Asigra and Phoenix IT Services Ltd. to Present on Effective Data Recovery Strategies for the Enterprise

LONDON, UK – June 19, 2013 – /BackupReview.info/ — Asigra Inc., a leading Cloud Backup™, recovery and restore (BURR) software provider since 1986 today announced the company will present cloud-based data recovery as a replacement for traditional backup solutions at The Truth About Backup seminar in Manchester, UK on June 20th and in London, UK on June 25th. As cloud backup and recovery options have evolved they have proven to be a more effective, secure and reliable alternative to traditional backup. Asigra and Phoenix IT Services Ltd. will highlight the importance of recovery over backup to attendees at these one-day events.

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WHO:  Asigra, Inc. and Phoenix IT Services Ltd.
WHAT:  The Truth About Backup seminar presented by Truth in IT
WHEN:  June 20, 2013, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm BST; June 25, 2013, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm BST
WHERE:  Location June 20: Victoria and Albert Marriott Hotel, Water St., Manchester, M3 4JQ, UK; Location June 25: Hilton London Kengsington, 179-199 Holland Park Avenue, London, UK W11 4UL

The Truth About Backup is produced by the backup professionals at Truth in IT and is dedicated to exploring the many technology options available. As the two featured cities in a series of seminars each quarter, the event provides education for various regions in North America as well. Each full-day seminar features independent content from W. Curtis Preston as well as presentations from sponsoring vendors. These seminars are free to qualified end-users.

“The Truth About Backup assists IT professionals in determining the most effective data recovery solutions for their business,” said Tracy Staniland, VP, Marketing, Asigra. “With the help of partners like Phoenix IT Services Ltd., we are changing the way businesses manage and protect their data by showing how important data recovery is to the business practice.”

“Data recoverability and security are two of the biggest factors enterprises consider when it comes to selecting a backup solution,” said Mike Osborne, Managing Director, Business Continuity, Phoenix IT Services Ltd. “We’re looking forward to presenting during the Truth in IT seminars to reveal how cloud-based data recovery is not only cost-effective, but secure and reliable.”

To learn more about Asigra, visit: www.asigra.com

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About Truth in IT
Truth in IT is a media and publishing company founded in 2010 by W. Curtis Preston (aka, Mr. Backup). The organization offers a multitude of seminars, webinars and videos that are all free to qualified end users. The company’s revenue primarily comes from sponsorship of these events, and sponsors are given the registration information of those who register for these events.

About Phoenix IT Services Ltd.
We’re Phoenix – one of the UK’s leading providers of hosting, Cloud, managed IT services and business continuity. We’ve been delivering IT services and technology to UK businesses since 1979. As a complete end to end services provider we can host your services in the Cloud, simplify desktop management, and build secure, reliable networks.

About Asigra
Trusted since 1986, Asigra provides organizations around the world the ability to recover their data now from anywhere through a global network of partners who deliver cloud backup and recovery services as public, private and/or hybrid deployments. As the industry’s first enterprise cloud-based recovery software to provide data backup and recovery of servers, virtual machines, endpoint devices, databases and applications, SaaS and IaaS based applications, Asigra lowers the total cost of ownership, reduces recovery time objectives, eliminates silos of backup data by providing a single consolidated repository, and provides 100% recovery assurance. Asigra is a Gartner Cool Vendor and has been included in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software since 2010. More information on Asigra can be found at www.asigra.com.

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Oncore IT today announced that it has renewed a three year contract with Jeroboams Group, a leading London-based wine and whisky merchant, to provide on-premise and Cloud-based backup services, along with disaster recovery (DR), and remote server monitoring.

London, UK – June 19, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — With 18.9 million bottles sold last year, Jeroboams Group caters for retail, trade and private customers through three brands: Laytons (trade wine sales), Milroy’s of Soho (whisky) and Jeroboams (retail wine and private client sales). Founded in 1934 and privately owned, the group employs 70 staff and has nine shops in the capital.

Julian Harper, Jeroboams Group’s IT manager, says, “Following the 7/7 London bombings, our chairman asked what would happen if we were caught up in an incident. At the time, other than using tape locally, we had no offsite disaster recovery provision or specialist managed service provider looking after our systems which is why Oncore IT was selected in 2oo5. They ensure our data is fully protected given it’s what drives our business.”

Under the contract, Oncore IT is providing an Asigra-based Cloud data backup solution, local on premise disc backup for non-core IT systems, its PReSS remote infrastructure monitoring service as well as IT staff holiday cover. An annual DR test is also included as part of the contract to ensure that everything functions as it should.

Jeroboams Group has adopted a centralised approach for core IT systems with its main database, email, web, and file and print servers located at its headquarters in Islington, north London. The company uses a mix of physical machines for main systems and virtualised servers to run non-core services such as Microsoft SharePoint and a replication system for its EPOS system. The various businesses and shops then all connect in using SSL VPN remote access technology. Backup is therefore centralised for the group.

Harper says, “We’ve renewed our contract with Oncore IT as they do everything we need, we have a good account management relationship and their support desk is proactive in monitoring the status of our backup cycles.”

A specific secure Jeroboams Group ‘vault’ has been created on Oncore IT’s enterprise-class Hitachi Data Systems storage platform. The vault contains the group’s critical data which is encrypted both ‘in flight’ and at rest.

Backups are scheduled nightly and are run by just one Asigra DS client which was installed in Jeroboam Group’s environment to collect data from its servers. This massively simplifies rollout and contrasts with other solutions which require monitoring agents on each and every system. Data is held in Oncore IT’s London datacentre and replicated to its offshore facility in Amsterdam for resilience.

Harper explains, “Any small to medium sized business needs to back up core systems offsite so that in the event of a disaster, critical business information is protected. It’s a simple insurance policy. You hope you’ll never have to use it, but it doesn’t make commercial sense to skimp and not have it.”

In terms of infrastructure monitoring, Jeroboams is using Oncore IT’s PreSS service [Proactive Remote Engineering Support Services]. Comprising over 10 years worth of intellectual property investment, PreSS allows systems engineers to monitor Jeroboam Group’s servers, networking equipment and their Internet infrastructure linking their shops to avoid system downtime, maximise system performance and enhance organisational productivity.

In the eight years the two companies have been working together, a disaster recovery event has not been evoked. Paul Cook, Oncore IT’s head of sales & marketing, concludes, “If it were, our response would be completely dependent on the event and our service level agreement is completely flexible to cater for this. We could host servers for Jeroboams Group in our virtual environment, ship temporary devices to site while equipment is purchased or fixed – whatever they require to ensure uptime and business continuity.”

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Phone: 08451 489 248
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www.oncoreIT.com

Address
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3rd floor
6 Braham Street
London
E1 8EE

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Ultra fast, secure online backup for managed service providers looking to meet customers’ growing need for hassle-free backup services in the cloud

CARY, N.C., JUNE 19, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — GFI MAX™, part of the GFI Software™ family, today announced a new revenue opportunity for managed service providers (MSPs) with the launch of its free-standing GFI MAX Backup™. This new service enables all MSPs to add secure data backup to the services they can offer customers at a time when demand for secure online backup continues to rise.

The launch of GFI MAX Backup as a new product follows the acquisition of the Dutch online backup company IASO in May. The technology has been used with great success over the last year in GFI MAX RemoteManagement™ and this new, standalone version allows MSPs who are not using GFI MAX RemoteManagement to benefit from the same ground-breaking technology already used by thousands of MSPs all over the world. GFI MAX Backup is a fast, reliable, automatic and secure backup service for MSPs so that they no longer have to worry about on-premise backup failure, or someone missing a crucial tape backup. The service provides highly scalable and secure backups both to the cloud and to local storage on-site while removing the overhead and risk associated with managing removable media.

“Cloud-based backup is a natural addition to the portfolio of services that MSPs provide their customers,” said Dr. Alistair Forbes, general manager of the GFI MAX Business Unit. “GFI MAX Backup removes the stress and hassle from on-premise backup solutions that require media handling to provide the off-site storage capability necessary for security and regulatory compliance and allows MSPs to increase their revenue by providing competitively-priced, highly-efficient, encrypted backup at a time when more and more customers look to adopt cloud services.”

The importance of secure data storage is growing and natural disasters continue to make headlines, so businesses are increasingly turning to online backup as part of their strategy to protect their critical business assets. In addition to business continuity benefits, companies that embrace cloud storage can better manage the cost and time needed for data recovery in the event of a disaster.  Backup costs, combined with the substantial growth in the amount of data that businesses need to store, are forcing companies to seek new ways to manage their IT costs without the need for major capital investment, which creates new opportunities for MSPs.

While the industry retains a strong attachment to tape backups as the conventional medium to use, GFI MAX believes that best practice in data protection can best be delivered using the Disk-to-Disk-to-Cloud (D2D2C) or hybrid approach. The technologies in GFI MAX Backup, including the unique True Delta and Local SpeedVault, deliver this hybrid approach, meaning that not only are backups and restores ultra-fast but also that the data is secure and available at the touch of a button, whenever and wherever it is required.

Features and benefits of GFI MAX Backup include:

• Flexible deployment – backup individual servers and workstations or all devices at the client level
• Get going in minutes – quick to install and straight forward to configure. Free, secure seed loading to import your existing data.
• Automatically backup multiple data types in the Cloud - files and folders, system state, network shares, Exchange information stores, SQL databases, Oracle, Sharepoint, virtual machine backups using VMware and Hyper-V snapshots
• Low bandwidth load – the True Delta Technology reduces backup volume. Intelligent,incremental backups only include block-level changes so you only back up the part of the file that has changed, not the whole of every changed document each time.
• Military Grade Security - Encrypted transmission and encrypted offsite storage to protect your customers’ business data (128-bit AES, 256-bit AES — Blowfish 448-bit encryption using webdav over SSL)
• Lightning fast - backup and easy file recovery with our Local SpeedVault
• User File Recovery – Virtual Drive Technology replicates the user’s file structure so they can self-serve file restores straight from their desktop.
• Infinitely scalable - backup large volumes of data and the storage infrastructure will grow as required.
• Multi-platform support – Windows, MAC OSX, and Linux

For more information and pricing, visit GFI MAX Backup – backup.gfimax.com

About GFI MAX
GFI MAX helps IT Support Companies and MSPs grow monthly revenues from existing customers, attract new customers with affordable, high-value, easy-to-use services and deliver proactive, cost efficient services to grow an IT business profitably. GFI MAX provides a range of integrated software solutions built specifically for IT Support Companies and MSPs that are fast to implement, low effort to manage and fully brandable, so your customers see their value. The GFI MAX platform enables MSPs to provide managed antivirus, managed online backup, remote support, email security, automated monitoring, patch management, asset tracking, alerting and viewing and reporting all from a single dashboard.

About GFI
GFI Software™ develops quality IT solutions for small to mid-sized businesses with generally up to 1,000 users. GFI^® offers two main technology solutions: GFI MAX™, which enables managed service providers (MSPs) to deliver superior services to their customers; and GFI Cloud™, which empowers companies with their own internal IT teams to manage and maintain their networks via the cloud. Serving an expanding customer base of more than 200,000 companies, GFI’s product line also includes collaboration, network security, anti-spam, patch management, faxing, mail archiving and web monitoring. GFI is a channel-focused company with thousands of partners throughout the world. The company has received numerous awards and industry accolades, and is a longtime Microsoft^® Gold ISV Partner.

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For more information:
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GFI – Malta:
Tel: +356-2205-2000
Fax: +356 21382419

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GFI – U.S.:
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Enterprise File Sharing and Sync (EFSS) and Mobility vendor Vaultize strengthens its executive team by appointing storage industry veteran Vivek Anand as Vice President of Sales to head global emerging markets. Vivek brings over 17 years of progressive business leadership experience across Enterprise Storage, Data Protection, Security and Networking domains – working for companies like Veritas, Symantec and CommVault.

Mountain View – June 19, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — Enterprise file sharing and sync (EFSS) and mobility vendor Vaultize (www.vaultize.com) today announced the appointment of Vivek Anand as company’s Vice President of Sales to focus on global emerging markets.

As enterprises across the world are impacted by data loss, security and compliance risks, because of proliferation of consumer file sharing and BYOD trend, they look for secure and enterprise-controlled solution. Vaultize has been generating significant interest among medium and large enterprises across verticals in this space. Addition of Vivek to the executive team strengthens this market momentum.

Vivek brings to Vaultize a successful track record of 17 years in enterprise storage and data protection sales in leadership and executive management roles. He joins Vaultize from Netmagic (an NTT Communications company) where he was responsible for steering and driving sales growth and business performance across geographies as head of business development. Prior to that, Vivek spearheaded CommVault System’s business in Asia Pacific region as Regional Sales Director. In addition, he has held many senior management roles in sales – including National Sales Manager for Veritas (and later Symantec).

“We are thrilled to be attracting such talent as Vivek. With his extensive enterprise sales and business leadership experience, he brings an impressive breadth and depth of expertise and knowledge to Vaultize. We are delighted to welcome Vivek to Vaultize as we continue our strategic expansion across the world and build a strong presence,” said Anand Kekre, CEO and Co-founder of Vaultize.

