Cisco and Veeam solution
in four rack units (RUs). “One cabinet—40
RUs—of the Cisco and Veeam solution
iland:
Size: More than 50 employees
Industry: Service provider
Location: Houston, Texas
United States
Industry: Service provider
Location: Houston, Texas
United States
Solutions
• Move backups to dedicated
storage servers for efficiency and
performance
performance
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