Case Study: Irish Farmers Journal secures publication continuity and peace of mind with Arcserve OneXafe

Arcserve data protection solutions keeps the Irish Farmers Journal safely in print

The Irish Farmers Journal, a national media publisher in Dublin with 117 employees, was hit by a major cyberattack in late 2020 that infected live systems and backups, forcing a time‑consuming rebuild and exposing weaknesses in its existing protection. With recovery taking far longer than expected, the publisher and its MSP partner, Landmark Technologies, set out to find a far more resilient data‑protection solution.

They deployed Arcserve OneXafe 4412—an immutable, scale‑out NAS that takes continuous snapshots every 90 seconds and now holds 30 TB of data with offsite replication to Landmark’s data centre. The new solution prevents ransomware from overwriting or deleting backups, speeds recovery, scales easily as data grows, and has restored operational resilience and confidence for the IT team and senior management.

Irish Farmers Journal

Derick Murphy

IT Consultant