“This is an exciting time to be joining Vaultize,” said Vivek. “The enterprise file sharing and mobility market are rapidly evolving to mitigate data loss and security risks. In addition to having an industry-leading technology, Vaultize has an impressive executive management team and fast growing list of customers, which I look forward to expanding further.”

“I am looking forward to working closely with our business and technology partners to address customers’ growing need for solutions that are efficient and flexible, and help enable productivity and collaboration, while granting enterprise IT complete control with security and compliance capabilities.” adds Vivek.

About Vaultize:
Vaultize (www.vaultize.com) is an award-winning flagship product from Anoosmar Technologies – a privately held company. Cloud-based file sharing and sync services have revolutionized the way people access and share information. People are freely using these services even for their official work, and hence sensitive corporate data is now residing in third-party clouds without the knowledge and control of IT — posing significant data loss, security and compliance risks. Vaultize comes to your rescue by giving a unified platform for file sharing, sync, endpoint backup, endpoint encryption, anywhere/anytime access to data on corporate file servers and enterprise mobility— everything with complete enterprise control and visibility.

Through Vaultize’s endpoint encryption, sensitive corporate information remains encrypted on endpoints ensuring protection against unauthorized access and potential data leakage from lost or stolen device. In addition to on-disk protection, Vaultize’s patent pending encryption technology used in file sharing and backup ensures that the data is encrypted or decrypted only on endpoints – guaranteeing end-to-end protection.

Contact
Anand A. Kekre (http://in.linkedin.com/in/aakekre)
CEO and Co-founder
anand[@]vaultize.com
www.vaultize.com

Address
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C-801, Pride Panorama, Off Senapati Bapat Road
Shivajinagar, Pune
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First-of-its-kind Industrial Strength Big Data & Analytics Platform Connects Machines and Business Operations in the Cloud

Industrial Internet Platform Built for Unique Scale of Industrial Data; New Wikibon Report Estimates Industrial Data Growth Rate 2X Any Other Big Data Segment

• GE “Predictivity” Services and Technologies for the Industrial Internet reduce waste and unplanned downtime of critical machines jet engines, healthcare technology, power turbines and locomotives
• Delivers First Hadoop-Based Software for High-Volume, Machine Data Management
• Expanded Partnerships with Accenture and Pivotal Enhance Industry Solutions and Reach; Expanded Relationship with Amazon Web Services

San Francisco, CA, June 18, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — GE (NYSE: GE) announced today the first big data and analytics platform robust enough to manage the data produced by large-scale, industrial machines in the cloud. Built to support the Industrial Internet and turn big data into real-time insight, the platform will benefit major global industries including aviation, healthcare, energy production and distribution, transportation and manufacturing. Combined with the new GE PredictivityTM services and technologies available today, airlines, railroads, hospitals and utilities can manage and operate critical machines such as jet engines and gas turbines in the cloud running businesses better by increasing productivity and reducing waste and downtime. This marks the first time industrial companies will have a common architecture, combining intelligent machines, sensors and advanced analytics.

GE’s industrial strength platform is supported by the new Proficy Historian HD the first Hadoop-based historian data management software. Historian delivers real-time data management, analytics, and machine-to-operations connectivity in a secure, closed-loop architecture so critical global industries can move from a reactive to a predictive industrial operating model.

Bill Ruh, VP of the Global Software Center, GE, said,“GE’s industrial strength platform is the first viable step to not only the next era of industrial productivity, but the next era of computing. The ability to bring machines to life with powerful software and sensors is a big advancement – but it is only in the ability to quickly analyze, understand, and put machine-based data to work in real-time that points us to a society that benefits from the promise of big data. This is what the Industrial Internet is about and we are building an ecosystem with partners to save money for our customers and unlock new value for society.”

Expanded Partnerships
Announced today, GE and partners will continue to advance the Industrial Internet by integrating services and developing software, analytics, and cloud-based capabilities that serve diverse functions for industry. Partnerships include:

• A global strategic alliance with Accenture to develop technology and analytics applications that help companies across industries take advantage of the massive amounts of industrial strength big data that is generated through their business operations. This alliance expands on the aviation joint venture Taleris, announced in 2012 to provide airlines with technology that predicts likely failures of aircraft parts and systems and recommends preventive action.

• An extension of the technology partnership with Pivotal to jointly develop and deploy Industrial Internet solutions leveraging their Cloud Foundry, in-memory and Hadoop-based technology and supporting GE’s strategy of bringing consumer-grade capabilities to the enterprise.

• A strategic relationship with Amazon Web Services, who will be the first cloud provider on which GE will deploy its Industrial Internet platform. GE will leverage Amazon Web Services powerful, scalable, low-cost platform to offer GE’s customers cloud solutions for industrial applications and infrastructure.

“Pivotal and GE share a vision for a common platform that is cloud-agnostic and based on modern, scale-out technologies; and does it all at speeds faster than what was previously possible,” said Pivotal CEO Paul Maritz. “Our respective strengths in big and fast data analytics and agile software development will provide our mutual customers with the solutions they need to leverage the Industrial Internet and begin building or deploying applications that make them more efficient year after year.”

“Decades of GE-led innovation have helped shape history, and we are excited to work with the GE team to help shape the future of Industrial Big Data,” said Werner Vogels, Amazon.com Chief Technology Officer. “GE’s domain knowledge and R&D capabilities combined with the strength of AWS’s global infrastructure, breadth of services and big data expertise will help enable customers to solve problems in ways we haven’t even imagined yet, such as improved accuracy in healthcare treatments or extreme levels of energy efficiency.”

Bigger and Faster Data
GE’s platform is the first that can truly manage industrial big data, which is far more complex than other types of new and emerging content and information available today. According to Defining and Sizing the Industrial Internet and The Industrial Internet and Big Data Analytics: Opportunities and Challenges, issued today by The Wikibon Project, industries have been slower than enterprises to take advantage of cloud environments because industrial big data has unique requirements and managing this complex data requires enormous computing power. According to the new report:

• Unprecedented Growth of Machine Data: Industrial data will grow at two times the rate of any other Big Data segment within the next ten years. Intensive machine-based software and services including capturing sensor data, performing local processes and industrial analytics in real-time, and distributing data to end points are required to deal with this massive growth in Industrial high-data output. Wikibon estimates that the total Industrial Internet Technology Spend will reach $514 billion by 2020.

• Velocity: Instant analysis of huge amounts of incoming raw data at millisecond speed, as well as the flexibility to interact with and compare to other existing industrial data streams, is critical to the real-time decision making required to make this data actionable and drive positive outcomes.

• Value: By 2020, the total Industrial Internet Value Creation will reach nearly $1.3 trillion. This represents the improvement in efficiency, productivity and other associated benefits that result from exploiting Industrial Internet technologies.

Jeff Kelly, Big Data Analyst, The Wikibon Project, said,“Our research found that an industrial strength cloud environment needs to meet the challenges of integrating large volumes of machine data with data from other sources while executing near real-time analytics. GE is well positioned it has both the Industrial Internet technology and the deep expertise across healthcare, energy, transportation and aviation – to develop and deliver software and services capable of scaling and delivering meaningful insight and action from complex industrial data.”

“Predictivity” Industrial Internet Solutions — Asset and Operation Outcomes
Global industries are now able to leverage connected machines, advanced sensors and controllers, and to analyze industrial Big Data to increase efficiency and productivity of both physical assets and operations using GE’s “Predictivity” Industrial Internet solutions. Built on GE’s new industrial strength platform,“Predictivity” represents the most advanced software-based, cross-industry products designed specifically to deliver secure access to industrial-grade decision support tools, automation, and expertise and optimize asset and operational outcomes. These include condition-based maintenance, outage management, fuel consumption, and controls and plant automation. The solutions are cloud-agnostic, enabling them to be deployed at the asset, facility or total fleet level on-premise at a customer site, in GE’s cloud, or in a trusted 3rd-party public cloud. For example, GE’s new Flex Efficiency technology, allows utilities to run advanced data modeling and simulations to optimize power output to meet fluctuating distribution demands. By doing this, customers can move the compute-intensive processing by machines to the cloud saving time and money during varying conditional needs, such as a spike in the power grid due to falling temperatures. For more details visit ge.com/predictivity.

About GE
GE (ge.com) works on things that matter. The best people and the best technologies taking on the toughest challenges. Finding solutions in energy, health and home, transportation and finance. Building, powering, moving and curing the world. Not just imagining. Doing. GE works.

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This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly from management’s expectations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others, risks related to competition, management of growth, new products, services and technologies, potential fluctuations in operating results, international expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment and data center optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements, acquisitions and strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system interruption, inventory, government regulation and taxation, payments and fraud. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com’s financial results is included in Amazon.com’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.

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Platform MaaX enables the cloud service-provider customer experience with expert on-boarding and post-sales support services

AUSTIN, Texas – June 17, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — Mural, the provider of first-in-class customer on-boarding for cloud and managed IT services, announces the launch of Platform MaaX, an on-boarding and post-sales support platform designed to provide small and medium-sized businesses with services proven to accelerate cloud implementation and improve satisfaction.

Platform MaaX is available as a private-label or Mural-branded managed service, delivered from the Mural Customer Experience Center in Tucson, Ariz. Platform MaaX can also be licensed, including use of all tools, methods, data analytics and content. Mural will demo the advantages of its range of customer experience offerings at HostingCon 2013, the premier event for web hosting and cloud services, June 17-19 in Austin, Texas, in booth #901.

Platform MaaX accelerates the path to revenue for service providers and ensures that users maximize the benefits of their cloud services, increasing activation rates by 233 percent and lowering customer churn by 70 percent. Platform MaaX supports a growing range of mission-critical SaaS services from the world’s leading technology service providers, including Mozy(R) by EMC(R), a trusted provider of cloud backup services.

“Cloud-based applications can offer increased flexibility and lower upfront costs for many companies, but some organizations are inexperienced at deploying them, which can sometimes be a barrier to adoption,” said Simon Kingston, sales director, Global OEM, Mozy. “Mural uses its expertise in deploying cloud services and its in-depth knowledge of Mozy’s cloud backup and access solutions to assist organizations on their journey to the cloud, with tools like Platform MaaX.”

Platform MaaX accelerates the path to revenue for service providers and ensures that users get full advantage of their cloud services, using core capabilities that include the following:

Tools: Simple-to-use activation scheduler, comprehensive workforce management, rapid on-boarding and data migration applications, advanced multi-mode communications, workflow management, script development and customer interaction tracking.

Methods: Cloud service-specific on-boarding processes and workflows, expert hiring profiles, and an industry-first Customer Experience 360 training and certification program.

Analytics: Adaptable data model for building cloud-centric customer profiles, cloud service-specific data-gathering APIs, combined with in-depth dashboards and reporting capabilities.

Content: Detailed user-centric knowledgebase, third-party content gathering and rebranding, and comprehensive sales and marketing collateral.

Platform MaaX also supports IaaS services including virtual servers and cloud storage from a growing number of strategic partners, helping customers move their entire IT infrastructures to the cloud. With the recently announced Parallels APS package, partners can benefit from low upfront setup costs and ready-to-go capabilities, with very little integration work, to have Platform MaaX up and running quickly.

“Adopting new technology can be time-consuming and intimidating to small and medium-sized businesses, leading to low activation, underutilized services and high turnover,” said Steve Zimba, president of Mural. “We’re hearing from our partners and customers that it’s very difficult to make the move to the cloud. We have built Platform MaaX to address this exact challenge.”

For more information on Platform MaaX, please visit gomural.com/PlatformMaaX

About Mural
Mural perfects the customer experience for cloud and managed IT services, providing a unique combination of tools, methods, data analytics and content in Platform MaaX. Our on-boarding, support and up-selling programs are widely recognized for increasing sales, usage and customer satisfaction. For more information, visit gomural.com

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Tracy Staniland, Vice President of Marketing has been recognized by UBM Tech Channel’s CRN as one of the top Women of the Channel

TORONTO — June 18, 2013 – /BackupReview.info/ — Asigra Inc., a leading Cloud Backup, recovery and restore (BURR) software provider since 1986 today announced that Tracy Staniland, Vice President of Marketing has been recognized by UBM Tech Channel’s CRN as one of the top Women of the Channel. CRN’s annual list recognizes nearly 300 female executives across vendor channel organizations, distributors and solution providers for their accomplishments over the past year, and the far-reaching impact they are having on the technology industry going forward. This year’s Women of the Channel were chosen by the editors of CRN based on their achievements as executives and the amount of influence they wield over the technology channel. These women represent a changing trend in a traditionally male dominated industry.

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In her role at Asigra, Tracy Staniland has been responsible for leading her team of marketing communications and product marketing professionals in the development of innovative and strategic marketing programs that resulted in increased sales opportunities and enhanced relationships between Asigra and its global partner ecosystem. With Asigra’s business model being channel-driven, the corporate marketing initiatives created by Staniland have enhanced channel partner enablement and fostered trustworthy partnerships for years to come.

“We honor and congratulate this list of influential women who are dedicated to supporting the mission of the channel,” said Robert Faletra, CEO, UBM Tech Channel. “For years, we have identified and celebrated the women who have made an indelible mark on the technology industry through unmatched innovation and razor focus on meeting the needs of the IT channel community.”

