2012 Company Name:
Marico Industry:
Consumer Goods Headquarters:
Girish Rao Marico
Mumbai Employees:
2,000 Marico is one of India’s big brands and thanks to its presence in seven international locations and 50 locations across India, managing backups had become a challenge. “Managing backups took us two to three hours everyday over LAN. Also, data restoration, irrespective of size, used to consume a minimum of one to two hours,” says head-IT Girish Rao. The company has about 1,200 PCs and laptops and 60 virtual servers and the problem affected both end users and administrators. “Launching the Risk Management Through Data De-duplication Project
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enables machine backup globally across the Marico group to a central site,” says Rao. De-duplication helps reduce storage costs and centrally back up data, even over low bandwidth. The initiative also launched an organization-wide backup policy. The project ensures that the size of backup data does not increase linearly with an increase in data or machines. “Currently, our backup storage has reduced from 125 TB to 5TB with 96 percent de-duplication. A single backup administrator manages backups for about 700-800 machines across 35 locations. And end-users save about 30 minutes a day,” says Rao.
IT Team Internal:
30 CFO:
Milind Sarwate
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