Pekka Timonen is the Senior Manager of IT Services at Rovio. As the head of IT, he is responsible for a team of 10 that manages IT and security. Jyrki Valkonen is a Senior IT Service Specialist on his team. He’s responsible for all Windows servers that run Hyper-V and firewalls, as well as managing the data backup for the physical servers and Google Workspace accounts.
One of the team’s biggest challenges with its previous vendor was that they could not be sure that data backups were actually happening and could be restored. Valkonen explained that backups weren’t being performed reliably. Its primary backup software was Backupify, but Timonen said, “With Backupify, we had no way of knowing if the backups were successful."
Timonen added, “With our previous solution, there was no guarantee that whatever we had backed up over the years could be recovered." Timonen said the situation heightened his main concern — being attacked by ransomware. He reflected, “If we were hit by ransomware, we had no guaranteed way of restoring our data with Backupify."
Valkonen also worried about keeping the company’s on-premises data safe. However, having data to recover from a catastrophic event is only part of the problem. If they were actually able to conduct data restores, it was notorious for taking a long time. It became a large issue for Rovio as any time its games are down and not accessible by players, the company loses money and takes a hit to its reputation. As Timonen put it, “We knew we needed to search for a new data protection vendor who would ensure our data recovery time be as short as possible."