University of West Indies Picks Securstore

Securstore UK Ltd announces that the Cave Hill Campus of University of West Indies
(UWI) has agreed to backup and protect their data with Securstore Cloud Backup
& Recovery Solution.

Established in 1948, the UWI is the largest and longest standing higher
education provider in the English-speaking Caribbean. It has evolved from a
fledgling college in the Caribbean island of Jamaica with 33 students to a
fully-fledged University with over 45,000 students, approximately 9,000
graduates annually and more than 120,000 alumni.

The university previously used tape backups, before it decided to streamline
its processes for the Cave Hill campus in Barbados. The advantages of using
Securstore’s service is they get an automated solution (therefore, no risk
of critical data not being backed up), the ability to recover files,
no more being prone to human error, no risk associated with faulty or corrupt
tapes, and staff could use their time on other projects rather than managing
the tape system, i.e. saving the university money by using resources better.

Securstore’s solution supports servers, desktops, laptops, tablets, smartphones
and virtual environments. For the university, this represents a chance to scale
or expand gradually as and when required, therefore giving flexibility.

Keith Inniss, manager of enterprise applications, said: "Data
is core to any business, especially to ours due to the nature of what we do and
the vast array of critical student data that we hold. There are many providers
out there, but what makes Securstore the right choice for us is that they have
the ability to focus on recovery, security and meeting compliance requirements.
Our reputation is such that we couldn’t take any chances and Securstore ticked
all the boxes, we are pleased to be associated with them for the foreseeable
future."

Having 24×7 technical support and assistance to cloud backup experts at any
time was important for the university as an incident around the backup could
occur at any time. The type of encryption used at flight and rest was
determined by the university, i.e. up to 256 AES can be used and the key itself
is safeguarded with no access granted to Securstore. This ensures that no third
party can tamper with the data or the backup sets created, and control is
given to the university. If the key is lost for any reason then the data becomes
obsolete and cannot be recovered from Securstore’s data centres.

Saaher Muzafer, chief sales officer, Securstore, said:
"We are happy to be protecting the
data from the University of West Indies, education is one of those sectors
where once you look at the type of data that is being held, it becomes on the
same level as, for example, financial or legal companies. With global data
centres and 24/7 support, we can provide a round the clock service to many
organisations. We look forward to working with the University in the coming
years."