France Affiches: three sites, no single point of failure

Three units that produce together need a single architecture. Several local suppliers would mean different standards, shared responsibilities and nobody answering for the whole. France Affiches preferred an MSP that designs, installs and then manages. For the board, the arithmetic is simple: one contract, one point of contact, the same security standard in France and Portugal.

Each component was sized for its site. Everything is managed from a central DataRoad console.

• Wired network At the French sites, enterprise-grade Layer 3 switching with PoE, structured cabling and fast links between servers, storage and network. See certified network infrastructure.
• Wi-Fi Professional access points, coverage surveyed site by site, staff and guests on separate networks.
• Perimeter security Firewalls with encrypted VPN between units and to the DataRoad data centre, IDS/IPS and VLANs by function. Find out more about managed cybersecurity.
• Internet Fibre as the main connection and 5G as backup, with automatic failover at each site.
• Servers and storage A recent server and enterprise-class storage, high-reliability disks, RAID and replication between units. See managed servers and virtualisation.
• Endpoints and backups Protection managed from the cloud, a single console, and backups stored off-site at the DataRoad data centre.

Production carries on. Redundancy was built in from the very first design, layer by layer.

• Paired firewalls At Antony and Wissous, two units run in high availability. If one fails, the other takes over instantly.
• Independent connections Fibre and 5G come in through different devices, each connected to both firewalls. Neither losing a line nor losing a device isolates the site.
• Data in duplicate File servers with RAID and dual power supplies, replication between the two French units and an additional copy at the DataRoad data centre.
• Off-site backup A DataRoad data centre powered by renewable energy, with redundant internet connections, failover and power autonomy.

Result: the French critical systems no longer depend on a single component and the information now exists in three places. It is the same principle we follow in disaster recovery and continuity.

Day-to-day operations stay with us, under the IT Unlimited Premium 365 plan: designed for those who cannot stop and the only one that includes 24/7 cover.

• Support without counting Remote and on site, also at night, at weekends and on holidays.
• Continuous monitoring Alerts are dealt with before they reach the printing machines.
• One team for security Firewalls, endpoints and backups in the same hands.
• A single annual contract One point of contact for all three units.

• 11 years in the market and 232 clients, with companies supported in Europe and the US.
• Top 5% PME, according to scoring.pt.
• A 5.0 rating on Google, across 52 reviews.
• No security incidents at DataRoad in 11 years.

We visit each site, design a common architecture and send you a no-commitment proposal, with a single team managing everything.

For companies with more than 10 workstations, under a support contract, with remote, on-site and phone support. +351 211 459 950 * · sales@dataroad.pt

*Call to a Portuguese landline.

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