“We wanted a reliable backup solution and we wanted to be able to manage the data, but we didn’t want to deal with all the operating behind it. The cloud makes a lot of things around client backups much easier,” said Alexander Lohr, IT Security Consultant, Department of Governance, Risk and Compliance, Amer Sports. “We surveyed our users and we had one response that said ‘Druva has saved me now twice, the first time when my laptop was stolen and then a second time when I accidently deleted some files permanently from my hard drive.’ We estimate that we’ve saved about €50,000 over the last six months in data loss and recovery costs thanks to Druva.”
Amer Sports, which includes internationally recognised brands such as Salomon, Wilson and Atomic, faces multiple countries’ strict data residency laws. Some regions require all employee data to remain confidential and private, while other countries require all data to be available for possible legal or compliance matters. Amer Sports deployed Druva inSync globally while selecting three separate AWS regions to store their data. Since Druva inSync supports regional administration, Amer Sports was able to assign administrators within each region, allowing them to comply with local data laws. The company also uses inSync’s privacy controls to meet other regional data protection needs.
“Today’s enterprises are tasked with meeting multiple regional privacy, data protection and data residency requirements. Meanwhile, the mobile workforce brings a new set of challenges to managing and protecting sensitive information as well as adhering to corporate data policies, industry data regulations and legal mandates,” said Jaspreet Singh, CEO, Druva. “We are thrilled to partner with Amer Sports to empower mobile workers –- making information easily available in or out of the office -- while enabling the company to meet the many global data requirements and privacy standards.”
Druva inSync’s cloud capabilities power Amer Sports’ global data protection solution with the following features:
Comprehensive privacy capabilities allow Amer Sports to define settings by user, region, and role, enabling the company to meet complicated and often conflicting data privacy laws across the globe.
Multiple storage region support gives the Amer Sports IT team the ability to make data storage decisions based on regional requirements and not infrastructure limitations.
Unified administration console enables IT to manage all aspects of global backup, availability, and privacy from a single dashboard.
Ease of use means users can restore their own data, reducing help desk tickets and lost work time, as well as easily access their data from any device.
Amer Sports employees can access their data via the inSync mobile app, while also restoring their own data in the event of a data loss, saving both time and money in the process. Since deploying Druva inSync, Amer Sports has reported a 63 per cent reduction in storage due to global deduplication and €2,000 savings per data loss and recovery incident.