Vinchin drives high business continuity for Sichuan Kelun Pharmaceutical with flexible data recovery

Vinchin Backup & Recovery has been playing an important role as the strongest backup force during our digital transformation journey. Compared with other backup solutions, Vinchin helps us solve our worries about data loss with its high data protection performance. On the premise of ensuring data security, we will keep seeking truth in science for continuous breakthroughs in the pharmaceutical industry.

Mr. Yang, IT Administrator

Sichuan Kelun Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Business Challenge

Sichuan Kelun Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (Kelun Pharma) was established in 1996. Developed as a highly specialized and innovative pharmaceutical group with more than 100 subsidiaries at home and abroad, it was successfully listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange with an annual operating income of more than 6 billion dollars in 2010. In 2017, Kelun Pharma ranked among the top three in China's pharmaceutical industry evaluated by comprehensive strength.

Kelun Pharma has successively invested heavy funds in the fields of R&D and innovation with workstations built for national-level post-doctoral scientific research and academician research, taking responsibility of several major scientific and technological projects. With both business and in-depth research needs in hand, extensive number of information will be saved in the virtualization-based data center per day. Therefore, any tiny loss of data can lead to huge loss of economy and brand image for the well-developed company.

At the same time, Kelun Pharma also proposed the urgent need to realize partial data recovery of specific important files, since during the regular data center running process, about 80% of service failures are caused by soft breakdown, that is, each time there’s only part of data like a single configuration file or a single data trading record is damaged. Under such scenarios, recovery of target file only is always the best way to resume business operation.

Vinchin Solution

Considering the large business size of Kelun Pharma, Vinchin Backup & Recovery helps to minimize negative effect caused by any possible service breakdown with instant restore feature, by transmitting backup data in previous restore point to restore target VM in less than 15 seconds, while the backup environment takes over the whole business temporarily. “As we know, legacy VM recovery solutions tend to be very slow, and it’s nearly impossible to get any satisfying result especially under the circumstance when improved SLAs becomes a must-have for a large-size company. However, by using instant restore feature Vinchin provides, things can be totally different. When it means instant, it really performs fast effective restore of core data and business in a matter of seconds.” Said Mr. Yang.

Since soft breakdown is the most common issue occurs in the virtual environment of Kelun Pharma, granular restore feature from Vinchin helps them to fix partial data loss at file level with much less time cost instead of recovering the entire VM. “The deployment of granular restore is also very simple. Thanks to the unified web console design by Vinchin, we can view the files from any backup point data through the browser, and download any specific files or folders whenever we want. And as it is 100% independent from existing scheduled VM-level backup and restore jobs, which enables us to enjoy efficient backup in a more accurate way to meet higher business requirement on demand.” Said Mr. Yang.

Result

“By fully utilizing instant restore, granular restore features and many other effective data backup functionalities from Vinchin, we gain imponderable benefits from both aspect of data security and user experience. We’ve been wanting to find a way to facilitate the large-size virtual infrastructure which bears priceless R&D results coming from the hard work of professionals, as well as to give best guarantee on business continuity for our customers. Luckily, we eventually choose Vinchin as the partner to provide the most ease-of-use and effective SaaS data protection for us to reach our primary goals.” Said Mr. Yang.