Charity cuts data recovery time from days to minutes with real time replication

Business Impact Summary:
Rethink is the UK 's largest voluntary sector provider of mental health services. Every year it helps more than 48,000 people by providing services, such as helplines, support groups, housing and nursing.

Solution:
Deploy a recovery management solution that enables continuous and real-time data replication for email and other core business applications, thereby providing the charity with comprehensive disaster recovery capabilities.

Result:
Rethink can now recover its systems within minutes rather than days, which helps to reduce risk and improve operational efficiency. It can also demonstrate to government fund-holders that it has a robust infrastructure, helping to safeguard grants worth several millions of pounds.

Challenge:
The charity relies on ICT to help manage campaigns, donations, payroll and communication between staff, supporters and stakeholders. To ensure the continuity of its community services and secure government funding, the charity must be able to recover quickly from a disaster or system outage.

Customer Profile
Industry: Charity
Company: Rethink
Revenue: Over £41 million
Employees: 1,700