Asigra Delivers Backup to Icelandic Aluminum Company; SecurStore Signs Deal for Asigra Televaulting with Nordural, Icelandic Aluminum Smelter.TORONTO -- Asigra(TM), the technology specialist in agentless distributed backup and recovery software for network computing Storing and/or running applications in servers in a network. See cloud computing and network computer. , today announced that SecurStore, an Icelandic storage services provider, has signed a service agreement with the aluminum smelter Nordural ehf, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Century Aluminum Company (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :CENX). SecurStore will provide Nordural with SecurStore IP Backup, its managed backup and recovery services, which deploys Asigra Televaulting(TM) software. The Nordural aluminum smelter has production capacity of 90,000 metric tons per year, but a current expansion project will more than double the plant's capacity to 212,000 by late 2006. "We chose SecurStore because its backup solution gives us all around backup and recovery services for our needs, with 24x7x365 support," said Emil Hilmarsson, Nordural IT Manager. Nordural's backup system Noun 1. backup system - a computer system for making backups ADP system, ADPS, automatic data processing system, computer system, computing system - a system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage will incorporate a disaster recovery plan that will reduce its backup window from ten hours to two to three hours. In addition to this, the DR plan will restore the company's most critical servers to bare metal 1. bare metal - New computer hardware, unadorned with such snares and delusions as an operating system, an HLL, or even assembler. Commonly used in the phrase "programming on the bare metal", which refers to the arduous work of bit bashing needed to create these basic tools restore in less than two hours. SecurStore also provides Nordural with the option of assigning which data is "critical"; and which is "important" data by using Long Term Storage (LTS LTS 1 Latent tetany syndrome, see there 2. Low-threshold spike–neurology ) with the Asigra Backup Lifecycle Management (BLM BLM n abbr (US) (= Bureau of Land Management) → les domaines ) system that manages data during all backing up and archiving processes. Alexander Eiriksson, President of SecurStore, said, "The agentless architecture of Asigra Televaulting enables us at SecurStore to implement our services with minimal interference to Nordural's existing computer systems. Moreover, because Asigra Televaulting is pivoted around providing backup and recovery for geographically dispersed dis·perse v. dis·persed, dis·pers·ing, dis·pers·es v.tr. 1. a. To drive off or scatter in different directions: The police dispersed the crowd. b. locations, it perfectly complements Nordural's multi-site locations, remote or otherwise. This provisioning enables us to backup laptops from a distance even when workers are away." Eran Farajun, executive vice president of Asigra, said, "Nordural's decision to go with SecurStore highlights the strength and flexibility of SecurStore's IP Backup. Asigra's technology gives Nordural the assurance that all defined requirements will be met -- from a fast critical restore, to remote backup for multiple locations, to a simple and effective interface for the IT people at Nordural." 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 SecurStore's data center, Asigra Televaulting software analyzes 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 centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. Asigra Televaulting DS-System server, located in SecurStore's data center, which consolidates the backup data from all distributed sites. That DS-System server is then protected just like any other server within the data center 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, SecurStore has configured the DS-System server to replicate the vault to a second secure backup site A backup site is a location where a business can easily relocate following a disaster, such as fire, flood, or terrorist threat. This is an integral part of the disaster recovery plan of a business. . 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 An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. and Exchange Server data. Back-end DS-System software runs on Solaris, Linux, MACINTOSH and Windows. About SecurStore SecurStore was established in 1991 and is located 30 miles outside of Reykjavik. SecurStore is Iceland's foremost storage services provider, offering extensive knowledge and expertise of IT software development and computer and IT solutions. SecurStore currently retails its services using a per gigabyte stored licensing model. It is suitable for small, mid-size and enterprise-wide, multiple-platform LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. computing environments that want to safeguard their critical business data in a secure, off-site and offshore location. The company is also a Microsoft Certified Partner. More information about the company and SecurStore backup/restore solution can be found at http://www.securstore.com. About Asigra Founded in 1986, Asigra is the award-winning specialist in distributed data backup and recovery solutions for network computing. With Asigra's Televaulting software, enterprises can reliably protect mission-critical information across all their geographically dispersed "data islands," whether they reside on servers, desktops or laptops. Leading all other distributed backup and restore disk-to-disk software vendors, more than 3 petabytes of data is protected with Asigra Televaulting. The privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. is based in Toronto, Canada. For more information, contact Asigra at 416-736-8111, ext. 101 or visit the company's website at www.asigra.com. Asigra, Asigra Televaulting, and the Asigra logo are trademarks of Asigra Inc. All other brand and product names are, or may be, trademarks of their respective owners. |
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