College avoids capital expenditure

. . . and staff free up hours of management time every week

Stonyhurst College, together with its preparatory school, is the UK’s leading 3-18 independent Catholic school. It is the oldest continuously active Jesuit school in the world and in 2018 it celebrates its 425th anniversary. It has an outstanding academic record, with many pupils going on to top universities in the UK, Europe and around the world.

IT staff at Stonyhurst College saved £12,000 in capital expenditure and hours of management time every week by choosing Redstor to back up, recover and archive data.

The archiving capability within Redstor’s fully-automated, policy-driven data management solution enables organisations to move infrequently accessed data to the cloud, freeing up valuable space on expensive primary systems.

Paul Wilmore, Director of Technical Services at Stonyhurst College, said: “Redstor has enabled us to free up around 7TB of on-premises storage which is now being reprovisioned for other purposes. That was a very quick, easy win for us.

IT staff have complete control of what is archived, and when - and archived data remains extremely easy to access with InstantData, Redstor’s unique streaming technology.

We are making the most of available storage in the cloud. For Office 365, we have moved user storage out to One Drive. Cloud mapping software then presents that as if it was local network storage. By utilising that technology, along with Redstor, we are looking at cost savings of £12,000 in extra storage. That’s what we would have had to pay this year to upgrade both the production and the DR onsite for additional backup capacity, had we not gone down the route we’ve taken."

Paul Wilmore

Challenges

Facing considerable capital expenditure to upgrade backup capacity following data growth

Delays in accessing backed up and archived data

High management overheads associated with archiving and backing up data

Finding a secure and effective solution that provides backup and recovery, archiving, disaster recovery and delivers quick time to value

Solution

Sweat existing assets for longer by archiving 7TB of data with Redstor

Implement InstantData, Redstor’s unique on-demand streaming technology

Use centralised management console for borderless visibility

Seamless and rapid implementation of offsite backup and archiving as well as search and insight

Key Benefits

Avoided paying £12,000 in capital expenditure by freeing up 7TB of expensive primary storage

Downtime all but ended, time to access archived data all but eliminated

Time spent administering data management tasks each morning is reduced by 20 minutes, allowing staff to focus on adding value

Installation of Redstor on servers took just 20 minutes, delivering guaranteed security with data encrypted at source