LIC Packaging replaced costly legacy hardware and an unreliable RAID with a 24TB Syneto Unified Storage solution, virtualising its servers and replicating backups offsite to achieve true disaster recovery while gaining scalability and cutting hardware costs.
Lavorazione Imballi Cartone (LIC) traces its origins to 1952, when the Bertoldo family opened a printing shop in Verolanuova on the Brescian plains. Through the 1960s the company evolved and expanded into cardboard packaging, became a joint stock company in 1998, and entered a strategic partnership with the major Spanish paper-making group SAICA International. In 2002 it joined TPN, the European group of packaging companies. Today LIC employs over 170 people across a 37,000 square metre facility, using the latest high-quality offset and flexo printing technologies to produce packaging, wrap-arounds, cartons, counter displays and floor displays.
LIC was facing a serious set of infrastructure problems. It had no solid data security solution to guarantee against inconsistent backups, putting business-critical data at risk. Its existing infrastructure had reached peak capacity and the end of its sustainable life, with no affordable way to scale for future data growth. Expanding the legacy hardware proved impossible without unjustified expense, and the data storage was built on hardware RAID controllers that were expensive and time-consuming to maintain, upgrade and repair, causing lost profit from frequent planned and unplanned downtime.
No solid data security solution was in place to insure against inconsistent backups, leaving business-critical data exposed as volumes kept growing.
The existing infrastructure was at peak capacity and had reached the end of its sustainable life, with no efficient way to accommodate current space requirements.
Expanding the legacy hardware proved impossible without unjustified expense, and the old solution could not accommodate future data growth easily or inexpensively.
Storage was based on hardware RAID controllers that were expensive and time-consuming to maintain, upgrade or repair, causing lost profit from frequent planned and unplanned downtime.
LIC opted for a 24TB Syneto Unified Storage solution to solve its data security dilemma, with a second 24TB Syneto Unified Storage placed offsite at one of LIC's subsidiaries. All backups are replicated incrementally to that second machine, so data remains usable even if something happens at the main site. The solution included VMware integration, Active Directory integration, Backup and Replication, and storage efficiency features — deduplication, compression and thin provisioning.
The Syneto Unified Storage delivers a suite of disaster recovery features with fast incremental scheduled backups. A second Syneto Storage at one of LIC's subsidiaries receives all backups incrementally, ensuring data stays usable even if something happens at the main site.
The Syneto Storage operating system lets LIC expand capacity at any time simply by adding more disks. Storage efficiency features — data compression, thin provisioning and deduplication — mean LIC can store more data within the same footprint.
All 10 of LIC's servers were virtualised using the Syneto Storage VMware integration feature, removing the need for expensive physical servers. Virtualisation gives LIC a true disaster recovery scheme that backs up and protects all data, files and virtual servers.
The expensive, unreliable traditional hardware RAID was replaced with Syneto's ZFS software RAIDz, achieving the desired cost and maintenance reduction without losing any redundancy. With RAIDz, reconfiguring system-wide redundancy becomes an easy, pain-free task.
With two 24TB Syneto Unified Storage systems in place, LIC overcame the obstacles of traditional storage: it gained true disaster recovery through offsite backup replication, scalability for future data growth, lower hardware costs by virtualising 10 servers and retiring its hardware RAID, and more usable space thanks to storage efficiency features.
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How an Italian packaging manufacturer overcame an unreliable data security system, costly legacy hardware and an inefficient hardware RAID by deploying two 24TB Syneto Unified Storage systems with VMware integration, storage efficiency and offsite backup replication.
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