Company

Amway, which was founded over fifty years ago, touts more than 21,000 global employees and is one of the world’s largest direct-selling businesses. They focus on providing opportunities to business-minded people in more than 100 companies.

Scenario

Because of the large scale of their organization, Amway needed a flexible, scalable, and agile Infrastructure.

Challenges

Amway needed to provide Resiliency, Availability, and Supportability (RAS), data protection and availability, simplification, reporting and monitoring, data validation, and a DR testing sandbox.

The Solution

AHEAD then completed the following initiatives:

• Standardized on a platform and technology that is enterprise-class, best of breed, and industry proven
• Leveraged value-added engineering through pre-certified backup software and hardware
• Introduced an enterprise cloud ready data protection solution by leveraging cloud-enabled data management platform, remediating tape, and moving to a cloud for long-term retention

Leveraged to:

• Reduce Backup Windows
• Integrate With VMware | AWS | Azure
• Simplify Management And Reporting
• Reduce Recovery Times | Remediate Tape
• Integrate with ServiceNow Orchestration
  

Other initiatives include:

• Centralized management with metrics and data analytics
• Optimized replication with dedupe/ compression/ encryption
• Provided data integrity checks on all written data
• DR Testing – automation & orchestration with ServiceNow