ONLINE BACKUP FOR SCHOOLS, COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

Backup Direct™ have a range of solutions available that help IT managers in schools, colleges and universities run their internal IT infrastructure efficiently and compliantly. Our enterprise-class solution portfolio is built upon world leading backup and cloud technology and we deliver all solutions with industry-recognized customer service and support.

ONLINE BACKUP

• Online Backup for PCs, Laptops and Macs

Data residing on PCs and Laptops within a school or university is often the most vulnerable. Hard-drive failure is common and theft or physical damage is always a real possibility. If there is no existing central backup method in place for these devices it only takes a single unexpected event to cause a significant loss of important data.

Unlike hardware-based backup solutions, online backup removes the risks involved when hard-drives fail or computers go missing. With online backup for PCs, Laptops and Macs, data is backed up automatically throughout the day and transferred over the internet for storage in secure data centres. The organisation’s critical data then resides in these managed data centres indefinitely, continually updating and ready for retrieval when most needed.

IT administrators can implement backup rules over a single or entire fleet of computers. It takes the responsibility of backup away from the end users and ensures there is a central point of control for the institution’s backup policy. Backup Direct backup solutions are completely Data Protection Act 1998 and PCI Compliant. No more worrying about having to carry out manual backups, you and your colleges can get on with your day-to-day activities and feel confident that your data is in safe hands.

 

• Online Backup for Servers

Nowadays it has become common for schools or universities to run applications or store data centrally on servers. Through this computer, data changes frequently as student records, financial documents and administrative details are continually updated as part of daily activities. The importance of this data should not be understated. This information is critical to effective operations and protecting it with a reliable backup plan should be mandatory.

However, the recent problem for IT managers is that the amount of data to protect is increasing in size and is often spread out over multiple locations. Carrying out reliable backups of each machine every day has become a real pain because it takes up time better spent elsewhere on other value-adding activities. To ease this burden on IT administrators, Online Backup for Servers works seamlessly with existing IT infrastructure to provide a reliable, central, scalable and secure, backup of all critical data stored on servers. Our system will work just as easily on a single server as it will on multiple machines spread out over a network.

Continuous Data Protection means that you can backup your system as often as every 15 minutes or schedule a backup to happen every night outside working hours. Data that is backed up is transferred securely over the internet using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption and then stored in dual military-grade resilient data centres. Single file or full system state recovery can be initiated within minutes of data loss by downloading data back onto the host machine via the Internet. Online Backup means you can stop worrying about the management of tapes and get on with developing more value-adding processes.

 

DATA PROTECTION

Do you or any of your colleagues ever use laptops at work? Do you take them home with you? If you do, and those computers contain sensitive data, you might be putting your organisation’s reputation at risk. The nature of laptop use means that information contained on mobile devices is often most vulnerable to loss or exposure. All UK educational institutions are regulated by the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Computer Misuse Act 1990 - a breach of either of those laws could result in fines up to £500,000 and a serious public embarrassment.

To ensure a lost or stolen laptop never ends up on the front page, Backup Direct's data protection solution, Data Defence, allows IT administrators to remotely encrypt and delete entire hard-drives - regardless of where they are located – from a central web control panel. You can manage a single or entire fleet of computers from a central location and retain complete control over your organisation’s data.

 

DISASTER RECOVERY

Imagine turning up to work tomorrow and finding that the computers don't work. Perhaps there has been a break-in and thieves have stolen some critical equipment or maybe your server has just decided to die - funny how that always happens at the worst possible moment! Apart from calling the insurance company and IT support, you now have to manage on your own for up to three days or more as new software and hardware is installed and rebooted. It causes a mass backup of work and re-scheduling, a further increase in stress and serious case of embarrassment.

Disaster Recovery is a solution that backs up and hosts your critical systems off-site and makes them near-instantly recoverable to replacement hardware on-demand. If your existing infrastructure goes down for whatever reason, you can initiate a fail-over of operations within minutes and carry on working from a standard computer. This IT rescue service allows users to access working systems remotely over a standard terminal services internet connection. It ensures you and your colleagues can continue working as normal within minutes of a disaster.

Disaster Recovery is ideal for avoiding potentially embarrassing IT disasters and maintaining a professional and diligent attitude to IT in education.

 

EMAIL ARCHIVING

Emails can cause real strain on servers and computers. Because they need to kept securely for significant periods of time for compliance reasons, they start to take up significant memory and resources that result in performance slow downs and a greater risk of virus attack or corruption.

To ease the pressure on servers, Backup Direct has an Email Archiving solution that stores all incoming and outgoing emails off-site in secure data centres - away from your in-house infrastructure. Emails are stored in encrypted form and made retrievable through a secure web-portal. A rapid e-discovery feature allows responsible managers to trawl through an archive of all emails that have been sent and received from employee mailboxes with ease.

With your emails stored securely off-site in a central archive, your server is free to perform without resource hogging email files constantly bogging it down.

 

EMAIL SECURITY AND CONTINUITY

Are you fed up of SPAM? Has your organisation ever been infected with a virus? One of the main causes of IT downtime in schools, colleges and universities is virus infection. It usually happens when an employee opens a malicious email and unwittingly executes a nasty wormy infection straight into your network.

Harmful viruses are typically found attached to SPAM emails. To remove this risk, Email Security filters out 100% of known viruses and 99% of SPAM in the cloud before emails even enter your network. The emails that you and your colleagues receive will always be clean and relevant.

Email Continuity is a feature that makes all individual mailbox functionality available through dedicated, always-on, online portals. Similar to the mechanics of a Hotmail or Google Mail account but more secure, employees can log onto these portals from anywhere in the world and continue to send and receive emails regardless of what has happened to the regular server or Exchange router.

 

A FULLY MANAGED SERVICE FROM BACKUP DIRECT

Backup Direct supports all services to schools, colleges or universities with free 24/7 telephone, email and remote log-in support for data recovery rescue on-demand.