Case Study New College Leicester The Challenge When the college experienced a major hardware failure and subsequent data loss, they needed to put measures in place to minimise the possibility of such an event occurring again and, should it happen be in a better position to respond quickly with zero data loss. The event was the result of legacy server hardware, having pushed their direct attached storage to the limit. The consequences, were three weeks of effort to restore data in an attempt to recover from the event. “It was a pretty catastrophic failure. The server which went down was old and although we were just about able to source some replacement parts, we went through three new drives and a raid controller trying to fix it – none of which worked, resulting in a degree of

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