UK's leading Home Shopping company auto-validates critical backups

JD Williams & Company is the leading direct home shopping business in the United Kingdom. The successful company has over 2 million customers and 4,000 employees. JD Williams has more than 50 trading titles with major catalogue titles having their own websites. Some titles are only traded online.

With the asensus partner, Silverstring Ltd, JD Williams existing Tivoli Storage Manager environment was redesigned to support increasing data storage capacity requirements (from 6 to 50TB) as well as supporting full system recoveries from TSM to meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs). With asensus' automated recovery test software, JDWilliams is now able to identify recoverability issues and track recovery time (RTO) developments.

About SMARTtsm:

The SMARTtsm solution centralizes compliance-related recovery tests to document recovery assurance for server backups stored in IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.

Executing frequent and automated server recoveries directly out of IBM TSM onto a low-cost dissimilar test platform, SMARTtsm reports on recoverability as well as Recovery Time (RTO).

In combination with SMARTtsm's SLA-based recovery (Service Level Agreement), each recovery process reports on compliance, comparing actual recovery time with expected (SLA) recovery time.

More information on SMARTtsm software and reporting features on www.asensus.com/rmc.

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