Case Study: Forest Way School achieves 10× faster RTO and 25% cost savings with Infrascale DRaaS

Infrascale Delivers Fast RTO and Lower Costs for Forest Way School

Forest Way School is a UK co-educational day special school serving over 200 students with an IT estate of about 1.8 TB across 20 VMs. After virtualizing servers, the Head of IT faced rapid data growth, mixed operating systems, frequent power outages and a tight budget, and needed a simple, affordable solution that would deliver fast failover and lower storage and protection costs.

Forest Way deployed Infrascale’s DRaaS—backup/recovery software, an on‑premise failover appliance and cloud replication—which was quick to set up, supports heterogeneous servers (including Linux), and uses pay‑as‑you‑go cloud storage. Results included dramatically faster RTOs (from hours to minutes, roughly 10x), an estimated 25% reduction in storage costs, and a single, easy-to-manage solution protecting the school’s mixed environment.

Forest Way

Mark Lewis

Head of IT