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Abdulla Othman Al Rowaiei , Head of Information Technology at Osool
but also realised that it would have to change its approach toward data protection and Disaster Recovery to match its new HCIbased architecture .
The company ’ s previous DR infrastructure had several cost-related issues including increased CAPEX spending , physical data space for the hardware and increased maintenance and support costs . The on-premises DR implementation also created a separate management silo , which was an additional burden for the IT team . There were also concerns about the scalability of the setup . infrastructure stack . Because it is a financial services organisation , security and compliance were key requirements for Osool .
The company referenced Xi Leap ’ s certification for ISO 270001 , ISO 27017 and ISO 27018 , along with SOC 2 Type 1 , as key factors that enabled it to shift the DR responsibility to a service provider .
Osool claims that the shift from traditional DR to the Xi Leap service allowed it to cut its DR cost by approximately 65 %. The company used this cost savings to enhance other
Osool shifted from its traditional DR to the Nutanix Xi Leap service in less than two weeks – considerably faster than its previous setup , which the company said took about six months to deploy .
Xi Leap is a fully integrated DR-to-cloud solution that rapidly and intelligently protects the applications and data without the need to purchase and maintain a separate services and shift budget to new projects to accelerate its Digital Transformation .
There were immediate management benefits given that Xi Leap ’ s management tools and console were integrated with the Nutanix Prism interface , which Osool was already using for its HCI management , and the team was able to set up DR and initiate failover operations immediately with no learning curve to overcome .
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