Lifeplan Funds Management automates compliance with Tivoli Storage Manager

THE CHALLENGE

The prudential regulator of Australia’s financial services industry, APRA, introduced new business continuity management standards, increasing the requirements for mutual organisations. Lifeplan identified that it would need to develop a completely new business recovery site strategy. It needed to ensure compliance with these standards but wanted to derive other business benefits from this significant financial investment.

THE SOLUTION

IBM® business partner* Iocane proposed a solution built around Tivoli® Storage Manager, which would handle the transfer and automatic backup of Lifeplan’s IT infrastructure to a disaster recovery site. The additional introduction of IBM BladeCenter® and virtualisation also helped to provide increased levels of agility and reduce the total cost of ownership.

THE BENEFITS

Lifeplan now enjoys automated compliance that meets current industry legislative requirements and has improved its risk management profile. In the process Lifeplan has also consolidated its IT infrastructure, which helped to reduce its energy usage and deliver IT resources which can be deployed quickly in response to business needs.