Linton Fuels Case Study

Making sure the delivery business runs smoothly Linton Fuel Oils built an outstanding reputation for quality based on a thorough knowledge of the products and services that they sell and the sectors in which they work. They operate an efficient fleet of road tankers dedicated to their customer's needs.

One key factor in their success has been their effective use of IT to deliver highly efficient operational benefits and efficient back office processing. To ensure that they were using the very best in computing they engaged IT Architechture Ltd to help and guide them.

Over a number of years IT Architechture Ltd has provided Linton Fuel Oils with products and services that has maintained and enhanced Linton's business operations through low personnel overheads.

A crucial component in Linton Fuel Oil's effective operation is their sales order and customer Advanced Computer Centreounts data. If they ever lost that data, their whole business might be at risk. Paul Brown, General Manager at Linton Fuel Oils, said - "As part of our drive to new levels of quality management and particularly our recently achieved ISO 9001 statue, we realised that we needed a solid business continuity plan. When we considered the impact of losing our Windows based business servers, we knew that we had to protect them in a much more reliable fashion than entrusting their integrity to a small computer tape". Paul turned to IT Architechture Ltd and asked them to make some suggestions as to how Linton could better protect their business critical data.

IT Architechture carried out an extensive search and after trying a couple of different internet based solutions that take advantage of the ADSL service, the solution from ImperaData was chosen. Their solution proved to be extremely reliable and efficient. The key advantage of the ImperaData service was its ability to back up incremental file changes on a continuous basis. The overhead on the servers was minimal.

Currently Linton have chosen the ImperaData In-Concert service to give them full server recoverability back to any point in time over the last 30 days. With In-Concert they are protecting all their Accounting data and their email services which play a crucial role in their business.

Unlike traditional backup methods that take copies of file changes once every twenty-four hours, ImperaData's In-Concert service eliminates the burden of handling tapes and schedules. Based on technology from LiveVault Corporation, ImperaData's In-Concert continuous backup and storage service provides around the clock protection of customer data by replicating file changes as they happen. These changes are transmitted securely over spare capacity on existing Internet connections to ImperaData's secure storage facilities where multiple copies are kept. Files can be retrieved at any time from any point in time over the previous thirty days using a secure web based administration tool.

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