Congoleum Corporation Selects UCG VAULT400 BaaS

United Computer Group, Inc. (UCG), an IT services firm, announced that Congoleum Corporation has chosen UCG’s VAULT400 BaaS as its backup and DR solution.

David Cooper, senior manager of IT, and Dan McCullough, manager of datacenter operations, Congoleum, worked with UCG’s lead engineer Vladimir Capitanov to protect and backup their IBM Power 5 System. In addition to subscribing to UCG’s VAULT400 secure cloud backup, they’ve added DR with a return to operations in the event of a disaster in 12 hours or less.

Every night they set the backups and forget it. The data is compressed, encrypted and sent to secure HIPAA compliant data centers in Cleveland, OH, and Atlanta, GA. McCullough receives an email every morning to confirm that the backup took place and was successful. In the coming months, Congoleum will conduct a DR test to fine-tune in the event a disaster occurs.

McCullough said: “The installation and setup were quick and painless. Vladimir really knows the product and process very well, which made the setup seamless. The seeding went well, and progressed more quickly than expected. We realized immediate benefits including reduced DR costs; the need to handle tapes on a daily basis has been eliminated; and we ensured our data was stored securely offsite from the servers. Additionally, if I need to restore a file, I don’t need to retrieve a tape, load it, restore the file, and then reset the drive for the next save. So that makes my life a lot easier. Thanks for an excellent replacement for tape backups.”