Asigra Advises Startups on Storage, Backup Pitfalls

April 03, 2009

Veteran online backup and storage vendor Asigra has some advice for storage startups—be flexible, avoid proprietary and single-vendor solutions, and don’t underestimate the power of the channel.

Backup and storage vendor Asigra has been a player in the midmarket and enterprise online backup market for more than 15 years, and it has some advice for neophytes and startup vendors—be flexible, embrace vendor neutrality, avoid proprietary solutions and, above all, don’t underestimate the power of the channel.

“We’ve been doing this for quite awhile,” says Eran Farajun, executive vice president of Asigra. “We know there are a lot of new startups coming to market, and we know firsthand what challenges these new guys will face. It’s the same challenge we had 15 years ago—we didn’t know what we didn’t know.”

One of the first challenges is to ensure your solution’s able to handle the industry-standard software platforms and maintain the integrity of the data generated from applications like Oracle databases, SQL and other popular applications, he says.

This doesn’t mean you should get locked into offering solutions from only one …

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