APSU Uses LaserVault Backup From Electronic Storage

APSU Ltd, an accredited IBM business partner in Europe, is using LaserVault Backup to backup its clients’ IBM i host systems.

LaserVault Backup is a D2D solution from Electronic Storage Corporation, an IBM Business Partner and provider of storage and recovery software solutions for the IBM i.

According to Robert Poreba, services support manage, APSU: “The LaserVault Backup solution provides excellent compression of data and has helped us eliminate the manual process of handling tapes for our clients. As well as providing software and professional services, we also deliver a low entry cloud service, which encapsulates full management of Power i backup. This delivers both off-site tape storage and cold-start DR. LaserVault Backup is integral to this solution and it is ideal for customers for whom an RPO (Recovery Point Objective) of the last backup is acceptable.”

Prior to using LaserVault Backup (LVB), APSU’s clients relied on daily backups and quarterly full system saves to tape. APSU wanted a way to improve the backup process and free its clients of the large amount of physical handling and management required by tape media. At the same time, APSU recognized that some businesses would resort to managing tape storage themselves before using an off-site vaulting company.

APSU has been delivering cloud-based services into the IBM mid-range market for years. Its first cloud service, Virtual Server Recovery for i (vSRi) is approved by IBM, and is delivered on IBM’s behalf for major clients in all industry sectors, under a worldwide agreement. The service is for firms for which any form of IT outage could have severe financial and operational consequences. APSU’s vSRi lite solution encapsulating LVB, which is a cloud-based backup for IBM i, adds to its feature-rich cloud and managed IT services for IBM Power and Wintel platforms.

With the ability to backup IBM i to disk using a TCP/IP connection, LVB is a tapeless D2D backup system for IBM i (AS/400, iSeries, System i) users. It is designed to be implemented and affordable for companies who use IBM i systems. Using LVB, backups can be automated and files copied for off-site backups or restored to IBM i. With an IBM i software library that implements SAVLIBLV, SAVOBJLV, SAVDLOLV, SAVCFGLV commands, the transition from an existing tape backup scenario to LVB can be achieved with virtually zero downtime.

“We sincerely appreciate the relationship we are building with APSU,” states Brad Jensen, president, Electronic Storage Corporation. “Their outstanding reputation as an IBM recognized technology solutions provider is a testament to their business acumen. We look forward to working with them to provide their customers the best in storage and DR solutions.“