Rugby Club Adopts Asigra

TORONTO and LONDON -- Asigra Inc., the leader in remotebackup and recovery software for enterprises and service providers, todayannounced that its online solution is being deployed by Datastore365 forNorthampton Saints RFC. The Northampton Saints are one of the UnitedKingdoms leading rugby football clubs. Datastore365 carries out automatedbackups on a continual basis for Northampton Saints, primarily to protectthe Club’s sensitive and critical data, including video analysis(researching the opposition’s tactics and training the players), retail datafrom the two stadium shops, emails, all files including players’ contractsand medical records, and accounting data.

Having experienced a major data loss two years ago that directly affectedthe Club’s business, the Saints needed to ensure that in the event of asystems failure this information would be protected and quickly restorableto allow for business continuity. The Club realized that this would requirereplacing its tape-based backup solution and migrating to an automated andonline system that would allow the fast retrieval of lost data with minimaldisruption to the business.

“Nobody ever believes a disaster will happen to them, but when it does itcan cripple your business and you need to be ready,” said Brian Facer, headof marketing, Northampton Saints. “We experienced a major IT disaster firsthand in 2005 and lost data critical to the running of the club, whichspurred us on to move from corrupt and manual tape-based backup – which hadproved to be unreliable, slow and open to human errors – to online backupwith Datastore365. Using Asigra’s software, which is automated andreliable, we can restore our data within minutes if needed. Datastore365 –working with its local partner, ACS Office Solutions – now supports us inevery area of IT and every time we have given Datastore365 a task it hasbeen fulfilled, giving me the peace of mind and freedom to enjoy and focuson my core role for the Saints.”

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