Disaster Recovery Services for Universities

Client Information

The client is a reputed US-based educational institution with a century-old track record of providing quality education to aspiring students in the region. With a variety of courses ranging from majors, undergraduate, professional-specific, and study-abroad programs on food, health, and the environment, the institute prepares students in alignment with the current employment industry requirements.

Client Requirements

The client required a secure environment to deal with off-site data storage and data exchange without over-burdening the network, unlike traditional methods where encrypted hard drives had to be taken care of by IT personnel. To address this concern, the client needed a permanent solution to address both its storage and security concerns.

Veritis Approach

Veritis team of experts helped the client by setting up a security system that enables the user to have remote access to servers and data. In case of a disaster, the client will be able to retrieve data on the server entirely. By automating the back-up process and reducing the time taken for the given process, the Veritis team reduced the client’s additional burden of manually backing up data over long hours.

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Client Challenge Areas

Veritis team had a challenging time setting up a server with security in the absence of a secure data backup site. The team held discussions with the client’s IT team to understand previous practices, build a blueprint accordingly and initiate a proper backup process with security, while ensuring running backups when the systems were not in use.

Key Responsibilities Held

• Understanding the framework of the organization storage and security practices, and holding daily meetings to schedule collaborated working
• Monitoring server performance to check automatic back up
• Identifying and fixing bugs that interfere with the processes
• Ensuring the timely finishing of the backup process to avoid interference with regular business operations
• Directing the client’s personnel to ensure resource availability for smooth project execution

Value Delivered

Veritis team of experts worked successfully with the university’s ITS to ensure a well-protected back-up system with remote password-protected access. With Veritis’ support, the client has successfully created a system that provides ample storage for bulk data and eliminates the need exchange of data over a network.