Previously, NG Bailey had been using industry standard disk-to-tape systems to back up its networks. Indi recognised that not only was this system relatively time-consuming, it was also highly energy inefficient and prone to human or machine error. In addition, once the tapes were delivered back to NG Bailey, recovering data was a lengthy process and not always successful.

The business has a lot of data for its size, which is run across a number of different operating systems, most of which are virtualised. This meant that the company initially thought there was little hope of finding an all-encompassing, cost-effective solution. They freely admit that at first they were sceptical about the simplicity of Securstore’s Cloud Backup & Recovery Solution, however, in the free backup and recovery tests that SecurStore carried out, all data was recovered rapidly from every type of system and application used.

The Securstore solution entails installing software on just one server on the network. All the databases, Linux file servers and PCs can then be accessed so that a backup strategy can be defined. NG Bailey decides the timing, frequency and number of generations for each backup set, ensuring that there is no disruption to business.

The online solution automatically transfers data offsite in real-time, eliminating the risks associated with storing information onsite and the loss of data during transit by courier to an offsite location. The secure backup and recovery service from Securstore was fully implemented across NG Bailey’s IT Services division in 2007. Since that date, the company has benefited from off-site backup, complete confidentiality and totally secure storage using the latest encryption and authentication technologies.

 

Backing Up Media Files Efficiently
One of the main concerns of having files such as JPG’s, PDF’s and other non-changing data is the time it takes to back up these files as well as ensuring it is cost effective. SecurStore addresses this problem by having a unique multi-tier storage model which allows less critical data or files that don’t change to be stored in a lower cost tier whilst still benefiting from the security and offsite advantages. In addition the initial backup is done via disk which is couriered at no extra cost to the customer thus eliminating the need to upload large volumes of data over the internet at first go. The secondary tier or “archive” tier can also be used to store historical snapshots for compliance or audit purposes which is a great advantage to have, plus having the flexibility in customizing the retention rules to suit the business needs is an added bonus.

Agentless Setup
SecurStore provides an agentless backup solution, meaning it is totally different to more traditional software’s that require gents to be installed per machine or separate licences to be purchased and then renewed. The DS-Client as it’s referred to, can be installed on any machine which subsequently sees other servers/workstations connected to it. This is not a pay per user/desktop/software model but costs are only on data stored after it has been compressed, de-duplicated and delta blocked. The technology can support Windows, Mac, Linux, SQL, Oracle, Exchange, Lotus Notes, Laptops, VMware plus much more.

The emphasis SecurStore has for media based companies is to be able to support backup and recovery of large files both quickly and securely using a simple yet enterprise classed based technology.

Investing in Secure Online Backup
As a comprehensive provider of investment services, Williams de Broë faced several key difficulties when ensuring the safety of its business critical data. With seven sites across the UK, the geographical dispersion of its staff and the spread of sensitive data meant that any data being backed up from multiple sites would require an enterprise level solution that could cope with the growing demands from a complex corporate network.

Following a reassessment of its incumbent’s backup services, the company recognized the need to address these issues. This prompted a reallocation of its data backup to SecurStore, a specialist provider of automated and managed cloud backup and recovery services. By entrusting its backup to SecurStore, it has allowed the organization to focus more on its primary business objectives.

Scalable Data Management
Leveraging its cloud expertise, SecurStore worked with Williams de Broë to ensure the full protection of its data across its UK sites. The multiple tier storage provided by SecurStore meant that critical data was stored on the primary tier available for instant and rapid recovery whilst noncritical data could be automatically moved to the secondary tier otherwise known as Backup Lifecycle Management (BLM) for recovery within 24 hours. This unique concept meant that Williams de Broe was able to have a sustainable backup solution for many years despite natural data growth.

Compliance
As Williams de Broë is FSA regulated and SecurStore is certied by British Standard Institute for ISO 27001, this represented an obvious t for data backup due to government regulations becoming more rm on osite storage. By ensuring the online protection of its data, Williams de Broë has positioned itself to deal with any potential disaster situation. The company now benefits from the knowledge that it can continue its business with minimal cost or technological hindrance in the case of a disaster.

Online Backup – Security Crucial for London Firm

A specialist provider of personal injury and human rights law services, Leigh Day & Co Solicitors based in London wanted to source an enterprise level backup provider that could protect, manage and comply with governmental regulations for its extremely sensitive client data. Having been established for well over 20 years, the respected reputation earned had to be maintained, therefore finding a provider with a similar ethos was crucial for its long term data backup strategy. After reviewing its current setup and potential future growth in data, the company decided to choose SecurStore for its Cloud Backup and Recovery Services.

Meeting Global Security Standards
The culture change of moving data backup’s offsite can be a difficult decision to make especially as tape based systems or other onsite solutions have been in use for decades with comfort levels of seeing physical disks containing data in server rooms and tapes being couriered daily offsite to secure locations still quite prominent. Technology now has changed, the global landscape has altered, therefore IT systems being labelled in that category must also move with the times.

Having round the clock knowledgeable experts gives peace of mind to customers that no matter where they are geographically based someone will be at hand to answer any issue. Regular audits are carried out by British Standards Institute and SecurStore continues to be re-certified for the globally recognized Information Security Standard ISO 27001.

Multi-Tier Storage Platform
As well as having a technology that can support Windows, Mac, Linux, SQL, Oracle, Exchange, Lotus Notes, Laptops, VMware plus many more. SecurStore is able to provide a unique cost effect multi-tier storage facility which enables customers costs for data expenditure to be sustainable despite natural internal growth. There are also no hidden extras and limitations and customers just pay for what is stored. Everything else is included without charge for example setup, install, support and also sending of disks of initial backups if need be.

The SecurStore solution focuses on recovery, security and helping companies fulfil any audit and regulatory criteria.

