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Content management is becoming part of enterprises’ infrastructure and consequently is being delivered by large vendors of enterprise infrastructure. Frequently new applications suffer from an insufficient backup solution. More and more companies and enterprises are using Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 integrated suite of server capabilities helping them to improve organisational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight.

With traditional tape based backup solution SharePoint can only be recovered in case of disaster by restoring the database as a whole, often meaning that critical data can only be recovered outside of the defined Recovery Time Objective (RTO). With the online, automatic SecurStore Backup and Recovery solution, files can be recovered at an item level, allowing companies and enterprises to prioritise what to recover when in case of a disaster. Based on this, IT directors can plan their disaster recovery procedures more easily and make sure that that their systems run with minimum downtime. With Microsoft SharePoint becoming more and more popular, it is becoming something of a backbone to many companies, leaving them vulnerable in case of a disaster. Read more…

SecurStore the online backup and recovery specialist announces that it will implement version 9.0 of the Asigra online backup and recovery software for its users on July 12, 2009. Among key benefits in the new version are enhanced Sharepoint backup at item level, SQL server backup of transaction logs, ability to continue backup even if a connection to SecurStore is lost during backup activity and an encryption method certified by NIST.

Jon Ingi Thordarson SecurStore’s CTO: “With the new version SecurStore clients will be able to manage their daily backup and recovery more efficiently and with more granularity. Many of the new features will help customers deal with complex and mission critical systems more easily.” Read more…

Toyota Iceland, the importer of Toyota and Lexus motor vehicles in Iceland has elected for SecurStore backup and recovery managed services to protect their critical business data. Toyota Iceland is the largest importer of motor vehicles in Iceland, having market share in the region of 25% in the last few years.

Julius Eyjolfsson CTO of Toyota Iceland: “In Toyota Iceland environment it is of an utmost importance that the company is able to recover their servers within its defined recovery time objectives in order to avoid unacceptable consequences associated with disaster or disruption in business continuity. SecurStore’s Bare Metal Restore associated with its Local Copy option ensures that we can recover at LAN speed any server with its entire configuration to almost any hardware irrespective of the old hardware. The Backup Lifecycle Management archiving feature (BLM) in the solution also ensures that we can keep snapshots of our critical databases in order to preserve our history and comply with legal requirements at a very affordable price.

SecurStore is a specialist supplier of online, automated and managed data backup and recovery. The solution is totally agentless and covers Windows, Linux and Mac environments with wide application and database support. SecurStore delivers flexible, secure encrypted data backup in a two tier solution where fast recovery, security and professional 24/7 support are all vital part of our solution. Data is compressed and de-duplicated to ensure that the minimum cost is incurred. Read more…

The online, automated and managed data backup and recovery specialists Securstore announced efforts to help companies save costs on data backup, with the release of a new version of its data backup and recovery service.

Backup Lifecycle Management (BLM) tool within SecurStore’s DS-Client version 8.0, this service enables companies to have the option to automatically backup data in various ways depending on the importance of their data. By freeing up storage capacity used online, and moving it to long term storage, the cost of storing the data is also significantly lower.

“Data such as old files on file servers, old e-mails in mailboxes or snapshots of databases is still important to companies, but by using a well defined automatic backup and restore management policy, backup costs can be lowered, whilst still meeting with the utmost security, reliability and flexibility requirements of company policies or compliance regulations. Any current critical data is still permanently stored online for fast recovery.” Explains Alexander Eiriksson, COO of SecurStore.

The BLM tool meta-tags the less critical or older backup data before it is archived offline so that archived backup data can easily be restored to the online medium if necessary. The archived data is stored on disk ensuring that it is free from the risks and errors associated with traditional tape backup.

Other key features of SecurStore’s DS-Client version 8.0 include:
• Support for Windows VISTA Ultimate and Windows VISTA Enterprise edition including Windows VISTA Bare Metal Restore.
• Supports backup and restore of SAP Oracle database servers and VMWare ESX Servers.
• DS-Client can be run in a Grid configuration for load balancing.
• A new encryption key management tool can store and maintain encryption keys for DS-Clients.

SecurStore’s DS-Client is based on Asigra’s award winning Televaulting software.