Osool Pushes Disaster Recovery Infrastructure to Cloud, Reaps Cost-Saving Benefits
Nutanix, Inc. announced that Osool, an independent, fully-fledged asset management company based in Bahrain, has successfully deployed Nutanix’ Xi Leap - a flexible, cloud-based DR-as-a-Service (DRaaS) solution. The service, that meets the industry standard compliance attestations expected for a financial institution’s own compliance standards, has reduced the company’s DR cost by about 65% and also helped Osool meet mandatory recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) requirements.
As part of Osool’s digital transformation initiative, it began using Nutanix a few years back as a replacement for its existing server infrastructure. Osool saw Nutanix’s hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) as a major stepping-stone on its journey to cloud, but also realized that it would have to change its approach toward data protection and disaster recovery to match its new HCI-based 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.