Case Study
Royal Horticultural Society
"Didn’t know backup could be that easy and always green on the dashboard"
RHS ICT
Industry
Charity
Company Size
1000+ Users
Problem
The Royal Horticultural Society required a flexible, powerful, and simple-to-manage data protection solution. Their previous data protection system required too much day-to-day management and did not deliver any confidence in data recovery.
Solution
Open3Systems has worked with the Royal Horticultural Society for over 10 years. Over this time, Open3Systems has implemented, upgraded, and maintained the Royal Horticultural Society’s data protection solution, providing training, consultancy, and ongoing support.
Arcserve UDP was implemented with enterprise deduplication, protecting the Royal Horticultural Society’s physical, virtual, and cloud estate, with multiple redundant copies replicated to a secure offsite location.
Key Technologies

Arcserve UDP

Arcserve Backup
Benefits Realised
The Royal Horticultural Society was able to achieve with Open3’s Solution:
- Lower management overhead
- 12 months minimum retention
- Automatic testing of backups
- Deduplicated storage to reduce data footprint
- Encryption of data and MFA access for security
- WAN optimization for all network traffic onsite or offsite
Key Features Leveraged
In delivering this solution the key features leveraged were:
- Minimal management required
- Source-based enterprise deduplication, reducing LAN and WAN traffic
- Automatic testing of backups – now includes AV testing of backups
- Built-in encryption and MFA
- Full support for physical and virtual environments
- 3-2-1 data protection implemented
- Full feature Disaster recovery option built in at no extra costs