Case Studies

Our Projects & Case Studies


​Highlighting our:

-Diversity of SAN, Backup, Archive, Data Protection & Cloud Backup Projects

-Ownership of Risk

-In the Cloud Backup

-Managed Systems Support

-SAN & Backup Deployments  in the UK/EMEA, Asia & USA


“We chose CD-DataHouse as we knew they had a great depth of knowledge in storage and backup technologies, could rely on them to implement them properly, and achieve it all at a competitive price.”


Paul Huxham, Senior Systems Analyst, Foot Anstey

“We chose CD-DataHouse as we knew they had a great depth of knowledge in storage and backup technologies, could rely on them to implement them properly, and achieve it all at a competitive price.”
Paul Huxham, Senior Systems Analyst, Foot Anstey

​We're proud of the work we've done and the customers and company we've kept.

Each Project/System we deliver, has been designed, architected, delivered and supported by CD-DataHouse staff.

When we say we've built a Petabyte Scale backup platform - We have!.

We have avoided sub-contractors or outsourcing implementations to 3rd party services organisations or technology suppliers - ​Retaining in-house knowledge ​is key to keeping our promise of excellent customer support.

The deep level of experience has helped us build our MetroStor Cloud Backup and Cloud DR offerings.

We have the awards, the scars and most importantly, the experience to implement your Data Protection and Data Security solution.

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​Large UK College: New Backup Systems, consolidating backup across 5 campuses

Edinburgh College - New Backup Systems, consolidating backup across 5 campuses
Thomas Armstrong - Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013 Migration of 250 mailboxes

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​​​​Industry: Higher Education

Size: 10,000 Students

Data Size: 110TB over 400VMs

Environment:  VMware

​Three disparate backup technologies were replaced with a single unified enterprise class backup design. Backup success rates are up and costs are down.


UK Water Utility: SAN Migration & All Flash Array Design

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Industry: Water Utilities

Turnover: £120M

Data Size: 80TB

Environment: Physical & Virtual

An ageing HDS array, created an 'at risk' environment for 240 mission critical business applications.

An new backup system was put in place, followed by an All Flash SAN systems geo​ replicated to a second remote SAN.

A complex SAN migration of physical servers was under taken over a few months to complete the project.


​UK Construction firm: Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013 Migration of 250 mailboxes

Thomas Armstrong - Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013 Migration of 250 mailboxes

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Industry: Construction

Turnover: £240M

Data Size: 200 Mailboxes

Environment: Exchange

Users ​demanded bigger mailboxes - we delivered a fixed price migration to Exchange 2013 which allowed 50GB mailboxes.


​Construction firm: New Backup and cross site DR system

Aldridge Security - New SAN Implementation, new Backup and cross site DR system

Edinburgh College - New Backup Systems, consolidating backup across 5 campuses
Thomas Armstrong - Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013 Migration of 250 mailboxes

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Industry: ​Building Industry Parts

Turnover: £60M

Data Size: 10 - 20TB

Environment:  VMware

New SAN's and new Backup systems were put in place.

The Customer now has the tools to bring their business back on-line in the event of a server failure,a data corruption or the loss of an entire site.


​UK GeoScience Consultancy: Petabyte Scale Online Disk / Tape Archive

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Industry: Science

Turnover: £20M

Data Size: 400TB on Disk,1000TB on Tape

Environment:  VMware, Scientific Big Data

100s of Terabytes of Scientific data had been collected over 15 years, and resided on disparate media CD, DVD, Tape, Disk, USB drives, often inaccessible to the entire organization.

This project created a unified Petabyte scale on-line ​unified repository for all of this customers data.


​a Top 100 UK Legal firm - Backup Systems Implementation across 5 sites

Foot Anstey - Backup Systems Implementation across 5 sites

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Industry: Legal

Size: 750 Legal Professionals across 6 offices

Data Size: 40TB

Environment:  VMware, Microsoft Exchange & SQL, EMC SANs

​A previous outsourced backup solution was replaced with a simple, stable and cost effective 'on premise' backup solution.


