National Express has migrated to a new disc storage
system to secure its data and improve data management.
The coach company has gone to Thinking Safe to streamline its
data storage system and dumped a tape-based system in its data
centres.
David Jones, head of IT at National Express, said, “The Thinking
Safe solution has enabled us to back-up all data quickly,
effectively and securely with minimal downtime on restore.
"This helps to contain costs, by reducing the time we spend on
administration, and it allows us to invoke disaster recovery plans
much more easily,” said Jones.
Previously, the company’s data was first backed up to discs in
servers, then streamed to tape. This required multiple tape devices
and the ongoing headache of tape rotation management, Jones
said.
When reviewing its options, National Express considered
traditional tape library systems but decided that a disc-based
solution was needed.
The Thinking Safe software brings together back-up and recovery,
snapshot copy, and the replication and synchronisation of back-up
data onto a single platform.
The policy-based processes are set so businesses can meet their
IT service delivery requirements at a lower cost, and the data is
encrypted to ensure maximum security.
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