Stokomani Builds Reliable and Efficient Digital Infrastructure with Huawei OceanProtect Solution
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In 2022, the company recognized that its data storage and backup system had reached its capacity and performance limits. The retailer issued a tender to find a solution that would address its needs for resilience, security, and simplified management. Komposite, a data management specialist and Huawei partner, successfully won the bid to provide the OceanProtect Backup Storage solution, combining Komposite's expertise in data management with Huawei's advanced storage platform.
As the company ramped up its digitization activities, it faced a dual challenge: protecting the ever-growing database and establishing an effective disaster recovery plan. This was essential to increase the company's resilience in the event of a cyber-attack.
"Our first issue was to meet data archiving challenges, as well as data restoration throughput capacity. We were equipped with cabinets that didn't allow us to meet the backup and archiving policy, and the backup policy we need was to achieve the data retention of 30 days, 12 months, and even 3 years.", explained Mathieu Bienvenu, the company's Technical Director.
"Now that we have implemented Huawei OceanProtect cabinets to manage all the backup and archiving part, we are more confident and reassured about capacity and performance of our IS (Information System) to restore our data." added Mathieu Bienvenu.
"Disaster recovery plan is one of the priorities of our strategy and our major plan. In the event of a cyberattack or a natural disaster, we need to be able to make our applications available to our business very quickly to make them operational again" David Dutendas added, Stokomani's Chief Information Officer.
Stokomani's requirements spanned the design and implementation of a backup solution, demanded compatibility with its current backup solution and its existing environment, and required simplified maintenance.
Huawei's OceanProtect Backup Storage equips comprehensive data protection. Its rapid disaster recovery and backup ensures zero service disruption or data loss, and long-term information retention.
One OceanProtect system was deployed as the primary storage unit and was paired with a secondary OceanProtect unit for remote replication. After integration with the original backup solution, backups are stored securely in the primary node and synchronized to the secondary, enabling fast data recovery from either storage unit on demand. Further, features include deduplication and compression to efficiently use storage and bandwidth, providing a resilient and scalable disaster recovery system.
"Huawei OceanProtect cabinets have, within the OS, an AI-Powered Ransomware Protection solution. By 'AI-Powered', we mean this capability to detect an attack in progress or identify a potential attack. We can also take a snapshot, a copy of the data, which is immutable. So, it can't be altered or modified," explained Sofiene Khaldi, Huawei France Account Director.
The Huawei solution has provided Stokomani with a reliable, streamlined data foundation, boasting not only high stability but efficiency.
Stokomani originally planned the first storage cabinet capable of storing 30 days of production data, with the second cabinet deployed for archiving. In fact, Huawei was able to exceed Stokomani's expectations for much longer data retention and higher performance.
Alex Gavel, Stokomani's Systems Administrator, said "The strength of OceanProtect storage arrays is the speed of recovery from an attack. The high-performance system's Solid-State Drives (SSDs) have a latency of less than a millisecond."
This time advantage of OceanProtect provides a robust guarantee for Stokomani's business continuity. Director of Information Systems, Mr. Dutendas, added: "Compared to other solutions that data recovery requires 6 hours, Huawei's solution will only require 3 hours." Indeed, the high-performance Huawei OceanProtect shortens the data recovery time by half.
What struck the Stokomani side was how efficient Huawei was at responding to requests, be it technical support or general inquiries. "Huawei is very responsive to answer all our questions, they were able to do the network architecture in three, four hours remotely. We know we can count on them at any time," commented by Alex Gavel, System and Network Administrator at Stokomani.