European FinServ company gets simple, unified data protection

Sometimes a customer agrees to let us publish a case study about them, as long as we don’t identify them. We’re always happy to oblige, even if it presents some stylistic challenges. 

That’s why this case study refers only to “the Financial Sector company” and “the Director of IT Infrastructure.” But it’s still a worthwhile read—the data-protection challenges they faced will be familiar to many readers. And the benefits they’re now getting from Barracuda Backup and Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup should be of interest to anyone responsible for protecting their organization’s data.

Fragmented backup strategy

The customer, a financial sector company with offices throughout Eastern Europe, had a fragmented, complex backup strategy in place, with only a single employee responsible for managing it. And their protection for data in Microsoft 365 was inadequate.

As the Director of IT Infrastructure told us, “Our biggest driver for getting backup was security. Everyone is afraid of ransomware and having files compromised. So backup is the golden rule.” 

Indeed, a successful ransomware attack could result in losses and costs beyond the attack itself. If GDPR regulators were to subsequently find that data was insufficiently protected, they might impose significant fines.

Delivering unity and simplicity

The IT team tested a number of different solutions and it was immediately clear that Barracuda would be their choice.

“Barracuda was not necessarily the cheapest option, but our strategy was to manage everything in one place, so it made sense to go with them. We’ve tried out a lot of different backup software but Barracuda’s was the easiest to set up and use.” --Director of IT Infrastructure, Financial Sector Company

The company ended up buying four different Barracuda Backup appliances and deploying them to regional data centers and branch locations. In addition, they chose Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup to protect all Microsoft 365 data (Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, along with Entra ID data).

The appliances include unlimited backup replication in the Barracuda cloud, residing in our geographically distributed, enterprise-grade data centers. This ensures compliance with GDPR and other regulations regarding the geographic location of stored data.

Cloud-to-Cloud Backup gives the Director’s team an amazingly easy way to ensure Microsoft 365 data is fully protected. 

All the appliances are managed very easily through a single, powerful but simple control interface. And deployment and configuration was fast and easy. 

“Set up for Barracuda Backup on-premises appliances was nice and easy and Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup was even easier. We just logged into the tenant and everything started to work.”

Get the whole story

Find out more about how this anonymous organization is putting its new backup solutions to work—enabling end-to-end encryption, super-fast restores, and a world-class support experience—by downloading the entire published case study.