To safeguard its business La Senza has chosen the cloud data backup and recovery specialist, SecurStore, to back up its business critical data and applications. SecurStore provides highly efficient and cost effective cloud data backup and recovery with the ability to recover any part or all of a customer’s data at any time. The backup and recovery schedule is decided by La Senza, enabling the SecurStore solution to effectively manage itself thanks to an automated and encrypted data transfer. La Senza will be specifically using SecurStore to protect its business data and critical applications including Microsoft Exchange and SQL databases.

How does it work?
Using storage technologies such as common file elimination, compression, continuous data protection and de-duplication, SecurStore will provide La Senza with a robust and streamlined data backup process. SecurStore compresses and de-duplicates all the data to be backed up ensuring no time and money is wasted by backing up data unnecessarily. SecurStore’s flexible approach means that the scale of data to be backed up can be continuall increased or reduced according to La Senza’s requirements and the backup schedule that determines when data is transmitted for backup can be entirely controlled by La Senza.

How does the SecurStore service optimise cost and recovery time?
Using SecurStore is all about efficiency and optimisation for businesses like La Senza. For example SecurStore’s multi tier storage model ensures that vital data is stored in the primary tier for instant recovery, while less critical data is archived to the secondary and cheaper tier for recovery within a 24 hour time period.

SECURSTORE PROTECTS EMPEROR DESIGN’S VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT
Award-winning Design Agency chooses Cloud Backup from SecurStore As a design company Emperor Design accumulates many images and artwork, the majority of which are invaluable and irreplaceable. It is this digital data that is mission critical to Emperor Design and which prompted it to conduct a review of the company’s Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan.

The review, conducted by Emperor Design’s IT Director, Tony Drant, concluded that the company needed to change from its traditional tape-based data back-up and recovery process to a cloud based backup solution, which is much more reliable and scalable.

Emperor Design, who run a virtual server environment, turned to SecurStore, the cloud backup and recovery specialists, to provide a solution for their offices in London, Edinburgh and Birmingham.
SecurStore implemented their agentless backup solution with the emphasis on having the ability to restore individual les, emails and large volumes of data both accurately and securely in a cost effective environment.

Central management of critical data
SecurStore is now protecting 5TB of data across its 2-tier solution enabling Emperor Design to keep critical data for rapid recovery on the online tier whilst less-important data is kept on the archive tier.
The archive tier enables companies to have the option to automatically backup data in different ways depending on the importance of their data. By freeing up storage capacity used online, and moving
it to long term storage, the cost of storing the data is significantly lower. This gives Emperor Design the peace of mind that the cost will stabilize over a long time period.

The less critical or older backup data is meta-tagged by the archive tool before it is archived online, so that archived backup data can easily be restored if required. The archive tool also intelligently manages the movement of data from the online storage to the archive storage, whereby backup data which is no longer critical or required day-to-day, is automatically moved to the archive, but is still accessible.

Cost effective Archiving Emperor Design now benefits from a robust disaster recovery solution that manages the data for them and allows easy access to the archived data. The company is now also able to archive old emails, as well as the ability to restore individual items or mailboxes, thanks to SecurStore’s Message Level Restore tool used on the Exchange server.

Culture Change – Moving from Onsite to Offsite
As surveys by senior IT personnel suggest, the tide is changing with tape systems or other onsite technologies not being able to cope with backing up vast amounts of data or complex infrastructures. This in turn has resulted in offsite backup or “Cloud Offerings” being the way forward. SecurStore’s solution meets these requirements with the key focus on recoverability i.e. having the ability to restore single files/emails or large amounts of data quickly and efficiently. The technology used in the solution is agentless, which means the software only needs to be installed on one machine and it sees other workstations, servers, desktops and laptops connected to it. This isn’t a pay per licence, user or server model but only on data stored after compression, de-duplication and delta blocking have been applied. No other costs are there with the service and all is included, a huge advantage when compared to tapes.

Protecting Sensitive Data
Data being sent offsite has to be done in a secure way, 3rd parties should not be able to gain access to the information for misuse. SecurStore protects The Hurlingham Club and others from such insecurities in many ways. Customers create their own encryption key and never disclose it, therefore if lost then SecurStore can’t do anything to retrieve any data during a disaster. Data is encrypted before it leaves the customer’s firewall and whilst stored offsite and with up to 256 AES Encryption makes it very secure. Finally SecurStore is regularly audited by BSI and certified for the ISO 27001 Information Security Standard, this gives peace of mind knowing that not only is the technology the best in the market, but compliance, security and meeting any regulatory standards are just as important.

NSI Accreditation and SecurStore
The accreditation process is a highly stringent one. A core element that companies must have in place to achieve accreditation from the NSI is to have all its data backed up offsite. SecurStore was elected as the provider it could trust with the critical task of backing up all of its data offsite and enabling fast, flexible and secure recovery of data whenever needed. Not only does SecurStore’s Cloud Backup and recovery solution mean that strict criteria is met for the NSI accreditation, but the business now benefits from the efficiency, reliability and security of having its data backed up and instantly available.

The NSI
The National Security Inspectorate is the leading approvals and certification body that inspects companies providing home security, business security and fire safety services. Its mission is to raise and maintain the standard of service delivered in the security and fire industries. The accreditation process exists to ensure the strongest performing companies are recognized and supported in their work,
to an independent standard that their customers can trust.

As an NSI approved and accredited company, businesses must prove its competence and compliance on a regular basis. The secure offsite data backup and recovery strategy put in place by SecurStore means that this core element of business management and continuity as well as its NSI accreditation is protected. SecurStore brings industry standard credibility to its customers through accreditation by the British Standards Institution (BSI) to the ISO 27001 standard which ensures the security,confidentiality and integrity of data.