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Schools have not done their BC/DR homework
Research carried out by Acronis
reveals that over one-third of UK
schools (37%) are sitting on a data
WSFILE
loss time bomb that puts
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everything from pupil’s
coursework, teacher’s lesson
plans and electronic school
records at risk because they do
not have a full data backup and
recovery policy in place. As a
result, in the last twelve months,
one in ten (7%) UK schools have
suffered an IT failure from which
they were unable to recover their
data. digital assets remain protected, Moreau concludes: “In the current
should the worst happen. economic climate, education
The survey also reveals that over Kevin Moreau, general manager of establishments should be seeking
half (57%) of respondents think Acronis UK & Ireland, said: software that doubles up to provide
that the credit crunch may impact “Education organisations are efficient data backup and recovery as
significantly on the budget for increasing their reliance on IT well as protection from PC viruses.
their school’s backup and recovery resources – and therefore increasing With 51% of schools suffering from
solutions during 2009. This could the volume of their digital data. This severe system downtime each year,
mean many schools will risk going means that the chance of a data loss, tools such as disk imaging software
without data backup and recovery along with the size, scale and provide an extremely cost-effective
solutions – potentially impacting seriousness of a disruption, is solution that ensure a secure
on exam pass rates and the rocketing and just like any other backup, but also offer the ability to
school’s reputation. Alternatively, organisation, they are vulnerable in roll back in time to the system’s last
they will need to find budget from the event that their data is wiped by a ‘good state’, if they are hit by a virus
elsewhere to ensure all their virus or accidently erased.” outbreak.”
Tailor-made for Wales
The Local Government Data Unit - disseminating statistical data on automatic fail over system to the
Wales (“Data Unit”) has selected local government services and secondary backup site within
managed hosting specialist eLINIA activities. The Data Unit also acts as minutes, ensuring minimal
web services to provide a disaster an effective ambassador for local disruption to the service.
recovery solution. authorities and other public sector
bodies on statistical issues. Philip Franklin, Head of ICT at the
The eLINIA solution has been Data Unit said: “We hold crucial data
created specifically for the Data The bespoke disaster recovery and information, and it is
Unit, which is an organisation platform allows business critical fundamentally important that this
wholly owned by local government data to be replicated in real time and information is always available for
in Wales. The Data Unit’s migrated to a secondary data centre. use, even in the case of a disaster.
functions include collecting, If the primary data centre should Through working with eLINIA this
processing, interpreting and become compromised there is an has been guaranteed.”
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