LONDON, UK - 15 December 2009 - Sutton LA, one of the
UK's top five authorities in school performance and pupil
attainment, has announced that it has implemented a centralised,
fully automated, unified data backup process for all of its schools
and colleges using Acronis.
With educational establishments relying heavily on IT systems
and digital data, Sutton LA realised that the backup and recovery
strategy used by the borough's 70 schools and colleges exposed them
to unnecessary risk. It decided to implement a centralised backup
infrastructure to take the individual responsibility for disaster
recovery away from schools and colleges and ultimately remove the
potential for serious disruption.
By deploying Acronis, Sutton LA can carry out daily incremental
backups on each institution's server and the six core servers at
the LA's central office, during the day with no impact on server
performance. Each incremental backup takes around half an hour and
as a result, data is backed up more regularly preventing any
significant data loss. Sutton LA also uses Acronis to complete full
automated backups each weekend, when a larger window is
available.
Daniel Gale, network manager for CYPLS at Sutton LA concludes:
"Acronis Software has proven itself in a challenging environment.
We rely on the software to restore accidentally deleted data at
least once a week, and it has never let us down. The schools and
colleges are happy that they don't have to take responsibility for
backing up their data and I'm happy because I'm confident that any
lost data can be recovered quickly and efficiently."
About Sutton LA
The purpose of Sutton's Children, Young People and Learning
Services Group is:
- to promote school improvement and high pupil achievement amongst all groups of pupils
- to ensure all children are safeguarded
- to promote integrated working so that the needs of all vulnerable children and young people and the associated needs of their families are identified and addressed early and effectively
- to ensure that Sutton children who are in need are able to achieve the same standard of well being, health, development and safety that a good parent would want for their own child.
About Acronis:
Acronis is a leader in AI-native cyber protection, unifying data protection, cybersecurity, IT operations and hybrid infrastructure to deliver business continuity, security and compliance with less cost and complexity. More than 21,000 service providers trust Acronis to protect over 750,000 businesses in 150 countries. Acronis is headquartered in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. For more information, visit www.acronis.com.