IP Rings simplifies SAP backup and strengthens ransomware resilience with Commvault® Cloud, ThreatWise®, and Air Gap Protect™.
Automotive components maker ensures business continuity for critical manufacturing systems.
Optimized data protection operations
True cloud cyber resilience
Ransomware protection, detection, and recovery
30 minutes
IT system audit time reduced from 30 daysZero
instances of non-compliance during audits20 minutes
Incremental backup configuration timeChallenge
- Managed three disconnected backup workflows across local, cloud, and remote data center environments
- Lacked consistent visibility, recovery confidence, and audit readiness
- Faced risk after a third-party cloud provider exited services unexpectedly
Solution
- IP Rings partnered with Commvault to modernize their data protection, simplify operations, and ensure they could recover clean, verified data – fast.
- Commvault delivered an integrated solution:
- Commvault® Cloud, powered by Metallic® AI for SAP HANA and file servers
- Air-gapped backups for ransomware-resilient data copies
- ThreatWise® for early threat detection
- Air Gap Protect™, Hot Tier for Microsoft 365 and other workloads
Results
- Commvault enabled IP Rings to consolidate multiple backup processes into one integrated ransomware-resilient platform.
- The deployment replaced multiple legacy workflows, cut backup windows from hours to minutes for incremental jobs, and positioned IP Rings to restore clean SAP HANA environments within defined service-level agreements.
- They saw measurable improvements in backup speed, recovery assurance, and audit readiness.
Breaking down data silos and reducing cyber risk across SAP environments
The company had a three-layered approach to its data – one going to the cloud, one to a data center, and one to a local system. They wanted to bring everything under one umbrella, while gaining greater visibility and stronger security for their data.
When their previous multi-step backup process proved complex, fragmented, and vulnerable to ransomware risks, IP Rings partnered with Commvault to modernize their data protection, simplify operations, and ensure they could quickly recover clean, verified data.
“Hackers don’t attack immediately; they slowly penetrate the system. We wouldn’t know how much data we had lost, and data loss is most critical to us. In this scenario, Commvault was a real eye-opener, and I feel my data is in the safe hands of Commvault.”
FASTER CONFIGURATION AND SYNCHRONIZATION
Because IP Rings relies on SAP for 90% of their operations, they laser-focused on implementing optimizing their SAP environment – for production, development, and quality databases and applications.
In week one, they were able to configure the SAP HANA database quickly. The team says connecting their on-premise server to the air-gapped protection data store on the cloud took less than 10 minutes and configuration took about 10 minutes. They reported that immediately after configuration, the console diagnosed all three databases on-premise. The console also suggested a database size and basic configuration to predict their retention period for data restoration.
The first synchronization was completed within three to five hours, and subsequent incremental synchronizations take only 10 to 15 minutes. This was a sizable improvement from their former backup solution, where the synchronization regularly ran from late at night to early morning. The team says this has greatly improved managing the load of synchronization and the use of on-premise servers.
GREATER VISIBILITY INTO ANALYSIS AND RESTORATION
IP Rings’ head of IT, Seshasai, expects the restoration capability and threat-based analysis and censoring will provide greater clarity – and peace of mind. Now, he says, when auditors ask about the database analysis, he can give them a clear answer. And, in the event of a data crash, the restoration capability enables him to reassure company stakeholders that he can get SAP up and running again within a specific timeline.
REDUCING IT SYSTEM AUDITS FROM 30 DAYS TO 30 MINUTES
In addition to providing greater security visibility, the three analyses provided by Commvault have also reduced audit times. Before implementing Commvault solutions, a previous IT system compliance audit revealed IP Rings’ systems didn’t have vulnerability assessment and penetration testing (VAPT). They hired a third party to perform the VAPT, and it took a month to complete the audit. Once they had Commvault capabilities in place, they successfully presented their compliance to auditors in 30 minutes, and the IT system audit was completed with zero instances of non-compliance.
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