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This Government housing association is at the forefront of cloud adoption in the UK public sector
技术
- 基础设施即服务 (IaaS) - 云计算
- 基础设施即服务 (IaaS) - 云存储服务
适用功能
- 商业运营
服务
- 云规划/设计/实施服务
- 系统集成
挑战
East Thames, a large provider of affordable housing in east London and Essex, was facing challenges with their existing Disaster Recovery (DR) solution. The solution was untested, had high operational costs, and would require significant capital investments to make it fit for purpose. The IT team was required by the Business Continuity steering group to prove the ability to recover IT systems in the event of a disaster. Their current DR solution simply didn’t enable them to prove that a timely, safe and secure recovery was possible. As they embarked on exploring cloud technologies, the East Thames IT team prioritized updating their Disaster Recovery (DR) plans.
关于客户
East Thames is one of the largest providers of affordable housing in east London and Essex. The association is regulated by the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA). In addition to managing almost 15,000 homes, the association also builds new homes, provides care and support services, and offers employment and training programmes to local people. With a focus on providing excellent service to customers while driving efficiencies, the East Thames housing association has adopted a ‘cloud-first’ policy to support the digitisation of the business and overcome the barriers of legacy technology.
解决方案
After a thorough investigation of the cloud-based DR solutions available, East Thames chose iland DRaaS with Zerto to replicate their data at the hypervisor-level and keep an up-to-date copy of their virtualized applications in iland’s cloud, recovering and testing them as needed on a self-service basis. The team is thrilled with the Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) they’ve been able to achieve in testing. With the old DR solution, recovery times were measured in days and weeks – with iland DRaaS, they are now able to achieve a RTO of mere minutes. With iland co-location services and carrier-neutral data centres, East Thames is able to leverage stretched Layer 2 VLAN technology to maintain the same network addressing scheme on-premises and in the iland cloud.
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