L.K. Bennett Selects Asigra Cloud Backup

Asigra Inc. announced that L.K. Bennett has selected
the Asigra Cloud Backup Connector Appliance after using a tape-based backup
solution for years.

The company made the change after it began suffering from backup cycles that
exceeded available backup windows as well as failed backups and restores.

Headquartered in London, L.K. Bennett Ltd
is a luxury fashion brand defined by its British heritage. After using a
tape-based backup solution for years, the company realized a change was necessary
when its backup environment began suffering from increasing backup windows and
failed data recoveries. The company sought to modernize its backup environment
by transitioning to a cloud-based data recovery solution which included the
Asigra cloud Backup Connector Appliance – provided by Backup Technology Ltd (BTL). As a
result, L.K. Bennett has eliminated the inefficiencies of tape backup to
improve overall business uptime.

L.K. Bennett currently backups 14TB of production data in a complex
environment that involves a mixture of physical and virtual systems (Dell
workstations and HP servers), and multiple connections from the company’s
multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) across sites in London and the US. As
such, the company’s tape-based backup system required extensive management
time. In addition to tape management and data recovery headaches, storing data
onsite was an additional security concern which required IT management to move
data offsite and out of Greater London.

Having been a BTL customer for the past five years, L.K. Bennett turned to BTL
for an enhanced solution to its data protection challenges. With limited
bandwidth, L.K. Bennett needed a WAN-optimized solution in order to meet its
requirements.

"We did our research to find a
provider with market experience and a customer base to match," said
David Van Eck, head of IT at L.K. Bennett. "That provider was BTL."

L.K. Bennett modernized its backup environment with services from BTL to
protect data that included SQL databases, iSeries data, application data from
Exchange, as well as a large volume of unstructured data. BTL was able to
provide its Asigra-based solution to backup
and protect data, according to policies set by L.K. Bennett. The solution also
provided the ability to connect to local network storage to further increase the
local recovery capabilities.

Van Eck from L.K. Bennett reported that the switch to the Cloud Backup
Connector Appliance helped the company to achieve several business benefits.

"Through a centralized online
monitoring portal, we receive guaranteed backup and recovery for all of our
data systems as a professional and fully managed service," said Van
Eck. "The backup forms the basis for
our enterprise-wide data recovery solution, which is essential to L.K. Bennett."

"The most common recovery is of
emails or contact items," added Van Eck. "BTL provides high-performance local recovery as well as online backup
and virtual DR, which is key to our organization as downtime can be very
costly. The Service has been reliable and when data needs to be restored it is
always available on demand. The ability to restore emails at a granular level
back to the same or a different location is invaluable."

"Cloud-based data recovery allows
L.K. Bennett to overcome the limitations of traditional backup software and
legacy tape solutions," said Rob Mackle, direct and channel sales
manager EMEA at BTL. "Asigra’s Cloud
Backup Connector Appliance is a tool that allows companies like L.K. Bennett to
securely protect their business data and meet regulatory requirements. Should
they lose one or multiple servers or sites, BTL’s Virtual DR also allows their
systems to be restored and operational with minimal impact to the business."

"Enterprises today are finding
Asigra’s end-to-end data recovery solution a more manageable and effective
approach to reliably and efficiently securing their data assets," said
Tracy Staniland, VP, corporate marketing, Asigra. "L.K. Bennett is one more example of an industry-leader making the
switch from traditional data protection models to Asigra for both technology
and financial advantages that move businesses forward."

The Asigra Cloud Backup Connector Appliance (Cisco 2921 Integrated Services
Router pre-installed with Asigra cloud Backup software) is available and
customers can purchase the bundled solution from authorized Cisco
channel partners or Asigra Hybrid Partners.