EMC Study Guide

EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that Loomis has completed its deployment of EMC next-generation backup solutions to create an all-new data protection infrastructure across its distributed enterprise. Loomis replaced its legacy systems, leveraging the breadth of next generation backup and recovery offerings from EMC. By matching the individual requirements for their sixty-seven field offices, corporate data center, disaster recovery site and virtualized data stores to EMC products, Loomis created a highly optimized solution. The results included over 99% deduplication on virtual machine backups via Avamar, a 232% performance increase in backup performance from Data Domain and the elimination of tape and tape drives from 67 remote locations.

Houston, Texas-based Loomis is a multi-billion dollar international cash handling leader whose U.S. operations include approximately 8,000 employees and a fleet of over 3,000 armored vehicles. Each business day begins a new transactional cycle for Loomis and its customers, with deliveries of cash to ATMs, banks and other sites. Many of Loomis’ financial customers require same-day transaction posting, which can result in financial repercussions for Loomis if IT system issues were to prevent daily transactional closure. In 2009, the company’s IPO spawned additional strategic IT investments, while increasing compliance requirements and spiking data growth rates at the corporate data center. At the same time, its numerous field locations were facing increasing backup and recovery challenges with management of individual tape drives creating exposure, consuming an inordinate amount of employee time and causing protracted data recovery scenarios.

• EMC Isilon scale-out NAS as the primary storage platform
• EMC Isilon scale-out NAS as the primary storage

Bookmark It

Hide Sites