Capita Group PLC
Abstract
Capita is one of the UK's most respected technology and professional services companies with USD 4 Billion in turnover and total employee base of 36,000. Learn why Capita Group PLC chose InSync against Veritas Netbackup solution for over 10,000 Local and Remote Laptop users.
"I have installed it on my laptop. It's simple, fast and totally non-intrusive. Working very smoothly, just as I hoped", says Ian Gates, Director of Group IT
Ian E. Gates
Director of Group IT
Name: Capita Group PLC
Deployment Size: 6,000 Client Licenses (First Phase)
Company Brief
Capita is one of the UK's most respected technology and professional services companies with USD 4 Billion in turnover and total employee base of 36,000.
Its flexible and fast-moving structure enables Capita to deliver multiple services to individual clients, and across multiple markets, highly effectively.
Project Champion - Ian E. Gates
Designation: Director of Group IT
Technical Authority - Terry Walton
Designation: Senior Technician
Business Case
Capita has staff based across the UK, many of them from home, and a significant number of users travel regularly. In this environment data backup is always a challenge and Capita was looking for a scalable solution to backup up to 6,000 critical corporate laptops centrally to an enterprise data centre over their remote access VPN.
Average data per laptop is about 6 GB. Backing up and retaining this data with traditional backup software needed about 36 TB. "Our security policies ruled out the use of local backup devices. We needed a secure but low overhead networked solution", said Ian Gates.
Another concern was supporting the remote users. "Since most of the users are remote, I was concerned about user adoption, policy management and troubleshooting", adds Terry Walton.
The customer had already piloted Veritas Netbackup Desktop Laptop Option (DLO) and was not happy with its scalability and performance especially for the remote users.
Druva inSync Deployment and Results
inSync completely automated the laptop backup within the enterprise over LAN, VPN and WAN. Simple interface helped adoption and the data deduplication technology reduced the overheads, making backups almost invisible.
"I have installed it on my laptop. It's simple, fast and totally non-intrusive. Working very smoothly, just as I hoped", adds Ian Gates.
