AMTS Catania
Business continuity for the ITS division, on solid ground
AMTS runs Catania’s city buses, bike and car sharing and paid parking. In three years we secured its ITS division with backup, disaster recovery and a new converged data center, with no impact on passenger service.
The challenge
AMTS’s IT infrastructure handles an ever-growing flow of data, critical to reliable passenger service. The servers were close to saturation and needed a technology refresh: an outage of any service would heavily affect the public. There was no effective backup and disaster recovery system, no support contract with a defined SLA, and inadequate levels of active and passive protection for data and services.
The solution
The project was split into two steps. First, a managed backup and disaster recovery service: snapshot backups with Altaro VM Backup in a local repository, daily copies of ITS and ICT data, and an additional off-site copy in the SUNDATA data center in Cagliari, with a VMware server ready to recover in case of disaster. Then, a new converged data center built on Dell, VMware and NetApp all flash in high availability (two-node cluster, ONTAP operating system), with a network overhaul via Ruckus switches and protection handled by Sophos firewall and endpoint security.
The result
By consolidating all services on the new primary data center, AMTS made data management easier and more efficient and laid solid foundations for future projects. Daily local backups with an off-site copy and a disaster recovery platform protected the entire IT infrastructure against data loss from day one, with multiple layers of active and passive security and a partner that responds quickly in emergencies, with tight SLAs.
“We are confident that several layers of active and passive security have been put in place to protect data and services. By consolidating all services on the new primary data center, we made all data management easier and more efficient and laid solid foundations for future projects.”
— Giovanni Santoro, Head of ITS Operational Unit · AMTS Catania
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