Storage Backup

Instituto Politécnico de Leiria (IPL)

IPL - Storage Backup

"Backups these days are crucial for any organization, with Sanbrick® we can centralize them and make our storage area profitable. Thanks to the Sanbrick® team for all the support, keep up the good work."

Paulo Gomes - IT Technical Engineer


The Company
Established in 1980, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria (IPL) is a public higher education institution across region of Leiria and Oeste.

Committed with high standards of education and research, has five schools in areas like Social Sciences, Technology, Health, Arts and Tourism.

Instituto Politécnico de Leiria (IPL) is driven by their five core values, which are, responsibility, innovation, inclusion, cooperation and entrepreneurial thinking.

The Challenge
Before adopting the solution provided by Sanbrick®, there was a huge need for storage capacity due to recent migration to Veeam Backup. Now it is necessary a large storage capacity but above all scalable backup repository it is crucial.

To follow their requirements, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria (IPL) started by looking for a backup repository solution that was compatible with Veeam Backup Software, had large storage capacity and could be scalable up to Pentabytes.

The Solution
The Magnetar R2-1235 appliance was installed with a JBOD expansion reaching 288 TB Raw on NL-SAS and 4 ports at 10Gb/s to provide storage for Veeam Backup repositories, integrating Veeam through 10Gb/s ports, interconnected by 2 separated network switches for redundancy purpose.

Equipped Sanbrick® AtlantisOS, the ultimate storage management software by Sanbrick®, it allows any IT administrator to configure and manage the unit using only an internet browser and a simple mouse.