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    Stanhope ditches tape for online backup

Property firm Stanhope moves from tape backup to online managed service to decrease data recovery times from days to minutes.

By Rene Millman, 11 Sep 2007 at 17:43

Commercial property developer Stanhope has deployed an online backup managed service to replace its existing tape backups.

The company used an online backup managed service from hSo to backup 400GB of compressed data from its servers, desktops and laptops to servers at hSo's data centre.

At Stanhope's office in London, software from online backup company Asigra is used to discover all servers, desktops and laptops connected to the local network and automate the backup of all local data assets. The Televaulting client analyses files to see if they are new or have changed, then eliminates duplicate files and compresses them to cut down on bandwidth usage.

Data is then encrypted before sending it over a WAN connection to a centralised Asigra Televaulting DS-System server, located in hSo's data centre. Data stays encrypted on the server.

Before the switchover Paul Hargreaves, project director at Stanhope, said that the company had data recovery from tapes took days to complete as tapes had to be located and then sent back to the office to retrieve information. Now the process of recovery now took minutes.

"We now have peace of mind that should there be a major incident, such as a flood or server breakdown, we can quickly and easily restore our network and continue to concentrate on our core business, which increases our uptime and productivity levels," said Hargreaves.

Hargreaves said the move from tape to online backup and recovery means that the service runs itself. "We no longer have to remember to back up our data every night," he said.

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