CASE STUDY
To steer its meat and dairy business , Frimesa depends on data . The company ’ s 8,500 employees rely on a range of information systems to carry out their day-to-day activities : from manufacturing management applications for its factory workers to accounting platforms for backoffice teams .
“ In 2021 , Frimesa recorded gross annual revenues equivalent to US $ one billion ,” said Thiago Algeri , CIO at Frimesa . “ Like any large enterprise , it ’ s crucial to ensure that our employees can always access the data and systems they need to do their work .”
Frimesa operates a heterogenous IT estate , including Microsoft Windows , Linux , Solaris and Oracle environments that run on-premises and in the Azure cloud . In total , the company manages approximately
20 bare metal servers and 150 virtual machines ( VMs ), which all host the company ’ s core business applications and databases .
To protect mission-critical systems , Frimesa creates regular backups of its production data . However , the company ’ s previous approach to data protection relied on a patchwork of tools from different vendors – making it complex and time-consuming for the IT team to verify that backups were successfully completed .
“ As our business data grows , so do our backup jobs ,” said Algeri . “ Backing up crucial systems like our production database and file server used to take up to 24 and 48 hours respectively . Even though we scheduled the backup jobs during planned downtime windows , the processes often overran , which risked disruption to the business .”
LIKE ANY LARGE ENTERPRISE , IT ’ S CRUCIAL
TO ENSURE THAT OUR
EMPLOYEES CAN ALWAYS ACCESS THE DATA AND SYSTEMS THEY NEED TO
DO THEIR WORK .
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