BPR is a multidisciplinary engineering firm that was launched in 1961. With 1,250 employees
on staff, it provides services in Québec and Ontario. Its three major offices are located in
the United States, France and Jamaica. When Metafore was called in, BPR had 8 SANs
implemented on three sites powered by 16 servers. The firm faced many daunting challenges
such as poor performance to access information and data, complex data management,
exponential increase in the volume of data and data duplication.
BPR’s data backup system included several software solutions that complicated their
system’s management and monitoring. Their data went through various systems and software
applications before being sent to the magnetic tapes. Controlling data backup and integrity was
extremely difficult.
“Metafore assessed the capacity of our telecommunications systems and evaluated our
storage system. After reviewing our performance and space capacity, explains Patrick Poncet,
Technological Infrastructure Manager at BPR, Metafore presented us with a proposal to
centralize and duplicate our data from our Québec and Montréal sites. Our existing storage
system was therefore replaced with a virtualization solution that allowed us to maximize the
use of our servers and SAN resources and implement a compliance solution and a business
continuity solution. As far as telecommunications were concerned, Metafore replaced our
obsolete equipment with a system providing improved performance and increased security to
maintain our data’s integrity, safeguard our reputation and protect our users.”
“We kept our existing system for the transit, management and end-to-end data lifecycle. We are
working with only one management and control interface to ensure our data’s integrity and our
system’s proper functioning. From now on, there is no more tape handling and it makes a whole
lot of difference. Our IT team is much more efficient.”
“Metafore’s solution truly surpassed our expectations. They did a great job when they
automated the system they implemented. They somewhat encrypted the system to ensure our
interventions would be as simple and direct as possible.”
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