Introduces New HIPAA Compliant Data Backup Service, HIPAA Secure Backup Powered by BUMI

Morristown, NJ, May 21, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — HIPAA Secure Now! and BUMI (Backup My Info!) announced today a new HIPAA compliant data backup service called HIPAA Secure Backup Powered by BUMI. BUMI is the premium provider of managed online backup and recovery solutions for small to mid-sized businesses. Under HIPAA Security Rule 164.308(a)(7)(ii)(A), medical providers and their business associates are required by law to implement a data backup plan that ensures Protected Health Information (PHI) is properly safeguarded.

HIPAA Secure Backup Powered by BUMI ensures that data is encrypted prior to being sent to the BUMI servers and that data remains encrypted on the servers. BUMI will sign a required HIPAA business associate agreement with either a covered entity or business associate (healthcare organizations and their contractors) to certify that they comply with the new HIPAA Omnibus Rule. The service is fully managed from the software installation to monitoring backups, notifying clients if there are issues with backups, and 24×7 live support and data recovery.

“One of the most frequently asked question we get from our clients is concerning HIPAA compliant data backup services,” explained HIPAA Secure Now! President and CEO Art Gross. “Our clients are looking for an automated, fully managed, affordable, HIPAA compliant backup service that not only helps protect patient information but helps them with HIPAA compliance. BUMI ensures that data backups comply with HIPAA regulations and signing a HIPAA business associate agreement ensures compliance with the HIPAA Security and Omnibus Rules. In addition, their 24×7 live support is unmatched.”

Jennifer Walzer, President and Founder of BUMI (Backup My Info!) said, “We are excited to be working with HIPAA Secure Now! to help healthcare organizations and their associates ensure compliance. Our fully managed, premium backup and recovery solution provides healthcare organization the peace of mind that their patient data is securely backed up and complaint with HIPAA regulations.”

About HIPAA Secure Now!
HIPAA Secure Now! has been helping clients comply with the HIPAA Security Rule since 2009. HIPAA Secure Now! is the fastest and easiest way to HIPAA compliance. HIPAA Secure Now! performs our client’s Risk Assessment; writes their policies and procedures and trains their employees on how to protect patient information. In addition, HIPAA Secure Now! offers a full suite of technology products to protect patient information including email encryption, mobile encryption, data backup, disaster recovery and network security. For more information visit http://www.HIPAASecureNow.com.

About BUMI
Founded in 2002, BUMI (Backup My Info!) specializes in delivering online backup and recovery solutions for small to mid-sized businesses. Based in New York City, BUMI provides an off-site data protection solution that addresses critical issues such as rapid growth of data, business continuity, and regulatory compliance. Every BUMI client is cared for by a team of senior-level engineers dedicated to providing proactive and personalized support. Clients include professional service organizations such as banking, financial, insurance, accounting, hedge funds and law firms. For more information, visit http://www.backupmyinfo.com, call (866) 444- BUMI (2864)

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Download of three-day version of ShadowProtect software available until June 5

DRAPER, Utah – May 21, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — In response to the recent devastating tornadoes in Oklahoma and Texas, StorageCraft Technology Corporation is offering a free three-day version of its backup and disaster recovery software, StorageCraft® ShadowProtect® IT Edition. This free download is available to businesses and non-profit organizations in the region that were affected by the storms.

Once accessed, the award-winning software gives users three days to backup and recover an unlimited number of laptops, desktops and servers, even if it wasn’t installed on the machine prior to the disaster. The ShadowProtect software will help affected organizations in their efforts to regain or maintain business continuity in the aftermath of these natural disasters.

“The people of Texas and Oklahoma have been dealt heavy blows the past week from deadly tornadoes. Our hopes and prayers are with them, and we want to assist businesses and other organizations as their communities begin efforts to overcome these adversities and return to normal life,” said Jeff Shreeve, president and CEO at StorageCraft.

Users may download the software and receive instructions on how to backup and recover their systems and data by visiting www.storagecraft.com/storm between now and June 5, 2013.

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Notes:

StorageCraft Technology Corporation provides best-in-class backup, disaster recovery, system migration, data protection, and cloud services solutions for servers, desktops and laptops. StorageCraft delivers software and services solutions that enable users to maintain business continuity during times of disaster, computer outages or other unforeseen events by reducing downtime, improving security and stability for systems and data. For more information, visit www.storagecraft.com.

