BPI Information Systems Protects Data With Unitrends

Unitrends announced that BPI Information Systems, a systems integrator and managed services provider (MSP) in Ohio, has optimized the delivery of backup and disaster recovery services for the heterogeneous data of 35 separate customers using Unitrends D2D data protection backup appliances.

Headquartered in Brecksville, Ohio near Cleveland and established in 1976, BPI Information Systems has served as a cornerstone for the IT Industry in Northeast Ohio. Privately owned, BPI Information Systems specializes in the design, installation, support, and emergency repair of network solutions for business, government and education. In 2005, BPI Information Systems realized that companies of all sizes need to protect their valuable business systems and data around the clock with full-featured cost-effective solutions. In response to this need, BPI Information Systems began to develop a new services offering: a backup service that would simplify, accelerate, and automate both local and remote backup.

Knowing that its customers each rely on multiple operating systems, BPI Information Systems needed a solution that would offer rapid recovery and complete restoration for most operating systems, especially Windows, NetWare and Linux platforms. The growing MSP selected Unitrends D2D data protection backup appliances because they were the only disk-based solution to offer automatic transfer of backups to an offsite location for affordable distributed disaster recovery that supported the wide range of operating platforms and applications used by BPI Information System’s customers.

“We installed 35 Unitrends units at our customers’ sites that we manage every single day,” said Scott D’Amore, senior systems engineer, BPI Information Systems. “Since deploying Unitrends the backup window has gotten shorter for our customers; Unitrends backs up a lot quicker than tape backup. And, the Unitrends systems support every environment and feature that we need. BareMetal, Exchange, SQL, encryption, vaulting – you name it, we use it.”

Even as the backup window has been reduced, BPI Information Systems customers now also enjoy the benefits of whole system protection, meaning that entire servers can be recovered rapidly in the event of server failure. BPI Information Systems is able to not only protect physical servers, but also, with the growth of virtualization, the Unitrends solution permits whole system protection of customers’ virtual servers.

Now BPI Information Systems is able to remotely manage and protect more than 350 servers across their 35 small and mid-size customers in just hours. This improves BPI Information System’s IT staff productivity and profitability while delivering affordable, comprehensive disaster recovery for its diverse customers.

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