Outcreating Cyber-Resilient Operations for a European Metals and Recycling Conglomerate

Our Client

The client is a leading European metals and recycling conglomerate operating across multiple geographies as part of a larger industrial group.

Its hybrid infrastructure spans on-premises data centres and Microsoft Azure cloud environments supporting large-scale industrial operations and distributed business systems.

With growing data volumes, evolving cyber threats, and increasing regulatory expectations, the organization required a modernized and resilient data protection strategy.

Market Context

Industrial enterprises are modernizing backup and recovery operations to address increasing ransomware risks, compliance requirements, and hybrid-cloud complexity. Legacy backup environments often lack immutability, centralized visibility, and scalable governance across distributed infrastructure landscapes.

As organizations expand cloud adoption and distributed operations, IT and infrastructure leaders require unified protection models that improve resilience while reducing operational fragmentation and management overhead. This shift is accelerating adoption of immutable backup architectures and managed resiliency services.

Key Challenges

The client’s existing backup environment created operational, governance, and cyber resilience risks across infrastructure and cloud operations teams:

• Infrastructure teams relied on a legacy third-party managed backup platform deployed within a single data center, creating a single point of failure.
• Security and recovery teams lacked immutable and air-gapped storage capabilities, increasing ransomware exposure across recovery environments.
• Governance and compliance teams managed inconsistent retention policies ranging from 30 days to eight years, creating audit and regulatory gaps.
• Cloud operations teams managed Azure workloads separately through native tooling, limiting unified visibility across hybrid environments.
• IT leadership lacked centralized reporting and operational oversight across the backup estate, reducing compliance transparency and management efficiency.
• Operations teams depended heavily on fragmented third-party processes that limited scalability and resilience readiness.

LTM's Solution

LTM designed and deployed a Rubrik-powered cyber resilience architecture tailored to the client’s hybrid infrastructure environment.

• Replaced the legacy third-party managed environment with an LTM-owned Backup-as-a-Service operating model.
• Implemented Rubrik across on-premises infrastructure and Azure cloud environments to establish centralized protection and visibility.
• Enabled immutable, air-gapped recovery architecture to strengthen ransomware resilience and recovery assurance.
• Integrated NAS storage protection to secure unstructured enterprise data across distributed operations.
• Implemented cloud-native protection for Azure IaaS virtual machines, Azure SQL, and managed database workloads.
• Standardized retention governance and operational management across backup environments.
• Delivered fully managed backup operations including hardware, software licensing, monitoring, and 24×7 support.

This approach established a scalable, platform-led resiliency foundation aligned to long-term operational and compliance priorities.

Business Benefits

• Strengthened cyber resilience through immutable and air-gapped protection designed to prevent ransomware compromise of recovery data.
• Unified backup operations across on-premises and Azure environments through a centralized management and reporting framework.
• Reduced operational complexity and overhead through a fully managed, consumption-based Backup-as-a-Service delivery model.
• Improved compliance readiness through standardized retention governance and audit-ready reporting aligned to regulatory requirements.
• Eliminated dependency on fragmented legacy backup operations through a modern, platform-led resiliency architecture.
• Established a scalable protection framework capable of supporting future workloads, geographies, and cloud expansion initiatives.

Conclusion

The transformation established a unified, cyber-resilient backup foundation across the client’s hybrid infrastructure landscape. By replacing fragmented legacy tooling with a Rubrik-powered Backup-as-a-Service model, the organization improved operational visibility, compliance readiness, and ransomware resilience.

Ongoing efforts focus on expanding cloud-native protection, strengthening recovery automation, and scaling resiliency operations across new environments and business units. This foundation positions the organization to support future growth with secure, scalable, and resilient data protection operations.