Case Study: Usborne Publishing achieves scalable, bulletproof data protection and dramatically reduced backup and restore times with Hitachi Vantara's Hitachi Data Instance Manager

Usborne Publishing Protects Decades Worth of Children’s Classics With Hitachi Data Instance Manager

Usborne Publishing, a growing UK children’s book publisher, faced an unsustainable data-protection regime: a mix of repository and tape backups that required four full repository backups a year, constant incremental jobs, and would have needed costly bandwidth upgrades to back up remote offices. Seeking a centrally managed, scalable solution to protect every workstation locally and remotely, Usborne turned to Hitachi Vantara and deployed Hitachi Data Instance Manager (HDIM).

Hitachi Vantara implemented HDIM to perform block-level backups, create multiple replicated repositories (with local repositories for remote offices), and enforce efficient backup policies. The result was a dramatic shrink in backup and restore times—moving from 24/7 backup operations to fully completed, replicated backups within an evening—plus significant deduplication (over 7 TB backed up with a 4 TB unique footprint on the storage server) and bare-metal restores of typical machines in about 45 minutes. Hitachi Vantara’s solution eliminated the need for bandwidth upgrades, reduced storage requirements, and increased ICT productivity with a more robust, “bulletproof” repository.

Usborne Publishing

Steve Bentley

IT Manager