Essex County Fire & Rescue Service Protects Data with Backup Technology

Backup Technology (BTL), which specialises in online backup & disaster recovery services for global enterprises, is helping Essex County Fire & Rescue Service (ECFRS) safeguard the data it generates as it protects local people and property.

An Essex County firefighter in action (Photo: Business Wire)

ECFRS is one of the largest county fire services in the UK, protecting a population of more than 1.74 million. Its firefighters attend over 24,000 emergency incidents every year. After its existing backup solution became too difficult to manage, ECFRS chose BTL via the UK Government’s Digital Marketplace for G-Cloud services, to provide an improved managed service.

Jan Swanwick, Head of ICT for Essex County Fire & Rescue Service, explained: "Traditionally procurement has been a long, protracted process. With G-Cloud it is very straightforward because all the supplier and product information has already been collated and validated.”

BTL, which is part of cloud company iomart, protects more than 22TB of data for the fire service using a Public Cloud Backup solution from Asigra.

Paul Hill, Assistant Chief Fire Officer for Safer Communities said: "Saving lives isn’t just about putting out fires and attending emergencies, it is about using the data we collect during our work to protect the people and property of our county. We spend a huge amount of time analysing the data we collect so that we can target our services in the correct and most efficient way. Knowing that this data is protected by Backup Technology is vital to the success of everything we do.”

Rob Mackle, Sales & Service Manager for BTL, said: "The fully managed solution encompasses every aspect of the backup contract from configuration and installation through to the daily monitoring and restoration support of the backups.”

Asigra is the world’s leading online backup software developer and BTL its largest global partner.

Eran Farajun, Executive Vice President of Asigra, said: "Essex County Fire & Rescue’s mission critical operation is a perfect example where data availability can have a real impact on an organisation’s quality of service. BTL understands this and relies on our award-winning data recovery software to provide customers with best-of-breed backup services. This recent deployment highlights the continued momentum of cloud-based data recovery throughout the region.”

Read the full case study here http://www.backup-technology.com/downloads/essex-county-fire-and-rescue.pdf

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BTL is one of the leading providers of Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery solutions. Headquartered in Leeds, UK, with offices and partnerships in the US, Europe and Australia, BTL’s core business is built around its partnership with the world’s leading software provider Asigra for Cloud Backup and incorporates Private Cloud, Public Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Solutions for any environment, on and offsite. www.backup-technology.com

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