CommVault Case Study — Internet for Business

Aberdeen based Internet For Business (IFB) was founded in 1996 as an ISP meeting the core business ICT infrastructure service needs of companies throughout the UK. The company provides Internet access, server hosting and web application development for business customers through a national, multi-Gbit/s network that links its Aberdeen, Edinburgh and London points of presence.

Providing Broadband and Internet Leased Lines, fixed line Ethernet from 10Mbit/s to Gbit/s, IFB designs, deploys and supports complete Internet access, managed networks, managed hosting, telecoms and web application development solutions for a range of business customers including St Pancras International, The Scottish Football Association and the Bournemouth International Centre.

IFB had deployed VERITAS Net Backup for internal use, but as the product came to end-of-life in 2008, the team chose to review the market with a remit to buy based on its own corporate needs and not just find a solution for its clients. “CommVault was a mature Managed Service Provider (MSP) deployable model that we could invest in. We could immediately see the value, and sell the usability and the functionality of the intuitive single user interface to deliver self managing for recovery through our secure web interface,” says Graeme Gordon, operations director at Internet For Business.

Deploying CommVault’s Simpana software across its own hosted and managed Backup and Recovery network means that IFB can now deliver operational efficiencies, recovery management and a huge reduction in the resources needed to backup data. Also, by using CommVault Simpana which ‘stamps’ the data, IFB customers become auditing standard compliant. “We can let customers look at what data they do need to archive and what they don’t need to backup, which delivers a long term data strategy and is a vast improvement over a growing pile of boxes,” continues Gordon.