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Fisher Meredith Opts for Corporate-Class Online Backup and Recovery through a Managed IT Services Provider London - July 11, 2005 - Asigra , the technology specialist in agentless distributed backup and recovery software for network computing, today announced that Fisher Meredith, a leading London Litigation based law firm, is using its D2D backup and disaster recovery software, which is serviced by oncore IT, a remote outsourced IT solutions provider for small and medium sized businesses. oncore IT now provides Fisher Meredith with its oncore IT OLB (online backup) service and oncore DRS (a complete disaster recovery service) across all its servers, using Asigra’s Televaulting software. With oncore IT, Fisher Meredith has effortlessly moved away from tape-based backup to a more cost-effective, agentless backup that uses oncore IT’s simple pay as you grow pricing model, which eliminates the high-costs of administration and licensing associated with conventional tape-based backup. oncore IT OLB remotely backs up data every day or as scheduled (unless OLB is a once a day scheduled product) and transmits the backup data offsite via an IP-WAN to another oncore IT location. With a management software and online service provided by oncore IT, the whole process of backup and recovery is easy and reliable to ensure a 99.9% Service Level Agreement success rate. Fisher Meredith wanted to move away from tape as the clunky tape-based backup system it was originally using did not provide a complete and secure service. The tape backup processes were time consuming and unreliable as the potential for human error with tape gave no guarantee that a backup had been completed successfully. Nor could its existing tape system handle the increase of critical data that Fisher Meredith needed to store digitally. In addition to improving its backup procedure, Fisher Meredith required a complete disaster recovery service that guaranteed a short recovery time and no loss of data if a disaster occurred. In addition to this best-practice for businesses, insurance companies have discovered they can mitigate payout costs by stipulating strict backup and recovery process in order to reduce down-time, and therefore length of payout time. Insurance companies pay out on a daily basis for as long as a company’s system is down, therefore Fisher Meredith knew that its business insurance premium would be reduced if it could show that lost data could be recovered. With Asigra’s software delivered as a service through oncore IT, Fisher Meredith complied with insurance firm requirements and potentially therefore lowered its premiums, resulting in an immediate return on investment. Michael Boscic, IT Manager Fisher Meredith, states: “We need to prove to our clients that their sensitive data will be safe even if systems go down, and so were looking for an extremely efficient disaster recovery system. Additionally, we were looking for offsite and online backup, as more organisations are now demanding that all key data of clients is remotely backed up daily and stored off site, to ensure secure and easily restorable data in event of an IT system failure. oncore IT’s offsite backup and disaster recovery has provided us with an easy to manage online backup process that protects all key data on all of our servers and guarantees 100% data recovery of our internal data, client data and the data on our AIM database.” oncore IT’s DRS, using Asigra Televaulting for Service Providers, enhances the oncore IT OLB service with its self-healing structure of the management software and the advanced security features, ensuring Fisher Meredith a 100% reliable managed backup and recovery service. With Asigra Televaulting, data is encrypted “at-rest” and “in-flight”. In the event of a disaster, oncore IT will replace the affected hardware. If the whole network is destroyed or becomes unavailable, oncore IT’s mobile ‘complete network in a flight case’ service will restore the entire Fisher Meredith system within hours - possible because of the flexibility of Asigra’s software and its bare metal restore capability and the fact that the replacement hardware contained in the ‘flight case’ is permanently connected to the same LAN as the main OLB data vault. “With Asigra’s Televaulting superior software behind our oncore IT OLB and DRS services we are able to provide Fisher Meredith with a complete business continuity strategy need that meets their requirements to guarantee that their customers data will be protected and can be restored under any circumstances” said Roland Mann, Managing Director of oncore IT. “The multi-site backup technology and agentless architecture allows us to efficiently manage Fisher Meredith’s entire backup remotely. Additionally, oncore IT allows Fisher Meredith to realise major cost-savings because of Asigra’s straight forward, capacity based licence charges.” oncore IT provide a complete outsource solution to SME’s based on a single annual fee. oncore IT’s managed service provides all hardware, software, design, implementation and complete management of their clients entire IT. Asigra’s Televaulting software is fundamental to this as it gives oncore IT clients complete reassurance that all their data is routinely backed up and is completely secure. oncore IT currently has in excess of 30 contracted clients using their IT OLB service. “Using traditional backup software to add storage services to your portfolio can be challenging,” said Eran Farajun, executive vice president of Asigra. “You run the risk of incurring higher capital costs and losing customer/account control, but Asigra Televaulting for Service Providers eliminates those risks. oncore IT, as a certified Microsoft partner, is a unique service provider in the sense that it allows companies to completely hand over all their IT requirements.” At each customer site, a single Asigra Televaulting DS-Client discovers all servers, desktops and laptops connected to the local network, and automates the backup of all local data assets. Before the backup data set is transmitted to oncore IT’s data centre, Asigra Televaulting software analyses the data, finds new and changed file blocks, eliminates duplicate files and further compresses the residue bytes to ensure the backup set is as compact as possible. The software then encrypts the data before sending it over an IP- WAN connection to a centralised Asigra Televaulting DS-System server, located in oncore IT’s data centre, which consolidates the backup data from all distributed sites. That DS-System server is then protected just like any other server within the data centre as part of the organisation’s ongoing data protection policies. Moreover, the back-end DS-System server integrates directly with third-party ILM solutions from the major storage vendors. As an additional level of data protection, oncore IT has configured the DS-System server to replicate the vault to a second secure back up site. Asigra Televaulting for Service Providers supports a broad range of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Unix, Novell, AS/400 and Macintosh, and protects Oracle, SQL Server and Exchange Server data. Back-end DS-System software runs on Solaris, Linux, MACINTOSH and Windows. About Fisher Meredith About oncore IT
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