At the start of 2019, OMP decided to implement a new storage and backup environment. The international software and consulting business chose Nimble and Cohesity respectively to provide a solution. Do you want to discover how they handled the implementation? In this session, OMP and Xylos will tell you about the context, challenges and lessons learned of the project.

1. 1OMP Proprietary
OMP
Data Managment
Marc Scherens
Director ICT, Customer & Cloud Services

2. 2OMP Proprietary
Winkler Prins Encyclopedia
8th Edition … 25 books

3. 3OMP Proprietary
OMP - Supply Chain Planning Solutions
SoftwareServices
Sector
KnowledgeInternationalTeamwork
OMP
Passion for Supply Chain
Planning
Innovation driven by
Market Needs
Commitment to deliver
Business Results

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Generic-specific
Chemicals Consumer goods Life sciences Metals Paper, film
& packaging
Plastics
Glass
Floor covering
Tires
Industry solutions on a generic framework

5. 5OMP Proprietary 5
OMP for Consumer Goods
Shelf life – Push-pull -
co-products
PIPO – Dynamic
stock
calculations
Promo – seasonal
– trend demand -
sensing

6. 6OMP Proprietary
Customers

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Scaling close to our customers
Implementation Services
Atlanta
São Paulo
London
Help Desk Software Development
Rotterdam Cologne Lviv
Shanghai
Mumbai
ParisBarcelona Dubai
Antwerp

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Healthy and Sustainable Growth
0 mio
10 mio
20 mio
30 mio
40 mio
50 mio
60 mio
70 mio
80 mio
Series2
Turnover Growth
Avg. 20 %
R&D
> 1/4th
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
Series1 Series2
2019
2015
600
300
Employees
Avg. 20% Growth

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OMP Data types
Backoffice (HR, Fin, Legal)
• Documents
• Internal Databases
• Internal Applications
Business (Cust.Solutions)
• Documents
• Implementations
• Databases
Development
• Source Code
• Executables
• Test Databases
ICT, Helpdesk
• Virtual Machines
• Helpdesk systems
• Mail
~ 250 TB 1.250.000 books !!

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Sustainable growth ?
25 10 14
20 27
38
54
+40%
+40%
+40%
+40%
+40%
+40%
=188 books
After 6 years

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Data Management Project
Analysis of Requirements
Storage needs
Protection requirements
Backup classification
Infrastructure
Vendor selection
Purchase
Install
Configure network
Configuration
Assisted by Xylos
Basic Features
Training
Define Backup jobs
Maintenance
Monitoring
Alerting
Advanced Feature Training

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Scalability : Prepare for Growth, Easy to add extra storage
Storage & Protection Requirements
Maintainable : Easy to Use, Monitor, Alerts,…
Performance : High read/write performance, file intensive processes (e.g. devel., doc.)
Protection : Business Continuity, Security (e.g. crypto lock.), Compliance
Infrastructure : DRP, Cross data-room/center, Cluster, Cloud ready, Cost
Support : Pro-active Support, Vendor competences, …

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Data Storage & Protection
HQ (Belgium) US (Atlanta)
Nimble (new)
100 TB  35 TB comp/dedup (3x)
Nimble
70 TB  35 TB comp/dedup (2x)
Cohesity
616 TB  70 TB comp/dedup (11x)
Cohesity
327 TB  27 TB comp/dedup (12x)
Nimble (new)
63 TB uncomp - 29 TB Comp (2,2x)
Nimble
20 TB uncomp – 7 TB comp (3 x)
Local File Systems
HQ Virtual Machines
HQ Databases
US Virtual Machines
US Databases
File Systems
Local File
Systems
File Systems
250 TB
(100TB)
1000 TB
(100TB)
Cloud

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Lessons Learned
• Storage and Backup requirements are high
• 250TB (or 1.250.000 Books) to store  3x comp/dedup
• 1000 TB backup  12x comp/dedup
• Growing 40% year or 2 TB / week !!
• Data Owners assume unlimited capacity
• Assistance by experts enables fast implementation track
• Analysis tools (HPE Infosight) revealed immediately highly intensive IOPS data stores
• Cluster setup allowed shutdown of one Data Room without service impact
• Combined backup/sync reduced bandwidth usage between US/BE
• Increased stability

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Next Step
• Further analysis of Storage/Backup Dynamics and Bandwidth (sync) usage
• Review backup classification of data
• Split file systems if needed
• Lower-cost storage for archives
• Retention Policies of Data  Data Owner
• Training advanced features
• Reporting
• Resource Forecasting
• Backup O365, Exchange-Online,…

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Questions

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