AECOM: Efficient Storage Paves the Way

Established in Hong Kong and later merged with AECOM in the United States, AECOM’s Asia arm provides technical and management support services to a broad range of industries. Faced with rapid data growth, the company found that its reliance on manual processes and paper-based information had left it struggling with backup, archiving, and disaster recovery.

When AECOM Asia approached Dell with these challenges, the Dell ProConsult team delivered an end-to-end solution. Symantec™ Enterprise Vault™ and EMC® Centera® software supported archiving, while tiered storage helped reduce backup time by up to two hours. Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers with Intel® Xeon® processors along with Dell PowerVault™ MD1000 arrays support file and e-mail archiving systems. Strategic disaster recovery using Symantec’s Veritas™ Volume Replicator, Veritas Cluster Server, and Veritas Storage Foundation™ software alongside Dell/EMC arrays and PowerVault TL4000 tape libraries help maintain access to critical systems.

Next, the company is seeking to virtualize its data centers, which it expects to provide a high return on investment—reducing data center costs from US$106,000 to US$12,000 over three years, reducing total cost of ownership from US$143,000 to US$98,000, reducing energy use by 30 percent, and recovering 50 percent of its investment within three years. AECOM Asia is confident that these Efficient Enterprise solutions will provide the company with a lasting competitive advantage.