Backup Technology, the UK’s leading online backup and disaster recovery provider, has been selected by the International Baccalaureate (IB), to centralise and remotely back up more than 1 terabyte of data from five offices around the world. By providing unlimited capacity and data management, Backup Technology can guarantee that the IB will never lose any data from its file or mail servers.
Prior to working with Backup Technology, each of the IB’s regional offices was responsible for its own data, relying on tape storage which is difficult to manage, time consuming, vulnerable to damage, theft or loss and impossible to secure completely. By moving to a remote backup system with Backup Technology, these problems were eliminated and a 100% failsafe system was implemented as data from the four regional offices located in Buenos Aires, Geneva, New York, and Singapore is backed up and daily reports are sent to the administrative office in Cardiff to verify the process was successful.
The system was initially trialled in the Geneva office, as Jonathan Birkbeck, ICT systems engineer at the IB recounts: “We were impressed with the testimonials we had heard about Backup Technology and arranged a trial in one part of the business to back up the file and mail servers. Less than 24 hours into the trial, the file server failed – fortunately we had the Backup Technology system in place, and we were able to fully restore all data quickly and in its entirety with no problems whatsoever – truly a baptism of fire! Needless to say, we decided to roll out to the other offices too, which was done in a matter of days.”
Simon Chappell, Director of Backup Technology comments “As with all companies today, the IB relies on its data to successfully run its business. The organization currently handles information relating to 2,365 schools in 128 countries, totalling 638,000 students, and so if any of this information was to go missing it could, for example, delay exam results causing problems for thousands of people.
With Backup Technology the IB’s data is in very safe hands – in the event of data loss, we are able to restore 100% of files quickly, to get the offices back up and running straight away.”
