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LSE signs disaster recovery agreement
18/11/2008
The London School of Economics (LSE) has signed an important disaster recovery agreement with business continuity provider, Computing magazine reports.
Under the terms of the five year agreement, business continuity firm SunGuard will allow the university to use two of its data storage facilities to back up 40 terrabytes of vital data and information, which could then be recovered in the event of a crash.
The deal will also include the introduction of a new email archiving platform.
Adrian Ellisson, assistant director of IT at the LSE, described the data and critical systems that will be backed up as the university's "crown jewels" and said that protection of it was imperative to the institution.
He added: "The events of 7/7 brought home to us the importance of having alternative backup sites away from our campus in central London."
Last week industry insiders warned of the danger of choosing an unsuitable business continuity provider and cautioned against taking a 'one size fits all' approach to backing up data.
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