Overview Beijing Urban Construction Group (BUCG)—International Business Group is a large inter-national comprehensive construction group. It has an annual turnover of over 10 billion USD, and employs 26,500 people. BUCG manages over 120 subsidiary companies and 42 branch offices, including one publicly listed company, 27 exclusively-invested companies, and vari-ous holding companies.

ChallengeBUCG operates a range of strategic IT ser-vices to keep its business running efficiently. This includes HR, project management, ERP, and database solutions. These services reside on five physical servers and are business-criti-cal. Downtime needs to be kept to an absolute minimum and if a system goes down, the aim is to have it restored within one hour to minimize disruption to the business.

Hai Shi, IT Administrator at BUCG, explains the challenge: “Keeping to this Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of one hour just wasn’t pos-sible with the backup and disaster recovery we had in place. In fact, if one of our servers went down it could take us two days or even longer to recover. Because it was so complicated to run disaster recovery tests with the old sys-tem we didn’t really do that either, and we only backed up our data once a week. This was a manual exercise which would take half a day and even then only critical files and data were backed up. We realized we needed a much bet-ter, automated, solution in place.”

SolutionBUCG evaluated the market for potential solu-tions and looked at several, including PlateSpin Forge from Micro Focus®. PlateSpin Forge is an all-in-one disaster recovery hardware appliance that provides IT professionals with high perfor-mance, cost-effective backup and IT disaster recovery. Mr. Shi liked the integration capabili-ties offered by PlateSpin Forge. It integrates easily with existing storage to accommodate current and future recovery requirements. He found that other options did not offer the same capabilities as PlateSpin Forge or the price point was significantly higher.

The decision to implement was soon taken and with the support of Professional Services, PlateSpin Forge was quickly implemented. Mr. Shi comments on the ease of use: “We find PlateSpin Forge a really user-friendly solution.

BUCG—International Business GroupPlateSpin® Forge delivers peace of mind with a cost-effective backup and disaster recovery strategy that meets business requirements.

At a Glance

Industry

Manufacturing

Location

China

Challenge

Looking for a Recovery Time Objective of one hour, when it would sometimes take more than two days to recover from a system failure, BUCG also wanted a cost-effective backup solution and the ability to test disaster recovery capabilities regularly.

Solution

PlateSpin Forge was used to introduce a reliable, cost-effective, and automated backup and disaster recovery solution.

Results

+ Met RTO objective of one hour+ Cost-effective backup and disaster recovery planning+ User-friendly administration frees up time for

other essential IT tasks+ Daily automated backups to replace weekly

manual backups+ Automated testing ensures worry-free recovery

Customer Success StoryPlateSpin Forge

“System downtime is expensive for us, so PlateSpin Forge has brought us great peace of mind. In the event of a system failure, we feel completely confident that we will be able to recover quickly with minimum business disruption.”

HAI SHIIT AdministratorBUCG—International Business Group

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It’s a simple configure and click set-up and I can quickly access all the relevant metrics I need to report on the health of our recovery and protec-tion plans.”

Every 12 hours, PlateSpin Forge takes a virtual snapshot of the recovery server. This allows BUCG to rapidly test the integrity of server replication. The three most recent snapshots are stored in an archive in case a failover is needed at any time.

PlateSpin Forge features easy, one-click test-ing to ensure BUCG backups will perform as expected in the event of a production outage.

ResultsDuring tests, PlateSpin Forge achieved an RTO of half an hour which is a vast improvement on the previous situation.

Mr. Shi concludes: “System downtime is expen-sive for us, so PlateSpin Forge has brought us great peace of mind. In the event of a system failure, we feel completely confident that we will be able to recover quickly with minimum business disruption. Because the solution is so easy to administer, I have been able to focus my efforts on other critical issues, such as se-curity planning, and ITIL development. The posi-tive experience with PlateSpin support and the product itself has led to BUCG considering the solution in other parts of its business.”

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“We find PlateSpin Forge a really user-friendly solution. It’s a simple configure and click set-up and I can quickly

access all the relevant metrics I need to report on the health of our recovery and protection plans.”

HAI SHIIT Administrator

BUCG—International Business Group

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