​NHS: Migration from an old iSCSI SAN to a new Fibre Channel SAN

NHS - Migration from an old iSCSI SAN to a new Fibre Channel SAN
Foot Anstey - Backup Systems Implementation across 5 sites

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Industry: Health

Size: 5000 Healthcare Professionals

Data Size: 80TB

Environment:  VMware, Microsoft Exchange & SQL

​Migrations of Fibre Channel SANs are relatively easy – but iSCSI SAN migrations of Physical Servers are tough. Extensive Systems and Data migration involving night and weekend work, ensuring no more than 10 minutes down time per Server were critical to this migration.

Migrations of Fibre Channel SANs are relatively easy – but iSCSI SAN migrations of Physical Servers are tough. Extensive Systems and Data migration involving night and weekend work, ensuring no more than 10 minutes down time per Server are a prerequisite of the job.

St Francis Xavier (SFX) Sixth Form College: Backup Exec Replacement

St Francis Xavier Sixth Form - Backup Exec Replacement
NHS - Migration from an old iSCSI SAN to a new Fibre Channel SAN
Foot Anstey - Backup Systems Implementation across 5 sites

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Industry: Education

Size: 1,500 Students

Data Size: 15TB

Environment:  VMware, SQL, Exchange, Oracle, Nimble


​​" The (new backup) solution set not only met our expectations but has exceeded it. 

​I have the peace of mind of knowing the infrastructure and its data is constantly backed up and protected. This has saved the IT department a huge amount of time to focus on other tasks rather than troubleshooting backup errors.”


Thufael Islam, Director of IS & Network, SFX

The solution set not only met our expectations but has exceeded it. Since the installation of CommVault’s Solution Set, I have the peace of mind of knowing the infrastructure and its data is constantly backed up and protected. This has saved the IT department a huge amount of time to focus on other tasks rather than troubleshooting backup errors.”
Thufael Islam, Director of IS & Network, SFX

Global Aeronautics Company - Global Backup Rollout

Magellan - EMEA Wide Backup Rollout
St Francis Xavier Sixth Form - Backup Exec Replacement
NHS - Migration from an old iSCSI SAN to a new Fibre Channel SAN
Foot Anstey - Backup Systems Implementation across 5 sites

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Industry: Aerospace

Turnover: £500M

Data Size: 80TB

​Locations: 25 Separate locations

Backup implementation across EMEA and North America replacing 4-5 disparate and aging backup technologies.


​London Based Hedge Fund: New Backup Systems at a Petabyte Scale

London Based Hedge Fund: New Backup Systems at Petabyte Scale
Magellan - EMEA Wide Backup Rollout
St Francis Xavier Sixth Form - Backup Exec Replacement
NHS - Migration from an old iSCSI SAN to a new Fibre Channel SAN
Foot Anstey - Backup Systems Implementation across 5 sites

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Industry: Global Hedge Fund & Securities

Turnover: £1 Billion

Data Size: 250TB

Our Customer, one of the worlds larger hedge fund, ​used three different backup technologies. Managing these technologies was complex, costs were high, and backup windows were elongated - sometimes into days


​Financial Securities Trading  - Backup System across 2 sites

Financial - Backup System across 2 sites
London Based Hedge Fund: New Backup Systems at Petabyte Scale
Magellan - EMEA Wide Backup Rollout
St Francis Xavier Sixth Form - Backup Exec Replacement
NHS - Migration from an old iSCSI SAN to a new Fibre Channel SAN
Foot Anstey - Backup Systems Implementation across 5 sites

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Industry: Financial Securities Trading

Turnover: £120M

Data Size: 100TB

​​​​Our Client, a leading European Securities Trading House were experiencing backup windows that were stretching into a 36 hour time-frame.


​Premier League - Backup Unification Project

Premier League - Backup Unification Project
Financial - Backup System across 2 sites
London Based Hedge Fund: New Backup Systems at Petabyte Scale
Magellan - EMEA Wide Backup Rollout
St Francis Xavier Sixth Form - Backup Exec Replacement
NHS - Migration from an old iSCSI SAN to a new Fibre Channel SAN
Foot Anstey - Backup Systems Implementation across 5 sites

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Industry: Sports & Entertainment

Turnover: £350M

Data Size: 30TB

Environment: VMware, Microsoft Exchange & SQL

On paper the backup strategy of this club appeared robust. However, through our experience we recognized that it provided limited defence, it was time to take their backup on the offensive.