Bryant selects NaviSite’s remote storage platform

SMITHFIELD – Bryant University has contracted NaviSite Inc., a Time Warner Cable company based in Andover, Mass., to supply its NaviCloud Vault platform to the school to replace Bryant’s current data backup and storage system.
At Bryant University, all students receive IT-issued laptops and are encouraged to use smartphones and tablets in the classroom. The proliferation of devices and applications required to support Bryant’s online learning management system has led to a 300 percent increase in the amount of data stored and managed by the university in just the last four years.
“Information is the lifeblood of a university, and the technology to manage it underpins the entire academic experience,” said Chuck LoCurto, vice president and chief information officer for Bryant University. “We need to backup, protect, access and secure that data.”
Bryant currently uses Actifio’s Copy Data Virtualization platform, which backs up the university’s data on physical tape drives stored on-premise at the Bryant campus. Actifio allows service providers like NaviSite to decouple stored data from the physical tape infrastructure without any loss of underlying data and shift data storage to an off-site, cloud-based model such as NaviCloud Vault.
“As with most organizations, we’re seeing an explosive growth in data, and tape backups are costly, time consuming and take a while to access data to find what you’re looking to use,” said Rich Siedzik, director of computer and telecommunications services for Bryant University. “Our solution is now more digitized. By leveraging NaviCloud Vault we anticipate significant savings for our data storage and a significant reduction in the time it takes to access the data.”
NaviSite’s data storage centers are SSAE-16 certified, and all data stored in NaviCloud is encrypted. NaviSite also offers an end-to-end service option which includes installation, configuration and setup of the data protection system as a part of the overall service.
In addition to managed cloud services, NaviSite provides enterprise-class hosting and managed applications and messaging services.

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