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Backup Avenue was contacted by the IT manager of an SME with about 200 employees, specialized in precision mechanics.At the request of the company manager, who wanted to limit the risks threatening his business (legal risks in particular), the ITmanager was seeking an alternative to on-site backups, which were LTO tape backups managed by the company IT teams.

This backup method had demonstrated its limitations at the time they contacted Backup Avenue because 15 days worth of accounting and customer prospecting data had just been lost due to an incomplete backup (an oversight by one of the technicians, who was managing the backups in addition to his regular tasks).

Backup Avenue used the following process to respond to the customer's situation:

Definition of the scope of backup:

The Backup Avenue business engineer analyses the company's backup needs and, together with the IT manager, defines the scope of data to be backed up:

- One Windows 2003 server with 120 GB of office automation data

- One Microsoft Exchange with 50 GB of mail data

- One 20 GB accounting data server

- 30 Windows XP laptop computers (executives and sales force) currently not backed up, each with 2 GB of office automation data 

  Technical validation:
The business engineer and the Backup Avenue team validate the planned approach, together with the company's IT manager.


Proposal:Three days after the company's initial inquiry, a firm proposal is sent to the IT manager. This proposal includes setting up the solution and providing recurrent management of backup and restore procedures.
  Installation :
After a few days' period of reflection, the company finally decides to opt for Backup Avenue. A date is set for installing the solution, 10 days after the initial contact. Installations on the central site and on laptop computers are completed within 1.5 days and backups begin immediately.


Recurrent management:
As soon as the rollout is complete, Backup Avenue takes charge of supervising backups and provides the customer with dedicated support as well as weekly reports that give them a summary of backup and restore operations.

This business has now been a customer of Backup Avenue for three years. So it has had the opportunity to gauge the advantages of Backup Avenue over in-house backups:
  • More reliable: the Backup Avenue service makes it possible to automatically outsource the data and thereby stay prepared for any major incident (unlike conventional backups, where the data is sent out less frequently, and often by a manual process)

  • Easing the workload of IT teams:Backup Avenue takes complete charge of backups for companies. IT teams are freed of this duty, although they retain control over the backups thanks to reporting tools provided by Backup Avenue.

  • Flexibility: since the initial installation, Backup Avenue has also handled the backups for an ERP server. The company only pays for what is backed up, unlike conventional backups, which require upstream investments.
 
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