himatsingka seide ltd

Case study | Himatsingka Seide
Challenge
Upgrade to global back-up
If you have ever bought bed linen or other
home textiles, there’s a good chance
they’ve been made by Himatsingka Seide.
Based in India, the company is a leader in the
textile industry, manufacturing and selling
product worldwide.
When Himatsingka Seide recently added
a new infrastructure for SAP and ERP,
it needed to upgrade its backup solution
at three locations: its headquarters in
Bangalore, and two factories which are
respectively 40km and 180km away from
the main site.
Previously, Himatsingka Seide was using DLT
tape backup, but the backup window was
too long for its new ERP infrastructure, and
the company had reliability concerns. It also
needed to move tapes between its three
locations to provide disaster recovery, which
was slow and required manual management.
Solution
De-duplication, restoration, replication
Himatsingka Seide evaluated solutions from
vendors including HP and Quantum, and
reviewed their features and costs. Following
this process, it chose a disk backup solution
based on HP StoreOnce.
“We chose HP because of its de-duplication
technology, which is better than
competitors’,” says Ravi Prakash, assistant
general manager IT at Himatsingka Seide.
“Other important factors were its
restoration time, replication capabilities
and competitive price.”
As well as its SAP and ERP systems,
Himatsingka Seide uses the HP solution to
back up its Exchange server, its Windows®
environmentandsomeCAD/CAMles.The
backed-up applications are running primarily
on HP UNIX servers.
“TheHPsolutionbacksupallofournancial
data, the ERP database which is core to our
manufacturing business and our emails,
amongst other things,” says Prakash. “I can’t
quantify the impact if we lost any data.”
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