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Leading bank improves data replication
and recovery
FalconStor solution offers an intelligent infrastructure and open SAN, addresses
the complexity of heterogeneous virtualisation, and simplifies snapshots and
replication of data in the storage arrays. SNS Europe talked to Patrick Sibilio,
IT Assistant Manager, CB LUX Group Services.
Commerzbank is Germany’s Assistant Manager Patrick tried disk backup, but it did
second largest bank and Sibilio. “It took too long to not meet our requirements in
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represents four entities in move to the recovery site. We terms of speed. Only with
Luxemburg: Commerzbank needed a faster solution.” He FalconStor technology could
International S.A., adds, “The main challenge we overcome all of the issues
Commerzbank AG Filiale involved our VMware server we faced with backup and
Luxemburg, Cominvest Asset virtualisation platform. We had data recovery.”
Management S.A., and Erste difficulty performing DR tests.
Europäische Pfandbrief und This was the reason why we Patrick Sibilio and his team
Kommunalkreditbank AG looked for a better solution chose the industry-leading
Luxemburg. The CB LUX Group that could address backup, FalconStor VTL solution for its
Services department offers IT failover, and recovery.” extensive emulations of tape
services to 700 users libraries, scalable cluster
throughout offices in The Solution functionality with failover,
Luxemburg, Amsterdam, “We wanted to virtualize the replication, tape caching, and
Brussels, Paris, Madrid, and servers, tapes, and disks, and TOTALLY Open™ architecture,
Milan. reduce the server backup which offers platform
window,” says Patrick Sibilio. independency and hardware
Challenge After evaluating various flexibility.
CB LUX Group Services has a offerings in the marketplace,
storage capacity of 200TB, he found FalconStor® Virtual Deployment Details
with a projected annual data Tape Library (VTL) and The storage architecture now
increase of 25%. The company FalconStor Network Storage revolves around two HP
faced limitations in terms of Server (NSS) to be the ideal Proliant servers with
scalability. solutions for data protection FalconStor VTL, three HP
on the company’s VMware and MSL6060 tape libraries on
Tape backup technology was Microsoft Windows servers. each site, and two racks
no longer fast enough or containing EVA 4400 storage
adequate enough to “First we virtualized the tape arrays. CB LUX Group Services
accommodate its growing data library. We needed more uses FalconStor NSS to
needs; the company was shared drives,” Patrick Sibilio replicate virtual servers and
unable to share drives and states. “It wasn’t working FalconStor HyperTrac™
replicate as quickly as quickly enough. We had a Backup Accelerator technology
necessary. “We needed too library of 320 slots and 16 to integrate snapshots with
many resources to do failover, drivers in SDLT, and the backup software. “Everything
so we had to stop the number of servers increased is integrated with FalconStor
processes,” explains IT drastically. Temporarily, we VTL,” Patrick Sibilio notes.
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