Commercial property developer Stanhope has dispensed
with outmodedtape back-upsin favour of an
automatedonline back-upservice from managed
service provider hSo.
Stanhope's data is now backed up automatically using hSo Vault,
a managed service built on Asigra's Tele-vaulting software.
The daily back-ups are automated and include file, database and
e-mail, amounting to around 400Gbytes of compressed data. If
business critical data is lost, it can be retrieved from any
location.
Paul Hargreaves, project director at Stanhope, said, "We are an
information-reliant business, with large graphics files that are
vital for our building projects. Should we lose any data, the new
service can quickly recover the data in minutes rather than days,
avoiding interruption to projects."
He said, "Moving from tape to online backup and recovery means
that the service runs itself - we no longer have to remember to
back up our data every night," said Hargreaves.
Stanhope has already benefited from the switch as the company
has experienced data losses and corrupted data since the
implementation. It was able to recover the data within minutes. In
the past, a single data recovery from tape took days, as tapes had
to be found and sent back to the office, significantly disrupting
business.
Stanhope's staff work at a wide variety of sites and use laptops
to access the company system remotely.
Important data which is generated from these laptops is also
protected as part of the corporate backups.
Other hSo clients include British Land, Endemol, The English
National Opera and The Salvation Army.