Case Study: National Land Survey of Iceland achieves significant long-term backup cost savings and data retention compliance with Asigra Backup Lifecycle Management

Asigra Backup Lifecycle Management Delivered by Securstore Provides National Land Survey of Iceland Cheaper Long Term Backup for Less Critical Data

The National Land Survey of Iceland (NLSI), the government agency responsible for official maps and geographic statistics, was struggling with rapidly growing volumes of long‑term backup data. NLSI needed an economical, compliant way to archive non‑critical backups without losing retrievability or risking data‑retention breaches—challenges common when organizations move archives offline, delete data, or manually separate critical from long‑term backups.

Securstore implemented Asigra Backup Lifecycle Management (BLM) to automatically tier and meta‑tag backups, keeping critical data online for fast recovery while moving older, less‑critical data to low‑cost archived storage that remains quickly retrievable. The deployment substantially reduced NLSI’s storage costs, simplified compliance and e‑discovery (including scheduled data destruction and certificates), and enabled Securstore to offer more affordable archival services to a wider range of customers.

National Land Survey of Iceland

Brandur Sigurjonsson

IT Manager, NLSI