Years of Simple, Secure and Unified Data Protection with HYCU

Discover how Chevalier College modernized backup, unified on-premises and cloud protection, and dramatically reduced recovery time with HYCU.

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Customer snapshot

Industry: Education (Catholic co-educational secondary school)
Location: Southern Highlands, New South Wales, Australia
Key platforms: Nutanix AHV, Windows apps, SQL databases, web services, terminal servers, Microsoft 365
Objective: Unified backup and recovery for on premises and SaaS workloads

The challenge

Chevalier College’s ICT team supports students, staff and a growing set of cloud-based services, so reliability and consistent data protection across platforms are essential. Their legacy hypervisor and SAN-based backup could not keep up with an evolving Nutanix AHV environment or the rapid adoption of Microsoft 365 and other SaaS collaboration tools.

They needed:

A tightly integrated backup solution for Nutanix AHV that a small IT team could manage easily.
Unified protection across on premises and cloud data, including Microsoft 365.
A partner that could grow with them into broader data protection domains over time.

The HYCU solution

Chevalier first adopted HYCU in 2018 to protect its Nutanix AHV environment, completing deployment in under an hour and immediately simplifying day to day data protection. HYCU now protects their full range of on premises workloads, including Windows applications, SQL databases, web services and terminal servers, and has since been expanded to safeguard Microsoft 365 mail, files and collaboration tools.

With a Nutanix native interface, policy driven operations and predictable recovery processes, HYCU gives Chevalier one consistent method to manage data across on premises and cloud. This avoids fragmented tools, reduces operational overhead and continues to meet the school’s evolving requirements.

Results

Faster recovery
The team restores entire VM images from previous backups instead of reinstalling operating systems and applications, significantly reducing recovery time.
Simple Microsoft 365 restores
Restoring Microsoft 365 entities such as files, emails and collaboration content is now a straightforward process, without complicated steps or lengthy downtime.
Unified protection with lower overhead
HYCU delivers a single, intuitive platform for both on prem and SaaS workloads, helping a small IT team maintain strong, consistent data protection.

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