Case Study: SGS Shenzhen achieves near‑instant disaster recovery and cuts recovery time from days to minutes with NetIQ PlateSpin Forge

SGS - Customer Case Study

SGS Shenzhen, the IT team managing the main data center for SGS Group in China, supports nearly 3,000 users and a wide range of Windows applications that underpin the company’s testing, inspection and certification services. Its existing manual backup and rebuild process was complex and labor-intensive—taking up to three days and requiring extensive documentation—so the team needed a simple, secure way to protect applications and accelerate recovery.

SGS Shenzhen implemented the PlateSpin Forge hardware appliance to create virtual copies of protected servers, run isolated recovery tests, and take frequent snapshots. The solution can recover systems in minutes rather than days, reduces data loss and improves RTO/RPO, is quick to deploy without major infrastructure changes, and can be scaled to cover additional server workloads as needed.

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