Sentinel Benefits & Financial Group Adopts Actifio Sky and DaaS

Actifio, Inc. announced a strategic alliance with Sentinel Benefits & Financial Group, a financial advisor and employee benefits administration service provider for businesses and individuals across the US.

Through the adoption of Actifio’s platform, Sentinel experienced increased resiliency and agility, providing customers and end users access to relevant data when and where needed with ease.

In a data-heavy business, customer experience hinges on availability for both client and operational data. Because Sentinel provides many services that are dependent on data availability, the company needed to stay innovative about how it operates – whether end users want to check 401K balances on laptops, dial into a call center to talk about short-term investments or use a mobile device to answer a question about insurance coverage, Sentinel promises that its technology can make those inquiries seamless.

The company needed a solution to improve is DR and BC position beyond what was possible with tape backup.

With Actifio Sky and Actifio Data-as-a-Service, Sentinel was able to create HA customer data solutions. For less than the cost of a backup product, it got data copy virtualization, data production with rapid recover, instant ability to test applications and off-site DR. Since deploying Actifio, the company has reduced the administrative time of its team and slashed recovery time.

Todd Larson, CIO, Sentinel, said: “The company needed data protection improvements that checked some important boxes: deduplication, compression, efficient replication and rapid restore. However, we needed more than just backup. We wanted to get to data on demand, while enabling our test/dev processes. That’s what led, to Actifio. They worked hard to understand what we wanted and why it was important for our business.“

Ash Ashutosh, CEO, Actifio, said: “Our partnership with Sentinel Benefits & Financial Group demonstrates our breadth of strong partnerships across many verticals and our primary mission of making it simple for customers to undergo digital transformation. We hope to introduce more service providers like Sentinel to the benefits of undergoing this transformation, including significant operational savings and increase speed to recovery.“