Peavey Electronics® is receiving a different kind of recognition for a music manufacturer, with a case study of the company’s advanced cybersecurity measures. Technology research and advisory firm Evaluator Group Inc. details how state-of-the-art data infrastructure and backup services managed by IT solutions provider NEC are helping Peavey manage its data securely. The implementation of these measures has helped Peavey operate optimally in today’s fast-paced, online-centric marketplace and better serve retail and distribution partners around the world.
In this case study, Evaluator Group positions Peavey as “a privately held sound reinforcement and musical equipment company with 2,400 employees, approximately $300 million in sales, and distribution in more than 130 countries.” Peavey uses SAP HANA® business warehouse software to deliver real-time inventory information to a global network of distributors and resellers. At a time of worsening natural disasters and a boom in cybersecurity threats, Peavey sought to improve the resiliency and security of its SAP HANA implementation, but without incurring additional costs.
To achieve this goal, Evaluator Group conducted interviews with Peavey COO Courtland Gray and Robert Muirhead, head of IT to identify possible solutions. Prior to working with NEC, Peavey used a legacy approach for backup and data protection, in which the IT team manually executed backups and securely copied them. Peavey required a modernized approach that would reduce the administrative load for its IT team supporting fast-paced and large-scale operations for a global company.
NEC’s UNIVERGE BLUE® BACKUP and RECOVER managed service, delivers a complete backup of Peavey’s entire system data that drastically cut time and expenses required to implement backups and disaster recovery of critical data. Notably, the managed service provided accuracy checking to ensure good backups, automation, and creation of management of various backup copies to satisfy the 3-2-1 rule, a long-standing industry best practice that calls for customers to have available three copies of their data on two different types of storage media, with one copy existing off-site for disaster recovery at the Iron Mountain- hosted NEC storage systems.
NEC was able to provide strengthened data protection at an attractive cost structure by lowering operating costs and IT overhead both internal and external to the organization. Peavey distributors and partners can rest assured that the company’s enterprise-class solutions are actively managed with best-in-class cybersecurity to protect data.
Peavey will remain vigilant as the cybersecurity threat landscape continues to evolve, utilizing the Commvault backup agent to detect anomalous behavior that could indicate ransomware or other cybersecurity attacks. With NEC Peavey will continue to focus on what it does best — designing and manufacturing professional sound equipment and musical instruments around the world.
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