Case Study: Multicolor Steel achieves rapid, low-cost disaster recovery with NetIQ PlateSpin Forge

Multicolor Steel Protects its Business with PlateSpin Forge

Multicolor Steel, a Delhi‑based manufacturer of pre‑fabricated buildings and metal roofing with annual revenue over US$34M, needed a reliable way to protect its SAP ERP, design, email and file servers from frequent power fluctuations and potential data loss. The company sought a simple, cost‑effective disaster‑recovery solution that wouldn’t require duplicate hardware or complex management.

By deploying a single PlateSpin Forge appliance, Multicolor Steel now snapshots and stores each server as a virtual bootable environment, allowing failed servers to be restarted as virtual machines within minutes and later converted back to physical servers. The appliance automated near‑continuous backups, cut administrative effort for the small IT team, and enabled fast, reliable recovery—recently restoring a crashed design server without data loss.

Multicolor Steel

Rajesh Gupta

Managing Director