A global banking giant retired tape and unified backup worldwide.
Operating 1,500+ branches and dozens of data centers with hundreds of petabytes of data, a global bank replaced an aging, fragmented backup estate with one secure, automated Compass platform.
The challenge
The bank's backup was outdated and complex — hundreds of backup servers, dozens of tape library models, and multiple service providers. It was hard to maintain and update, which raised the risk of data loss and made disaster recovery slow. The bank needed a modern, centralized data protection and cyber security solution that could deliver cost savings while meeting new security and compliance regulations.
The outcome
The bank chose Compass to replace its aging backup landscape. The Compass Migrator analyzed tens of thousands of systems and hundreds of thousands of tapes, then moved physical and virtual tape onto deduplicated, compressed, encrypted Compass storage — collapsing hundreds of systems, dozens of tape libraries, and hundreds of thousands of cartridges into fewer than 50 systems with primary and secondary active recovery. Cyber Shield™ added built-in cyber resilience with ServiceNow integration, automated updates eliminated hundreds of hours of administration, and the bank is on track to save millions while meeting its cybersecurity and regulatory requirements.