Case Study: Fred. Olsen achieves fast, reliable automated backups and safeguards customer service with Arcserve Backup

Fred. Olsen Safeguards customer service level with automated bata backup

Fred. Olsen, a UK arm of the Norwegian family-owned travel and cruise group with about 2,000 employees, needed fast, reliable backups across a highly distributed IT environment spanning offices, retail outlets and four cruise ships. To protect critical systems—bookings, email, payroll and ship management—and to ensure business continuity within tight onboard backup windows, the company required an automated solution that could restore data quickly when needed.

Fred. Olsen consolidated and automated its backup environment with Arcserve Backup v12.5, protecting 4 TB across Exchange, SQL and Oracle systems on Windows and Linux and backing up nightly to tape. The deployment halved backup times, simplified tape management and reporting, enabled rapid restores, reduced hardware and support costs, increased staff productivity and helped safeguard customer service, with plans to add disk staging for even faster recovery.

Fred. Olsen

Andrew Ericsson

IT Manager