Van Lanschot Bank Belgium Chooses VirtualSharp

VirtualSharp Software
Corporation, provider of automated DR solutions for private and public
clouds, announced that its ReliableDR has been selected by Van Lanschot Bank Belgium to enhance the
recovery time of its IT services supporting all business applications and seven
TB of confidential customer and business data.

Van Lanschot Belgium has 150 employees working at offices in
Antwerp, Brussels, Gent, Hasselt and Kortrijk who generate access and query
data daily. The bank’s storage infrastructure comprises two NetApp filers at
the head office and two at the bank’s DR site. The sites run active/active and
support corporate applications that include Microsoft SQL Server backends and
Exchange. To ensure that it would continue to meet business continuity
standards required by the Belgian and Dutch Central Banks and the UK Financial
Services and Markets Act, Van Lanschot needed to improve its DR performance and
service levels.

Van Lanschot turned to Belgium-based virtualization consultancy Centix NV to help with the
redesign of its DR strategy. After a discussion of the bank’s
requirements, objectives and resources, the partner recommended VirtualSharp
Software’s ReliableDR and VMware’s Site Recovery Manager as alternatives. Van
Lanschot’s IT team selected ReliableDR because it more closely
met its demanding requirements for speed and continuity and would also help
them shorten RPO and RTO.

Paul Timmermans, MD at Van Lanschot Belgium said: "The nature of our business means that we
must be able to quickly restore IT services at the push of a button, be it
because of an internal exercise, an external audit or an unforeseen data center
outage. As a result, our DR strategy cannot fail to deliver and this is why we
chose VirtualSharp Software’s ReliableDR – because it lets us run
non-disruptive, frequent, scheduled DR tests to ensure that a successful
service recovery is always assured."

ReliableDR orchestrates enterprise clouds to
automate failover testing and to ensure compliance with BC
policies.

Earlier this year, VirtualSharp launched a V#P Partner program with
30 partners spanning 14 geographies to support the increased demand for its
software.

"Customers like Van
Lanschot are in highly regulated environments and have very strict
requirements," said Michael Hillewaert, VP of EMEA sales at
VirtualSharp Software. "ReliableDR’s
unique Disaster Recovery orchestration for cloud and virtualized applications
addresses those concerns, and we’re seeing unprecedented demand for our
software."