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Blog | The Challenge | A premier department store retailer uses VMware® Site Recovery Manager to guarantee application availability in the case of a disaster. VMware® Site Recovery Manager requires that copies of the Virtual Machines (VM) be sent to the Disaster Recovery (DR) site. VMware actually recommends that as a best practice that customers copy the VM to a hard drive and ship it to the DR site and then copy it to the Site Recovery server. All IT administrators know that this is not a practical solution for transferring any type of files, as it involves physical shipping of hardware and manual transfers of critical data. The ideal solution is transferring the VMs via a wide-area network (WAN). However, VMs can be very large and copying VMs across a WAN link can take significant amounts time and also affect other DR services. |
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| The Need | The Retailer needs to be able to quickly copy VMs across a WAN link to the DR site to keep the DR up-to-date without having to physically transport hard drives. |
| PKWARE vZip SATISFIES THE NEED | PKWARE vZip enables the Retailer’s VMs to be compressed to less than half their size and copied to the DR site across a WAN link in a short amount of time. This allows the retailer to avoid shipping data on hard drives across the country to the DR site. And as a bonus, because the VM is protected with vZip, the WAN link between the primary site and DR site does not need to be secure, lowering the overall cost of implementation. vZip reduces operational costs through task automation using PowerCLI. |
| The Challenge | A Financial Services Provider has chosen to store its dormant Virtual Machines (VMs) in the Cloud because it is a low cost way to store infrequently-used data. While the company recognizes the cost savings of the Cloud, they are nervous that those VMs could be vulnerable to a security breach both during the transfer to the Cloud and while stored in the Cloud. The Cloud storage provider could fall victim to an outside breach, or their own internal employees could wrongly access the Financial Services Provider’s data. Any breach would put the Financial Services Provider at risk of noncompliance. |
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| The Need | The Company needed to secure their VMs that were transferred to and stored in the Cloud in order to avoid a security breach and avoid any compliance issues. |
| PKWARE vZip SATISFIES THE NEED | PKWARE vZip ensures that dormant VMs are protected using strong encryption while in transit and when stored in the Cloud. Additionally, vZip allows the customer to store a VM in a single file, rather than multiple files, making transfer much faster and reducing problems during transfer to the Cloud provider. The Financial Services Provider is now securing the dormant VMs in accordance with compliance regulations and reducing costs related to transferring and storing VMs in the cloud. |
The Challenge  | The Card Services Division of a major U.S. bank does business through mergers and acquisitions. Mergers and acquisitions include the selling of card services portfolios; also known as conversions and de-conversions. During this process, data containing customer credit card numbers and Personally Identifiable Information (PII) needs to be transported on external tape. It is important to ensure that this information arrives at the intended location without being breached. |
The Need  | The bank needs to secure sensitive data in transit while keeping encryption and System Management Facility (SMF) records on the zSeries mainframe to comply with audit requirements. |
The Solution  | The bank uses the PKWARE SecureZIP PartnerLink Solution to exchange sensitive data with card services providers. When exchanging data via tape, they use passphrase encryption and when exchanging data via FTP or when exchanging large portfolios that contain millions of files, they use digital certificates, ensuring that FIPS compliance is maintained. |
The Result  | The bank is able to maintain compliance with government and industry regulations by securely sharing sensitive data with partners during the conversion and de-conversion process, while simultaneously reducing cost, bandwidth usage, and elapsed time of data transfer. Additionally, many of the bank’s partners have adopted SecureZIP PartnerLink as their standard for conducting business. |
The Challenge  | A U.S. insurance company receives highly sensitive information for their business globally, including seven Middle Eastern countries. This information is transmitted on tape media, which makes it highly vulnerable if the media is misplaced during transport to its destination. Additionally, using a PKWARE competitor’s AES 256 encryption increased the archive size, resulting in the need for more tape media and increased CPU usage. |
The Need  | The company needs to exchange information on tape securely between locations around the world. |
The Solution  | PKWARE’s data-centric approach protects structured and unstructured data from destination to endpoint. Using 1Step2Tape functionality within the PKWARE Data Center Solution for i5/OS, files are written directly to tape media, bypassing the need to stage them to disk. By compressing the data prior to encrypting it, the PKWARE Data Center Solution reduces the size of the archive, saving on CPU usage, while securing the information. |
The Result  | Data is always protected. A lost tape is rendered useless if it is found and an attempt is made to read the contents. 1Step2Tape eliminates extra processing time, enabling organizations to meet critical SLAs and adding security to their processes. |
The Challenge  | Archive web server log files on a monthly basis in the cloud for a year to meet compliance requirements. 2TB of web server log files per month costs $0.10 for each gigabyte of data uploaded to the cloud, and $0.14/GB for storage. That translates to $24,240 annually. |
The Need  | Reduce costs associated with moving data to and storing data in the cloud. |
The Solution  | PKWARE’s SecureZIP Server reduces the size of data being uploaded and stored in the cloud, ensuring it is secure. |
The Result  | Leveraging the default compression level set to “normal,” SecureZIP Server reduces the size of the log files by an average of 75% or 500GB/month. That reduces the moving and storage costs to only $6,060 annually, saving $18,000/year on cloud storage costs simply by using SecureZIP to compress the log files prior to uploading to the cloud. Additionally, SecureZIP secures the log files, ensuring that intellectual property is protected. |
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