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“The development team was flexible, they listened to our feedback and incorporated it into the web-based user interface... Finding an affordable solution that would give us reliability, support, and ease of use was going to be a challenge. For us money is not a bottomless pit.”
Jon Edwards, IT officer in the Faculty of Mediaeval and Modern Languages and the Linguistics faculty at Oxford University
The Challenge
Before the deployment of the StorMagic SM Series™ software, in order to protect Oxford University's data, every night the IT team responsible for the two faculties, backed up multiple servers' storage, at the time directly attached, to a central location. The legacy servers and direct-attach storage infrastructure were dated and the team decided to deploy a cost-effective, network-based data protection solution that would work seamlessly with the existing Novell and Linux servers.
In addition, Oxford University's IT department was facing the challenge of requiring performance, interoperability and scalability but lacking large-scale budgets. Like other educational institutions, the faculties faced the double challenge of limited human and financial resources in the IT department. As a result, finding an affordable solution that could work seamlessly in a NetWare environment and that would effectively transition the set up to a networked storage model while offering reliability, support, and ease of use was not easy.
