Cisco Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Server Guia De Informação

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.

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

®

 switches. iland has earned 

the Cisco Cloud and Managed Services 
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.

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.

iland wanted a less costly repository for 
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.”

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.”

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.

Then, the team had to only connect the 
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 

Size: More than 50 employees
Industry: Service provider 
Location: Houston, Texas
United States

•  Move backups to dedicated 

storage servers for efficiency and 
performance

To learn more about Cisco data 
center solutions, visit: www.cisco.
com/go/datacenter

iland

Service Provider