LACOE/ITO Protects Data With BakBone

BakBone Software is helping the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE) Instructional Technology Outreach (ITO) department protect their critical data and meet state education compliance standards.

Over 80 school districts in the Los Angeles area use LACOE educational services to learn how to implement technology in their classrooms.

BakBone’s automated backups allow LACOE/ITO to spend a fraction of their time working on backups while delivering high availability of Web site data, including 24/7 access to online classes and services. With NetVault: Backup in place, LACOE/ITO is able to protect their critical data across multiple divisions, meet state education compliance standards and can quickly and easily train employees on how to recover data using NetVault: Backup.

The Challenge
With no backup solution in place and six terabytes of data across multiple platforms, LACOE/ITO needed a solution that would easily integrate with their existing environment and provide an off-site solution as well. As a state-funded educational entity, LACOE/ITO is required by compliance standards to keep all of their data including critical customer information, workshop registration data, videos and educational resources.

The Solution
In addition to being cost-effective, NetVault: Backup’s ease of use allows LACOE/ITO to streamline their backups across several platforms and spend a fraction of their time working on backups. NetVault: Backup helped LACOE/ITO meet compliance standards by protecting the data that they are required to keep and report on annually.

Paul Singleton, IT Director of ITO, Los Angeles County Office of Education, said: "If we can’t access our data within minutes, our business comes to a halt. We need all our website data around the clock so that we can continuously offer our online classes and services to teachers across the Los Angeles School District. We went from no backup solution to 100% protection and relief after we deployed NetVault: Backup. Not only is our data safer now, but we are saving lots of time and money. We only had to set up NetVault: Backup once and didn’t worry about it again."

Jeff Drescher, vice president of Marketing, BakBone, said: "We strive to provide our customers with a solution that’s not only cost-effective but also easy to use and eliminates the time spent on managing data. Other solutions require a large work staff to manage the data, which can become a costly overhead for many businesses. With NetVault: Backup, companies can securely protect their critical data while saving precious time and money."