Case Study: SMACL achieves faster VM backups, quicker restores and reliable disaster recovery with Quantum Corporation's DXi & vmPRO solution

SMACL Solves VM Backup and Restore Problems with Quantum Solutions

SMACL Assurances, a leading French mutual insurer for local governments, outgrew its legacy backup software and hardware as virtualization and data volumes increased. The IT team, with integrator Scasicomp, needed a modern system to protect primary policy records and back-office applications, simplify VM backup/restore, enable off‑site disaster recovery, and keep total cost of ownership low while allowing a smooth transition from the old environment.

They deployed Quantum DXi deduplication appliances (primary and remote), vmPRO for VM protection, a Scalar i80 tape library and Symantec NetBackup with OST. The solution delivered faster backups and restores, much higher disk capacity through variable‑length deduplication, reduced replication bandwidth, automated off‑site DR copies, and native‑format VM recovery that is instantaneous and easy to manage — a scalable, low‑overhead system that met SMACL’s expectations.

SMACL

Eric Frischeteau

IT Systems & Networks Manager