The UK University of Law Opts for Securstore

The University of Law, the UK’s professional law school with over a 100
year history, thousands of students and eight locations has implemented
Securstore’s hybrid cloud solution.

The reputation of the university and the demands it has on complying with data
protection signaled the need for having a backup and recovery solution that
could be trusted and that met any legal requirements.

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 and
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-terabyte 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, 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".