90% storage reduction and 65% time saved.

Alma Pro works in teams with different areas of expertise, and team members share files and documents in multiple centralised databases every day, so the company sought better storage reduction for its long-term operation. The IT and development teams are also responsible for backing up customers' virtualised infrastructure by saving copies of data on shared repositories. Because those backup copies are often used for internal tests and simulations, they must be checked and stored completely securely.

The internal IT teams manage the services offered to customers, so the teams on each project must constantly verify that the copies derived from backups are protected and stored securely, yet easily accessible when needed. File-control tasks such as checking the validity of customer backups take time and effort, and when the development team spends a long time creating a database copy, the IT team is often left without enough time to build and verify backups.

With external IT operations for customers as the priority, Alma Pro's teams lacked time for internal improvements. Internal operations had to run smoothly and quickly so that more time could go to customer-facing work, and that required a more modern and agile solution.

AiRE gave the IT teams rock-solid procedures for keeping things running without having to plan operations for internal systems. Everything is managed with greater agility and ease than on the previous legacy system, which frees time for the value-adding external IT operations and brought substantial improvements in operational efficiency.

AiRE also unlocked more agile ways to manage data and database copies. With the block-level incremental snapshot system and the ability to clone file systems without consuming useful space, the development team built more efficient processes for the database copies used in testing and simulation, reducing storage utilisation by more than 90 percent. The IT team no longer manages different types of storage, because AiRE merged the workloads into a single solution, and integrated data protection reduced the time spent operating the system by 65% compared with traditional archiving and backup systems.