Craven and Selby District Council

Craven and Selby Councils both found themselves in a very vulnerable position regarding their data, with no disaster recovery solution in place. Both operate using VMware for their server environments with over 120 virtual machines between them.

They became very concerned when witnessing other organisations fall victim to data loss and sought a robust, reliable, and cost-effective solution. razorblue were able to understand their needs and provide an effective solution.

Having assessed both councils’ needs, razorblue suggested incorporating the two disaster recovery solutions, so that they were shared – this significantly reduced the cost incurred by each council.

By building each council’s solution into the other’s existing SAN and VMware environment, their needs could be fulfilled without the need to involve costly third-party datacentres or purchase large amounts of additional hardware.

razorblue used Veeam to replicate snapshots across the councils’ wide area network several times per day, ensuring that the disaster recovery environments are synchronised in almost real time.