StorageCraft and ShadowProtect are trademarks of StorageCraft Technology Corporation. Other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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London’s Premier Research Institution to Free Up to 3,000 Researchers from the Burden of Storing, Sharing and Preserving Vital Data Assets by Deploying DDN Storage Cloud

SUNNYVALE, CA — May 22, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ –

News Facts

• University College London (UCL), ranked consistently as a top-five university worldwide, has selected DataDirect Networks (DDN) to provide up to 3,000 researchers with a safe and resilient storage solution for sharing, reusing and preserving project-based research data.
• With 25 Nobel Prize winners among its alumni and staff as well as a world-class reputation for the quality of its teaching and research, UCL sought to remove the burden of storing and preserving research data from individual researchers and in doing so, lower the barriers of sharing and exploiting vital findings in order to improve research outcomes and overcome problems of global significance.
• As UCL’s storage demands grow, the university expects to build a storage foundation that will scale up to 100PB. Looking for a storage solution that was massively scalable yet simple to manage as part of the first phase of the infrastructure build out, UCL will use DDN™ object storage technology to store up to 600TB of research data.
• DDN object storage capabilities also will be able to empower UCL researchers to collaborate without having to worry about data reliability, compliance obligations or long-term retention of critical research assets.
• With DDN WOS® distributed object storage architecture, GRIDScaler™ parallel file storage system and tight integration with the Integrated Rule-Oriented Data Management Solution (iRODS), UCL forecasts it will save up to hundreds of thousands of UK pounds by slashing hardware, power and staffing costs, as well as maintenance fees, associated with attaining and maintaining personal data stores across 100 departments, institutes and research centers.

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DDN Delivers High-Performance Storage without Adding Complexity

• Faced with the need to accommodate all types of research data of varying velocity and growth rates, UCL wanted to consolidate storage and minimize the cost, administration and compliance risks of individual researchers maintaining standalone removable hard drives and USB drives containing critical research data.
• Additionally, given UCL’s highly-congested, expensive downtown London location, power and space efficiency was critical which made a high-density storage architecture essential to the university.
• Rather than taking an approach that limited application access and scale, UCL selected the combination of DDN’s distributed WOS and GRIDScaler technology to provide the desired scalability, performance, reliability, portability and management simplicity.
• With DDN WOS storage technology, UCL also expects to better meet increasingly stringent compliance requirements for the management and preservation of research data as required by the UK Research Councils and other UK funding bodies.
• DDN’s strong track record of supporting massive research initiatives and diverse academic environments was a significant consideration in the final decision as UCL wanted a partner that understood the differences between corporate and academic worlds, including the critical importance of delivering a solution researchers would embrace and use.

Supporting Quotes

Dr. J. Max Wilkinson, Head of Research Data Services for University College London’s Information Services Division:

• “We were very interested in building a relationship with a strong storage partner to fill our technology gap. After a thorough assessment, DDN met our technical requirements and shared our data storage vision. In evaluating DDN, we agreed that the WOS solution had a simple proposition, was high performance and had low administration overhead.”
• “DDN is empowering us to deliver performance and cost savings through a dramatically simplified approach. Add in the fact that DDN’s resilient, extensible storage technology provided evidence for seamless expansion from a half-petabyte to 100PBs, and we found exactly the foundation we were looking for.”

Dr. Daniel Hanlon, Storage Architect for Research Data Services in University College London’s Information Services Division:

• “It was important that DDN’s solution gave us multiple ways to access the same storage so we could be compatible with existing application codes. The tendency with other solutions was to give us bits of technology that had been developed in different spaces and that didn’t really fit our problem.”
• “We wanted to work with a storage solution provider that took advantage of open-source solutions. This enables us to partner not just with DDN but and also with other academic institutions.”

Ashish Nadkarni, Research Director, IDC:

• “For 2013, IDC anticipates object storage growing faster than any other segment in the file-and-object storage market. A driver in the growth of private cloud adoption is the control over data security and resiliency users get compared to public clouds. As more companies look at object storage for collaborative file sharing, archive and backup, IDC is seeing an acceleration in cloud adoption. UCL is a great example of this mainstream private cloud adoption of object storage for collaborative file sharing.”