“If the virtual marketing team support that we provide along with effective sales and marketing resources enables our channel partners to improve their performance by winning more deals, increasing their profitability and gaining more traction within the market then we are on the right track,” said Staniland. “Developing and fostering relationships with such a dedicated service provider partner ecosystem is very fulfilling and rewarding.”

A special feature of the Women of the Channel is in the June issue of CRN magazine and expanded coverage of The 100 Most Powerful Women of the Channel will be featured online at www.crn.com.

To learn more about Asigra, visit: www.asigra.com

Follow Asigra on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/asigra

About Asigra
Trusted since 1986, Asigra provides organizations around the world the ability to recover their data now from anywhere through a global network of partners who deliver cloud backup and recovery services as public, private and/or hybrid deployments. As the industry’s first enterprise cloud-based recovery software to provide data backup and recovery of servers, virtual machines, endpoint devices, databases and applications, SaaS and IaaS based applications, Asigra lowers the total cost of ownership, reduces recovery time objectives, eliminates silos of backup data by providing a single consolidated repository, and provides 100% recovery assurance. Asigra is a Gartner Cool Vendor and has been included in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software since 2010. More information on Asigra can be found at www.asigra.com

About UBM Tech Channel
UBM Tech Channel, a UBM company is the premier provider of IT channel-focused events, media, research, consulting, and sales and marketing services. With more than 30 years of experience and engagement, UBM Tech Channel has the unmatched channel expertise to execute integrated solutions for technology executives, managing partner recruitment, enablement and go-to-market strategy in order to accelerate technology sales. To learn more about UBM Tech Channel, visit us at http://www.ubmchannel.com. Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/UBMTechChannel

UBM plc (www.ubm.com)
UBM plc is a leading global business media company. We inform markets and bring the world’s buyers and sellers together at events, online, in print and provide them with the information they need to do business successfully. We focus on serving professional commercial communities, from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewellery traders, from farmers to pharmacists around the world. Our 6,000 staff in more than 30 countries are organised into specialist teams that serve these communities, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently.

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Asigra and the Asigra logo are trademarks of Asigra Inc. All other brand and product names are, or may be, trademarks of their respective owners.

Contact
Joe Austin
The Ventana Group for Asigra
(818) 332-6166
joe.austin@ventanapr.com

Source: Asigra

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Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery (DR) Come of Age with Enterprise-grade Features and Speed, Eclipsing Other Local Backup Options Such as Software and Appliances

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – June 18, 2013 – /BackupReview.info/ — Zetta.net today announced the general availability of Zetta.net DataProtect™ 4.0, an enterprise-grade cloud backup and disaster recovery solution for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), remote/branch offices, and managed service providers (MSPs). In addition, the company has achieved significant momentum with a customer base that increased year-over-year by 243 percent, and Series B funding of $8 million for continued expansion and growth.

Zetta.net DataProtect delivers 3-in-1 enterprise-grade data protection that includes local software, cloud backup, archiving and disaster recovery functionality. Unlike other solutions, DataProtect is cloud-native, specifically designed for the Internet with built-in WAN traffic optimization and 10 patent-pending cloud performance acceleration technologies. The result is lightening fast speed that is often faster than local backup. Coupled with enterprise-grade data centers and security levels, Zetta.net delivers a high-performing, appliance-free solution that is being rapidly adopted by organizations looking to replace older, complex backup systems with an easy-to-deploy and cost-effective alternative.

New features of Zetta.net DataProtect 4.0 include:

·       Advanced WAN Traffic Optimization – 200 percent faster than Zetta.net DataProtect 3.0, and 396 percent faster backup speed than performance-tested competitors; this enables users to backup in minutes versus hours, or even days, and recover multiple TBs of data within a 24-hour period.

·       Local Backup Functionality for all data sets – users can recover larger or more critical data faster with the ability to keep it locally on any existing storage device.

·       Redesigned User Interface - delivers greater ease of use, both locally at the server and in the cloud; configuration wizards automate and simplify server backup jobs, with built-in server type-specific backup configuration checklists.

·       Enhanced Exchange Server Backup Plug-in – now includes support for a range of complex Exchange server configurations.

Zetta.net Receives $8 million in Series B Funding
Zetta.net also announced today that it has secured $8 million in Series B funding, led by Industry Ventures, with the participation of existing investors Foundation Capital and Sigma. The company will continue to invest in research and product development to maintain its lead in cloud-native backup and disaster recovery technology. It will also build on Zetta.net’s rapidly growing MSP and channel program, and expand its sales and marketing efforts. The additional $8 million brings the company’s total backing to $39.5 million.

“The adoption of cloud backup has typically been held back by such barriers as ineffective Web performance or security concerns,” said Ken Wallace, managing director of Industry Ventures. “Zetta.net virtually eliminates these barriers with an elegant solution that offers enterprise-grade performance, security and reliability, marking a true coming-of-age for cloud backup. Zetta.net and its native cloud approach is well ahead of the curve, with its roots in the optimization of Internet-based communications and speed of data transfer.”

“There is no better proof of success than that demonstrated by customer growth,” said Greg Gretsch, managing director, Sigma West. “Zetta.net continues to impress with its rapid rate of both customer adoption and retention, meaning it is effectively addressing the market’s need for affordable, enterprise-grade cloud backup and disaster recovery.”

“With millions of files increasing exponentially, growing data sets, and distributed business environments, old-school backup technologies like tape, software, appliances and consumer-grade clouds are increasingly struggling to keep up with backup requirements and can pose management nightmares,” said Ashmeet Sidana, general partner, Foundation Capital. “Zetta.net’s solution delivers a very effective alternative to traditional, often cumbersome backup systems at an affordable price that makes enterprise-grade backup and disaster recovery accessible to any size company.”

“The significant customer growth we have achieved, combined with our Series B funding, is a testament to the value Zetta.net is bringing to market as well as the positive direction that cloud backup is headed,” said Ali Jenab, CEO, Zetta.net. “We’re very pleased to partner with Industry Ventures, along with our existing partners Foundation Capital and Sigma, as we bolster our research and development, channel, marketing and sales initiatives to scale Zetta.net up to the next stage of growth. We’re committed to continued innovation as we build on our enterprise-grade backup and disaster recovery solution for SMEs, remote and branch offices, and MSPs.”

Pricing and Availability of Zetta.net DataProtect 4.0
Zetta.net DataProtect 4.0 is generally available now, starting at $225 per month. This includes unlimited backup and recovery software, 500GBs of enterprise-gradesecure cloud storage, 24×7 unlimited U.S.-based engineer-level support and monitoring, and all maintenance, updates and upgrades. For more information visit http://www.zetta.net.

About Zetta.net
Zetta.net is an award-winning provider of enterprise-grade 3-in-1 backup, disaster recovery and archiving technology for small and medium enterprises, distributed organizations, and managed service providers (MSPs). The SaaS-based solution enables companies to simplify backups and instantly recover data through a single management point. With local and offsite backup, archiving and disaster recovery functionality integrated into one solution, Zetta.net delivers the value of multiple products at a fraction of the cost.

Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Zetta.net was established in 2008 by successful serial entrepreneurs and technology executives from companies such as Netscape, VeriSign, Symantec, EMC, HP, and Shutterfly. For more information, visit www.Zetta.net or www.facebook.com/zettastorage. Follow Zetta.net on Twitter at www.twitter.com/zettanet.

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Contact Agency
Denise Nelson
The Ventana Group
925 837 6277
denise.nelson[@]ventanapr.com

Source: Zetta.net

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Veeam Backup Management Suite Now Available to Hosting, Managed Service and Cloud Providers as a Monthly Per-VM Rental or for Purchase

BAAR, Switzerland, June 18, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — Veeam® Software, innovative provider of backup, replication and virtualization management solutions for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, today announced that the company has expanded its Veeam Cloud Provider (VCP) program with the addition of Veeam Backup Management Suite™.

The Veeam Cloud Provider program currently has more than 1 500 cloud providers across EMEA. The VCP program offers flexible monthly and perpetual licensing to meet the needs of hosting, managed service and cloud providers. Monthly rental by the virtual machine (VM) or perpetual licenses are available from official VCP’s aggregators, while perpetual licenses are available from thousands of Veeam resellers around the world.

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According to Jie Zhang, Research Director at Gartner, “Together, cloud archiving and backup services had estimated revenue of $842.1 million in 2011. Annual growth rates exceeding 40% are projected for 2012 and 2013; the market will continue strong growth beyond 2013 into 2016. The five-year CAGR is forecast at 30.6%, with the total market size reaching $3.2 billion by 2016.^[1]

The VCP program enables service providers to excel in this market with maximum differentiation and margin opportunity. With the VCP program, service providers can expect to:

• Realize more revenue by offering a larger array of data protection and management services;
• Raise customer satisfaction with stronger data protection and faster response time when data needs to be recovered; and
• Increase administrator productivity and mitigate daily management risks.

Zhang goes on to write, “Many established storage vendors have already started delivering their on-premises archiving or backup software via the cloud. Many more new entrants — pure cloud services providers — are seizing this opportunity as well. These smaller vendors are competing aggressively by taking advantage of the nascent state of the market. Their agility in adapting to new and changing business requirements puts them in a good position to compete.^[2]

Veeam Backup Management Suite combines Veeam Backup & Replication™ and Veeam ONE™ in a single, integrated data protection and infrastructure management solution for VMware and Hyper-V that is powerful, easy-to-use and affordable. The suite is available now to VCPs as a per VM monthly rental and as a perpetual license in blocks of 10 VMs.

To learn more about Veeam Backup Management Suite and the VCP program, please register online or log in here – http://www.veeam.com/veeam-cloud-providers.html

Quotes:
Gilles Pommier, EMEA Channel Director, Veeam Software
“Data protection is quickly expanding to the cloud, which provides a convenient and cost-effective platform for offsite backups and disaster recovery. At the same time hosting companies today are driven by the need of productivity increase, cost control and improved level of services. Veeam is relying on – and enabling – service providers to make our Modern Data Protection solution available in the cloud. Our business has always been about creating partnerships, and our latest expansion of the Veeam Cloud Provider program is another example of how we strengthen those relationships by better meeting the needs of our partners.”

About Veeam Software
Veeam® is Modern Data Protection™. We believe today’s IT requirements have changed and that “3C” legacy backup problems — high costs, increased complexity and missing capabilities — are no longer acceptable for any organization. Veeam provides powerful, easy-to-use and affordable solutions that are Built for Virtualization™ and the cloud — a perfect fit for the modern datacenter.

Veeam Backup & Replication™ delivers VMware backup, Hyper-V backup, recovery and replication. This #1 VM Backup™ solution helps organizations meet RPOs and RTOs, save time, eliminate risks and dramatically reduce capital and operational costs. Veeam Backup Management Suite™ combines Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam ONE™ in a single integrated solution to protect virtualization investments, increase administrator productivity and help mitigate daily management risks. Veeam Management Pack™ (MP) extends enterprise monitoring to VMware through Microsoft System Center. Veeam also provides free tools for the virtualization community.

^[1] Anderson, Ed and Zhang, Jie, et. al. “Forecast Overview: Public Cloud Services, Worldwide, 2011-2016, 2Q12 Update.” Gartner. 20 August 2012.

^[2] Ibid.

CONTACT:
Davies Murphy Group
Jeff Miller
+1-541-207-3461
veeam[@]daviesmurphy.com

SOURCE: Veeam Software

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Infrascale’s FileLocker™ provides end-to-end encryption, secure syncing and mobile access for sensitive files – all hosted within South Africa by E-Technologies

JOHANNESBURG, June 18, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — E-Technologies, provider of technology services to security-conscious industries, has partnered with Infrascale to offer its customers FileLocker™. FileLocker is a secure file sharing and collaboration tool that combines the security of client-side private key encryption and the ability to be deployed in a private network with on-site servers. Learn more about E-Technologies’ FileLocker offering: www.etechnologies.co.za.

Truly Secure File Sharing Inside South Africa
FileLocker employs end-to-end encryption from desktop to cloud to keep information completely safe. Files are protected before leaving a device with a personal passphrase known only to the account-holder, transferred over a 256-bit SSL connection, encrypted again and then stored in the FileLocker cloud. Also, files are kept for an unlimited amount of time and each-and-every past version can be restored.

FileLocker: Built by Data Protection Experts
FileLocker is created by Infrascale™, whose technology powers over one-thousand cloud storage brands, including SOS Online Backup. During its development cycle, FileLocker’s underlying technology has been put to use by over a million individual and company accounts and shared over a billion files.

“Our partnership with Infrascale will allow us to provide our customers with secure solutions for file sharing, collaboration and online backup. We are very impressed with FileLocker and SOS Online Backup and we look forward to building the South African market with Infrascale,” said Dirk Bottinger, CEO of E-Technologies.

Infrascale views geographic expansion to Africa as vital to its efforts. In 2012, Infrascale launched a data centre in South Africa in response to partner demand. Brian Berlin, SVP of Global Sales at Infrascale says, “The South African market is strategic to our global sales strategy, and our partnership with E-Technologies represents a major step towards capturing new business in the territory. We are committed to developing the market with empowered channel partners like E-Technologies.”

