Outdoor Clothing Company 66°NORTH Chooses Securstore

66°NORTH, one of Iceland’s
oldest manufacturing companies and in the production of outdoor
clothing, has chosen Securstore UK Ltd,
an Asigra, Inc.‘s partner, to protect its data.

Established in 1926 and with a 200-strong workforce spread across 15 sites in
Iceland, 66°NORTH needed a cloud backup solution. Securstore’s solution allows the company to protect
its entire data footprint, including SQL databases, Exchange Mail servers and
standard file servers.

Árni Egilsson, IT manager at 66°NORTH, said: “We no longer have to hope our data is backed
up, we know it is. Previously we used a tape system, but the work involved was
laborious, time consuming and sometimes unreliable. When our tape library
failed, we decided to move to the cloud. Securstore came highly recommended
from other IT professionals and the service we have received has been excellent.“

Securstore Cloud Backup supports all IT configurations and
66°NORTH’s specific infrastructure includes VMware ESX servers running several
dozen virtual servers, a SAN storage system, and more than 100 standard desktop
machines across 15 sites. Due to Securstore Cloud Backup’s support for remote
devices, 66°NORTH also plans to protect data residing on smartphones and
laptops in the future.

66°NORTH also boasts full regulatory compliance due to Securstore’s
stringent data security measures and auditing. With Securstore holding ISO
27001 accreditation and protecting data through 256 AES Encryption with FIPS
140-2 certification, its data are protected remotely.

Árni Egilsson continued: “Our
focus is on quality and we share this common vision with Securstore. We quickly
realised Securstore had the solution for us – advanced technology based on
award winning software from Asigra, a focus on quality and trust, systems that
are easy to use and implement, and market leading support. At every point of
the implementation process Securstore has been attentive and helpful.“

66°NORTH has always focused on improving its data sets and with
Securstore’s two tier backup model and advanced deduplication techniques helping
intelligently to compress the company’s data, data volumes have been reduced.
This in turn has decreased the load on local IT infrastructure and provided cost savings by ensuring duplicate data is not being backed
up.