{"id":38669,"date":"2019-11-21T21:54:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T17:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/?p=38669"},"modified":"2024-08-06T11:58:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T07:58:02","slug":"success-story-abbeycomp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/blog\/success-story-abbeycomp\/","title":{"rendered":"MSP360 and Wasabi Enable Terabyte-Scale Backup for London-Based MSP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abbeycomp IT Solutions is a managed service provider that faces two challenges familiar to many MSPs who provide managed data backup: It has hundreds of terabytes\u2019 worth of data to back up, and that data is spread across multiple systems, making backups especially difficult to
\nmanage.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the story of how Abbeycomp solved both challenges by adopting MSP360 Managed Backup and Wasabi cloud-based storage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Drowning in Data\u2026<\/h2>\n

Abbeycomp, which is based in London, is a mid-sized MSP that provides managed backup and other common IT services to about 80 clients with over 400 terabytes of data.<\/p>\n

When Abbeycomp began offering managed backup nearly a decade ago, it struggled to find backup software that would enable it to effectively work with high volumes of data. At first, the company relied on a data backup platform that nominally promised data backups of unlimited size. In practice, however, the tool simply wasn\u2019t able to provide acceptable performance when handling hundreds of terabytes\u2019 worth of information.<\/p>\n

The backup tool vendor \u201coffered \u2018unlimited storage\u2019 but did not realize how much data our clients keep,\u201d John Scrivener, Managing Director at Abbeycomp, said of his company\u2019s struggles to back up so much data effectively.<\/p>\n

Adopting a tape-based data storage system might have been one way to support such large data backups. But that would have required significant effort and made the company dependent on a legacy storage technology.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Abbeycomp faced the additional challenge of needing to back up data that was spread across disparate servers. Using the backup solution that the company originally adopted, it was difficult to monitor all backups from a single location and to guarantee that staff would receive notifications in the event that a backup for a particular server or computer failed. This lack of centralized visibility made backups risky and difficult to manage.<\/p>\n

MSP360 Managed Backup and Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage<\/h2>\n

The need for a centralized data backup and monitoring tool led Abbeycomp to begin searching for an alternative backup solution. \u201cWe needed one portal to check all of our backups,\u201d Scrivener said. \u201cWe also needed a solution that could affordably cope with all our clients\u2019 backup data.\u201d<\/p>\n

After considering another backup solution, which was too \u201ccomplicated and expensive\u201d for its needs, according to Scrivener, Abbeycomp settled on MSP360 Managed Backup. MSP360 offers an installation process that requires a \u201csimple agent on the host computer,\u201d he said while proving \u201ccost-effective for large amounts of data.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the same time, MSP360 Managed Backup allowed Abbeycomp to centralize all of its backup operations through a single tool and management interface. \u201cHaving one portal for all backup has saved time and given peace of mind,\u201d Scrivener said.<\/p>\n

For storing its clients\u2019 backup data, Abbeycomp relies on Wasabi hot cloud storage. Wasabi offers some of the most competitive per-gigabyte storage costs of any cloud provider, with no fees for egress or API requests, and allows flexible, pay-as-you-go billing.<\/p>\n

MSP360 and Wasabi made it affordable for our clients to back up all their data with good performance, Scrivener said.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n

By pairing MSP360 Managed Backup with Wasabi hot cloud storage<\/a>, Abbeycomp has been able to increase the profitability of its managed backup service by reducing its software and storage costs. Greater profitability has, in turn, placed the MSP in a position to grow its backup business by continuing to meet the needs of clients with large-scale data backup needs at an affordable price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abbeycomp IT Solutions is a managed service provider that faces two challenges familiar to many MSPs who provide managed data backup: It has hundreds of terabytes\u2019 worth of data to back up, and that data is spread across multiple systems, making backups especially difficult to manage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":42151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[881],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-success-stories"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38669"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58240,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38669\/revisions\/58240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}