Advancing Enterprise Content Management for E-Technologies Customers
E-Technologies has been a premier provider of enterprise content management tools in Africa since 2008. The addition of FileLocker to its suite of products will expand the company’s security focused product offerings. E-Technologies provides enterprise content management solutions for the Office of the Presidency, Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, and Bank of Zambia.

About Infrascale
Infrascale connects people, devices and their data in ways that are truly secure. Headquartered in El Segundo, California, Infrascale’s cloud platform runs from eleven data centres on five continents. Infrascale’s software spans mobile, desktop and cloud and powers FileLocker, Enterprise Protect™, SOS Online Backup and over one-thousand independent cloud service companies, VARs and MSPs. Visit www.infrascale.com.

Contact
InfraScale
1-877-896-3611
info[at]infrascale.com
www.infrascale.com

Address
999 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Suite 100
El Segundo, CA
USA, 90245

SOURCE: Infrascale

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Company to share perspectives on why existing cloud-based sync products lack critical endpoint backup capabilities

Minneapolis – June 17, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — Code 42 Software, Inc., developers of award-winning, private and public cloud-based endpoint backup solutions for consumers, businesses and the enterprise, today announced it was named one of the Star Tribune’s Top Workplaces 2013.

Star Tribune publisher Michael J. Klingensmith said, “The companies in the Star Tribune Top Workplaces deserve high praise for creating the very best work environments in the state of Minnesota. My congratulations to each of these exceptional companies.”

The annual Top Workplaces list recognizes the best-performing and most progressive companies in Minnesota based on employee opinions about organizational health, job expectations and employee engagement. WorkplaceDynamics—on behalf of the Star Tribune—selected the top workplaces after surveying more than 64,000 employees of Minnesota-based public, private and nonprofit organizations.

“We’re fortunate to work at a place like Code 42,” said Matthew Dornquast, chief executive officer and founding partner of Code 42 Software. “It’s not something we take for granted. We will continue to invest heavily in this context of creative collaboration we call Code 42.”

To qualify for the Top Workplaces, a company must employ more than 50 employees in Minnesota. Nearly 1,900 companies were invited to participate; rankings were composite scores calculated purely on the basis of employee responses.

The list of the Top Workplaces 2013 was published in a special section of the Star Tribune on Sunday, June 16, 2013. It also can be found online at www.startribune.com/topworkplaces2013

Contact:
BLASTmedia for Code 42 Software
Alyshia Kisor-Madlem
317-806-1900, Ext. 105
alyshia[@]blastmedia.com

SOURCE: Code 42 Software, Inc.

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Functions Like a Native App, Provides the Foundation for Enterprise-Grade, ‘Zero-Knowledge’ Mobile Apps

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Jun 11, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ – SpiderOak, the ‘Zero-Knowledge’ privacy cloud technologies provider, today announced the new SpiderOak Android 2.0 application. Redesigned from the ground up using HTML5 and fully compatible with the brand-new SpiderOak Hive, the Android app is setting the standard for mobile privacy in the cloud. The newly available app enables users to view the data located in the Hive folder as well as any folders or files across their SpiderOak devices. It sets a new precedent for the development of open-source, HTML5 mobile applications.

“Our new Android app bucks the prevailing trends,” said Ethan Oberman, CEO of SpiderOak. “We have proven the capabilities of HTML5 and the success of producing open source mobile software. Our Android 2.0 app further sets the groundwork for bringing full ‘Zero-Knowledge’ read/write to mobile devices – leveraging our new Crypton framework. After all, privacy must expand beyond the computer to include the rapidly evolving mobile platform.”

HTML5 and Open Source
SpiderOak has a strong commitment to open source software and expounds on this belief with SpiderOak Mobile 2.0. The company also believes in leveraging the HTML5 platform as a viable solution to building mobile apps, despite recent companies moving in the other direction – most notably Facebook.

Newly hired lead mobile developer Tommy-Carlos Williams is a renowned expert in HTML5 and PhoneGap, an industry-leading open-source framework for developing apps using HTML5. “With SpiderOak 2.0 for Android, we’re really leveraging the HTML5 platform in its truest nature,” said Williams. “I’m excited at the direction SpiderOak is taking in mobile. We’re breaking new ground for ‘Zero-Knowledge’ privacy, as well as for the evolution of HTML5 itself. It is for these reasons I moved to SpiderOak and look forward to continuing our progress in these areas and more.”

SpiderOak applied styling to make the new app match Android 4.0 and above, and has devised features that behave in a native manner. The goal of the new app is not just to increase overall functionality and usability, but also appeal to the more stringent privacy and security demands of the enterprise.

Designed for Simplicity and Ease of Use
SpiderOak 2.0 for Android also includes significant usability enhancements, such as a higher level of app performance and easier navigation. Through the updated Android app, users can log in and easily see the data in their Hive folder or across any other device that is running SpiderOak. In addition to immediately accessing and viewing all of the data inside an account, a user can download and share files via email or social media.

Devices running Android 2.3 and newer versions can download the app today at; https://spideroak.com/mobile

To learn more about SpiderOak Hive, please visit: https://spideroak.com/hive/

Contact
Press Team
inquiry@spideroak.com
www.spideroak.com

Address
SpiderOak, Inc.
555 Huehl Road
Northbrook, IL
USA, 60062

Source: SpiderOak

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Latest Release Adds Granular SharePoint Recovery, from Single Instances to Complete Farms in either Physical or Virtual Deployments

TORONTO – June 17, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — Asigra Inc., a leading Cloud Backup, recovery and restore (BURR) software provider since 1986 today announced an expanded feature set for Microsoft SharePoint data recovery. The new capabilities protect both single instances of SharePoint and complete farms in either physical or virtual implementations to support backup administrators challenged with protecting one of the enterprise’s most popular content management applications.

Microsoft SharePoint ranks among the most widely deployed enterprise collaboration platforms in the world with more than 125 million licenses sold to more than 65,000 enterprise customers^[1]. According to Microsoft, it is one of the fastest-growing applications in the company’s history and analysts have called SharePoint “the most widely used document- and collaboration-centered platforms today^[2].”

As the importance of content and collaboration grows in the enterprise, Microsoft SharePoint is increasingly being used by organizations of all sizes to manage, share, track and present enterprise content assets. Given the role it plays in being a central repository for an organization’s intellectual property, SharePoint is one of the most business critical applications in the enterprise. As a result, users must have access to the data in SharePoint to maintain operations. Asigra Cloud Backup™ provides comprehensive SharePoint backup and recovery capabilities to meet the most stringent Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs), including Virtual Disaster Recovery (VDR) with the ability to run SharePoint from the backup repository for continued operations.

With the latest SharePoint enhancement, capabilities now include:

•       SharePoint 2013 support
•       Single-pass Microsoft SharePoint Backup: Recover data to the preferred level of granularity from a single backup of SharePoint data. Restore the complete database, individual accounts, or just a single file based on need.
•       Restore Location Flexibility: Have the ability to recover the information to the same location it was backed up from or to an alternate location.
•       Retain Critical Metadata: Retain information about the permissions and access rights of individual files when it is restored from the backup repository.
•       Non-Disruptive Backups: Backup large content repositories without affecting application performance.
•       Enterprise Scalability: Protect everything from single instances to large SharePoint farms in physical and virtual implementations.
•       Virtual Disaster Recovery: Provides the ability to run a virtual machine hosting SharePoint from the backup repository for continued operations.

Asigra provides comprehensive and scalable data protection for SharePoint, protecting single instances of SharePoint or complete farms. The solution also protects SharePoint data in either physical or virtual operating environments for maximum deployment flexibility. Asigra’s new functionality helps organizations achieve granular recoveries across various levels – from the complete database down to the level of individual files – all from a single pass backup. This helps simplify the process of managing SharePoint backup and restores while also reducing storage costs and administrative overhead.

“Because of the increasing use of SharePoint and the critical nature of documents stored in these repositories, it is essential that organizations ensure the availability of this data,” said Tracy Staniland, VP, Marketing, Asigra. “The enhancements we’ve made help organizations recover at any level of granularity from a single backup of SharePoint, helping to eliminate otherwise long recovery processes.

Pricing and Availability
Asigra Cloud Backup v12.2 will become generally available on June 26th and is priced starting at $1080.00 per compressed de-duped TB. Pricing scales based on configuration.

To learn more about Asigra, visit: www.asigra.com

Follow Asigra on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/asigra

About Asigra
Trusted since 1986, Asigra provides organizations around the world the ability to recover their data now from anywhere through a global network of partners who deliver cloud backup and recovery services as public, private and/or hybrid deployments. As the industry’s first enterprise cloud-based recovery software to provide data backup and recovery of servers, virtual machines, endpoint devices, databases and applications, SaaS and IaaS based applications, Asigra lowers the total cost of ownership, reduces recovery time objectives, eliminates silos of backup data by providing a single consolidated repository, and provides 100% recovery assurance. Asigra is a Gartner Cool Vendor and has been included in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software since 2010. More information on Asigra can be found at www.asigra.com

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^[1] – Redmond Magazine, What to Expect in SharePoint 2013, April 4, 2012
^[2] – Gartner, SharePoint 2010 Represents Progress, but Caveats Remain, May 5, 2010, Document ID 1372114

Agency Contact:
Joe Austin
The Ventana Group
(818) 332-6166
joe.austin[@]ventanapr.com

Source: Asigra

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INDEPENDENCE, Ohio – June 17, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — —United Computer Group, Inc. (UCG), an information technology services firm, is pleased to have been chosen to supply cloud-based backup and twenty-four hour disaster recovery protection for Atlas Paper Mills, LLC. Atlas Paper Mills, a leading US manufacturer of recycled paper products, continues their green initiative with UCG’s VAULT400 cloud backup and twenty-four hour disaster recovery solutions. This initiative lowers the environmental impact on travel resources, storage and energy.

Recently, United Computer Group and Atlas Paper Mills focused on a cost effective solution to protect their IBM iSeries mission critical data. VAULT400 provides an easy to use cloud backup solution that takes place during evening hours. At close of business each day, a full backup is sent offsite to two UCG data centers. With their data in a secure cloud-based environment, Atlas Paper Mills enjoys peace of mind knowing that if a disaster were to occur, they are one phone call away from an immediate response by UCG’s client care team. No urgent flights with tape in hand; no searching for the last backup and incrementals. UCG will bring up and transfer the data allowing Atlas to VPN into a new system in less than 24 hours.

Atlas Paper Mills’ IT Manager, Luis Cordero, stated: “In our last test it was discovered that a small program was missing. UCG’s engineering team helped find the solution and worked with us to verify a successful DR test.” UCG works closely with all of their clients to design a customized disaster recovery plan. The backup agent protects the system data, native DB2 databases, IFS file, folders, logical and save files to provide complete disaster recovery of the IBM Power system.

About United Computer Group, Inc. and VAULT400
ucgrp.com • vault400.com

UCG provides cost-effective technology products, services, and solutions customized to fit the needs of their clients today and as their businesses grow. Founded in 1987, UCG is an IBM Advanced Business Partner specializing in midmarket and enterprise clients. UCG has been rated in the top 1% of IBM Business Partners nationwide.

UCG’s VAULT400 is a premier managed risk mitigation and business continuity planning service for secure cloud backup and disaster recovery. VAULT400 backs up an entire organization’s business-critical data to UCG’s secure data centers.

Safe and off-site, the encrypted data is available online at all times for immediate, user-initiated recovery. VAULT400 works seamlessly within an organization’s existing infrastructure with no additional hardware required.

About Atlas Paper Mills LLC
atlaspapermills.com

Atlas Paper Mills is the leading US manufacturer of recycled paper products produced to anticipate and exceed the environmental stewardship and value needs of our customers. Atlas Paper Mills is based in Miami, Florida and is a leader in the production of tissue paper, utilizing 100% recycled fiber and a manufacturing process free of chlorine, chlorine derivatives or any other potentially harmful chemicals.

Today, Atlas produces over 36,000 tons of recycled tissue products per year and converts approximately three million cases of Eco-friendly towels and tissue for use in the Away From Home and Retail Marketplace.

For more information contact:
James A. Kandrac
Phone: 216.520.1333
Toll Free 800.211.8798
jak[@]ucgrp.com
www.ucgrp.com
www.vault400.com

Address
Independence Corporate Center
7100 E. Pleasant Valley Road, #250
Independence, OH
USA, 44131-5556

Source: UCG

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The integration module is directly available for download from Partner Portal

Amsterdam, June 17, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — BackupAgent, the leading provider of cloud backup software for service providers, announces its integration with HostBill. With this integration module BackupAgent enables all its Partners who use HostBill for billing and provisioning to download the module directly and automate the billing of their cloud backup service.

HostBill is a very simple and fast billing, support, automation and CRM software with well-designed templates and sliders for online businesses. The integration with HostBill allows BackupAgent’s Partners to easily connect their existing customers to their online backup service; creating a super easy upsell service.

The module is directly available for all hosting service providers in the SPLA partner program ‘Powered by BackupAgent’ and running the HostBill control panel. The module is free of charge and can be downloaded from BackupAgent’s partner portal.

Robert van Geldrop, CTO van BackupAgent says: “BackupAgent is innovative; we always try to integrate with the most functional infrastructures such as HostBill to make the management environments for our Partners seamless. We are glad that from now on our Partners can simply and conveniently order and manage BackupAgent’s service from their HostBill client area”.