Supporting Resources

• Learn more about DDN
• About DDN WOS Technology
• About GRIDScaler
• University College London Case Study
• Follow DDN via Blog and Twitter

About DataDirect Networks

DataDirect Networks (DDN) is the world leader in massively scalable 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 towww.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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New survey from AVG Technologies also reveals more than a quarter of women worldwide would break off a relationship via text message

AMSTERDAM & SAN FRANCISCO – May. 22, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — In an increasingly digital world, today’s ultra connected women have never been more emotionally detached. So say the findings of the latest global study by AVG Technologies N.V. (NYSE: AVG), the provider of Internet and mobile security, privacy and optimization to 150 million active users, which charts the changing ways women are using technology to form and manage their relationships.

The study, which questioned 4,000 women in the UK, US, Canada, France, Germany and Brazil, highlighted the increasing role mobile devices and social media channels play in the dating process, and suggested that online research has displaced in-person chemistry when it comes to partner evaluation. Nearly 35 per cent of women now use social media channels to check out dates ahead of time, prioritizing pictures followed by common friends and finally interests and comments.

Just as women are turning to technology to kick-start their relationships, so too have they become reliant upon it to end them. All up figures indicated that more than 50 per cent of those questioned either have or would break up with a significant other on the phone and more than a quarter have or would do so via text message.

“We all recognize that face-to-face is usually better than Facebook when it comes to relationships, but when so many of us live such busy lives it’s not surprising technology is increasingly being used as a substitute for one-on-one, in-person contact,” said John Giamatteo, COO of AVG Technologies. “What’s more telling is the extent to which women, both old and young, are now relying on technology in matters of the heart. This study suggests an increasing level of detachment, where devices serve as agents to filter potential partners and release them when women are ready to move on. On a purely abstract note, we might even consider whether mobile devices and their trusty stream of insight will become the new primary relationship.”

When it came to the different age ranges, predictably it was 18-25 year olds who were the most likely to break up with a partner using their phone (61 per cent), by posting on Facebook (19 per cent) or via sending a text message (38 per cent). That said, the older generations were not far behind, with 45 per cent of 45-54 year olds also indicating that they would or have ended a relationship using their phone. The most dramatic differences, however, arose between nationalities.

Though women in the US are the most prolific users of social media channels to screen dates, Brazilian women emerged as the most cutthroat group in the dating stakes. According to the survey, not only would 58 per cent use a phone call for a break up, but 61 per cent had cancelled dates based on information they’d discovered on social media channels. Data showed that Brazilians are also the most likely to break off a relationship over Facebook (18 per cent).

Conversely, responses indicated that the French were more traditional in their approach and the least reliant upon technology for their relationships. Fewer than 25 per cent of French women questioned look at social media channels ahead of a date, for example, and they are also the least likely to secretly read their partners’ text or email messages (18 per cent). Again, Brazilian women topped this particular category, with more than 50 per cent of respondents admitting to some form of mobile snooping.

And finally, 57 per cent of US women would rather give up sex than their mobile device for a week, which, among other things, places mobile devices rather close to the heart.

Further Methodology:
An online survey of 4,000 females was undertaken across the UK, US, Canada, France, Germany and Brazil. The survey was set up using Qualtrics and respondents were from Qualtrics’ online panel. Fieldwork took place in April 2013.

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About AVG Technologies (NYSE: AVG)
AVG’s mission is to simplify, optimize and secure the Internet experience, providing peace of mind to a connected world. AVG’s powerful yet easy-to-use software and online services put users in control of their Internet experience. By choosing AVG’s software and services, users become part of a trusted global community that benefits from inherent network effects, mutual protection and support. AVG has grown its user base to 150 million active users as of March 31, 2013 and offers a product portfolio that targets the consumer and small business markets and includes Internet security, PC performance optimization, online backup, mobile security, identity protection and family safety software.
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The University of Law — with over a 100 year history, and thousands of students at eight UK locations — has implemented Asigra powered Securstore cloud backup solution to protect its data locally in the University’s premises and then replicate it over to Securstore’s facilities

London, UK, 21^st May 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ –  The University of Law, the UK’s leading professional law school with over a 100 year history, thousands of students and eight locations has today implemented Securstore’s Hybrid Cloud  solution. The reputation of the University and the demands it has on complying with data protection signalled the need for having a backup and recovery solution that could be trusted and that met any legal requirements.

