Case Study: Ampleforth College achieves 100% reliable backup and major cost and time savings with Barracuda Networks

Barracuda Helps Ampleforth College Bring its Technology into the 21st Century

Ampleforth College, a coeducational independent day and boarding school, inherited an aging IT estate with out‑of‑support servers and primitive on‑site disaster recovery. Weekly Symantec tape backups were unreliable and demanded 20–30 hours of technician time troubleshooting, while data retention and email archiving needs remained unresolved.

The college deployed a Barracuda Backup 690 with unlimited UK cloud storage plus a Barracuda Message Archiver 450, quickly moving from trial to production with on‑site training. The solution delivered fast, reliable recovery and message archiving, freeing 20–30 technician hours per week, achieving 100% reliable backups/archiving, and delivering estimated annual savings of about £17,000 (≈ $25,309), along with next‑day replacement and a free hardware refresh every four years.

Ampleforth College

Richard Bayes

IT Services Manager