ExaGrid Helps Nurol Group Meet ISO-27001 Standards
As the Network and Cybersecurity Manager for Nurol Group, Anil Bostancioglu, has amassed a great deal of experience over his 17-year tenure. He’s also witnessed a transformation in the management of the company’s backup storage since the introduction of ExaGrid into the production environment.
“Before ExaGrid, we were using QNAP NAS devices. The devices were old, and we had multiple devices that we were trying to manage separately,” said Bostancioglu. “It was a budget-friendly solution, but it lagged in both backup and restore performance.” The company’s outdated NAS solution was very slow, and worse yet, it was unreliable. “The backup jobs took a long time, and we couldn’t schedule the jobs easily. We needed to do backups overnight because they were taking hours.”
Nurol Group is a multi-national company with business operations in industries including defense, tourism, construction, energy, and mining. They operate in regulated industries and have set strict policies for their back-up, retention, and data security. Additionally, having ISO-27001 certification, which provides an international benchmark for implementing, managing, and maintaining information security within a company, requires them to adhere to certain rules and standards.
“It is IT’s responsibility to make sure that we are prepared for anything that can happen with our production data. We try to protect it, but in the worst-case scenario, we must be able to recover our data from backups. So, our backups must be very safe and protected. We know that if anything happens, we can restore our data from ExaGrid,” said Bostancioglu.
ExaGrid writes backups directly to a disk-cache Landing Zone, avoiding inline processing and ensuring the highest possible backup performance, which results in the shortest backup window. Adaptive Deduplication performs deduplication and replication in parallel with backups for a strong recovery point (RPO). As data is being deduplicated to the repository, it can also be replicated to a second ExaGrid site or the public cloud for disaster recovery (DR).