Canadian Insurance LOGiQ3 Cuts Backup Time Up to 90%

Asigra Inc.
announced that LOGiQ3, a Canadian insurance and reinsurance outsourcing
company, is protecting its critical data with Asigra’s Cloud Backup solution,
delivered by Asigra partner e-ternity Business Continuity Consultants, Inc.

An agent of change within the life insurance
and reinsurance industry, LOGiQ3, a PROFIT 200 company, is one of Canada’s
Fastest-Growing Companies. It provides outsourcing services
including reinsurance administration, production underwriting, auditing,
consulting and training to companies in North America, Europe and the Caribbean
from its offices in Toronto, Canada, and Cardiff, U.K.
The company selected cloud backup for its simplicity and ability to cut backup
administration time up to 90 percent compared to traditional backup
technologies.

Prior to engaging a cloud backup solution, backing up
LOGiQ3’s distributed computing environment was challenging. The company
performed file synchronization of laptop data, requiring users to protect the
data on their own laptops. To improve the process, LOGiQ3 built a portal for
users to save data in a SharePoint structured environment, but it was not 100
percent effective; manual processes were still required. When users searched
the backup data set for specific information, data was often difficult to
locate. This indicated that backups using only file synchronization were
incomplete.

The company looked at on-premise solutions but did not like their
heavy backup agents or the fact that they provided file-level rather than
block-level data protection and deduplication. Furthermore, LOGiQ3 wanted a
backup time of 10 minutes maximum, not the 30 minutes required by on-premise
solutions. 

LOGiQ3 turned to e-ternity, also a Canadian company,
because it offered the solution for its distributed environment. e-ternity
provides monthly managed services that guarantee business continuance to
customers and depends on Asigra Cloud Backup as the technology behind its
services.

"Protecting the laptop data of our mobile
workforce was difficult; we needed a more advanced alternative," said Ian
Sanderson, Vice President, Technology at LOGiQ3. "For our company, loss of
communications or information assets can result in a loss of credibility which
was not an option. e-ternity’s cloud backup service provides the highest level
of protection, which is critical to our business." 

e-ternity cloud backup Powered by Asigra happens
with no user intervention. The solution
protects 100 percent of the data across all LOGiQ3 laptops and desktops and
select server data. Block-level backup minimizes the time required to capture
all recent changes, thereby reducing backup run time and its impact on
computing performance.

"Compared to on-premise solutions, Asigra Cloud
Backup from e-ternity has cut our backup administration hours by 80 to 90
percent and reduced maintenance and management costs up to 25 percent,"
said Sanderson. "Plus, we now trust that the recovery of data is assured,
allowing us to sleep better at night. Since deploying the solution we’ve had to
do two data restores, one for a stolen laptop and one for a laptop with a
crashed disk drive. In both cases, data recovery took only a couple of hours."

"The decentralized model of cloud backup is ideal
for a ‘road warrior’ company like LOGiQ3, where the computing environment is
highly distributed," said Greg Onoprijenko, president of e-ternity. "Our Asigra-based Cloud Backup service
provides seamless backup of all data, wherever it is located, with no end-user
intervention."

"More and more companies like LOGiQ3, where data
is stored in disparate computing environments, are realizing that Asigra Cloud
Backup can greatly simplify their backup procedures," said Tracy
Staniland, senior director, corporate marketing, Asigra. "Because we
partner with professional service providers such as e-ternity, end-users can be
sure to receive excellent customer service from an experienced support
team."