Apr 25 2014
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has shifted to a Logicalis cloud-based backup-as-a-service (BaaS) to to gain a whole new range of operational efficiencies and risk mitigation. Previously, IT operations were being run across four different backup technology platforms.
The Logicalis solution offered commercial terms on a true pay-by-usage basis, and this radical shift in the payment for infrastructure services allows Toyota to avoid making huge capital investments and to easily deal with demand, growth or contractions. Toyota also demanded a high level of SLA provision to have certainty of outcomes and reduce vendor management overhead.
Using technology from leading storage vendor, EMC, Logicalis’ BaaS portfolio comes in two flavours: corporate and enterprise. They offer on-premise infrastructure with off-site cloud replication or a pure cloud-only solution all backed by 24x7 management. Periodic restoration testing ensures backups have been completely successful and pricing is simple according to the volume of data being backed up and SLAs required.
The Logicalis solution is now ‘the’ backup solution for everything across all TMCA departments - manufacturing, sales and distribution, HR and financial. The BaaS approach was an innovative foray into cloud backup and has proven to be a winning element in unifying data and technology management with nimble business solutions.
The transition to the Logicalis solution consolidated prior infrastructure into one unified platform and introduced Toyota to the experience of cloud backup solutions. The implementation includes provisioning of backup and restoration services directly from the Logicalis Cloud and provisioning of local backup infrastructure and data replication to the Logicalis Cloud.
“Toyota has had servers in the cloud but we had never put backup in the cloud. This a new concept for most companies and we were glad to be the first adopters for something that provides such transformative and beneficial effects for the business,” said Ellis Brover, CIO, Toyota Motor Corporation.
Source: http://www.au.logicalis.com/