Case Study

Brentwood School

Sector
Education
Solution
Backup
Platform
Veeam, VMware

Brentwood School, founded in 1557, is one of the leading independent schools in the UK. Co-educational, it offers a full curriculum for Pre-Preparatory (3–7 years), Preparatory (7–11 years) and Senior (11–18 years) students.

The IT team for Brentwood School is vital for the school’s day-to-day operations. It oversees the primary data centre that maintains records for more than 1,500 students and supports 1,800 users. The IT staff began the move to virtualisation in 2004. They had a backup solution installed for their physical servers and planned to use the same solution to back up their virtual machines (VMs).

Challenge

Brentwood School’s biggest challenge was sustainable and affordable backup. Previously, backing up their VMs required several hours per server and diverted the IT staff’s attention away from more important tasks. Costs were also climbing and eating into the IT budget at an unsustainable rate. Their goal was to find and implement a more cost-effective VM backup solution to protect mission-critical applications that enabled optimal teaching and learning.

Solution

Implementing Veeam® Software was a key part of the solution devised for Brentwood School. SysGroup is a fully accredited Veeam Gold Partner and VMware Enterprise Partner, and helped Brentwood virtualise their systems with a cost-effective and powerful Veeam solution.

Result

Brentwood School now has:

A cost-effective solution to meet budget requirements – no hidden costs
More reliable backup to protect mission-critical applications – no unacceptable downtime
Streamlined file-level recovery to save time and improve efficiency – no lost data and time

Testimonial
With Veeam, we can search through 100 days of individual copies of any file, this is invaluable for files that change daily, such as Microsoft Excel and Access files we use to write reports. Veeam Backup & Replication should be the yardstick against which all other solutions are measured. Its features, speed and ease-of-use are hard to match.
Charles Irven
Network Manager, Brentwood School

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