IT boss now budgets with confidence
Switching to Redstor’s simple and predictable, subscription-based pricing model was also a major improvement. Brandon now only pay for the data they use, with transparent fixed costs.
By using Redstor alongside Microsoft, Richard has been able to budget with confidence and deliver cost savings for a charity that supports people with learning disabilities and autism.
He said: “Cloud solutions like Microsoft that offer discounts for education and charity are so appealing. However, we found costs with Azure backup were more difficult to predict than we would have liked. This made budgeting a challenge.
Brandon immediately benefitted from transparency of billing after calling on Redstor to protect 4TB of crucial data.
With easy installation and no hardware costs Brandon can scale up or down as demand changes – and there are no hidden costs and no surprises.
Richard said: “If we need to change the shape of the service, we are very cognisant of what that looks like beforehand. The pricing model is very simple to understand. If we need an extra terabyte, we know exactly how much that will cost.”
Brandon’s IT staff have cut the time it was taking them to restore a file from – in some cases several hours - to a few minutes. Richard said:
"One way to restore data was to have a dedicated file management server when we imported – but it was more complicated than we would have liked so we used to rely on full server snapshots. From our perspective if someone said ‘I’ve lost this folder and I need this back’, potentially that could have been a four or five-hour restore because you would have to grab the whole server, open files, get the files off and pop them back on the original server.”
Whether data is stored on an organisation’s premises, in the cloud or a hybrid environment, Redstor’s pioneering InstantData, provides on-demand access, allowing organisations to stream data in real time to any device, making downtime a thing of the past.
Restores can now be achieved in a matter of a couple of clicks rather than complex processes.
