South Korea’s NH Capital used Nutanix to implement a system for faster backup and data recovery to provide superior, uninterrupted service to customers.
NH Capital is the first capital company in Korea to adopt Nutanix for backup and recovery systems, it is at an advantage of providing seamless continuous service for its customers without needing regular downtime for system upgrades and overhauls which is inconvenient and disruptive for the business.
Through Nutanix, NH Capital lowered backup time by 67% and its business teams no longer need to worry about exceeding reserve capacity for its collaborations with 3rd party platforms which can generate surges in traffic and transaction data potentially leading to business disruptions, slow traffic, and other inefficiencies.
| Faster backup, a more efficient IT | Improved TCO | Achieved scalable and flexible foundation |
|---|---|---|
| Reduction of data storage and transmission volume led to 67% reduction in backup time. | Optimised storage management by compression and eliminated redundancy | Expand in a matter of hours by adding nodes with no business disruptions |
Using the Nutanix Cloud Platform enabled us to implement the scalable and flexible IT infrastructure we need to provide innovative customer service and remain competitive well into the future. The Nutanix Cloud Platform also strengthened the digital foundation we need for growth as we replaced our existing Commvault back-up solution. Now we can do back-up and data recovery at the speed needed to provide superior, uninterrupted online service to our customers.
Transitioning to Nutanix allowed IT to cut backup time by more than half. We spend less time troubleshooting and worrying about backup failures. The time saved is being redirected to mission-critical issues that generate better value for the business.
NH Capital was first founded in 2007 and currently has approximately 400 employees across 12 offices. Their business had a growing need for backup capacity due to increased inbound traffic from integrations with external partner platforms and frequent data changes.
The company’s legacy system had a single backup server workflow which was adversely affected when high data transmission created a bottleneck slowing down its performance. NH Capital also faced issues with insufficient storage space as growth in volume business data and disaster recovery capability competes for storage.
NH Capital needed a more efficient, cost-effective, and easy-to-manage backup system. Its legacy system was too complex and deployed across different hardware and software. It was difficult to manage and troubleshoot, and any expansion or installations would be cumbersome.
NH Capital conducted a month long PoC to on-prem backup and recovery system to test the effects and potential benefits of the Nutanix Cloud Platform.
In a single turnkey solution, Nutanix Mine with Commvault converge backup, recovery, and archival storage in a one place. The new backup is now fully virtualized with remote backup enabled and the legally required WORM (write once ready many) storage could also be integrated into the backup system and managed through Nutanix’s single management plane.
Performance bottlenecks are alleviated, as NH Capital virtualized backup servers now run multiple units in parallel and workloads are auto-balanced amongst servers to prevent strains and impact on performance.
“The Nutanix Cloud Platform also strengthened the digital foundation we need for growth as we replaced our existing Commvault back-up solution. Now we can do back-up and data recovery at the speed needed to provide superior, uninterrupted online service to our customers,” said Junseok Song, Division Director, Digital Support Division, NH Capital.
Reduced backup time by 67%, a more efficient IT team.
After implementing Nutanix, NH Capital found a 67 percent reduction in the time needed to backup servers, the Nutanix Cloud Platform’s automatic data compression and redundancy removal features allowed a reduction in the amount of data it needs to store, along with a reduction in the amount of data that needs to be transmitted for backup.
“Transitioning to Nutanix allowed IT to cut backup time by more than half. We spend less time troubleshooting and worrying about backup failures. The time saved is being redirected to mission-critical issues that generate better value for the business,” said Keunbae Yoo, Manager, IT Operations Team, Digital Support, Division, NH Capital.
Optimized storage management, improving TCO
NH Capital was able to conserve resources needed for data life cycles thus eliminating the immediate need for additional capacity. Data storage based on Nutanix’s hyperconverged infrastructure helped eliminate redundancy, compress volume and integrate silos for different data categories, allowing NH Capital to save storage space and reallocate spare capacity to other workloads such as disaster recovery or WORM data storage.
Achieved a scalable and flexible future-proof foundation
NH Capital can now expand capacity on demand by adding additional nodes to the existing clusters without any impact to business operations. The virtualized servers could be duplicated with ease and operated in parallel to optimize performance.
“Using the Nutanix Cloud Platform enabled us to implement the scalable and flexible IT infrastructure we need to provide innovative customer service and remain competitive well into the future,” said Junseok Song, Division Director, Digital Support Division, NH Capital.
NH Capital has successfully completed the PoC of using Nutanix Cloud Platform for backup and recovery systems with great results. The company looks forward to partnering with Nutanix to deliver transformation and continue to add value to the business.
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