International Bar Association (IBA)

www.ibanet.org

Organisation of international legal practitioners, bar associations and law societies.

Established in 1947, the International Bar Association, (IBA), is the world's leading organisation for international legal practitioners, Bar Associations and Law Societies. As a result they keep a large volume of both sensitive and critical data relating to internal staff and clients. As part of their Business Continuity Planning (BCP) provision, there was a requirement to provide a complete Disaster Recovery Solution for IT. System recovery had to be delivered within a predetermined time limit to ensure restoration of critical business functions should a disaster occur. 

Based on our evaluation of their current and projected requirements, Online Support was able to provide a full Disaster Recovery Solution. This was delivered through a combination of our Online Backup Service and hosted DRS server in our data centre. The Server is connected to the IBA network over the internet using a secure tunnel. Any changes made on the local servers are then replicated to the remote server. With the addition of the Online Backup Service, data from the previous night's backup can be quickly restored to the hosted server.

Operational Continuity:

Minimal downtime in the event of a disaster.

Automatic:

This solution removes any manual intervention in the back up process, with no off site site tape storage or swapping required.

Reliability:

More reliable than traditional tape backup systems which need constant maintenance to keep them running successfully. The regular problem of backups exceeding physical tape size was eliminated.

Resilience:

No matter what happens to the servers or offices, an up to date and complete copy of the data is securely stored off-site.

Cost: 

The cost of backing up data was reduced with the elimination of expensive tape hardware and secure, off site tape storage.