Veeam\u00ae Software, the leader in Backup solutions that deliver Cloud Data Management\u2122, today announced that the IssamKhairyKabbani Group of Companies (IKK Group) in Saudi Arabia has implemented Veeam\u00ae Availability Suite\u2122 and Veeam\u00ae ONE\u2122in order to guarantee uptime of services for all users and customers.Veeam\u2019s solutions have increased efficiency of the system engineers, enabling them to focus on enhancements and improvements, besides proving 30% more cost effective than the legacy solution. The introduction of the \u2018instant recovery\u2019 feature has cut restore time from days to a few hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
IKK Group which started operations in Saudi Arabia in the 1970sis a diversified group in terms of products, services, and geography operating in the field of trading, manufacturing and contracting.Today, some 14,000 staff work in 42 independent IKK Group companies, spread over many divisions, branches, and outlets in more than ten countries. The Group\u2019s showrooms, sales offices, factories and R&D offices can be found across the MENA region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The IKK Group operates a centralized IT department that oversees technology services for all IKK Group lines of business. One of the key concerns of this central IT team is to guarantee uptime of services for all users and customers. \u201cIf our data is compromised, or if our services are unavailable, a tremendous number of users and end customers are impacted,\u201d said Ayman Mansour, IT Infrastructure Department Manager, IKK Group. \u201cService downtime translates to a direct loss of productivity and business.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With lack of prompt support, rising errors and system incidents, the IKK Group’s legacy backup solution presented a significant business risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBesides a solution that could meet our technical requirements, we needed better support and communications from the vendor itself,\u201d Mansour explained. \u201cGoing through partners and facing long delays was no longer viable for us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After careful market analysis, the IKK Group selected Veeam Availability Suite to address the technology and support shortcomings it was facing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The financial benefits were evident immediately. Veeam\u2019s innovative licensing model which bases fees on number of sockets as opposed to terabytes (TB),proved to be 30% more cost-effective than IKK Group\u2019s previous legacy backup solution. Further resource savings have been made possible by Veeam ONE (part of VeeamAvailability Suite), which provides the centralized IT team with comprehensive monitoring and analytics for their virtual and physical environments. This has enabled IKKGroup to optimize resource planning and maximize utilizations of existing investments as they scale their IT infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By reducing backup and recovery process time, errors and issues, Veeam\u2019s solutions enable the IKK Group\u2019s IT team to invest efforts and time into enhancement projects that deliver major business benefits. This includes implementing production and backup data security best practices and access control strengthening to mitigate the threat of malware and cyber risks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With Veeam\u2019s Instant VM Recovery, large terabyte sized VM servers which used to take days to recover are now done in just a few hours,while services are restored in a few minutes in some cases.This delivers a seamless experience for thousands of users, across the Group\u2019s entities, who rely on the availability of data and services to carry out their job functions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Equally beneficial has been the relationship that the IKK Group\u2019s IT team shares with Veeam. From their very first engagement, the commitment and expertise of Veeam\u2019s regional team was evident to IKK Group\u2019s centralized IT team, who appreciated the vendor\u2019s ability to deliver dependable, 24\/7 support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWith Veeam, it isn\u2019t just their solutions but also their support that can boost customer satisfaction – you get 24\/7 support for incidents whenever needed. If we had to rate Veeam\u2019s regional support, itwould be 5-star service most of the time.Today, Veeam is one of the pillars of our service availability and business continuity strategy. If the corporate management decides to establish a DR site, we shall use it an opportunity to extend our relationship with this reliable technology provider,” Mansour said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEnsuring data availability and protection is not only essential to business continuity, but also to maintaining competitive advantage, maintaining brand reputation and complying with regulations. As IKK Group transforms its digital infrastructure, we are proud to have been able to provide world class backup and recovery technology that helps deliver secure and uninterrupted digital services and experiences to the Group\u2019s employees, vendors and customers,\u201d concluded Claude Schuck, Regional Manager, Middle East at Veeam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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