MO Holdings Adopts Backup in the Cloud for Agile Business Continuity
Multi-site based MO Holdings Group has adopted a Cloud based backup solution to cement its business continuity strategy and release administration time previously spent on manual tape backups.
The move sees exchange of manual tape backup at 4 sites, covering 8 servers, with one central and automated daily online backup process. It has significantly improved the business's data security compliance and agility regarding recovery time.
MO Holdings is a group of companies covering a diverse portfolio of industries, including Green energy, Freight Forwarding, Recruitment and Internet Portals spread across four locations.
Like many, the business is challenged with distributed offices and non-IT staff being asked to undertake tape backups. A stretched IT team is located at the head office in London and the business's manual tape backup consistently presented numerous problems. The team agreed an automated process offered the only viable solution.
MO Holdings has adopted Cloud Backup from Icomm Technologies, which daily uses a secure encrypted internet connection to automate the backup of critical business data and files to a centralised vault in Birmingham before replicating to a Manchester site for double fail-over assurance.
The solution and managed recovery support is also handled by designated Icomm technical engineers, should they be required.
Max Wilkinson, IT Manager at MO Holdings, said: "Fundamentally, we have transformed the agility of our business continuity plans with Cloud backup from Icomm.
"Our recovery process has reduced from days to hours and a recent fail-over proved to us that we can recover data from the remote backup vault and restore files within an hour.
"Cloud Backup is saving us vast swathes of time on administering and supporting error prone unreliable manual tape backups. This time is now being better allocated to more strategic tasks and non-IT employees have been released to focus on their core roles.
"Icomm's Cloud Backup approach has also enabled us to switch away from Capex on tape drives and tapes to a fixed monthly operational expenditure model. As you would expect, this is better for budget management and controlling the IT overhead."
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