Case Study: The White Horse Federation (Multi-Academy Trust) achieves reliable, centralized backups and fast recovery with Altaro VM Backup

The White Horse Federation, a Multiacademy Trust, Comprising Over 32 Schools, Adopts Altaro VM Backup for Surety and Peace of Mind

The White Horse Federation is a multi-academy trust in South West England supporting 32+ schools, 12,000 students and a 23-strong IT team. The trust faced time-consuming, unreliable backup processes—physical coordination between sites, failing restores and rising costs from its previous vendor—which distracted staff from strategic IT work and put school data at risk.

The trust implemented Altaro VM Backup with its Cloud Management Console to centralize backups, simplify management and enable fast restores. Deployment was quick (14 schools live within hours), replication between paired sites provided disaster recovery, deduplication cut TB needs by ~45%, and the result was reliable, cost-effective protection that restored confidence, freed IT to focus on projects and improved compliance and recovery assurance.

The White Horse Federation

Mark Weller

IT Director and Data Protection Officer