The setup incorporates having data stored locally in the University’s premises and then replicating over to Securstore’s facilities. The business benefits mean having an onsite recovery mechanism to restore data more quickly with the combined assurance of an offsite recovery system should, for whatever reason, the primary system fail or in the case of disaster.

One of the issues facing the University and similar organisations is the fast pace of data growth which cannot always be controlled; trying to balance this with budget allowance is a challenging proposition. The Securstore Hybrid solution addresses these challenges and therefore helps to ease concerns between protecting data and meeting financial spend. Support is there for servers, desktops, laptops, smartphones and physical & virtual environments, therefore being able to consolidate any environment into a single solution is an added incentive for all companies.

Nick Galt, IT Director at the University of Law, said, “Having the Hybrid solution has certainly streamlined the backup process with the added benefit of a fixed monthly fee to meet our long term budget planning targets. Our data is always growing so it is good to have a technically viable backup and data recovery solution which does exactly what we were looking for and most of all is secure. For multi-TB environments or with customers having a wide mix of systems and applications, this is by far the best solution out there in the current market place.”

As Securstore provides the hardware for both parts of the Hybrid systems, the location for each depends on the suitability and the setup of the customer.  For example, the secondary system could be on another site or data centre if applicable. Bandwidth needs to be considered, the spread and volume of data when dealing with multiple locations and any best practices which need to fit the business guidelines have to be looked at. In the University’s case having the main system where most of the data is present and then replicating to the Cloud proved to be the optimum configuration.

Securstore is audited by British Standards Institute (BSI Group) for its ISO 27001 Information Security Standard certification and is accredited by UKAS meaning the certification is affiliated by members of the EA, IAF and ILAC governing bodies around the world. Due to the nature of the work which the University does, having this accreditation provides confidence to its staff/students that all procedures around data protection and security threats are being properly followed.

Saaher Muzafer, Chief Sales Officer at Securstore, said, “The University of Law moving to Hybrid was a natural step for them in their backup strategy. The solution works and has been recognised by various independent publications as a market leader in Cloud Backup. Therefore when the opportunity presented itself to the University, it was an appropriate fit. We look forward to managing their Hybrid solution for many years to come”.

About The University of Law
The University of Law is the UK’s longest-established specialist provider of legal education and training. Formally established as The College of Law by the Law Society in the 1960s, its roots in the profession stretch back over 100 years, as it was an amalgamation of the long-running Law Society School of Law and historic tutorial firm Gibson and Weldon.

It has remained at the heart of legal education ever since, continuing to develop and expand a national presence as the acknowledged leader in innovative, professional legal education for prospective lawyers and professional development training for those already qualified. Over the years, it has worked with virtually every UK law firm to help meet their training and development needs, with many firms sending their trainees exclusively to it.

The University of Law made history in 2006 by becoming the first independent institution to be granted degree awarding powers by the Privy Council, leading to the development of its professionally-focused Bachelor and Master of Laws degree programmes.

In 2012, it was granted full university title and changed its name from The College of Law to The University of Law. This was an important development in its long history, reinforcing its absolute commitment to providing professional legal education of the highest quality to serve the needs of the legal profession and future generations of lawyers.

For more information, please visit www.law.ac.uk

About Securstore
Founded in 1991, Securstore has spent over 20 years protecting enterprises of all sizes with its unique, market leading Cloud Backup & Recovery solution powered by Asigra.

Securstore was awarded Asigra Partner of the Year for 2012 and has been PCPro recommended in 2011, ITPRO Recommended in 2012 and PC Pro A-Listed in 2013.

Whether deployed in a public, hybrid or private cloud environment, Securstore Cloud Backup & Recovery guarantees the cost effective protection of an organisation’s sensitive data without compromising on recovery and security; the core essence of its solution. Completely scalable and compatible with all IT systems, Securstore’s solution ensures total business continuity while aligning the lifespan of data with a company’s budget and infrastructure requirements.

Securstore is compliant with all international data regulations (ANAB, Sarbanes Oxley, DPA and HIPPA) and has full ISO 27001 accreditation from the British Standards Institute (BSI). Data is encrypted at all times and the company undergoes regular audits to verify its security practices.

