Acronis® Keeps the Eurofighter Flying High

BAE Systems is the premier global defence, security and aerospace company delivering a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. 

BAE‘s Engineering Support System (ESS) product is used to manage and record the maintenance of the Eurofighter Typhoon fleet. The servers and workstations supported by the GIST IT team (GSS Installation Support and Training) play a key role in monitoring and recording all the in-flight data gathered from the Eurofighters. Quite simply, if the information on the systems is not available then the aircraft won’t fly. The department has over 1,000 dedicated workstations distributed across different bases internationally.

Key Challenges:

• Source a fast, reliable and secure way of deploying hundreds of workstations in one session
• Reduce workstation rebuild times in the event of a disaster

Environment:

• 1000 Workstations running on Windows® XP 

Solution:

• 1000 Acronis® True Image Echo™ Workstation licences 

Business Benefits:

• Benefits realised across 11 bases in Europe with plans to expand to a further nine
• Software meets BAE’s strict data security guidelines to support the department which oversees the Eurofighter Typhoon
• Average time for hundreds of workstations to be installed cut from over a month to just two days
• Deployment speed 30 times quicker than a manual build