FKG Oil - Azure Backup Monitoring

FKG Oil has important infrastructure across its retail locations throughout the Midwest. FKG had previously engaged its Managed Services Provider to implement Azure Backup Services throughout these retail locations. While these backups are efficient, cost-effective and well organized, backups do still fail for a variety of reasons. If backups were to fail consistently, the only way for FKG to know was to seek this information out in the Azure portal, where the information was spread out and very difficult to identify. Not detecting the failed backups would result in data loss, which was unacceptable. FKG needed a simple and proactive way to monitor resources where backups were failing constantly for a prolonged period of time. FKG engaged Software Design Partners to provide a solution.

FKG can now focus on business, not backups.  Instead of hunting down failed backups buried in the Azure portal, or worse, being surprised with unexpected data loss, FKG can now easily identify consistently failed backups. The weekly emailed report saves countless valuable hours sifting through backup logs. These hours can now be spent on driving the business forward, thereby creating a Competitive Edge.

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