With full 24/7 technical support, Securstore protects organisations across the world in every sector, including financial, legal, engineering, retail and manufacturing.

For more information, please visit www.securstore.com

Contact
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dinManage Provides Application and Customer Management to the Channel

LOS ANGELES, CA & SEATTLE, WA – May 21, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — dinCloud, a cloud transformation company, continues to demonstrate its 100% commitment to the channel with the immediate availability of its white label solution. Channel partners (value added resellers, managed service providers, systems integrators, consultants, dealers and agents) can utilize dinCloud’s online cloud orchestration and management platform, dinManage, to enable custom configuration of their customers’ private virtual data centers securely in the cloud.

dinCloud’s white label solution is ideal for partners looking to offer turnkey business provisioning services without upfront investment. By white labeling through dinCloud, partners can offer their own branded solution, using dinCloud’s complementary infrastructure, to seamlessly integrate with their existing services, but sell it as their own brand.

“By offering our services as a white label solution, we are able to  provide more support to the channel by arming our partners with the tools they need to increase their bottom line and make them more competitive,” said Kevin Schatzle, CEO, dinCloud. “Since dinCloud is 100% channel focused, it’s important to make our partners efficient. The mutual partnership is a win-win – as they grow, we grow.”

The automated provisioning system reduces the time required to add hosted virtual desktops and virtual servers into a customer’s IT infrastructure, thus helping partners rapidly migrate customers to the cloud. Partners have immediate and complete control of a customer’s IT environment, including desktops, servers, storage, and network security resources in minutes.

dinManage offers many benefits to channel partners, including: 

• Immediate access to award-winning hosted virtual desktop services – start using the system in minutes
• Ability to offer custom hosted server bundles based on various memory, storage, and CPU combinations
• Custom online branded portal with unique URL – create personal look and feel, allowing for complete private labeling
• The ability to manage multiple data centers and its components (firewall, VPN, servers, desktops) on a single pane of glass
• An administrative portal for partners to manage customer orders, generate and view monthly usage and billing reports
• The ability to offer end-customers a self-provisioning tool – customers can go online and submit additional orders to change or augment servers, desktops, networking.
• The elimination of challenges and costs associated with launching their own cloud offering
• 24/7 help desk support

“dinCloud is a good example of a number of converging trends in infrastructure and IT services. It provides a service delivery model and a range of infrastructure services that can help IT services providers get to market faster with a comprehensive offering,” said Carl Brooks, research analyst at 451 Research.

For more information about dinCloud’s white label offering and dinManage, visit http://www.dincloud.com/IT-as-a-Service or call 424-286-2300. 

About dinCloud:
dinCloud is a cloud transformation company that helps organizations rapidly migrate to the cloud through Business Provisioning. Each private, virtual data center provides hosted virtual desktops, hosted virtual servers, and NetApp cloud replication services, which are controlled by the customer, through a web-based application. dinCloud provides subscription-based services tailored to fit a range of business models resulting in reduced cost, enhanced security, control, and productivity. Visit www.dinCloud.com, www.linkedin.com/company/dinCloud, www.youtube.com/dinCloud, or follow @dinCloud on Twitter.

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Backup/Restore for System & Application Settings Combines with Data Backup to Save Hours of Migration Time; Enables Fast Self-Serve Migration across Operating Systems, Devices & Platforms

Sunnyvale, CA – May 21, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — Druva today introduced an industry-first settings backup capability for its inSync endpoint data protection platform that will save hundreds of hours of IT overhead for enterprises confronting the task of upgrading corporate PCs when Windows XP is sunsetted in April 2014. inSync’s new Persona Backup feature enables system and application settings to be saved and restored with a click by end users themselves. Combining the new feature with inSync’s core endpoint data backup/restore abilities not only slashes migration downtime but also allows end users to perform their own device migrations without IT intervention.

With Windows XP expected to power over 30% of all Windows PCs when Microsoft issues its final security update for the 12-year-old OS next year, inSync will provide an easy migration path to Windows 7/8 that eliminates manual transfer of data and settings. The inSync platform can also streamline any other OS, device or hardware platform migration scenario – including moving data and settings from laptop to laptop, laptop to tablet, and Windows to Mac – as well as simplify the process of rebuilding damaged hardware and replacing lost or stolen devices.

