Case Study: Craig Group Ltd. achieves robust offshore data protection and rapid recovery with Datto SIRIS 3

Data Protection is Plain Sailing with Datto

Craig Group, which operates the largest British wholly owned fleet in the UK offshore industry, supports 31 vessels, 8 offices and over 1,000 people with a six-person IT team managing some 80 servers and 30+ apps. Their tape-based, multi-vendor backup approach risked losing a day’s worth of data onshore and left ships vulnerable while at sea, so they needed a single, centrally managed business continuity and disaster-recovery solution.

ITWORX implemented Datto SIRIS 3 as a unified “single pane of glass,” enabling three-hour backups and centralized management of 40 devices with regular failover testing. The deployment delivered immediate resilience — a vessel ran off virtualized systems for three weeks after an offshore server failure and HQ was restored in one hour — while reducing administration costs and embedding a prevention-first culture.

Craig Group Ltd.

Bruce Catto

IT Manager