Case Study: Rhondda Housing Association saves £3,600 and cuts recovery time by 99% with Quest Rapid Recovery

Housing association protects more data for less money

Rhondda Housing Association, a not‑for‑profit provider of housing and support in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, needed to expand protection from seven to 32 virtual servers after adding a new document management system and extending backups to non‑critical systems. The incumbent backup solution’s licensing would have increased monthly costs from £1,200 to £3,000, which was unaffordable on the association’s tight budget.

Working with Circle IT, the association deployed Quest Rapid Recovery to unify backup, replication and recovery. Rapid Recovery now protects all 32 servers for £900/month (saving £3,600 per year), reduced backup time and storage use (around a 55–59% space saving), cut full server recovery time by 99% (from six hours to three minutes), sped ad‑hoc file restores by about 80%, and delivered a complete ROI.

Rhondda Housing Association

Nigel Lee

IT Manager