About BackupAgent
BackupAgent was founded in 2005 and is a privately held company with headquarters in Delft, The Netherlands. BackupAgent’s cloud backup technology is used by over 400 service providers, hosting companies and telcos in over 50 countries worldwide. BackupAgent was ranked 8th on the Deloitte Fast 50 in 2010, the list of fastest growing technology companies. More about BackupAgent: www.backupagent.com.

For more information:
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Hasina Atrafi, Marketing & Communications Executive
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Researchers in Northern Germany to Benefit from Deployment of World’s Fastest File Storage Technology with Increased Performance, Enterprise Reliability and Scalability

International Supercomputing Conference, DDN Booth #305 — Leipzig, Germany — June 17, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ –

News Facts

• Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB), a world-class research institute for applied mathematics and computer science, will use DataDirect Networks (DDN) in partnership with Cray Inc. as the foundation for its Big Data analytics and scientific research infrastructure for the HLRN supercomputer.
• ZIB will use DDNTM technology to perform massive scientific simulations, mathematical computations and analytics to accelerate research spanning the fields of physics, chemistry, fluid dynamics, engineering and the environment.
• With research driven by the principle of “Math, Computation & Data at Work”, ZIB supports scientific projects conducted by several hundred academic and government researchers who share access to distributed supercomputing resources in Berlin and Hannover, Germany, as part of the HLRN alliance.
• Given the wide range of data intensive applications and concurrent computations performed by the institute, HLRN required a Big Data solution that could deliver a significant increase in storage capacity, and also scale bandwidth and performance of its storage seamlessly. According to ZIB, DDN’s HPC portfolio, including the SFA12K® storage platform and GRIDScaler™ Parallel File Storage Appliance, outperformed competitive solutions in I/O price/performance ratio.
• Using the world’s fastest file storage technology from DDN, HLRN applications will be able to achieve an overall aggregate bandwidth performance of more than 50 gigabytes per second, which will represent a 3.6x improvement in performance over its previously deployed system. As a result, ZIB will be well positioned to expand its advanced scientific research while also embarking on new research that requires high-bandwidth access to extremely large data sets.
• ZIB works in close cooperation with partners from science, economy and society to develop leading-edge mathematical models and efficient algorithms.

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DDN Delivers Capacity-Based Scale and Performance for Industry-Leading TCO

• Over the past two years, ZIB experienced a major surge in Big Data growth, which drove the need for greater disk capacity and bandwidth for rapid access to large scale datasets. The DDN SFA12K storage platform, deployed with DDN GRIDScaler parallel file system, serves as the backbone for the HLRN-III peta-scale computing resource, ensuring the optimal balance between compute power and storage bandwidth.
• With DDN’s policy-driven snapshots, ZIB meets a crucial requirement for providing an extra measure of protection against accidental data deletion, data corruption or viruses.
• ZIB also is impressed with DDN’s ability to reduce energy consumption by eliminating unnecessary storage enclosures, switches, fans and power supplies to help reduce data center, power and cooling requirements for lowered Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
• Working in partnership with Cray Inc. to deploy the system, DDN will assist ZIB in migrating up to 1.6 petabytes of vital HLRN project data, encompassing up to 800TBs at each HLRN production site, while providing ample capacity to scale its storage system to 40PBs as future needs dictate without having to add more components.

Supporting Quotes
Dr. Thomas Steinke, leader of the supercomputing algorithms and consultancy group at Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB):

• “As a research institute focused on mathematics and computer science and resource provider in the HLRN alliance, it’s crucial for us to balance compute power and storage bandwidth, which isn’t easy. With its installation, DDN will deliver an exceptional improvement in bandwidth performance over our current system while also outranking the competing solutions in terms of price/performance.”
• “With DDN technology, ZIB will be able to increase storage bandwidth and performance to enable more modeling and simulations, as well as apply cutting-edge algorithms to answer new questions that can lead to major scientific breakthroughs.”

Supporting Resources

• About SFK12
• About GRIDScaler
• About DDN’s leadership in supercomputing
• Meet us at ISC in Booth #305
• Follow DDN via Blog and Twitter

About DDN
DataDirect Networks (DDN) is the world leader in massively scalable Big Data and Cloud storage. Our data storage and processing solutions and professional services enable content-rich and high growth IT environments to achieve the highest levels of systems scalability, efficiency and simplicity. DDN enables enterprises to extract value and deliver business results from their information. Our customers include the world’s leading online content and social networking providers, high performance cloud and grid computing, life sciences, media production, and security and intelligence organizations. Deployed in thousands of mission critical environments worldwide, DDN’s solutions have been designed, engineered and proven in the world’s most scalable data centers to ensure competitive business advantage for today’s information powered enterprise. For more information, go to www.ddn.com or call 1-800-837-2298.

©2013 All rights reserved. DDN, Storage Fusion Architecture, SFA12K, WOS, DirectMon, hScaler and Information In Motion are trademarks owned by DataDirect Networks. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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By Alexander Eiriksson, COO at Securstore
June 14, 2013

Securstore Online Data Backup Expert Tips: Defense in Depth – Cloud Security Strategies

Any discussion of Cloud security typically revolves around “end point” security and the mechanisms that are being put in place by Cloud vendors (such as encryption, user management redundancy, disaster recovery and business continuity) to ensure that the Cloud is secure. While this type of discussion is important, it reveals only half the picture. Security of organizational data is not merely a hardware/software issue or a compliance issue. It vitally concerns the organization, the very existence, competitiveness of the business. Security decisions must continue to vest with the organization—however sophisticated the software or hardware that is being provided by the Cloud backup vendor. These are but tools, which ensure security. But, they cannot replace security planning and policy.

Unfortunately, most organizations subscribing to the Cloud are quick to assume that security is the responsibility of the Cloud vendor. This belief may have something to do with the hype that surrounds Cloud security systems. Cloud vendors, out to prove that their Cloud is more secure than that of the competition, assure their customers that they have the best encryption systems, the best disaster recovery protocols in place, and so on. They emphasize on the unblemished data security records they hold. This hype distracts the attention and focuses it away from the core business imperatives of the organization—namely the need for policy driven security implementation.

Security is ultimately, the concern of the organization. It is the intellectual property of the enterprise that is at stake. Data breaches will result in loss of reputation, loss of business, and expensive legal action. Mature organizations understand that Cloud services provide only the necessary security infrastructure (doors and windows) but, the security mechanism (locks, access rights, and keys) will have to be activated and maintained by the consuming organization. They may use IT control objectives and management governance frameworks, such as COBIT 5.0 to verify the security objectives of the Cloud vendor and determine whether the objectives are in synchronization with their own, but they will subject their Cloud vendor system and their own IT network to rigorous testing and evaluation to ensure security.

Enterprise security evaluation begins with the identification of end points. Major questions being: Who connects to the network? What are the devices that are used to connect to the network? What kinds of applications are used and for what purpose? The answers to these questions will be unique for each organization. There can be no “one size fits all” answers to these questions. There will be device risks and application risks. Each type of risk will have to be examined in depth. The security system must be built up with complete understanding and unceasing effort.

Securstore provides a bespoke offsite backup solution catered for customers who have both mission-critical data and non-critical data i.e. it provides customers with a secure & efficient backup and recovery solution which is sustainable over time. This coupled with agentless technology and advanced support for all environments and applications makes it suitable for any type of business, data centre provider or reseller.

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About the Author: Alexander Eiriksson is the COO of Securstore, an Asigra based cloud backup provider certified by British Standards Institute for ISO 27001 and ANAB. Established in 1991, Securstore provides businesses and enterprise customers a technically advanced solution in UK, Europe, USA, Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

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By Ben Puzzuoli, Technical Sales Director at KineticD
June 14, 2013

KineticD Online Data Backup Expert Tips: Avoiding Data Security Breaches in the Cloud

With more and more businesses continuing to export an increasing amount of their IT concerns to the cloud, the issue of data security has never been more crucial.  After all, history has shown that data security breaches can cause businesses to suffer millions of dollars in losses.  And, while some breaches in data security may not even be committed with any malicious intention to commit fraud or steal identities, whenever the public hears of any type of inconsistency in the data security of an organization an environment of mistrust can quickly spread amongst both customers and business partners alike.  For these reasons and more, maintaining data security at all costs must be of the highest concern to business organizations if they wish to remain in business in the first place.

Online data backup and cloud computing, which by its very nature puts the mission critical data of businesses into the hands of third party vendors, is an area in which data security must obviously be of the utmost priority.  After all, when signing up for the services of a cloud vendor, the customer and cloud service provider are entering into a highly important, trust-based relationship in which the client’s data can easily be jeopardized if this trust is put into the wrong hands.  And, true data security in the cloud is unfortunately by no means an easily-wrought commodity, with cloud vendors needing to not only safely store their clients’ digital files, but also to duplicate and share this data in a highly complex manner over multiple virtual machines in order to both maximize the use of physical resources and to most effectively protect their clients against data loss as well.

A recent study conducted by MIT that focused on Amazon.com’s web services, which are an example of a public cloud network, opened the eyes of many as to just how potentially vulnerable data that is stored in the cloud can be to compromisation by outside agents.  The practice of “cloud cartography”, which essentially denotes using the physical locations of different servers in a cloud system to exploit vulnerabilities within that system, is unfortunately gaining ground.  Through this practice, malicious cyber agents can use side channel attacks to either extract people’s personal information, or to simply corrupt, and thus render useless, any data that they are able to access.  And, it has also been found that hackers can unfortunately exploit private cloud networks in much the same way as they do public ones.

Of course, when one considers these disturbing truths about the vulnerability of cloud data, it can be quite easy to begin to wonder whether or not cloud services should be trusted at all.  However, one must bear in mind that regardless of these vulnerabilities, the utilization of cloud services has become an extremely essential practice for business entities of all sizes.  After all, the digital information of the world has obviously become increasingly mobile, and thus the mobility and flexibility of data access and sharing are quickly becoming more or less expected commodities in the world of business.  And, one must also keep in mind that cloud services help businesses save money by offering IT infrastructure with scalable, “pay-as-you-go” pricing systems that must be taken advantage of if growing businesses with more limited budgets want to be able to compete with the more established of their competition.

When it comes down to it, maintaining data security in the cloud is much like being safe in any other aspect of life; one must be sure to ask the right questions and to be as informed as possible.  For example, any cloud vendor that is worth considering must have transparency as to what their data security practices are and how they are implemented.  Potential cloud clients must be aware as to not only how these practices work, but also how they may impact the overall performance of the cloud vendor’s services as well.  Cloud vendors should be testing the security of their systems on a regular basis, and have solid recovery plans in place for any and all potentially unanticipated vulnerabilities.  And, clients of cloud services should also be aware of the physical locations at which their cloud data is to be stored.

Moreover, there are many different types of cloud services, all with varying degrees of security inherent to them.  Businesses should know what level of services their potential cloud vendors offer, and must often make the sometimes difficult decision as to whether or not they want to save money by taking advantage of virtually segregated, but essentially public cloud resources, or if they wish to spend more in order to have their own physically private cloud infrastructure put in place.  And finally, businesses and individuals alike that are seeking cloud services should perform extensive research as to the history of any cloud vendor that they are considering, including looking into reviews and discussion groups online to see what others have to say about their past experiences with the cloud vendor in question.

Of course, we here at KineticD take data security extremely seriously.  Perhaps that’s why in the over 10 years that we’ve been in the online data backup and cloud computing service industry we have never once suffered a security breach or a single aberration in our 100% data recovery track record.  Since 2002 we’ve made it our top priority to provide only the most cutting edge cloud services to all of our clients, and with our bank-grade, 448-bit data encryption, and patented Continuous Data Protection technology, we think that you’ll like what we can do for your company’s cloud IT.  But, don’t just take our word for it, look online to see what others are saying about our award-winning cloud services, and stop by our website today to sign up for our free 14-day trial to find out for yourself just what the KineticD Advantage is all about!

About the author: Ben Puzzuoli is Technical Sales Director at KineticD, a Toronto based online data backup service provider.

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By Suresh Shanmugam, Product Marketing at Vembu Technologies
June 14, 2013

Vembu Online Data Backup Expert Tips: A Checklist for Selecting a Cloud Backup Service – Part I

Selecting a cloud backup service that meets all your organization needs is a very complex problem. You need to examine a number of parameters before you make your selection. Having a good checklist with guideline answers is always a good starting point. Here is a checklist you could use:

1. Who owns the data that is stored in the cloud?
You do. The data stored in the cloud is encrypted (the encryption key should preferably always be kept by the customer) and remains inaccessible to the service provider unless the service provider is specifically authorized for access in the Service Level Agreement (SLA) with the customer. However, the service provider needs to own the IP address on which the service runs, and have programmatic access to the data for enhancing the quality of services provided to you.

2. What kind of Privacy, security and Data Protection should be provided?
Check whether the cloud backup service provider is SAS 70 (SSAE 16) certified. This certification ensures that the service provider’s policies and practices are in compliance with SAS 70 (SSAE 16) audits. This ensures that your service provider has taken care of security, privacy and data protection needs of your organization.

