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Storage Today

June 30, 2007

Quick Recovery

BT has standardised on Acronis^® True Image Echo^™ Enterprise Server as its disaster recovery solution in its Northern Ireland data centre. By ensuring that BT can restore servers in minutes instead of hours, Acronis^® True Image Echo^™ Enterprise Server has enabled BT to reduce server downtime considerably.

"Ease of use was an area that we wanted to focus on, and the team was happy with Acronis because it was so straightforward," said Iain Majury, Head of Managed Services, BT Ireland. "The product is selfexplanatory and the learning curve small. Even people who have not used the Acronis product before are able to pick it up quickly."

BT initially purchased 500 Acronis^® True Image Echo^™ Enterprise Server licenses and has installed the product on all new equipment and as an update to older hardware in the Northern Ireland data centre. By taking a snapshot of the system (creating an exact sector-by-sector image of the hard disk), then storing that image on another system , Acronis^® True Image Echo^™ Enterprise Server lets BT data centre team in Northern Ireland conduct a full system restore, partial restore or a restore of individual files and folders in minutes rather than hours or days.