Concept Building Services Selected Datafort

Concept Building Services
(Southern) Ltd, a civil engineering provider, has selected MSP DATAFORT LTD to support its business servers
with Hi-5, a suite of BC and DR services.

Implementing DataFort’s Hi-5 HA service will save Concept a
day in potential downtime – the equivalent of £100,000 in lost revenue.

Concept control and manage construction work in London and
across the country handling a range of projects, from emergency services
like repairing burst pipes to the full construction of buildings.

The Hi-5 HA Service from DataFort has replaced Concept
previous disc-based backup process which did not provide the speed of recovery
nor scope of protection needed to support the growing business. Concept
Building Services has increased its annual turnover form £4 million to £12
million over the past three years and as a result stores vast amounts of data,
including project files holding business critical information – loss of this
data could result in severe delays to ongoing projects and financial penalties.

Liam Kelly, finance director at Concept  comments: "With our rapid growth over the last three
years, we took it upon ourselves to improve our service. A large part of that
was procuring an exceptional and reliable DR system that would keep customer
and project data secure. The disc-based backup process, although adequate, did
not provide us with the confidence necessary for projects undertaken on a
larger scale. The Hi-5 suite from DataFort enables the recovery of data
instantly, which when working from our previous system could have taken days."

DataFort’s Hi-5 backup images are kept in synchronization with all the
protected machines, meaning that the potential to lose data is minimized. In the event of server failure Concept will be
able to access business information from a virtual server run inside
the locally stored DataFort backup server. If the business location is
compromised, employees can work from any Internet ready location (like home)
assuring service to their clients while new offices are sourced.

The construction industry is competitive and Concept took the decision
to improve its BC process to maintain an excellent reputation and support
business growth. Any downtime can mean customer dissatisfaction and lost
revenue. A critical evaluation revealed that for each day the business
experiences downtime, a potential £100,000 in revenue could be lost. The
ability to recover corrupted data nearly instantly or recover from server
failure in less than 15 minutes not only preserves the business, but provides a
tangible benefit in terms of capital loss prevention.

Liam Kelly concludes: "The fact the DataFort solution also backs up onsite
as well as in the cloud via financial grade data centres, provides double the
peace of mind. Should a disaster occur, our servers are fully protected as is
the information which they store."

With the majority of business taking place via email, Concept also required a flexible way to protect
email servers. Hi-5 provides email, mailbox or full server recovery to not only
support day to day business but also to protect the company from litigation
where an indestructible email archive can become a tool in the
courtroom. The result is that Concept is  protected
against the loss of income and reputation that can come from accidental or
malicious email deletion, data corruption as well as the failure of the email
server.