Singapore LNG Corporation stays focused on energy security with data resiliency from Veeam

Singapore LNG Corporation has big ambitions. The company is helping to establish Singapore as an LNG hub for the region and is exploring new possibilities in the energy transition.

“Our ultimate goal is to help create a better and even more secure energy future for Singapore,” said Chong Nai Min, Vice President of IT & Procurement at Singapore LNG Corporation. “Within the IT team, that translates into developing a high-performance, reliable and scalable infrastructure to support our business operations. Veeam is a critical part of our infrastructure that helps us achieve this goal.”

Singapore LNG Corporation opted for a cloud-first strategy as part of an IT modernization plan. When the company began its move to the cloud, it encountered some difficulties with the migration.

Chong Nai Min said, “We soon found that migration of some of our clustered databases was not supported by the selected migration tools. That was the trigger for us to look for a new solution, which we hoped would also continue to provide benefits long after the migration was complete.”

“Our ultimate goal is to help create a better and even more secure energy future for Singapore. Within the IT team, that translates into developing a high-performance, reliable and scalable infrastructure to support our business operations. Veeam is a critical part of our infrastructure that helps us achieve this goal.”
Chong Nai Min, Vice President, IT & Procurement, Singapore LNG Corporation

Singapore LNG Corporation selected Veeam to enable a low-risk migration to the cloud and to protect its remaining on-premises applications.

“Our partner proposed Veeam for the cloud migration project,” said Chong Nai Min. “We recognized the Veeam name immediately, and it turned out to be a good decision. Veeam delivered the migration capabilities we were looking for alongside intuitive management for data protection.”

Singapore LNG Corporation used Veeam to migrate applications and databases hosted in 80 virtual machines to the cloud.

“Thanks to Veeam, moving our apps to the cloud was a smooth experience,” said Chong Nai Min. “Veeam actually helped us overcome issues we had with other technologies, avoiding additional delays to the project.”

Singapore LNG Corporation now uses Veeam to back up four on-premises applications with Veeam, totaling just under 10 TBs of data. The apps are used for terminal operations planning, workflow management, and engineering documentation. 

“We carry out ad hoc testing of our ability to recover workloads with Veeam and have never encountered an issue,” said Chong Nai Min. “As a critical information infrastructure operator, our systems must be secure and available — and Veeam gives us confidence that we’re achieving that for this part of our IT environment.”

By saving the Singapore LNG Corporation IT team time on administering and checking backups, Veeam frees up valuable resources for other tasks. Singapore LNG Corporation plans to grow its Veeam footprint, using Veeam to support its new disaster recovery (DR) strategy.

“Members of the IT team tell me their favorite thing about Veeam is how easy it is to use,” said Chong Nai Min. “That ease of use is precisely what makes Veeam a good fit for our future DR plans. At present, we store our backups in an on-premise DR environment, but that site is being decommissioned. Hence, we want to use Veeam to recover these workloads to the cloud, representing the next step in our cloud-first strategy.”

• Minimizes risks and complexities associated with migrating apps to the cloud.
  Singapore LNG Corporation used Veeam to overcome challenges in its cloud migration strategy, accelerating time-to-value for the move to cloud.
  
• Enables seamless protection of 10 TBs of data and counting, contributing to high service continuity.
  Supplying approximately 50% of the natural gas that Singapore uses to generate power, Singapore LNG Corporation requires its systems to be highly available and secure.
  
• Minimizes the administrative burden on the IT team, freeing up time and resources for innovation.
  “Veeam is the definition of a set it and forget it solution,” said Chong Nai Min. “We know our data is protected. As a result, it allows us to maintain a laser focus on what really matters to us as a company: energy security for Singapore and its fast-expanding LNG ecosystem.”