When disaster strikes a school they can come under intense scrutiny depending on the impact it has on students and learning. This often includes negative media attention for failing to prepare. Increased recovery times impact on pupil’s education and angry parents demand answers.
It can be a particularly time consuming process to recover essential services, but Virtue Technologies can minimise both the risk of data loss, as well as the time it takes to get your school back fully operational should the worst happen.
The Risks
One in eight schools suffers a serious arson attack, with nearly a third of all fires starting during term time.
It is estimated that the education of 90,000 children is disrupted by fire in schools each year. Additionally 1 in 14 businesses, including schools, are at risk of flooding. Those numbers are quite sobering.
In both instances, the likelihood of damage to infrastructure and loss of data is high.
The Solution
With our Cloud Disaster Recovery solution you could have your IT systems fully operational with access to staff and student data within 24 hours of a disaster taking place.
Recent disaster scenarios have seen our customers among the fastest to recover in the affected cities.
Don’t leave yourself vulnerable, integrate the Virtue Technologies Cloud Disaster Recovery solution into your school’s business continuity plan today.
Virtue can provide you with a secure location to securely, easily, and reliably backup your school data. By enabling Veeam Cloud Connect from your on-premise console, in the event of a data problem on your site, you can access the backups and restore data at any time.
The DfE standards state that schools should use the 3-2-1 rule: you should have at least 3 backup copies of important data, on at least 2 separate devices, and at least 1 must be off-site.
Air Gapped Backup
Highlighted by the DfE and local police forces, schools and colleges are increasingly at risk of being compromised and hacked. An additional air gapped backup will create a second data backup that is kept offline* and separate from the main data source, preventing the data from being compromised via online.
Encrypted at source, in flight and at rest using 256-bit encryption, and with multiple restore points and an air gapped snapshot copy of your backup data, your information is always kept secure.
*approved by RPA as compliant with offline backup
Cloud Backup that Actually Has Your Back
The difference between being backed up and being able to bounce back.
Why Schools Choose Us?
| Feature | What Others Offer | What We Do Better |
|---|---|---|
| Standard Cloud Backup | Basic backup storage you configure yourself. | Fully compatible with Veeam or stand alone, ultra-competitive pricing. |
| Stealth Restore Layer | Optional add-ons (if any) for longer retention. | Award-winning, invisible, air gapped clean copies. |
| Zero Surprise Costs | Charges for data in/out and long-term storage. | Flat rate. Unlimited usage. Transparent pricing. |
| Instant Recovery (Optional) | Often not included, or slow to deliver. | Run your servers from our datacentre in hours, not days. |
| Hands-Off Safety Net (Optional) | Self-managed, risky if ignored. | Daily monitoring and remediation by our expert team. |
Standard Cloud Backup
Everything you expect. Just done better.
You can keep your current setup. We plug straight in – no fuss, no extras.
Daily backups? Easy. Multiple retention options? Of course. Local and cloud storage? Done.
And with pricing that makes daily backups a no-brainer, you’ll always have a recent restore at your fingertips.
Stealth Restore Layer (Isolated Offline Backup)
What if your backups were invisible to attackers? Ours are.
This is where we leave others behind.
We quietly copy your backup data into an isolated, hidden datacentre – air gapped from your live systems and completely unreachable by ransomware.
This award-winning, RPA-approved innovation means we can recover your data cleanly even if your entire network is compromised.
Zero Surprise Costs
All-in pricing. No upload/download charges. Ever.
Most providers sting you on bandwidth or long-term retention.
We don’t. With us, data moves freely – no limits, no hidden extras, no nasty surprises.
The price we quote is the price you pay. Full stop.
Instant Recovery Option (Disaster Recovery)
If your site goes down, we’ll run your servers for you.
Our Cloud DR service spins up your systems in our datacentre.
You get full access in one of two ways:
- Network Mode: Feels exactly like your onsite servers
- Portal Mode: Specific users, specific systems, securely accessed
In the event of a disaster such as a fire, flood or ransomware at your school we will restore and run the most recent backups of a Domain Controller, MIS server and 2 x files servers in our datacentre(s). We will present them via a secure portal for your selected users to access from anywhere with the internet connection. Whether your hardware fails or ransomware takes you offline, we’ll keep you running.
Hands-Off Safety Net (Optional Fully Managed Service)
You don’t just have backups. You have a team making sure they work.
We monitor every job, every day. If something goes wrong, we fix it.
No gaps. No stale backups. No sleepless nights.
We manage your backup estate so you don’t have to.
Speak to the team today
Our Account Managers are here to help. If you know what the problem is, and need someone to help you find the solution, we can offer guidance and advice.
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