London law firm Allen & Overy has signed a £4.5m
deal with Fibernet to provide managed data connectivity and
disaster recovery facilities.
As part of the deal, Fibernet is providing connectivity between
Allen & Overy's new London headquarters and a data centre
located near Reading, which is the major plank in the law firm’s
disaster recovery and risk management strategy.
Allen & Overy already had a contract with Fibernet to
provide data connectivity between its London offices, and this deal
extends that agreement.
The solution chosen allows Allen & Overy to transfer local
area network (Lan) and storage area network (SAN) traffic between
geographically diverse data centres, as well as protecting business
continuity for the company in the event of a disaster.
Andrew Brammer, Allen & Overy head of global IT operations,
said, “The main business driver for undertaking a managed network
of this nature is risk management.
"We are separating our people from our data. By doing this we
are protecting two of the most critical elements of our business,
our transactional data and our 'know-how' intellectual capital,” he
said.