January 17, 2007, Barcelona Acronis SAS
(www.acronis.com/es-mx/), the technological
leader in storage management software, announced that NTUC Income,
a cooperative insurance society based in Singapore, has selected
Acronis True Image 9.1 Server for Windows as the backup solution for 14 of their
servers running mission-critical services and other production
servers with static content not covered by local and centralized
backup. Acronis True Image 9.1 Workstation is also installed on 100
workstations with important user data at their headquarters.
NTUC Income, a life and general insurance
company with total assets of S$16 billion, required a solution that
provided
live backups to ensure that day-to-day operations were not
interrupted during backups and would create complete system and
data backups for disaster recovery. NTUC Income also was searching
for a product with the ability to restore an entire server,
including the operating system and custom configurations, should a
disaster strike.
"As a financial institution, we are required by
law to archive up to seven years of data offsite," said Mr. Lim Say
Ho, network administrator at NTUC Income. "We have many very
important servers, including our master backup
server, which we need to keep online all the time. Moreover,
none of the data on the tapes can be retrieved if the system
crashes and the program required to read the data is in one of the
tapes.
"We do not have the time to reinstall and
reconfigure the operating system and recover the applications and
settings," he added. "A fast disaster recovery solution is
essential to achieve business continuity and Acronis True Image is
able to provide that. Acronis True Image frees up all the staff's
time because backups are performed even when the system is live so
it does not impact users or the IT staff. Overall, I'd say Acronis
True Image is the most cost-effective, bare-metal restore solution
for Windows platform that we've seen," he said.
"Acronis recognizes the regulatory requirements
on financial institutions worldwide and is pleased to be NTUC
Income's software vendor of choice for its disaster recovery
solution," said Walter Scott, CEO of Acronis, Inc. "It doesn't
matter if the financial institution is in Asia, Europe, North
America or anywhere else in the world; its fiduciary responsibility
to its clients and government regulators requires them to keep
their offices in operations while maintaining exact records.
Simply, the world's economy depends on this. To that end, Acronis
is pleased to play such an important role in helping to maintain
NTUC Income's business continuity."
NTUC Income was one of the first Asian corporate
clients to implement the Acronis True Image solution after Acronis
opened its office in Singapore in December 2004. The insurance
company first purchased Acronis True Image 8.0 Home for both
workstations and servers. Recently it upgraded to Acronis True
Image 9.1 Server for Windows and Acronis True Image 9.1
Workstation.
About NTUC Income Coop
NTUC Income, a cooperative insurance society,
was formed in 1970. With a modest start-up capital of only $1.2
million, it has become Singapore's leading life, general and health
insurer with total assets of S$16 billion and more than 1.8 million
policyholders. NTUC Income is now one of Asia's most successful
companies, being accredited with a Standard and Poor's AA rating
for its financial soundness.
Acerca de Acronis:
Acronis es una empresa global de ciberprotección que ofrece la única plataforma de gestión de infraestructura, protección de datos y ciberseguridad integrada de forma nativa para proveedores de servicios gestionados y departamentos de TI. Las soluciones de Acronis están diseñadas para identificar, proteger, detectar, responder, recuperar y gobernar los despliegues de TI, asegurando la integridad de los datos y la continuidad de la actividad empresarial.
Una empresa suiza fundada en Singapur en 2003, Acronis tiene 15 oficinas en todo el mundo y empleados en más de 60 países. La solución Acronis Cyber Platform está disponible en 26 idiomas en 150 países y la utilizan más de 21,000 proveedores de servicios para proteger a más de 750,000 empresas. Obtenga más información en www.acronis.com.