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Interstate National Leverages RestorePoint Data Virtualization Platform

Powered By Actifio

Interstate National Corporation, a nationwide provider of service contracts and extended warranties, chose RestorePoint, Inc. to be their data protection MSP.

Interstate National
RestorePoint has implemented an agentless data virtualization platform powered by Actifio, Inc. to help the company in its recovery cycles and revenue impacts.

Since 1980, Interstate National has been pioneering technologies, providing value to both partners and customers. It offers turn-key programs, support and flexible products – all while delivering peace of mind to the end-consumer and their Insurers, agents and dealers.

For data protection and data recovery, Interstate National’s IT team requires RTOs and RPO to support the demands of their customers and adeptness in the marketplace. With Actifio, RestorePoint’s enterprise data virtualization platform, implemented across all Interstate National locations, provides a data protection solution.

Addressing the Challenges
Interstate National engaged RestorePoint to help solve a critical business challenge regarding their data protection services when their current solution was no longer meeting their needs. Interstate National’s agent-based solution was unreliable for backups and the product’s limited functionality did not allow for efficient offsite data replication or the ability to mount data.

Finding the Solution
RestorePoint’s data virtualization platform, powered by Actifio, leverages a technology to map client’s backup data to the original source and ensure it is free of any corrupt data.  Additionally, Actifio software captures and stores data in its native format, which allows RestorePoint to recover data to meet Interstate National’s RTO and RPO objectives.

RestorePoint’s data virtualization platform was a natural fit for Interstate National’s data protection requirements. The RestorePoint solution, implemented across all business locations, provides a data protection platform customized specifically for Interstate National’s business needs.

With RestorePoint’s solution, Interstate has been able to reduce the amount of manpower needed to manage and monitor our backups across all of our locations in the US,” said Robert Kollar, director of IT, Interstate National.

Data Virtualization Hard at Work
RestorePoint’s data virtualization platform has inherent checks and balances, which provides its clients the confidence that backups will translate into recoverable data at any time. As a case in point, during a routine restore request for Interstate National’s VM images, RestorePoint engineers identified that a particular VM was not restorable and they needed to troubleshoot the issue quickly. Even though the system logs showed a successful VM backup, the RestorePoint engineering team determined there was a software bug within VMware Change Block Tracking (CBT) that corrupted the VMware incremental backup.

By tapping into Actifio’s innovative fingerprint technology within the RestorePoint data virtualization platform, we could determine if and when there was corruption to the VMware data during the backup process,” said Abdul Altamimi, CTO and founder, RestorePoint. “We have seen this feature come into play numerous times, and thus has enabled us to take proactive measures to protect our client’s environments when issues arise.

Evaluating the Immediate Benefits
RestorePoint implemented the data virtualization platform for Interstate National with no impact to business operations. It delivered a full backup and restore of the VM environment and provided Interstate National’s organization with powerful capabilities. Interstate National can enjoy a simplicity and confidence in backup and DR with RestorePoint’s data virtualization platform.

Becoming an extension of Interstate National’s IT team, RestorePoint is positioned as a trusted advisor and counsel to new technologies. Leveraging Actifio with Interstate National has helped to solidify a business partnership that will continue to grow.

We were excited with the opportunity to migrate our VM backup and recovery solution to Actifio and are glad that we did. Actifio is a simple to use yet a powerful platform that provides great RTO and RPO resiliency,” said Chris Alfaras, CTO, Interstate National.

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