CASE STUDY
Anglicare Southern Queensland began 150 years ago when five pioneering women founded the Female and Infants Refuge in Brisbane . From those humble beginnings Anglicare Southern Queensland expanded care services to all vulnerable people . Today the organization helps one in 30 Queenslanders . Anglicare Southern Queensland is one of the state ’ s most trusted nonprofits . Like all non-profits , Anglicare Southern
SOLUTION
• Veeam Availability Suite
• Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365
Queensland worries about cyberattacks because they ’ re increasing in the sector .
“ One of our top priorities is protecting the systems and data that support the care we provide to clients ,” said Chris Williams , Technology Services Manager at Anglicare Southern Queensland . “ We ’ re doing everything we can to protect against cyberattacks and ransomware , so one of the first things we did was replace our legacy backup solution with a mature , enterprise-grade solution .”
Williams said the legacy backup solution was slow , inefficient and unreliable . The backup window was 72 hours and backups were prone to failure . Recovery was slow too , taking hours or even days .
Results
• Boosts ransomware protection with Amazon S3 immutability and Secure Restore
• Supports data retention and recovery compliance in the Royal Commissions Act
• Provides complete protection , access and control of data in Microsoft Office 365
Anglicare Southern Queensland was backing up to tape and wanted to switch to a cloud backup solution offering immutability , so Williams and his colleagues reviewed the solutions available , including Veeam .
“ Veeam came out on top , especially with regard to security ,” Williams said . “ We considered a solution that would provide for immutable backups , but it requires proprietary backup repositories , and we didn ’ t want to
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