Myron Steves is a broad-based insurance
agent and wholesaler with strong property, casualty
and healthcare divisions. Myron Steves is one office
with four locations. Houston, San Antonio, Dallas and
Austin. Houston is headquarters. Healthcare, Information
Technology, Claims, Policy Auditing, Customer Care
(policy issuance, endorsements, etc.), Compliance,
Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Premium Finance,
etc. are in Houston. Offices in San Antonio, Dallas,
and Austin are Business Development offices with marketing
and underwriting teams.
The Challenge:
Faced with tape-based data protection challenges,
including complete backup failures, slow backup times
that exceeded available production windows and completion
failures over multiple days, Myron Steves needed to
find a reliable backup with performance that would
ensure that backups were completed in allowed windows.
The Solution: DS3 DataVaulting and Asigra Televaulting
services
Myron Steves turned to DS3 DataVaulting for a reliable
and easy to manage data protection solution that delivered
fast backup and retrieval of company data with an extremely
low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
DS3 DataVaulting uses Asigra Televaulting, a WAN platform
solution that delivers backup/restore service as a
utility. Working closely with DS3 DataVaulting, a leading
provider of scalable enterprise-level data management
solutions, Myron Steves began initial testing of Asigra’s
agentless enterprise-class off-site backup and restore
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“Asigra
Televaulting continues to impress us with its performance,
ease of use and 100% reliability, delivering secure
and high speed backup with a low total cost of
ownership. Over a three-year period, using Asigra
will save our company more than $200,000 when compared
with the cost of using tape – a 45 percent
savings – delivering vastly improved backup
reliability with highly significant savings.”
Russell Bennett
IT Manager
Myron Steves |
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Delivering superior data protection, and improved
data management capabilities for Myron Steves, corporate
and policy data is protected with an automated scheduled
backup, encrypted “at-rest” and “in-flight,” from
Houston to DS3 DataVaulting’s data vault in Fairfax,
Virginia where it is available for restoration 24x7
in the event of an emergency or major disaster. DS3
DataVaulting then mirrors Myron Steves data to a secondary
data vault in Allen, Texas for an additional level
of data protection.
Initial testing involved a full backup of a server that
took four hours to complete using Myron Steves tape
system. Using Asigra Televaulting, the backup was finished
in 30 minutes. Other backups proved an increase in
performance by a factor of eight to 10 times greater
than tape.
Weekend tape backups of their GroupWise server had
also been extremely problematic for Myron Steves, with
the insurance company experiencing GroupWise performance
issues and having extreme difficulties completing tape
backups in the 60+ hour window between the end of business
on Friday and start of the work week on Monday morning.
Using Asigra, Myron Steves first full GroupWise backup
was completed in 21 hours, and subsequent incremental
backups are now completed in less than two hours every
night. Asigra Televaulting features WAN optimization
techniques such as global common file elimination to
the block level, incremental backups and compression.
Results:
- 100% reliability
- $200,000 savings over tape in 3 year period
- 45% reduction in costs
“Asigra Televaulting continues to impress us
with its performance, ease of use and 100% reliability,
delivering secure and high speed backup with a low
total cost of ownership,” said Russell Bennett,
IT Manager for Myron Steves. “Over a three-year
period, using Asigra will save our company more than
$200,000 when compared with the cost of using tape – a
45 percent savings – delivering vastly improved
backup reliability with highly significant savings.”
“When your job is to protect large, extended
enterprises, you simply don’t fool around – you
need a solution such as Asigra’s Televaulting
that is proven and secure to safeguard your data,” said
Stacy Hayes, vice president of operations and business
development of DS3 DataVaulting. “Asigra delivers
a means for companies to choose best-of-breed data
protection regardless of their physical location, allowing
businesses such as Myron Steves in Texas to successfully
use a Virginia-based company such as ours for ongoing
data protection.”
Myron F. Steves and Company:
Myron Steves is a financially secure, entrepreneurial
managing general agency that provides an exceptional
insurance product to professional insurance agents.
Myron Steves, is a 50 year old Managing General Agent/Wholesaler
with two divisions, Property and Casualty an Healthcare.
For more information, visit www.myronsteves.com.
DS3 DataVaulting:
DS3 DataVaulting solutions feature regulatory-compliant
best practices and state-of-the-art offsite data vaulting
facilities designed to ensure persistent availability
of critical enterprise data. Leveraging DataVaulting
service, clients can reliably protect all mission-critical
information resident on servers, desktops, laptops,
and home-office PCs.
Asigra:
Asigra is the award-winning leader in remote office/branch
office online backup/recovery with more than three
petabytes of data under protection. Since 1986, the
company’s agentless Televaulting solution has
centralized data management and eliminated the pricing
and performance problems created by agent-based tape
backup software in multi-site enterprises. Televaulting
addresses state, Federal and international regulatory
compliance demands by backing up remote/branch office
data to the data center. Data is encrypted both “in-flight” over
the WAN and “at rest.” Televaulting is
offered by leading resellers and service providers
worldwide including HP and DS3 DataVaulting to deliver
highly secure data protection. Privately held Asigra
is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with partner offices
located globally.
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