Banking on Retain and SEP
Grand Bank & Trust, a 12-year old community banking organization in the Palm Beach and Treasure Coast area of Florida, takes security very seriously. “Being a bank we might as well put a target sign on our network. It is a constant issue for us, and we take it very seriously. We back up our email nightly. All of our backups are written to tape or disk. These backups are encrypted in case one of our tapes manages to get misplaced,” explains Paul Rudin,Bank Officer and Network Administrator for Grand Bank & Trust of Florida. Choosing the right archiving and backup solutions were critical. Grand Bank & Trust of Florida chose Retain from GWAVA for archiving and SEP sesam after giving their previous solutions the boot.
About SEP sesam: “When we came upon SEP sesam, it seemed to not only fit all the requirements, but it also had additional functionality that we had given up hope of finding.”
About GWAVA Retain: “We had email archiving in place for nearly four years prior to our conversion to Retain…We found Retain to fill all of our needs and their customer support is top notch. We also lowered our backup footprint
from well over 750 GB for our archive server down to a much more manageable 200 GB with the conversion.”
Working Together…
“GWAVA and SEP together have allowed us to migrate to a strictly Linux-based ecosystem, lowering our costs. GWAVA has allowed us to lower our data footprint for our archive solution, which allows us to drastically change our backup solution for backing up our archive server. SEP has given us a product that allows us unparalleled options for how we backup all of our data. This has allowed us to reduce management overhead across the board, and since these are two of our most important functions, it has been imperative that they work well together. SEP is very adaptable to our changing needs as well.”
Paul Rudin
Bank Officer & Network Administrator
Grand Bank & Trust of Florida
Retain & SEP - Worth the Investment
When asked if SEP sesam and GWAVA Retain were worth the investment made by Grand Bank & Trust, Paul Rudin had this to say about each product:
"SEP sesam has performed up to and beyond our expectations easing the workload and providing a quality backup solution. The new solution has enabled us to provide an extra level of security in our backup design scheme. The time we spend working on backup related issues has shrunk by about 90%.”
“Retain provides us exactly what we need. The investment has already paid for itself in the 500 GB reduction in space on our SAN. We were nearing capacity on the SAN. And that is a huge amount for an organization our size. Plus, our users now have 100% access. It has really reduced the amount of time IT has had to spend doing email discovery. It’s much easier to search the system for a formal discovery as well.”
With Grand Bank & Trust, responsive customer service has been crucial as well. Both SEP and GWAVA have excellent support teams ready to help their users. Paul Rudin calls GWAVA support “top notch and professional.” He also states that SEP has the “best support really of any vendor we deal with.”
