Case Study: European Tour achieves robust, scalable, and reliable backup and recovery with Barracuda Networks' Backup 990

European Tour Tees-off with Barracuda Networks

The European Tour, a global organiser of professional golf events with a mobile IT network that supports roughly 150 users and 45 servers across dozens of tournaments each year, faced increasing strain from a tape-based backup system. IT Director Graham Gifford needed a robust, scalable way to protect Exchange, VMware and SQL environments, reduce time spent on recovering deleted files, and ensure reliable offsite and local recovery without network downtime or frequent manual intervention.

After a successful trial the Tour deployed the Barracuda Backup 990, gaining an all‑in‑one, easy-to-deploy solution with single‑screen management, cloud and local restore options, and unified policy controls. The result was faster, more reliable recoveries (including self-service file restores for users), reduced human error, seamless handling of physical and virtual changes, easier scalability, and daily IT time savings of 60–90 minutes.

European Tour

Graham Gifford

IT Director