Case Study: Furness College cuts backup costs by 50% with Arcserve appliances

Furness College cuts backup costs by 50% with Arcserve

Furness College, an educational institution with over 4,000 students, faced the challenge of safeguarding its data against increasing ransomware threats and an inefficient legacy backup system. Their solution was both costly and time-consuming, with slow recovery times and backups that stretched into the workday. To address this, the college's IT team selected Arcserve appliances for their built-in Sophos Intercept X Advanced ransomware protection and the potential for cost savings.

By implementing Arcserve, the college reduced its backup costs by 50 percent while significantly enhancing its data protections. The solution slashed its Exchange server backup window from eight hours to just 7.5 minutes and reduced storage needs from nearly 600TB to under 30TB through deduplication and compression. Furness College also gained confidence in its recovery capabilities with Arcserve's automated testing and can now restore individual files or entire servers in minutes.

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