Case Study: Alamos Gold achieves reduced onsite IT management and near-real-time data access with Riverbed Granite appliances

Alamos Gold Succeeds with Riverbed Granite Appliances, Which Enables a Reduction in IT Management Requirements While Ensuring Data Security

Alamos Gold, a mining company with operations in Mexico and Turkey, was struggling to transfer terabytes of geology and CAD data between remote sites and its Toronto headquarters. Extremely limited, latent and unreliable WAN links forced staff to mail hard drives, delaying collaboration by days, jeopardizing disaster recovery, and creating costly challenges for deploying and supporting local IT in hard-to-reach locations.

Alamos deployed Riverbed Steelhead EX appliances with Granite Core/Edge (VSP and WAN acceleration) to centralize servers in Toronto while caching and serving data locally. The solution eliminated on-site servers, provided deduplication and LAN-like access to centralized apps, delivered mine data to HQ within hours, simplified local IT, established a concrete DR plan and paid back in about eight months—creating a repeatable IT architecture for future sites.

Alamos Gold

Rohit Tellis

Director of Information Technology