SOILBUILD GROUP HOLDINGS LTD

Soilbuild Group Holdings Ltd (Soilbuild) is a leading integrated property group with a successful track record of constructing, developing and managing an award-winning portfolio of residential and business space properties.

Soilbuild manages close to 4 million square feet of business space for lease, catering to the diverse space requirements of industrialists and businesses. The Group has developed a range of residential properties from high-end luxury condominiums to townhouses and conservation terraces.

By harnessing its construction capabilities and extensive network of specialized contractors, Soilbuild has also expanded its construction arm under Soilbuild Construction Group Ltd to provide design and build solution services, turnkey projects as well as project management consultancy for both private and public entities. Since 2013, Soilbuild Construction has been listed on the Singapore Exchange. This gives the Group greater visibility and a funding platform to expand its construction capabilities and reach overseas market.

Over the years, Soilbuild has also built up capabilities in its specialist Lease Management, Asset Management and Fund Management teams, culminating in the listing of Soilbuild Business Space REIT in the Singapore Exchange in August 2013.

Today, Soilbuild offers an integrated real estate platform providing a full spectrum of real estate solutions to both private and public companies.

After a rigorous selection process, Adventus Singapore was selected by to revamp the backup and disaster recovery solution at Soilbuild. Working closely with the client, the team from Adventus Singapore took the following approach:

Step1: Conducted a thorough assessment of the existing backup environment, including backup servers, storage and networking components. Backup requirements and priorities were also gathered, understood and documented. 

Step 2: Performed a gap analysis to determine the differences between the current infrastructure capabilities and expected requirements. Through this analysis, balancing costs and business priorities, the teams arrived at a consensus to achieve a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) at 60 minutes and 30 minutes respectively.  

Step 3: Formulated a backup and disaster recovery strategy, solution and data retention policy

Step 4:  Solution implementation.  

Step 5: Conducted multiple tests to ensure that the operational procedures and backup system were properly implemented. 

• Disaster Recovery Infrastructure at a Secondary Location with a RTO of 30 Minutes
  The team can also virtually boot up any production servers from the secondary site within 30 minutes. In the event of a disaster at their primary location, Soilbuild is safe in the knowledge that they will be able to recover within 30 minutes from a secondary location.

• Reduced RPO to 60 Minutes from 24 Hours
  Performing real time replication on back up data from production servers located in the primary site to their secondary is now possible. The new design and solutions enable the backup of the servers at 60 Minutes intervals instead of 24 hours. This means that Soilbuild is now exposed to a maximum of 60 minutes of data loss in the event of a failure – a vast improvement.  

• Cost Savings
  With a disk to disk backup system replicating to a secondary site over the internet, Soilbuild achieved immense cost savings on valuable manpower resources, space and transportation costs.

• Strengthened Business Continuity Plan
  Having a sound data backup and disaster recovery solutions, strategies and policies in place have strengthened Soilbuild’s business continuity plan (BCP). It has enabled them to satisfy the audit carried out by Organisation Resilience Management (ORM Pte Ltd) and obtained a Certification in IT Business Continuity Management (CITBCM).