You need to ensure that your service provider uses bank grade or military grade impregnable encryption wherever possible. The encryption key should preferably be user defined and available only with you.

Finally, you must test and satisfy yourself that the cloud service helps you comply with the extant legal mandates, such as HIPAA, PCI DSS Level 1 etc. You must additionally check whether the service implements “access logging” and encryption that will satisfy legal compliance audits of your data.

3. What is the kind of uptime promised?
Read the Service Level Agreement (SLA) carefully to understand what kind of uptime is offered. If your service promises a 99.999% uptime, you need to check out whether they have delivered on their promise in the past. Ask for an uptime report for the last 6-12 months.

Check out what measures have been taken by the service provider to deliver on this promise. Have they replicated the data to geographically dispersed servers for guarding against disaster and primary server failures? Have they created failover clusters, hot sites, disaster recovery sites etc? Can you hook up to your database over the Internet for “bare metal recovery” or for business continuity? Can you meet your Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO)?

In Part II, we will further discuss main factors you need to consider when selecting cloud backup services.

About the Author: Suresh Shanmugam, Product Marketing at Vembu Technologies, a leader in providing cost effective, hybrid (on-premise and cloud) data protection and business focused online backup and disaster recovery solutions for ISPs, MSPs, VARs, Managed Hosting Providers and Educational Institutions. Vembu’s flagship product, StoreGrid, recently announced an advanced upgrade – “StoreGrid SP – 4.3“ releases.

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Intronis Spring Release ’13 Delivers Advanced Feature Set, Greater Customization and Faster Recovery Time for Virtualized Systems

CHELMSFORD, MA – June 13, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — Expanding its support for virtualized environments, Intronis, Inc., provider of world-class cloud backup solutions for the IT channel, today announced the immediate availability of its Spring Release ’13. Simultaneously, the cloud backup storage leader announced the opening of its latest data center in Montreal, Canada.

“Intronis is a fast-growth company focused on earning the business and enabling the success of our North American channel partners,” says Rick Faulk, Intronis CEO. “Our Spring Release ’13 offers VARs and MSPs the technology, resources and support needed to scale success and offer an invaluable backup and recovery service perfectly suited to support physical and virtualized environments with ease and efficiency.”

New features within Intronis’ Spring Release ’13 include QuickSpin, a powerful data recovery tool that offers advanced data restore and localized recovery support for virtualized machines. Priced at a fixed per-host cost, QuickSpin offers Change Block Tracking (CBT) for speedier incremental backups, flexible data retention and archiving settings, as well as 256-bit AES encryption for maximum data protection.

Additional features included in the Spring Release ’13 are an enhanced Intronis Partner Portal lined with greater customization, usability and managed access controls; and the Branding Wizard, a new marketing and enablement tool that lets Intronis partners quickly create a customer-facing portal featuring their own logo, colors and specific information.

“Backup and recovery is a business critical service for SMBs and represents a growing, high-value opportunity for IT channel partners throughout North America,” says Dan Iacono, storage analyst, IDC. “Intronis’ Spring Release ’13 strives to simplify cloud-based backup, speed time to recovery and provide a SaaS-based data recovery solution that delivers greater business value to channel partners, as well as the SMBs they serve.”

New Canadian Data Center Removes Sales Barriers, Expands Market Potential
Along with its Spring Release ’13, Intronis announced it has invested in a new Canadian Data Center to ensure channel partners in Canada are able to comply with the country’s federal and provincial regulations that restrict how and where data is managed. The new data center is located in Montreal, Canada and in operation now.

“With Intronis’ new Canadian Data Center and proven VMware capabilities we gain a significant client services advantage and are able to provide greater peace of mind by assuring our client’s data is stored in country and readily recoverable,” says John Atwood, system support specialist, MicroAge IT Solutions in Alberta, Canada. “It’s definitely a big win for Intronis’ Canadian partners and will certainly help us better address the needs of our clients working within highly-regulated or data sensitive vertical markets such as healthcare and government.”

“The Canadian market is important to Intronis and in order to help our Canadian channel partners capitalize on the demand for cloud-based backup and recovery solutions, we needed to establish an in-country presence,” says Rob Merklinger, vice president of sales, Intronis. “Our new Canadian Data Center addresses the country’s regulations and restrictions around data protection, simplifies the sales discussion and positions Intronis to become the cloud backup and recovery provider of choice for the Canadian IT channel.”

The award-winning cloud storage leader also introduced an enhanced Partner Trial offering that makes it easy for interested channel partners to test-drive the Intronis BDR solution and partner enablement support with no risk, no cost and no obligation.

For more detail on Intronis’ Spring Release ’13, check out the What’s New page at Intronis.com or contact Intronis’ sales team at (800) 569-0155.

Intronis is a channel-exclusive, award-winning vendor partner that is committed to simplifying backup and recovery for MSPs. Recently, Intronis received a 5-Star rating from CRN Magazine for its Partner Program and was recognized as one of the IT industry’s most friendly channel vendors and coolest cloud storage vendors.

To learn, see and hear more about Intronis online, follow the channel-friendly cloud backup and recovery innovator on Facebook and Twitter, and read the Intronis Cloud Backup and Recovery Blog.

About Intronis
Intronis Cloud Backup and Recovery is a world-class cloud backup solution for the IT channel. Intronis provides the industry’s easiest-to-use secure data solution for offsite and local backup, which generates a monthly recurring revenue stream to add to your business. Intronis offers the best, deepest Exchange, SQL backup on the market, supports virtualized environments with native VMware backup and is integrated to major solutions in the MSP ecosystem. Partners receive expert customer support from our U.S.-based team. The solution has been field tested by thousands of MSPs, and the company has been named Best Revenue Generator seven times and Best Customer Support three times by members of ASCII. www.intronis.com.

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Source: Intronis, Inc.

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HP Discover Las Vegas 2013

BAAR, Switzerland, June 13, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — Veeam® Software, innovative provider of backup, replication and virtualization management solutions for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, today announced that it has been recognized with an HP AllianceOne Partner of the Year Award for Converged Storage at HP Discover in Las Vegas.

The HP AllianceOne Partner of the Year Award for Converged Storage honors Veeam Software for the dramatic improvements in Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) users can achieve by combining Veeam Backup & Replication™ with HP StoreVirtual Storage and HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage snapshots. Integrated into Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Explorer™ for SAN Snapshots delivers unique functionality that enables HP StoreVirtual and HP 3PAR StoreServ users to restore VMware virtual machines (VMs), or individual files and emails directly from HP storage snapshots without having to deploy agents on hosts or VMs. As a result, users experience shorter RTOs for VM, file and application item recovery directly from SAN snapshots.

VM snapshots can automatically be migrated to HP StoreOnce Backup Systems or HP StoreEver LTO-6 Tape Storage to meet long term data retention needs. Additionally, the benefits of combining Veeam Backup with HP Converged Storage include significant reductions in backup times and storage consumption. For example, the Vallejo Sanitation & Flood Control District reduced their backup time by 64 percent and their data consumption by 9x using Veeam Backup with HP StoreOnce Backup systems.  Veeam Backup & Replication combined with HP Converged Storage delivers powerful, easy-to-use, and affordable modern data protection that is built for virtualization.

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“Veeam views HP as a vital strategic partner,” said Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam Software, and customers have come to rely on our joint solution to protect their VMware and Hyper-V workloads. Our upcoming release of Veeam Backup & Replication v7 will further strengthen this relationship by adding ability to back up from HP StoreVirtual Storage and HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage snapshots, which will exponentially improve recovery point objectives (RPOs).”

“Veeam is recognized as HP AllianceOne Partner of the Year in the Converged Storage category for their Veeam Backup & Replication which can be combined with HP StoreVirtual Storage and HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage snapshots to quickly and efficiently restore individual files and emails,” said Doug Oathout, vice president, Channel and Alliances, Enterprise Marketing, HP. “Veeam has demonstrated their expertise in this area by developing this innovative backup and recovery solution for its customers, paving the way for more agile business.”

Additional information on HP Discover 2013 is available at http://h30614.www3.hp.com/discover/home

About Veeam Software
Veeam® is Modern Data Protection™. We believe today’s IT requirements have changed and that “3C” legacy backup problems—high costs, increased complexity and missing capabilities—are no longer acceptable for any organization. Veeam provides powerful, easy-to-use and affordable solutions that are Built for Virtualization™ and the cloud—a perfect fit for the modern datacenter.

Veeam Backup & Replication™ is VMware backup, Hyper-V backup, recovery and replication. This #1 VM Backup™ solution helps organizations meet RPOs and RTOs, save time, eliminate risks and dramatically reduce capital and operational costs. Veeam Backup Management Suite™ combines Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam ONE™ in a single integrated solution to protect virtualization investments, increase administrator productivity and help mitigate daily management risks. Veeam Management Pack™ (MP) extends enterprise monitoring to VMware through Microsoft System Center. Veeam also provides free tools for the virtualization community.

Learn more by visiting http://www.veeam.com

Web Links Referenced in this Release:

• Veeam Software: http://www.veeam.com
• VMware backup: http://www.veeam.com/vmware-esx-backup.html
• Hyper-V backup: http://www.veeam.com/microsoft-hyper-v-server-backup-recovery-replication.html
• Virtualization management via Microsoft System Center: http://www.veeam.com/mp
• Virtualization management via HP Operations Manager: http://www.veeam.com/spi
• VM Backup: http://www.veeam.com/vm-backup-recovery-replication-software.html
• Free virtualization tools: http://www.veeam.com/free-virtualization-software-vmware-hyper-v.html

CONTACT:
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Jeff Miller
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veeam[@]daviesmurphy.com

SOURCE: Veeam Software

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London, UK – June 13, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — Oncore IT today announced that it will deliver an enhanced portfolio of Cloud-based services to existing and new customers powered by Hitachi Data Systems’ (HDS) unified storage and content platforms, along with blade infrastructure.

Capitalising on its extensive track record working with over 100 customers primarily in the legal, financial and professional services sectors, Oncore IT will rollout a portfolio of services including On Data (online data back up), On Archive (archiving and data recovery) and On Share (data sharing).

Over the past three years, through investment in product development and the 2011 acquisition of BlueArc Corporation to add network attached, file-based storage capability to its portfolio, HDS has extended in product range to address the information solutions requirements of SMBs. This builds on its traditionally strong position selling to large organisations where highly available, fast, and reliable mission critical storage systems are vital.

The latest Federation of Small Business data shows that SMBs account for 99.9% of all private sector organisations in the UK, employing 14.1 million people. [1]

Neill Burton, HDS’ UK vice president of channels and alliances, explains, “We’re very excited to partner with Oncore IT who add real value given their knowledge of key markets where we lack track record, as well as operating a business model we don’t – namely Cloud delivery which allow SMBs to access HDS enterprise-class technology as a service rather than buying and owning the assets.”

HDS is already a channel centric organisation in the UK and globally, but its intent is to generate more revenue through indirect channels defined as traditional reseller partners, system integrators and service providers. In other words, partner companies who buy HDS information solutions to sell to customers, use as part of a service offering or both. The Oncore IT partnership supplements HDS’ well-established TrueNorth partner programme and extends its footprint to work with specialist SMB focused partners.

To support this, HDS has created an internal team of 20 staff to aid SMB partners, appointed two distributors, and invested considerably in new business development activities to create growth. Oncore IT will work with Zycko, one of the distributors, who will provide assistance in terms of sales, technical, and marketing support and help Oncore interface with HDS.

Founded in 2004, Oncore IT has proven experience designing, implementing, and managing Cloud compute environments providing its SMB customers access to the level of enterprise class technology typically the preserve of large corporates.

Key customers include well-known and respected barristers chambers, solicitors, asset management companies, brokers, a variety of professional services organisations, along with logistics and retail organisations.

Oncore IT has purchased two key HDS platforms – Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM) and Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) – to standardise on Hitachi information solutions within its business. This means that Oncore IT has effectively become a HDS customer and partner at the same time and will utilise HDS storage on client projects whether it’s managing solutions at a customer site or hosting applications in its multi-tenanted Cloud environment.

Oncore IT has invested significantly in building this [Cloud] environment working with world class partners such as Asigra [data backup], Brocade [data centre switches and Ethernet Fabric technology] and now the final component – Hitachi Data Systems – as its key storage platform provider and the heart of its new storage brand On Data.

Client data is stored in Oncore IT’s London data centre and replicated to its Amsterdam facility to guarantee resilience, leveraging 600 Mbps of dedicated bandwidth.

Michael Croft, Oncore IT’s chief executive officer, says, “The important thing about the HDS relationship is firstly we can expand our portfolio to now offer a suite of data services for customers and secondly respond appropriately to their particular data challenges irrespective of the type – structured or unstructured – or the quantity. Our HDS platform is completely scalable in this sense and will enable us to develop a data strategy per client to address their specific commercial needs.”

Burton agrees, “By using HCP, Oncore IT will target more [SMB] customers than we can and spawn new revenue generating services. They’re taking HDS to a much wider audience.“

Croft concludes, “The word partnership in the IT industry is commonly banded about rather loosely. Rather than just having the credentials, what’s far more significant is what you do as a partner. We’re fortunate to be fully engaged with HDS to ensure that the relationship works delivering value to our customers yet creating sales opportunities for both companies.”

