How EDI Germany Managed BC When Cloud Storage Disappeared Overnight

When EDI AG, a German professional services company, found that their cloud stored data was missing and that there data had been compromised, they had reason to be concerned.

Their data was stored by a German service provider using FTP and the service provider has been hacked resulting in the data being deleted.

However, as EDI where using the Storage Made Easy Enterprise File Share and Sync Cloud Appliance, the disruption to their business was minimal as they were taking advantage of a specific feature of the product, namely cloud to cloud backup.

This feature enabled them to assign Amazon S3 as a backup cloud. This meant that every file that EDI stored on the FTP server was also stored, encrypted with their assigned private key, on S3.

When their original data went missing the SME system automatically failed over in read only mode to the S3 account to ensure access to data was not disrupted. This also meant any links shared with other companies or individuals also continued to work.

Storage Made Easy CEO Jim Liddle said: “Within a 72-hour period the original service provider was able to recover access to the original data and the Storage Made Easy solution was able to provide EDI with BC in the interim. If the service provider had not be able to recover the files SME would have been able to make the Amazon S3 backup files available for full R/W use and EDI would have been able to function as normal.“

Thomas Hoerig, EDI CTO, said: “A future proof system consists of a product with a rich feature set, backed by a vendor committed to extraordinary support. Vehera Ltd. impressively demonstrated that it was the right decision to rely on the Storage Made Easy solution.“

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