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Warlingham School saves 6,000 with Barracuda back-up

Warlingham School is a designated specialist school in Business & Enterprise and converted to

Academy status in 2012. Its business centre is kitted out with state-of-the-art ICT facilities and office

style furniture, providing a modern learning environment for students. With 700 computers, 150 staff

laptops and around 90 BYOD (bring your own device) devices connecting to the schools network

on a daily basis, protecting the schools data through the integrity and reliability of its back-up is

paramount.

Describing the schools previous back-up solution Lee Palmer, network manager at Warlingham

School said: We used to back-up on tape, but it was taking far too long. It took around three days for

data to be transferred onto tape, which meant we were constantly missing backup schedules. At one

point the back-up was so behind that we had a six-month period when no back-ups were completed

at all. Additionally, the ever-increasing amount of data that the school was generating was becoming

difficult to store on our tapes.

Commenting on his old data recovery process, Palmer said: During the six-month period when

our back-up was not working we had a few documents go walkies, but luckily nothing of huge

importance. We tend to get around five or six requests from students and staff a week to recover lost

or accidently deleted documents. With our previous back-up it was a lengthy process, with only a 50

percent chance we would be able to recover the missing file.

Warlingham School

Summary

Warlingham School is an 11-18,

mixed, comprehensive school thatserves the population of the North

Tandridge and South Croydon areas.

Challenges:

Backing up to tape took too long

Increasing amount of data became

too difficult to backup to tape

Only 50% chance of retrieving lost files

Solutions:

Barracuda Backup 690 and 890

Results:

Barracuda Backup keeps itself

updated even when idol meaning

no need for costly manual updates

Saved the school 6,000

Much quicker than previous

tape solution

Far more cost-effective

About Barracuda BackupBarracuda Backup removes tedious complexity from backing up data while driving down costs. Using removable media like tapes to backup and restore

data takes a lot of time and effort. Using tape, restoring even one file or e-mail message can take hours. Then there are the tape rotations and shipping...

Barracuda Backup Fast Facts Protects physical and virtual (VMware & Hyper-V) environments

LiveBootTM for VMware

User file access via CopyTM (www.copy.com)

Deduplicated storage and fast replication

Microsoft SQL, Exchange, and message-level restore

VMware snapshot and file recovery

Cloud storage and site-to-site replication

Our system wasnt very reliable, and Id spend

about forty minutes each day rebooting. This would

impact on lessons quite significantly and on the

administrative staff who use email everyday.

Lee Palmer

Network Manager

Warlingham School

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Describing the breaking point for the school, Palmer said: Our previous solution, ran into some

problems and we were told the only way to fix it was to upgrade to the latest version of the software,

which essentially meant re-purchasing the software at a cost of around 1000.

Not satisfied that purchasing the new software was the best solution, Palmer considered what his key

requirements were: to find a solution that would enable fast back-up; that was easy to use, allowed

fast retrieval and re-instatement of data and had no additional per license fees. Also on his wish list

was to move on from backing-up on tape. The tapes were becoming increasingly unreliable and

inefficient and Palmer was spending eight and half days a year simply inserting and removing the

tapes and ensuring they are stored safely and efficiently.

Finding the solution

Having drawn up his wish list, Palmer considered three options for the school:

1. To spend money updating the schools current system to have bigger size capacity tapes, abigger auto-loader and a bigger hard drive unit

2. To purchase a Barracuda Networks back-up solution

3. To purchase a another vendors back-up solution

Barracudas back-up products came onto Palmers radar one day when he was on the Barracuda

website looking at Firewalls and noticed the back-up solutions. Having rolled out Barracudas Web

Filter 610 three years earlier, Palmer was keen to run a 30-day free trial of the Barracuda Back-up 690

and 890 models and its Cloud storage back-up service.

When the three-month trial came to an end, Anthony Westacott, Channel Manager UK, from Barracuda

introduced Palmer to local reseller, Synetix to manage the roll-out of the back-up products. Explaining

his decision to go with the Barracuda back-up, Palmer said: The updates were very competitively

priced and we had a three year maintenance plan included. The fact that you dont need to have

individual client access licenses for different types of servers and that you can have an unlimited

amount is great. The benefit of linking up to the Barracuda Cloud control was an unexpected bonus

too because it allows me to make changes when Im off-site.

Commenting on the roll-out process, Palmer said: The roll-out was a breeze. The interface is very

similar across all Barracuda products and is really user friendly and easy to configure. With a little bit of

help from the Synetix support team, we had it up and running within a couple of hours and the first

back-up was completed within eight or nine hours.

Palmer was also particularly pleased with Barracudas automatic system updates. He said: The Barracudaback-up keeps itself up-to-date when its idol. It automatically downloads and installs updates with no

need for human intervention. Previously, I had to manually check for updates every month and each

update would take me around two hours to run and would be followed by a lengthy re-boot.

Looking to the future

Contemplating the future of Warlingham Schools network, Palmer said: The Barracuda back-up has

exceeded all of my expectations and has saved the school over 6,000 in the process. For me, the

three best things about it are its speed, cost effectiveness and its low impact its easy-to-use and

configure and there was no complicated set-up process. In addition to the Barracuda back-up and the

Barracuda Web Filter we installed three years ago, I have also recently rolled out Barracudas Spam and

Virus Firewall and will be installing one of Barracudas firewalls during within the next couple of weeks.

Barracudas solutions and the great service from Synetix have impressed me across the board and I

certainly would not hesitate to recommend them.