About Oncore IT
Oncore IT is a Cloud Managed Service Provider (CMSP) with vast experience delivering and managing critical IT infrastructure for clients operating from highest standard secure datacentres in London and Amsterdam.

A variety of hosting, co-location and cloud-based managed services are offered to meet clients’ specific business needs, all guaranteed by class-leading service level agreements and solutions looked after by professional, dedicated account managers and technical experts. Oncore IT makes infrastructure work because that’s what makes businesses work.

For further information, please visit www.oncoreIT.com

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Evaluation Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute

BAAR, Switzerland, June 11, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — Veeam® Software, innovative provider of backup, replication and virtualization management solutions for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the “Visionaries” quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup/Recovery Software.

This is Veeam’s first time being included in the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup/Recovery Software, which represents a significant milestone in the company’s growth. According to the report, “As the backup/recovery software market comprises several dozens, if not hundreds, of vendors, this report narrows it down to those that have strong presence in large enterprise environments, in part measured by Gartner search analytics and Gartner end user inquiry.”^[1]

Click to Tweet: Veeam Positioned in the “Visionaries” Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup

“We believe our inclusion in this year’s Magic Quadrant is further confirmation of Veeam’s success in providing large enterprise customers with powerful, easy-to-use and affordable data protection solutions built for virtualization,” said Ratmir Timashev, President and CEO of Veeam. “We’ll provide further evidence of our enterprise capabilities with next quarter’s release of Veeam Backup & Replication v7 and its two disruptive innovations – built-in WAN acceleration and the ability to back up from storage snapshots – plus seven other market-leading features and more than 50 additional new features and enhancements. We truly enable IT to tackle their ‘3C’ problems with capabilities, complexity and cost.”

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About Veeam Software
Veeam® is Modern Data Protection™. We believe today’s IT requirements have changed and that “3C” legacy backup problems — high costs, increased complexity and missing capabilities — are no longer acceptable for any organization. Veeam provides powerful, easy-to-use and affordable solutions that are Built for Virtualization™ and the Cloud — a perfect fit for the modern data center.

Veeam Backup & Replication™ delivers VMware backup, Hyper-V backup, recovery and replication. This #1 VM Backup™ solution helps organizations meet RPOs and RTOs, save time, eliminate risks and dramatically reduce capital and operational costs. Veeam Backup Management Suite™ combines Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam ONE™ in a single integrated solution to protect virtualization investments, increase administrator productivity and help mitigate daily management risks. Veeam Management Pack™ (MP) extends enterprise monitoring to VMware through Microsoft System Center. Veeam also provides free tools for the virtualization community.

^[1] Gartner. “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup/Recovery Software” by David Russell and Pushan Rinnen. 5 June 2013

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NetJapan, Inc., Introduces vmGuardian^(TM), a Feature Packed Backup and Disaster Recovery Solution for VMware ESXi Virtual Environments Featuring Inline Data Deduplication Compression and Selective File Restore

TOKYO, Japan – June 12, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — NetJapan, Inc., introduces vmGuardian backup and disaster recovery software for VMware ESXi virtual environments. vmGuardian brings high-performance and uncompromised protection to your virtual environments featuring Inline Data Deduplication Compression and Selective File Restore.

A browser interface helps guide you through the various configuration settings, scheduling and backup management tasks making it easy to backup and restore your virtual environments.

vmGuardian supports live backup of virtual machines and virtual disks so there is no down time.

Virtual host backups gain significant benefit from vmGuardian’s inline data deduplication compression because it allows nominally different data from each virtual machine to be coalesced into a single storage space. The resultant backups are compressed at remarkably high ratios, significantly reducing backup storage needs.

vmGuardian Features:

– Easy to use browser based management interface

– Restore all virtual machines, selected virtual machines or individual files, and folders

– Agentless architecture means no more expensive agent licenses per virtual machine

– Backup all host virtual machines or only individual virtual machines

– Inline deduplication compression inspects large volumes of data during the backup and identifies large sections that are identical, in order to store only one copy of the data

– Smart Sector technology improves backup performance and reduces storage requirements by only backing up allocated space

– Full and incremental backups

– Flexible scheduling

– Incremental backup file consolidation

– Virtual machine backups are host independent; virtual machines can be restored to the same or different ESXi host

– Smallest backup window in the industry

– E-Mail Notifications

Availability
vmGuardian software and support is available in Japanese and U.S. English. NetJapan, Inc. distributes vmGuardian through authorized system integrators, business partners, distributors, online shops and direct via www.vmguardian.com

For more information visit: http://www.vmguardian.com

Copyright (c) 2013 NetJapan, Inc. All rights reserved. ActiveImage Protector is a trademark of NetJapan, Inc. Other brands and product names mentioned in this release are trademarks of their respective holders.

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Editor’s note: Below is the original press release in Portuguese. Google Translation is found at the bottom.

Embratel anuncia loja virtual para ofertas de soluções de Cloud Computing

São Paulo, 06 de junho de 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — A Embratel, a mais completa operadora de telecomunicações do Brasil, anuncia o lançamento de sua loja virtual para a oferta de soluções de Cloud Computing. Voltada para o mercado empresarial, o ambiente foi desenvolvido para permitir que micro, pequenas e médias empresas tenham acesso a recursos tecnológicos utilizados apenas por grandes companhias. A loja virtual oferece rápida entrega e agilidade na compra de ofertas de serviços na nuvem da Embratel. O novo portal pode ser acessado pelo endereço: http://portal.embratel.com.br/cloud

“Estamos muito contentes por disponibilizar alta tecnologia e recursos de última geração ao mercado empresarial, por meio da loja virtual especializada em prover serviços computacionais em Cloud Computing. O novo espaço facilitará o acesso de soluções inovadoras de TI e Telecom para micro, pequenas e médias empresas, colaborando para que se tornem mais completas e competitivas”, diz Ney Acyr Rodrigues, Diretor Executivo de Serviços de Valor Adicionado da Embratel, destacando que os serviços da empresa estão hospedados em Data Center próprio, com certificação TIER3.

Com o anúncio de hoje, a Embratel facilitará o acesso de empresas de todos os tamanhos a aperfeiçoarem suas operações com a adoção de tecnologias de ponta. Dessa forma, os serviços de Cloud Computing Embratel poderão ser facilmente contratados. Entre as principais ofertas estão soluções de Servidores Virtuais, Presença Web, E-mail Corporativo, Backup Online e Segurança de Dados. As empresas interessadas podem simular no portal as ofertas disponíveis e verificar as que mais atendem às suas necessidades. Os serviços custam a partir de R$ 8,90/mês (Backup Online).

A computação na nuvem permite o uso de serviços por meio da Internet e/ou de redes dedicadas, a partir de diferentes dispositivos e em qualquer local que tenha acesso à Web. Com a tecnologia de Cloud Computing da Embratel, muitos aplicativos, assim como arquivos e outros dados relacionados, não precisam mais estar instalados ou armazenados no computador do usuário ou em um servidor dedicado do cliente. Esse conteúdo pode estar disponível na “nuvem” e, para utilizá-lo, o usuário deverá realizar apenas o acesso remoto por meio da Web.

“A loja virtual oferece serviços para que as empresas aumentem suas vendas, diminuam seus custos em aquisição de recursos computacionais com a garantia da melhor e mais robusta plataforma tecnológica do mercado.”, afirma Ney Acyr. Segundo ele, as ofertas disponíveis na loja virtual de Cloud Computing apresentam vantagens como disponibilizar automaticamente recursos computacionais, aumento da produtividade da equipe, alta capacidade de resposta ao mercado, além de proporcionar tempo ao cliente para estruturar suas metas e objetivos.

Exemplos de soluções de Cloud Computing disponíveis na loja virtual

Diversas soluções estão disponíveis por meio do novo portal, como:
Office 365 da Microsoft: Solução de e-mail, Word, Excel, Power Point e Share Point baseada em Cloud Pública. O produto oferece também vídeo conferência e compartilhamento de informações, disponíveis através de qualquer dispositivo conectado a internet.

Presença WEB: Construção e hospedagem de páginas empresariais, divulgação do catálogo de produtos e loja virtual. A solução contempla vantagens como personalização de domínio, uso do sistema PayPal como meio de pagamento para a loja virtual, mobilidade, integração com redes sociais, estatísticas de acesso, e-mail marketing, entre outras.

Backup On Line: Sistema avançado para cópia de segurança de informações importantes da empresa, com redundância geográfica e total segurança. O sistema oferece um painel de controle interativo que possibilita o agendamento e controle de backups a qualquer hora em qualquer lugar.

Servidores Virtuais: Hospedagem de aplicações nos servidores virtuais da Embratel de forma simples, rápida e com a configuração adequada para cada negócio. Ao utilizar os servidores virtuais da Embratel, o cliente conta com suporte 24 horas, 7 dias por semana e estrutura própria de Data Centers certificados em TIER3.

E-mail Embratel: Solução de e-mail acessível por qualquer dispositivo conectado à internet e com domínio personalizado para sua empresa (www.suaempresa.com.br).

Como contratar os serviços de Cloud Computing da Embratel
A nova loja virtual para ofertas de Cloud Computing da Embratel pode ser acessada pelo endereço http://portal.embratel.com.br/cloud

Sobre a Embratel
A Embratel é uma das maiores e mais completas operadoras de telecomunicações do Brasil. Oferece soluções completas a todo o mercado nacional, incluindo serviços de telefonia local, longa distância nacional e internacional, transmissão de dados, vídeo, Internet e TV por Assinatura, além de assegurar o atendimento em qualquer ponto do território brasileiro por meio de soluções via satélite. A empresa também se destaca pela oferta de serviços de valor adicionado, integrando aplicações de TI e de telecomunicações. A Embratel faz parte do grupo América Móvil, que é líder na oferta de serviços de telecomunicações na América Latina. Para mais informações: www.embratel.com.br.

Assessoria de Imprensa da Embratel – PLANIN – www.planin.com
Angélica Consiglio e equipe (02111) 2138-8900
E-mail: clarotv@planin.com

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Google Translation of the above press release:

Embratel Announces shop offers solutions for Cloud Computing

São Paulo, June 6, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — Embratel, the most complete telecommunications operator in Brazil, announces the launch of its online store to offer Cloud Computing solutions. Market-driven business environment has been developed to enable micro, small and medium enterprises have access to technological resources used only by large companies. The shop offers fast delivery and flexibility in purchasing cloud services offerings Embratel. The new portal can be accessed at the address: http://portal.embratel.com.br/cloud

“We are delighted to provide high-tech and high-end features for the enterprise market through the virtual store specializes in providing computational services in Cloud Computing. The new space will facilitate access of innovative IT and Telecom for micro, small and medium companies collaborating to become more complete and competitive, “says Ney Acyr Rodrigues, Executive Director of Value Added Services Embratel, noting that the company’s services are hosted in the Data Center itself, certified Tier3.

With today’s announcement, Embratel will facilitate access for businesses of all sizes to enhance their operations with the adoption of advanced technologies. Thus, the services of Cloud Computing Embratel could be easily hired. Among the key offerings are solutions Virtual Servers, Web Presence, Corporate Email, Online Backup and Data Security. Interested companies can simulate the portal offers available and verify that best suit your needs. The services start at R $ 8.90 / month (Online Backup).

Cloud computing allows the use of services through the Internet and / or dedicated networks, from different devices in any location that has access to the Web With the technology of Cloud Computing Embratel, many applications as well as files and other related data, no longer need to be installed or stored on the user’s computer or on a dedicated server customer. This content may be available in the “cloud”, and to use it, the user must perform only remote access via the Web

“The shop offers services to companies to increase their sales, reduce their costs in acquiring computing resources to ensuring the best and most robust technology platform in the market.” Says Ney Acyr. According to him, the deals available at the online store of Cloud Computing have advantages as automatically available computing resources, increase staff productivity, high responsiveness to the market, and provide customer time to structure your goals and objectives.

Examples of Cloud Computing solutions available in the shop

Several solutions are available through the new portal, such as:
Microsoft Office 365: Troubleshooting e-mail, Word, Excel, Power Point and Share Point-based Public Cloud. The product also offers video conferencing and sharing of information, available through any internet connected device.

Presence WEB: Construction and hosting business pages, disclosure of product catalog and online store. The solution offers advantages like customization domain, system use PayPal as a payment method for online store, mobility, integration with social networks, access statistics, email marketing, among others.

Online Backup: Advanced system for backup of important company information with geographic redundancy and total security. The system provides an interactive control panel that enables the control and scheduling backups anytime anywhere.

Virtual Servers: hosting applications on virtual servers Embratel simply, quickly and with the appropriate setting for each business. By using virtual servers Embratel, the customer has 24 hour support, 7 days a week, and structure of own Tier 3 certified Data Centers.

Embratel e-mail: e-mail solution accessible by any device connected to the internet and custom domain for your company (www.suaempresa.com.br).

How to hire the services of Cloud Computing Embratel
The new shop offers for Cloud Computing Embratel can be accessed as http://portal.embratel.com.br/cloud

About Embratel
Embratel is one of the largest and most comprehensive telecom operators in Brazil. Offers complete solutions to the national market, including local telephone service, long distance and international, data, video, Internet and Pay TV, and ensure compliance anywhere in the Brazilian territory through satellite solutions . The company also stands out by offering value added services, integrating IT applications and telecommunications. Embratel is part of the America Movil, which is a leader in the provision of telecommunications services in Latin America. For more information www.embratel.com.br .

