The University of Law protects its data with Securstore’s Hybrid Enterprise Cloud Solution

The setup incorporates having data stored locally in the University’s premises and then replicating over to Securstore’s facilities. The business benefits mean having an onsite recovery mechanism to restore data more quickly with the combined assurance of an offsite recovery system should, for whatever reason, the primary system fail or in the case of disaster.

One of the issues facing the University and similar organisations is the fast pace of data growth which cannot always be controlled; trying to balance this with budget allowance is a challenging proposition. The Securstore Hybrid solution addresses these challenges and therefore helps to ease concerns between protecting data and meeting financial spend. Support is there for servers, desktops, laptops, smartphones and physical & virtual environments, therefore being able to consolidate any environment into a single solution is an added incentive for all companies.

Nick Galt, IT Director at the University of Law, said, “Having the Hybrid solution has certainly streamlined the backup process with the added benefit of a fixed monthly fee to meet our long term budget planning targets. Our data is always growing so it is good to have a technically viable backup and data recovery solution which does exactly what we were looking for and most of all is secure. For multi-TB environments or with customers having a wide mix of systems and applications, this is by far the best solution out there in the current market place.”

As Securstore provides the hardware for both parts of the Hybrid systems, the location for each depends on the suitability and the setup of the customer. For example, the secondary system could be on another site or data centre if applicable. Bandwidth needs to be considered, the spread and volume of data when dealing with multiple locations and any best practices which need to fit the business guidelines have to be looked at. In the University’s case having the main system where most of the data is present and then replicating to the Cloud proved to be the optimum configuration.
Securstore is audited by British Standards Institute (BSI Group) for its ISO 27001 Information Security Standard certification and is accredited by UKAS meaning the certification is affiliated by members of the EA, IAF and ILAC governing bodies around the world. Due to the nature of the work which the University does, having this accreditation provides confidence to its staff/students that all procedures around data protection and security threats are being properly followed.

Saaher Muzafer, Chief Sales Officer at Securstore, said, "The University of Law moving to Hybrid was a natural step for them in their backup strategy. The solution works and has been recognised by various independent publications as a market leader in Cloud Backup. Therefore when the opportunity presented itself to the University, it was an appropriate fit. We look forward to managing their Hybrid solution for many years to come”.