Habitat for Humanity Riverside Builds Virtual Backup With Venyu

Venyu Solutions, Inc. announced
that Habitat for Humanity of Riverside, CA has improved its data backup
solution by choosing RestartIT to better secure two decades of loan, mortgage
and deed information kept on behalf of its clients.

The non-profit organization moved from an on-site data protection and recovery
strategy to a cloud-based solution to strengthen the protection of
its vital database of fundraising contacts, along with the decades of sensitive
financial and real estate documents.

"Because Riverside is
geographically located near a major fault line, it was important for our
organization to add an off-site data backup solution to our existing strategy
that would keep our files safe, even if a natural disaster occurs on the
premises," said Cheryl Cramer, IT manager, Habitat for Humanity
Riverside. "Venyu offered a
cost-effective, cloud-based solution to store our important data in another
geographic region, eliminating our worries of data loss."

Habitat Riverside explored a variety of options and selected Venyu’s RestartIT offering as its remote backup and DR solution.
Cramer noted that Venyu’s service offering and support team went ‘above and
beyond’ the other vendors she scrutinized.

"Venyu’s technical
support team was the only one out of the vendors we evaluated who took the time
to explain everything to us," Cramer noted.

Today, all of Habitat for Humanity Riverside’s backup functions are done
automatically over the Internet to a secure cloud environment, using data
deduplication that monitors each file, recognizes when it is changed and only
transmits those portions of the file that have been altered.

After the data backup process was completed, Habitat for Humanity
realized instant dividends. Cramer explains: "We really knew we had chosen the right company to work with when we
experienced a data loss on our local server. This was an important document
that would have been difficult to recreate. Thanks to RestartIT, we were able
to locate our backup copy within minutes. It was like the loss never happened,
and we were able to continue our work."

Venyu’s RestartIT is built on RTO metrics,
or the measurement of time between an outage and the moment that data is
available again. In addition, the solution combines DR-Grade, online backup
with the VMware-virtualized recovery platform to provide system recovery when
organizations need it most.

"We’re proud to be
partnered with Habitat for Humanity Riverside. By improving their backup and
recovery solution, we gave them the ability to focus on what they do best –
serving the housing needs of low-income families – while RestartIT takes care
of protecting their data," said Scott Thompson, Venyu CEO.