Cristie Data were initially selected by Archway School, to recommend a solution to replace their existing data backup solution which was providing inconsistent and unreliable backups of their virtualised environment, as well as slow and failing tape backups that were continually running out of capacity. Arcserve UDP was selected, and Archway School became the very first customer in the UK. “I love Arcserve, it’s really reliable,” commented James Moth, Senior IT Administrator at Archway School. “We can retrieve virtual machines, or data within those virtual machines, going back 12 months rather than the 2 weeks we were keeping previously. It’s a significant improvement to what we had before.”
Archway School then sought a new solution to rectify slow reporting and performance bottlenecks, which were on the increase as their number of networked devices and users had increased. Cristie Data implemented a solution from Nimble Storage. “Nimble gives us an in-depth analysis of what performance is like and what the storage capacity is like, as well as predictive analysis of what our data usage is going to be in X amount of weeks - we’ve never had anything like that before and it’s fantastic,” enthused Moth.
Cristie Data has proven to be a trusted advisor for Archway School. “We liked Cristie from the start and I felt we could trust them to recommend the best solutions for our requirements - and they most definitely have,” concluded Moth. Benefits from the installations include:
· Arcserve compatible with virtualised environment, with retrievals going back 12 months
· Fast incremental backups, can now backup 3.4TB in 24 hours
· Cost savings of ?1,000-?2,000 per annum from Arcserve
· Improvement in log on times of 20-30 seconds per computer
· Reduction in time taken to run reports, from 2-3 minutes to 10-15 seconds
· In-depth reporting capabilities on current performance and capacity with predictive analytics
· Zero issues with storage writes or latency
· Superb, on-going technical support, working relationship and after-sales care from Cristie Data
“Archway School were the first Arcserve UDP customer in the UK and they have really reaped the benefits,” commented Peter Bennett, Business Development Manager at Cristie Data. “With Nimble, we had numerous customers who had seen really positive results from it so we had many customer references we could call upon. We were confident that both Arcserve and Nimble would be a good fit for Archway and we hope we’ll be able to continue working with them on innovative solutions well into the future.”
