The Who
- UK-based building society and mortgage advisor
- 4 offices in UK, 1 office in the Republic of Ireland
- Over 30 years of experience advising and supporting home buyers
- Roughly 1,200 users
The Challenge
- New CTO driving cloud-first IT strategy
- Existing backup solution was incredibly outdated, as the customer was running Backup Exec 2010, which went end-of-life in 2017
- Lacked support for virtualised platforms, let alone more advanced cloud technology
- Inability to backup data properly hampered cloud-first ambitions
- Needed to have secure backups in order to meet compliance requirements
The Solution
- Presented two alternative solutions - Barracuda or Arcserve UDP
- Arcserve UDP selected, with an initial 2TB capacity scoped to meet the demand of the next 12 months
- Arcserve engineers brought in to help set up solution
- After initial 12 months, the decision was made to double backup storage to 4TB
- UDP solution backups up to cloud as well as existing on-premises infrastructure
The Benefits
- Set-and-forget solution which provides alerts when action needs to be taken, saving time for the IT team
- UDP's built-in Sophos Intercept X security integrated with wider Sophos security measures in the environment
- Impressive speed to move over to a new solution
- Potential to also deploy Arcserve SaaS Backup later in journey to cloud-first IT
Why Servium?
- Decade long partnership with customer
- First-class expertise with Arcserve technology stack
- Endorsement from vendor proved solution credibility
- Technical competency from in-house engineers and Services Ecosystem
