Released on: September 23, 2008, 8:56 am

Press Release Author: Laurie Glimmerveen

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: Everton gains peace of mind that if data is lost or damaged
it can be quickly restored without interrupting the club’s day-to-day activities

Press Release Body: Leeds, 23rd September 2008 - Backup Technology, the UK’s leading
online backup and disaster recovery provider, has been selected by Everton Football
Club to protect its data and ensure business continuity. By offering unlimited
capacity and data management, Backup Technology can guarantee that Everton will
never lose any data from its files or mail servers.
Previously, Everton Football Club relied on a tape backup system for its 2 terabytes
of files, which include emails and databases for ticketing, merchandising and
customer relationship management. But this was unreliable and time-consuming.
“A member of staff had to spend about two hours every morning ensuring the overnight
backup had gone okay and that there were no errors,” says Stephen Fell, Head of IT
at Everton Football Club. “There was also a security concern because tapes were
stored at the office and transferred to another site once a month, making them
potentially vulnerable to damage, theft or loss.”
Everton acted on the advice of Liverpool Football Club, which had implemented Backup
Technology’s 100% failsafe system and highly recommended it. Backup Technology took
just a week to install a similar system at Everton, including all the data from the
club’s Finch Farm training ground and academy as well as its head office. “The whole
process was transparent, painless and quick,” says Mr Fell. The data is streamed to
Backup Technology’s data centre and daily reports are sent to the administrative
office in Everton to verify the task has been successfully completed.
“What we have gained is not just backup, but disaster recovery,” says Mr Fell. “If
an email server fails we can restore the data to another server and have the whole
lot up and running within 24 hours. If someone loses a file, even a single email, it
can be recovered within minutes rather than the couple of hours it used to take. So
I have peace of mind and can sleep at night without worrying.”
There is no doubt the system has delivered a return on investment, says Mr Fell. “In
addition to reduced administration time, there are cost savings in not having to buy
tapes, backup hardware, and software licences. Another advantage is that instead of
building up massive tape archives we can have all the data archived and available
online for as long as we need it.”
Mr Fell praises the high level of service and support provided by Backup Technology.
“If we have an issue, Backup Technology’s response time is very good,” he says. “I
really couldn’t believe the efficiency of the system. I didn’t think it could be
that simple but it was—a great solution which I’d thoroughly recommend.”
Ritchie Fiddes, Sales Director at Backup Technology comments, "In the event of a
disaster, or system failure, Everton Football Club is guaranteed that Backup
Technology can retrieve any lost data in a matter of minutes, rather than days. In
addition, the agentless nature of our solutions makes it simple to protect data
spread across remote sites, whilst the automatic deduplication means that it is
possible to protect over 2TB of data using a standard broadband connection.”

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About Backup Technology
Backup Technology is the UK’s leading online backup & disaster recovery provider,
protecting more than 650 terabytes of data, comprising of more than 3 billion files.
Formed in 2005, Backup Technology specialises in the provision of secure automated
online backup services to SMEs and enterprises.

The company has considerable expertise in performing disaster recovery on individual
servers and entire networks to ensure that customers have complete business
continuity, and offers worldwide support for all customers and data types from 10GB
to 100TB.

Backup Technology’s solution is powered by Asigra.

For more information, please see: www.backup-technology.com

About Everton Football Club
Founded in 1878, Everton Football Club is an English football club located in the
city of Liverpool. The club competes in the Premier League and has contested more
seasons in the top flight of English football than any other. It is one of the top
five most successful English clubs in terms of major honours. The club has an
extensive fan base and regularly attracts large crowds averaging more than 36,000.

Everton Football Club’s website: www.evertonfc.com


Web Site: http://www.backup-technology.com

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