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aware of the state business vulnerable to data loss. Tapes Gieves and Hawkes IT
on a daily basis. At 8am each were rotated after a seven day manager spoke with Viatel,
morning the management period meaning restores the company who are
team need a collection of beyond a week ago were not responsible for hosting Gieves
reports detailing daily sales possible. & Hawkes servers and they
orders per store, stock levels recommended a fully
etc all of which are generated In 2007 Gieves & Hawkes managed automated online
from their internal databases decided to take action to backup service from Redstor
that run 24/7. This means that ensure that their data and Ltd, something Gieves &
the databases can not be off- business were protected from Hawkes had not previously
line and should be accessible data outages and major considered. The solution
24 hours a day. A requirement system failure. The data made perfect sense to Sam,
that is all too familiar to those Gieves & Hawkes needed ticked all the technical and
reading SNS UK. protecting was critical to their security boxes and was
THOMPSON 1-2-1 global operation but they surprisingly cost effective-
Gieves & Hawkes IT quickly realised that they even utilising their existing
SAM
department grew organically needed to be realistic in how 4Mb internet links.
over many years and like much time and money the
many companies they relied company could spend on data Once set up the Gieves &
on a standard backup protection. Hawkes data was protected
software and a single LTO by Redstor, who are the
drive mounted into one of Ideally they wanted a fully largest on-line backup
their Dell servers to protect all automated redundant, fault provider in the UK, their data
their databases and company free, disk based, multi -site was automatically replicated
data. IT staff constantly back up of their data but at between the Redstor
rotated their LTO tapes but the same time the IT team datacentres. According to
unfortunately due to time had day-to-day priorities and Sam, after the remote online
constraints they could not so did not have time to set up backup was set up by
verify their daily backups- or manage such a system in- Redstor, Gieves & Hawkes
potentially leaving them house. Sam Thompson, the have enjoyed over a year of
Gieves & Hawkes IT department grew
organically over many years and like many
companies they relied on a standard backup
software and a single LTO drive mounted into
one of their Dell servers to protect all their
databases and company data. IT staff
constantly rotated their LTO tapes but
unfortunately due to time constraints they
could not verify their daily backups- potentially
leaving them vulnerable to data loss
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