Melbourne Holocaust Museum Secures Priceless Data With Wasabi Backups

Wasabi helps the not-for-profit Melbourne Holocaust Museum safeguard critical Microsoft data—improving resilience, cutting costs, and strengthening cybersecurity. 

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Overview

As the largest institution in Australia dedicated to Holocaust education and research, the Melbourne Holocaust Museum (MHM) needed to protect its extensive data library from system failures and file deletion. Using the Wasabi cloud to back up its entire Microsoft platform, MHM was able to reduce data storage costs and gain peace of mind that culturally significant data was safe and secure for years to come. 

INDUSTRY:
Non-profit

USE CASE:

  • Backup & recovery

  • Cyber Resilience

  • Disaster Recovery

  • M365 Backup

Challenges

Before Wasabi, MHM used Microsoft for nearly every possible use–including their backups. Over time, they discovered that their overreliance on one vendor was not only costing them more but also reducing their ability to protect all of their valuable data properly. 

Business continuity and recovery risks

MHM used Microsoft suite for nearly everything and feared devastation if there was system downtime.  

Data protection on a budget

With historically significant data, MHM needed a cost-effective way to protect it all.

Storage redundancy and inefficiencies

MHM discovered that backing up certain datasets would cause file duplication, increasing their overall storage requirements and costs to maintain these copies.

Other cloud platforms like AWS and Azure are very expensive. We're looking for a return on investment and needed a solution that would provide us good security at a cost that is not expensive like AWS.

– Roy John
Finance & Cybersecurity Manager, Melbourne Holocaust Museum

The main thing that drove us to Wasabi is peace of mind; As we don't have a dedicated IT department and are dependent on one external consultant and one IT staff member, MHM relies on our service provider partner Thomas Peer and Wasabi to ensure our system is safe.

– Roy John
Finance & Cybersecurity Manager, Melbourne Holocaust Museum

As a not-for-profit, we use the Microsoft platform, but if something happens to the platform or if the platform is hacked or down, then we're unable to access the storage we had there. We sought Wasabi to bolster our security posture and add redundancy.

– Roy John
Finance & Cybersecurity Manager, Melbourne Holocaust Museum

Hackers are looking for soft targets. By using technology like Wasabi Object Lock, it makes it difficult for them to decrypt.

– Roy John
Finance & Cybersecurity Manager, Melbourne Holocaust Museum

Solution

To address these challenges, the Melbourne Holocaust Museum partnered with an experienced managed services provider, Thomas Peer. To increase security and better protect their data, MHM moved their storage to a secure, offsite location – the Wasabi cloud. They selected Wasabi as their cloud storage solution due, in part, to the ease of use with their existing Microsoft suite, as well as the cost efficiencies and performance Wasabi storage provides.

  • Backup and disaster recovery: Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage integrates seamlessly with Microsoft to provide a more cost-effective and efficient solution. 

  • Immutability at no cost: Wasabi Object Lock, a complimentary security feature, ensures MHM's backups are protected from unauthorized modifications or deletions.    

  • Data residency within Australia – MHM is able to customize where their objects are housed, hosting with a secure Australian datacenter for their backups. 

Results

By creating a storage target for Microsoft backups, the Melbourne Holocaust Museum now operates with a cloud storage backup solution where costs are much lower and more predictable. MHM's peace of mind helps the organization to continue thriving and educating visitors.      

Money

  • Cost savings – With less file duplication, MHM is able to reduce their effective storage space and associated costs. 

  • Simplified compliance – The storage solution helps MHM comply with ISO 27,001 PCI DSS SOC 2, SOC 3 and GDPR. 

  • 3-2-1 peace of mind – Using the 3-2-1 method for backup and recovery, MHM data is more protected than ever. 

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