UK Dental Group Rodericks Dental Selects iland

iland Internet Solutions Corporation announced Rodericks Dental Limited has selected its Secure Cloud Backup with Veeam Cloud and its  DR as a Service with Zerto to secure its mission-critical data and promote future growth.

Rodericks Dental, a clinically-led and dental group, offers NHS and private dental care with over 100 dental practices across England and Wales. Guided by an ethos centered around high quality treatments and quality patient care, the company offers an all-inclusive list of services, including bridges, crowns, dentures, fillings, root canal therapy and much more. 

Alex Snell, head of IT, Rodericks Dental, explained that prior to this partnering, the company built its own data centre for mission-critical data like patient records, billing and other business essentials.

As the company’s data output grew, however, so did its need for security and cost effectiveness. Bound by dental compliance regulations, Snell and his team began searching for a cloud solution with the ability to lower the costs associated with powering their own data centre, while also protecting vs. sophisticated cyber-attacks with insider protection.

“Research shows that cybercrime is only increasing in terms of frequency and sophistication. So it was a major concern for us, as it should be for any IT team,” Snell said. “We wanted to find a solution that had almost instant recovery with retention and backup capability as well.“

He soon discovered that with other cloud vendors, he would be paying for additional storage that they ultimately would not use, as well as experience slower recovery times. Since Veeam is its software provider, it made sense to look for a strong Veeam cloud partner to move forward with Backup as a Service (BaaS). 

Rodericks Dental turned to iland – a 4-time Veeam Impact cloud service provider partner and 3-time Veeam innovation award winner – to meet its need for competitive pricing and security, but also because of its critically-located UK data centre. It has a secure cloud backup solution that is integrated with Veeam’s backup and replication software. Most importantly, with the combination of Veeam and iland, Rodericks is able to meet its security and compliance requirements. 

“iland makes it so easy to transition to the cloud. From contracts to technical help, our iland sales rep has been able to pull it all together with no added complications,” Snell said. “They also have a data centre right here in the UK which was critical for us. We now have a scalable, cost-effective solution for our future growth and look forward to continuing our partnership with iland.“

“At iland we pride ourselves on being a truly international organisation with a HQs in London and 11 global data centres across Europe, America, Australia and Asia,” said Sam Woodcock, iland senior director of cloud strategy based in EMEA. “iland was built to help growing companies like Rodericks Dental quickly implement a solution that keeps its patient data secure, its costs down and its business primed for future growth.” 

After working with iland for BaaS, Snell and his team then began investigating their DR plans, eventually opting for iland DRaaS with Zerto, which provided them real-time data replication in the form of near-zero RPOs and optimized RTOs all within iland’s Secure Cloud Console.

“If power was lost for more than a minute, I could initiate a failover to iland and only have less than 10 seconds of data loss, which would not impact us one bit,” said Snell. “That saves us money and gives us peace of mind. We look forward to partnering more with iland as we continue to grow.“