A better overall solution

UK charity chooses Redstor to complement popular cloud service

Brandon Trust is a United Kingdom charitable organisation working with and for people with learning disabilities. Brandon Trust exists to enable children, young people and adults with learning disabilities and autism to live life in the way they choose. It does this by providing high-quality, individualised support that focuses on enabling people to achieve their dreams and truly live free.

A major priority for Richard Burgin when he took over as Head of Information Services at the Brandon Trust was to improve business continuity provision for a charity that has 2,000 staff working out of 230 sites in the South of England.

Richard was keen to diversify Brandon’s backup strategy so that it wasn’t wholly dependent on a single cloud vendor by having all their data hosted by Microsoft Azure.Data access and multi-cloud support Addressing disaster recovery concerns was not the only reason behind Richard’s decision to move Brandon’s backup provision to Redstor.With Redstor’s data management solution, Brandon now have borderless visibility and on-demand access to all their data, wherever it is stored, through a single control centre.It also enables organisations to move data between cloud platforms and on-premise solutions without downtime. Users can access data easily while the migration occurs in the background. Using a common friendly interface across all the major cloud providers enables customers to restore data to a variety of different locations.Single solution to solve multiple challenges Moving to the cloud was a smart move for Brandon Trust - and using Redstor in conjunction with a popular cloud service has provided a much better overall solution.

Simple logic dictates that if Azure holds all live instance and backups, we have a single point of failure.

Richard Burgin

Challenges

Lengthy restore times and complex file mounting approaches for individual file restores

Difficult to predict how much service will cost

Major risk to business continuity by having all data on one platform

Solution

Quick recovery and fast, cost-effective, secure offsite backup.

Guaranteed security with data encrypted at source

Simple predictable pricing and transparent billing

Back up to separate platform with ability to migrate data to alternative cloud provider

Key Benefits

Files restored in minutes rather than hours

Ability to budget with confidence

Data in different location to ensure business continuity