Case Study 1: Hedge Fund
The challenge
An FSA regulated financial company with offices in London and Leeds needed to meet FSA guidelines for data security.  Budget for the project was limited because they were also opening a new office in Birmingham.

The solution
A backup appliance was proposed for all three business sites. This would allow automatic backup and fast recovery of data, ensuring that none of the trading operations would be interrupted. Email systems and databases would be secured both locally and offsite and system imaging would be put in place on all company domain controllers, as well as on a Small Business Server, which would be used for the new Birmingham office.

The outcome
Within the first month the system was used twice to recover data that had been accidentally deleted from the London server. On both occasions the customer contacted DataFort support and the deleted information was replaced within minutes from the data store on the local appliance. The customer was also pleased not to have to shoulder any capital expense for the upgraded security!

Case Study 2: Building services company: six offices – one key IT professional on staff

The challenge

A building services company specialising in concrete for office blocks, with six offices and one very competent IT person running from office to office! Key point of risk: if the IT person is lost, the company is in serious trouble.

The solution
The company has three large exchange servers (2 x 100Gb; 1 x 350 Gb) and mail box level recovery together with full system recovery. This means we can bring back anything from an individual mailbox or the full exchange server.

Across all six sites they have just under 2 terabytes of data: databases, flat file data and full system recovery provided for their domain controllers and exchange servers.

The outcome
The company signed a 24 month contract, which is now drawing to the close of year one. So far they’ve used DataFort for numerous small recoveries from the appliance, as well as a successful disaster recovery test at their head office in Southall.

Case Study 3: A small, high-tech company in the stem cell research field
The challenge
The company has one office, with low numbers of staff and a history of problems with tape backup. New government legislation requires the company to provide up to 55 years of archival records for their customer data.

The solution
The company opted for the DataFort Deluxe fully automated solution, which includes full system backup and recovery.

The outcome
For the long-term, archival escrow procedures are now in place to ensure the company’s legal responsibility to its customers. The company currently stores approximately 100Gb of data, growing at a rate of 10% per annum.

Case Study 4: Food service business

The challenge
A national food services company with an annual turnover of over £50 million, providing raw ingredients and packaged foods for motorway restaurants across the UK.

The company had very little ICT resource because it was owned by very traditional management. However, a significant fire at the company’s main office caused the management to look critically at the security of their data and disaster recovery strategy.

The solution
The company opted to invest in DataFort Deluxe customised high speed data restoration with full disaster recovery security.

The outcome
With automated daily backups stored offsite the company is now confident of instant data recovery in the event of a similar disaster.