Bridgewater Savings Bank Moves to EVault

EVault, Inc., a Seagate Technology LLC company, announced that
Bridgewater Savings Bank has replaced its legacy backup
system with the EVault Plug-n-Protect appliance, EVault Offsite Replication
Service and EVault System Restore software for a cloud-connected approach to
backup and recovery.

The Massachusetts-based community bank chose the data protection experts at
EVault to protect its critical applications
and customer data. The new solution provides backup and recovery that enables the
bank to leverage both on-premise and offsite data protection, and more easily comply with federal and state
regulations.

Prior to partnering with EVault, Bridgewater Savings Bank’s IT team
had to sort through numerous reports each morning to validate that its backups
were successfully completed overnight. They also had to download data restores
over the Internet at approximately 1GB an hour or team members had to drive
hours across the state to retrieve data from their vendor. In both cases, the
bank had trouble meeting its RTOs. Additionally,
because the bank’s backup data was stored offsite in a data center on the
Eastern seaboard it was vulnerable to hurricanes and volatile weather.

"Data recovery took too
long using our old backup system. The previous vendor also lacked sufficient
coverage in their overall compliance controls. EVault’s auditing report was
more comprehensive than the previous vendor’s report, as well as others we
considered," said Chris St. Aubin, Bridgewater’s IT officer. "This is a critical issue for any IT
organization in a banking environment. With EVault Cloud-Connected backup, our
reports are consolidated in a single email that we can easily review and sign
off on for compliance and management oversight. We perform full server DR
restores on our VMware test bed in far less time than we could before. EVault
saved us hundreds of thousands of dollars over the long term in our data
backups."

The EVault system has given the bank a solution that enables compliance and rapid
recovery, backed by the cloud. Backups are saved locally on the
Plug-n-Protect appliance and replicated to the EVault cloud via the
Offsite Replication Service, reducing
recovery and testing times while protecting data offsite from the risk of
hurricanes and inclement weather. St. Aubin and his staff are able to restore
the bank’s Windows servers to different hardware using bare metal restores,
speeding further the recovery process.

"We understand the strict
regulatory compliance and accessibility challenges that banks like Bridgewater
face," said Terry Cunningham, president and GM at EVault. "They needed a trusted partner that could
help them more efficiently manage their IT needs. Through EVault’s
Cloud-Connected backup and recovery offerings, the bank’s data is protected
both on-premise, for fast onsite access, and offsite in the EVault cloud,
providing peace of mind that customers’ data is safe, secure, and compliant."