Case Study: Shinhan Life Insurance achieves fourfold‑faster backups and major cost savings with Veritas Technologies

Making Backups Fourfold Faster and More Reliable, with Solutions from Veritas and 3S Soft Co., Ltd.

Shinhan Life Insurance, a leading South Korean insurer, faced rapidly growing customer data (28 TB and expanding) that made full backups with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager take 43 hours—well beyond its 12-hour window—forcing complex partial backups and creating risks to recovery, storage growth, staff time, and costs.

Shinhan deployed Veritas NetBackup 5220 appliances with NetBackup Data Protection Optimization and worked with Veritas partner 3S Soft, achieving 92% deduplication (106 TB reduced to 8 TB), cutting full backups from 43 to 11 hours, boosting backup success to ~99–100%, halving backup administration time, doubling on-site retention, reducing RTO by 75% (to 3 hours), saving KR26.5M annually on tape, and delivering full payback within two years.

Shinhan Life Insurance

Jongshin Kim

Assistant General Manager