Case Study: Worthing High School achieves 100% cloud data resilience and rapid disaster recovery with Barracuda Networks

Cloud-based solution delivers complete data resilience and security, helps IT manager sleep better at night

Worthing High School, a fast-growing secondary school in Worthing, West Sussex, faced critical data protection gaps: only about 25% of its server data was replicated to the cloud, Microsoft 365 had no reliable third‑party backup, and the IT manager was worried that disaster recovery could take months or years. These weaknesses left the school exposed and the small IT team under pressure to find a comprehensive, easy-to-manage solution.

The school deployed Barracuda’s suite—Essentials Complete, Cloud-to-Cloud Backup, Cloud Archiving, Barracuda Backup and CloudGen Firewall—implemented via their reseller. As a result 100% of server data is now replicated to the cloud, Microsoft 365 emails and files can be restored with a click, backups run automatically with minimal oversight, and 17 TB on‑site is compressed to 8 TB in the cloud. Recovery times are reduced to days, costs are lower, and the IT team now has full data resilience and confidence.

Worthing High School

Peter Robinson

IT Manager