Stone and Redstor collaborate on services

Two firms look to clear up in education space by partnering to combine services might

Education specialist Stone Group and cloud services provider Redstor have linked arms to offer shared services to the education sector.

The partnership will give Stone's customers full access to Redstor's range of secure, cloud-based services including backup, storage and archiving, and in turn will help Redstor expand its education sector client base.

With about 10,000 schools still relying on magnetic tape, consumer hard drives and other portable storage devices to back up data, the partnership will offer education establishments a cloud-based way to improve their data security and compliance.

Tim Killick, group bids and infrastructure services manager at Stone Group, said: "Being able to offer our customers the ability to secure their data, their assets and their pupils’ online safety via the cloud is crucial.

"Our new partnership with Redstor enables us to do that. Schools that are challenged by resource constraints are looking to Stone to provide comprehensive solutions that include both hardware and professional services such as cloud provisioning of security. We are ensuring our customers have what they need with this alliance with Redstor.”

Brian Evans, cloud channel manager at Redstor added: “Stone’s high profile in the education sector made them a very attractive partnership for us, as did their understanding of the cloud services that schools are seeking. More than 10,000 schools are already using Redstor services and we intend to expand this significantly through the Stone partnership. Sales have already started to come through.”