The new Persona Backup feature facilitates these tasks by:

• Enabling automatic backup of system and application settings ranging from wireless network, email and desktop settings to browser bookmarks, home pages and shortcuts for each user profile, at the administrator’s discretion
• Allowing end users to restore their backed-up settings simply by logging into the inSync client and selecting “replace an existing device” after an OS migration, post-crash OS and app restore, or hardware change
• Complementing the restore capabilities of inSync’s endpoint data backup, which automatically backs up files and folders on end user devices while also enabling remote data access from any device without moving files from one device to another or into a consumer file sharing service

“We built our Persona Backup feature to reduce the overall migration workload caused by rapid endpoint diversification, frequent OS iterations, and rampant loss and theft of mobile devices, but we also recognized that it would help meet a surge in OS migration demand created by the imminent demise of Windows XP,” said Jaspreet Singh, CEO of Druva. “The crunch is already on, with analysts warning that companies still running XP need to put a migration plan in place immediately or risk compliance problems. inSync can now help even the largest organizations fast-track the migration process by streamlining data restore and settings configuration.”

The Persona Backup feature is part of the new 5.2 release of Druva inSync, an integrated suite of data backup, file sharing, data loss prevention and analytics solutions designed to protect and govern data on any mix of endpoint devices including full support for mobile data protection. For more information on inSync’s ability to simplify OS and other migration, visit http://www.druva.com/migrate-your-os/.

About Druva
Druva provides integrated data protection and governance solutions for enterprise laptops, PCs, smartphones and tablets. Its flagship product, inSync, empowers an enterprise’s mobile workforce with backup, IT-managed file sharing, data loss prevention, and rich analytics. Deployed in public or private cloud scenarios or on-premise, inSync is the only solution built with both IT needs and end-user experiences in mind. Druva has over 1,500 customers and protects one million endpoints across 46 countries. With offices in the United States, India and the United Kingdom, Druva is privately held and is backed by Nexus Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital. Information on Druva is available at www.druva.com.

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May 20, 2013

KineticD Online Data Backup Expert Tips: Leveraging Cloud Services in the Real Estate Business

There is no denying the fact that cloud services have made life easier for people in many different walks of life.  And, of all of the myriad advantages brought about by cloud technology, the newfound ease with which individuals and businesses can share their information with others has been by far its most revolutionary component.  Luckily, over the years cloud services have also become much easier to use, with the technologies that are being leveraged in the cloud having also become increasingly advanced, and thus more highly effective.  Indeed, being able to readily share data and access information from almost any location is helping to revolutionize the way business is done across the globe, and the real estate industry is, of course, no exception to this steadily growing trend.

The bottom line is that, much like other industries, the real estate world is rife with the need for thorough and accurate documentation.  As real estate agents purchase, rent and sell buildings and houses, they must document everything having to do with these commodities using numerous forms of media, from photographs to digital copies of historical documents that pertain to these properties.  In a very real sense, one of a real estate agent’s main duties is to be a top-notch expert on all of the properties that they are dealing with, and becoming an expert on any subject requires research and extensive documentation.  And, not only must real estate agents be thoroughly knowledgeable about each and every property that they are trying to buy or sell, but they must also be able to easily access and share this information with all of their potential clients as well.

By utilizing cloud data services to get the most out of this information, real estate agents can save both time and money.  After all, these agents must invest hefty amounts of money when acting as a broker between buyers and sellers, and so they know just how critically important any amount of financial advantage can be.  By sharing their photographs, property descriptions and more through cloud services, real estate agents are able to save on the cost of printing up materials and mailing fees, and are also granted the extremely important ability to always freely alter what they are sharing with their potential clients as new information about properties is brought to light, allowing their clients to always be as well informed as is technologically possible.

Yet another advantage of the utilization of cloud services in the real estate industry is that they help to lessen the amount of time and money that must be spent when the potential purchasers of properties are located at relatively distant locations from the property in which they are interested.  For example, if a buyer is considering purchasing a property that is located in a city that is far away, they can simply obtain all of the details needed online, with this ability often serving to effectively widen the net when it comes to attracting as many potential buyers as possible.  In fact, nowadays if a person is interested in buying or renting a property and are working with a real estate agent of their own, they can simply obtain all of the initial information online, and then just send their agent to examine the property first for them, which serves to simplify the process of arranging meeting after meeting with potential buyers and sellers of buildings and properties.

