World Snooker Cues Up With Databarracks For Online Backup
16th December 2009
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They say that Snooker was started in 1875 in Jubbulpore in India
by officers from the Devonshire Regiment. They would spend many
hours as the monsoons lashed down playing Billiards and rumor has
it that on one occasion when his opponent missed a ball, Sir
Neville Chamberlain yelled "Snooker". Today Snooker has a global
audience of 100's of millions and a truly global sport and World
Snooker has the responsibility of ensuring that the sport reaches
more people and remains one of the most popular sports today.
World Snooker chose Databarracks to supply a managed online
backup service after previously using another supplier who weren't
performing on support and failed to offer 24/7 assistance to them.
Lee Entwistle from World Snooker said "Data integrity plays an
important role in World Snookers overall Disaster Recovery plan and
finding the right online backup service provider was
critical. Not only was I looking for a provider who was able
to offer a satisfactory solution to our online backup requirements,
I also had to ensure that costs for this service were kept to a
minimum because World Snookers budgets are prioritised for staging
events and paying its members. After investigating numerous
potential providers of online data backup services, I chose
Databarracks because of cost, comprehensive product, integrity of
our data backups and the excellent customer service I received from
them whilst evaluating their product."
Preet Ramanuj from Databarracks said "We put in an online backup
solution using Asigra software and designed a backup strategy that
ensured that World Snooker's server environment consisting of
Exchange, SQL and file data was protected and available to them in
the event of a disaster. As snooker fans, we are really happy to
have World Snooker on board, we have a number of sports governing
bodies as customers and World Snooker is a fantastic addition".