Simmons Gainsford is one of the top 50 London Chartered accountancy and advisory firms in the UK. With a head office in central London and offices in Sussex and Gibraltar, the firm works with businesses and individuals seeking financial success and security. As a member of PrimeGlobal, one of the five largest associations of independent accounting firms in the world, Simmons Gainsford has dedicated teams covering east Asia, Russia, eastern Europe and Ireland.
Umesh Chohan, head of IT at one of the UK's top accountancy firms, knows it can be very difficult to calculate how much he will pay for data management - and crucially how much to budget for.
Organisations invariably face a complicated combination of charges for storing data, as well as paying to retrieve and upload files and interrogate the cloud platform. However, Redstor pricing is transparent and predictable so there are no hidden costs or time-consuming complications for protecting the 1.5TB data on the servers at four Simmons Gainsford sites in the UK and on the continent. No charges for holding a local off-site copy, subscription per machine, licence purchase per socket, different types of servers as well as the number of devices, processors, nodes, networks or appliances. With Redstor’s simple, subscription-based pricing model, Simmons Gainsford only pay per GB for data protected.
Umesh said: “Where Redstor is far superior, is the way the pricing works. When we archive anything in the cloud, we are only charged for live data. This was a big factor that attracted me to them.
“Redstor gives us easy visibility of what our costs will be and allows me to forecast where I will be in six months, two years, five years, whatever.
“With archives it can get very complicated as nobody really understands where it might end up space-wise. We use snapshotting with Redstor a bit differently to how it’s normally used. We do more frequent roll-ups and store them in the cloud. “It is a bit unusual, but Redstor was happy to take us through it and help us configure it and support us which was really good.”
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