American Enterprise Bank Selects EVault

EVault, Inc., a Seagate Technology LLC company, announced
that American
Enterprise Bank, a privately-owned community bank, has replaced its
tape-based backup and recovery system with EVault’s cloud-connected backup and
recovery solutions, including EVault SaaS, EVault Express Recovery Appliance
and EVault cloud DR Service (CDR), with a 24-hour SLA.

The Illinois-based bank with three branch locations was searching for a
solution that was reliable, scalable and easy-to-manage, while meeting strict
regulatory and security regulations and guaranteeing a complete and speedy
recovery in the event of a disaster.

For several years, American Enterprise Bank was using tape-based backup, which
gradually began to fall short in delivering the speed, security and compliance
required. The bank’s old system was inefficient, requiring nightly backups that
drained employee productivity, and struggled to meet financial data and
security compliance requirements. The bank was harshly alerted
to the hazards of tape-based backup when a routine request by an auditor for
archived data revealed a batch of corrupted tape. Fearing additional damaged,
lost or stolen tapes and realizing the financial and legal risks associated
with compromised data, the company shifted to EVault’s cloud-connected
solutions to protect its financial data across its OSs, applications
and 11 servers.

"Our tape-based system was just not
a viable solution any longer: it was outdated, difficult to manage and took
valuable IT hours from our staff. We needed a more modern and flexible system
that would serve us for the long-term," said John Hampson, CIO,
American Enterprise Bank. "With EVault
we found the reliable data protection and recovery we were looking for. Now I
have no worries about data protection."

EVault SaaS provides a secure, automatic,
centralized backup of desktops, laptops and servers at the bank’s multiple
locations. Backups are conducted daily and data is replicated and stored to the
EVault cloud. Express Recovery Appliance, a pre-configured appliance
installed at the bank’s local vault, works hand-in-hand with SaaS to
store the bank’s backups locally and then replicates them to the cloud.
With CDR and its 24-hour SLA agreement, American Enterprise Bank has a
second tier of data protection. The bank’s data and systems are guaranteed to
be restored within 24 hours of a disaster and its multi-platform IT
environment is  protected.

"Financial institutions like
American Enterprise Bank hold troves of extremely sensitive client information
and operate under rigid compliance regulations. If that data is lost or compromised,
and if they’re unable to remain compliant, their business is seriously
compromised," said Terry Cunningham, president and GM, EVault.
"With EVault SaaS, EVault Express
Recovery Appliance and EVault CDR, American Enterprise Bank can confidently
assure its data is recoverable, fully compliant and safely backed up both
locally and to EVault’s failproof Cloud."