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By Damien Garvey, Technical Account Manager at Backup-Technology
June 12, 2013

Backup-Technology Online Data Backup Expert Tips: Disaster Recovery – Federal Agencies Unprepared

A new report named ”Disaster Unpreparedness” — http://bit.ly/11WnaV3 — has been published by MeriTalk which is an online community and go-to resource for government IT. The report which was underwritten by NetApp and SwishData details how confident IT professionals working for federal agencies are with their current data backup and disaster recovery solutions.

In December 2012, MeriTalk surveyed 150 Federal Department of Defence and civilian IT professionals to see how confident they are with their current disaster recovery strategy, how resilient they deem their strategy to be and how often they test their strategy.

The federal IT professionals who participated in the survey scored themselves very highly for their data backup and disaster recovery preparedness with 70% giving their agency a grade of ‘A’ or ‘B’. Despite the IT professionals awarding their agency such high marks for their data backup and disaster recovery preparedness, only 8% believed that they would be able to recover all the data — http://bit.ly/11WnhzW — in the event of a natural or man-made incident.

It is widely expected that the IT professionals who are working for the federal agencies and their current data backup and disaster recovery solutions will come under greater pressure in the next couple of years as the amount of data that they are dealing with is expected to increase. Agencies expect that the amount of data needed to be backed up will grow by 39% and therefore causing a huge amount of problems. 25% of the Federal IT professionals believe that their current data backup and disaster recovery solution will only be suitable for the next 12 months and no longer whilst 46% believe that their current solution will be sufficient for the next 12 months.

The federal IT professionals are also experiencing problems with testing their disaster recovery plan – http://bit.ly/11WnAuM — as often as they would wish. It was reported that on average, their disaster recovery plan was tested 2.5 times in the last 12 months. However, when asked how many times they would recommend running their disaster recovery plan in 12 months, an average of 5.3 was suggested. It was also revealed that the main reason for the federal IT professionals not being able to run their disaster recovery plan as often as they would like was due to lack of funding which contributed for 68%, a lack of support from the agency owners and having an incomplete solution in place both contributed for 42% each.

The importance of having a fully working and tested backup and disaster recovery solution in place is vital for the running of a company in the event of a man-made or natural disaster. Ideally, you will utilise a robust cloud based solution where your data is stored in two geographically separated data centres. Having the knowledge that you can recover your data, no matter what happens at your office and/or the primary data centre where a copy of your backed up data is being kept is becoming ever more important. By not being able to recover 1% of your data could have a detrimental impact on the reputation of your business and financially.

Why utilise a solution when you believe that it will not be able to cope with your expected data growth and cannot recover all of your data in the event of a disaster?

Can your backup solution cope with data growth?  Are you confident that you can recover all your data in the event of a disaster?

About the Author: Damien Garvey is a Technical Account Manager at Backup-Technology, an Asigra powered cloud backup and disaster recovery solutions provider.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Wednesday, June 12, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) announced that President Obama has appointed Symantec President and Chief Executive Officer Steve Bennett to the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC). The appointment was made via press release distributed by the White House, found at http://1.usa.gov/11WpifB. Bennett’s appointment is the standard three-year term for all members of the NSTAC.

“It is an honor to be selected to serve on the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee,” said Steve Bennett, Symantec president and chief executive officer. “The Committee has a long and distinguished record of providing recommendations to the President on telecommunications and information technology critical infrastructure security and protection issues, and I look forward to contributing to that work in the future.”

For more than 30 years, the NSTAC has brought together up to 30 industry chief executives from major telecommunications and network service providers, and information technology, finance, and aerospace companies. The NSTAC’s goal is to develop recommendations to the President to assure vital telecommunications links through any event or crisis, and to help the U.S. Government maintain a reliable, secure, and resilient national communications posture.

More information about the NSTAC can be found at http://www.ncs.gov/nstac/index.html

About Symantec
Symantec protects the world’s information, and is a global leader in security, backup and availability solutions. Our innovative products and services protect people and information in any environment – from the smallest mobile device, to the enterprise data center, to cloud-based systems. Our world-renowned expertise in protecting data, identities and interactions gives our customers confidence in a connected world. More information is available at www.symantec.com or by connecting with Symantec at: go.symantec.com/socialmedia.

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Symantec and the Symantec Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Symantec Corporation or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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Autonomy ControlPoint 4.0 tackles data sprawl by shining light on dark data

LAS VEGAS, June 11, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — HP Autonomy today announced a new solution designed to address the cost, compliance and control challenges confronted by organizations struggling to manage increasing volumes of legacy information.

Autonomy Legacy Data Cleanup, powered by Autonomy ControlPoint 4.0, helps organizations gain access to, understand, classify and defensibly dispose of outdated and unnecessary legacy information.

Many organizations are dealing with information sprawl from multiple legacy systems, as well as information acquired as part of corporate mergers and acquisition activity. Legacy data in old SharePoint sites, email file stores and other repositories can quickly become hidden from the organization at large. This “dark data” eats up storage budgets and inhibits efforts to modernize infrastructure and migrate information to the cloud. Dark data also contains unknown business value and risk to an organization.

The Autonomy Legacy Data Cleanup solution addresses these issues by allowing organizations to:

* Explore and analyze content from multiple data sources, such as email repositories, file shares and SharePoint sites, to identify, filter, classify and separate valuable from outdated information.

* Dispose of data that has “aged out” of organizations’ retention policies-and establish an audit trail.

* Apply policy and take action on identified content by moving the data to an information archiving or records management system, for more efficient legal holds and improved access to information.

* Together, these capabilities solve an important big data challenge for organizations of all sizes, resulting in reduced data storage costs, lower risks to the business, and greater control and leveragability of an organization’s distributed data assets.

“Virtually every organization has a legacy data problem, though the symptoms may not be visible at first glance because the data is often out of sight and out of mind,” said Melissa Webster, program vice president, content and digital media technologies for IDC. “By methodically accessing and analyzing this information, steps can be taken to better control this information and ultimately lower storage and eDiscovery costs, as well as minimize the risk of security breaches and accidental spoliation. Legacy Data Cleanup can deliver ROI and serve as an integral part of an organization’s long-term information governance strategy.”

A gateway to information governance
The HP Autonomy Legacy Data Cleanup solution can be deployed in a standalone, modular fashion, or leveraged as part of HP Autonomy’s comprehensive portfolio for information governance, which consists of solutions for archiving, eDiscovery, enterprise content management, data protection, legal hold and records management.

The solution can serve the needs of organizations at different stages of information governance adoption. This ranges from organizations that simply seek a snapshot of their legacy data, to organizations that desire to leverage the offering as part of a larger information governance program that applies the same policy and rigor to “live” active data as well as legacy dark data.

“Big data promises significant upsides, however, if not managed properly, it can also pose huge costs and risks to an organization,” said Neil Araujo, general manager, Enterprise Content Management, HP Autonomy. “The Autonomy Legacy Data Cleanup offering solves a significant issue for businesses that have to manage increasing volumes of data, and provides them with an on ramp to establishing a more comprehensive, holistic information governance strategy.”

Availability
The Autonomy Legacy Data Cleanup solution and ControlPoint 4.0 are available in all regions now.

About HP Autonomy
HP Autonomy is a global leader in software that processes human information, or unstructured data, including social media, email, video, audio, text and web pages, etc. Autonomy’s powerful management and analytic tools for structured information together with its ability to extract meaning in real time from all forms of information, regardless of format, is a unique tool for companies seeking to get the most out of their data. Autonomy’s product portfolio helps power companies through enterprise search analytics, business process management and OEM operations. Autonomy also offers information governance solutions in areas such as eDiscovery, content management and compliance, as well as marketing solutions that help companies grow revenue, such as web content management, online marketing optimization and rich media management. Please visit www.autonomy.com to find out more.

About HP
HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com/

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© 2013 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein.

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KVMBackup Invites KMV Professionals to Join the Open Beta Program

SAN JOSE, CA – June 12, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — KVMBackup Inc., innovative data protection software provider, has announced today the Beta program launch for KVMBackup. The program provides early access to the upcoming version of KVMBackup v1.0.

All Beta program participants get 15% discount on the released product, have a chance of winning a Google Nexus tablet, can provide direct input into development, influence product design, and request new features. Registration to KVMBackup 1.0 open beta program can be found at http://kvmbackup.com/MEDI11613BETA.htm

KVMBackup v1.0 Beta offers a complete data protection feature set for virtualized environments, including local and offsite VM backup and replication, support for live applications & databases (Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL, Oracle, etc.), file level recovery from local and offsite backups, deduplication, compression, encryption, as well as scheduled and on-demand reporting.

About KVMBackup
Headquartered in San Jose, California KVMBackup is a privately-held company that develops and markets data protection solutions for KVM environments. KVMBackup provides the most intuitive, fast, and affordable VM backup solution enabling SMBs and cloud service providers to protect, encrypt, compress and de-duplicate data both onsite and offsite. KVMBackup is focused on customer feedback and innovation to deliver the most advanced technology for reducing customer VM recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO). For more information, please visit: http://kvmbackup.com

Media Contact
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Media Relations Manager, KVMBackup
susan.miller[@]kvmbackup.com
www.kvmbackup.com

Source: KVMBackup

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Veeam to Demo Latest Version of Flagship Product, Veeam Backup & Replication v7, Featuring Backup from Storage Snapshots With HP StoreVirtual Storage and HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage

BAAR, Switzerland, June 11, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — Veeam® Software, innovative provider of backup, replication and virtualization management solutions for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, today announced that Veeam executives will speak at HP Discover Las Vegas 2013, June 11-13. Veeam will also demo at its booth (#1240) Veeam Backup & Replication v7™, featuring Backup from SAN Snapshots with HP StoreVirtual Storage and HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage, as well as Built-in WAN Acceleration.  Additionally, Veeam will be conducting a contest giving attendees a chance to win a HP Envy x2 Prize Pack.

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Veeam executives will speak at the following HP Discover sessions:

• Modern Data Protection for SMBs Utilizing HP Storage Solutions (BB-4299)
  WHAT: A look at industry trends driving demand for more flexible storage infrastructure, along with how to lower costs, reduce risk and save time with centralized control of backup and storage. Also detailed will be combining HP StoreVirtual and HP StoreOnce appliances with Veeam Backup & Replication software for affordable HA and DR for small or remote sitesWHO: Hans De Leenheer, EMEA Evangelist, Veeam
  WHEN : Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at 10:30 A.M. PDT
  WHERE: Room – Lando 4302
• Veeam Backup & Replication v7 Deep Dive with HP Storage (TB-4300)
  WHAT: A deep dive into Veeam’s next generation of Modern Data Protection, Veeam Backup & Replication v7. The session will illustrate how to unleash the power of HP storage snapshots and achieve true offsite storage of daily backups without buying expensive hardware or bandwidth.
  WHO: Doug Hazelman, VP, Product Strategy, Veeam
  WHEN: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at 1:30 P.M. PDT
  WHERE: Room – Marcello 4406

Demo to Show Dramatically Better RPOs with Backup from Storage Snapshots
At HP Discover, Veeam will demo the recently announced Veeam Backup & Replication v7, which will be generally available in Q3. The latest version of its flagship product takes Modern Data Protection™ to the next level with 2 disruptive innovations, Built-in WAN Acceleration and Backup from Storage Snapshots, which works with HP StoreVirtual Storage and HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage products.

Demos of Veeam Backup & Replication v7 will highlight how Backup from Storage Snapshots dramatically improves recovery point objectives (RPOs), allowing organizations to make backups every 15 minutes if they desire without any impact to the virtual environment. Customers can create backups from storage snapshots up to 20 times faster than with the competition, thanks to VMware CBT, instant datastore mount and other techniques developed by and exclusive to Veeam.

Attendees can visit Veeam’s booth for demonstrations. For further information, please see the following two press releases: Veeam Announces Veeam Backup & Replication v7 with Built-in WAN Acceleration and Veeam Enables Dramatically Better RPOs with Backup from Storage Snapshots.

About Veeam Software
Veeam® is Modern Data Protection™. We believe today’s IT requirements have changed and that “3C” legacy backup problems—high costs, increased complexity and missing capabilities—are no longer acceptable for any organization. Veeam provides powerful, easy-to-use and affordable solutions that are Built for Virtualization™ and the cloud—a perfect fit for the modern datacenter.

Veeam Backup & Replication™ is VMware backup, Hyper-V backup, recovery and replication. This #1 VM Backup™ solution helps organizations meet RPOs and RTOs, save time, eliminate risks and dramatically reduce capital and operational costs. Veeam Backup Management Suite™ combines Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam ONE™ in a single integrated solution to protect virtualization investments, increase administrator productivity and help mitigate daily management risks. Veeam Management Pack™ (MP) extends enterprise monitoring to VMware through Microsoft System Center. Veeam also provides free tools for the virtualization community.

CONTACT:
Davies Murphy Group
Jeff Miller
+1-541-207-3461
veeam[@]daviesmurphy.com

SOURCE: Veeam Software

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