Finally, one last crucial advantage that the cloud can bring to real estate agents is that of online data backup.  While dealing with massive amounts of paperwork and documentation pertaining to their various properties, much of which is now thankfully digital in nature, real estate agents and organizations worldwide are now able to protect all of this information by backing it up online, which is by far the most effective and convenient data backup method available on the market today.  Most high-quality online data backup services are completely automatic, saving agents valuable time, and effectively guaranteeing that their important backups will always be consistently performed, no matter what.  And, with highly scalable, “pay-as-you-go” pricing models, online data backup is also the most cost-effective way for businesses of all types to safeguard all of their irreplaceable digital assets as well.

Just as in many other industries, the flexibility of data access and sharing that is being brought about through cloud technology is becoming an increasingly expected commodity in the world of real estate.  However, no matter what industry you’re in, we here at KineticD are proud to be able to supply your organization with the most advanced and flexible cloud services available on the market today.  From our state of the art Blowfish data encryption to our patented Continuous Data Protection technology, we’ve always made it our top priority to offer the most advanced level of cloud IT services available for over a decade now, without ever having lost a single clients’ file!  Please visit our website today to try our free 14-day trial and to find out more about what the KineticD Advantage is all about!

About the author: Nir Zahavi is Marketing Communications Manager at KineticD, a Toronto based online data backup service provider.

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LOS ANGELES, May 20, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — SOS Online Backup™, powered by Infrascale™, has expanded its partner program by adding multitenant capabilities to its Dashboard. Now, partners who wish to expand their offering to their own channel of online backup resellers, can do so simply from the SOS Partner Dashboard.

SOS’s objective has long been to integrate with its partners’ businesses, rather than offering a stand-alone solution that is sold with a small commission payable to the partner. Offering a multitenant Dashboard is another way of reaching that goal. SOS already offers white-labeling of its application, marketing, and sales materials.

The SOS Partner Dashboard is centralized management tool for an entire online backup business.

The SOS Partner Dashboard is a complete centralized management portal for all partners. For distributors, it will allow the creation of additional “child” Partner Dashboards underneath the parent (or distributor) account. Likewise, a partner can also create Dashboards for businesses to whom they sell directly. The Dashboard controls and contains all remote backup policies, software downloads, account creation tools, re-branding, and account monitoring tools.

Create an online backup distribution business with the SOS Partner Dashboard.

The Distributor Program includes multitenant capabilities in the SOS Partner Dashboard and also offers discounts on aftermarket storage. The online backup application available to distributors can be hosted privately by the partner or hosted by SOS Online Backup.

“We’ve developed the SOS Partner Dashboard for distributors with customization and downstream potential in mind”, said Ken Shaw, CEO of Infrascale. “Our distributors want the product to fit in their businesses and we want to be one of the few partners to provide it to them. The addition of multi-tenancy to the Dashboard empowers MSPs to grow their businesses, beyond what they ever thought possible. Creating their own channel will be a massive boost to their revenue.”

SOS Online Backup, powered by Infrascale, has created its application with the ability to be run in different data centers in a variety of locations. It currently offers storage and hosting on five continents. It was a logical transition for SOS to enable its partners to host their white-label cloud backup solution in the data center of their choice.

About Infrascale and SOS Online Backup
SOS Online Backup is developed by Infrascale, whose technology powers over one-thousand cloud service brands, including FileLocker™.

Headquartered in El Segundo, California, with offices in Kiev, Ukraine and Chennai, India and data centers on five continents, Infrascale operates a massively scalable, security focused, global platform and end-to-end technology stack, from device to cloud. Infrascale technology powers FileLocker, SOS Online Backup and cloud service companies, VARs and MSPs. Visit www.infrascale.com.

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Leading OCZ Enterprise-Class SATA-based Deneva 2 SSDs Now Qualified on NETGEAR’s ReadyDATA™ 516 NAS Device

SAN JOSE, CA – May 20, 2013 – /BackupReview.info/ — OCZ Technology Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:OCZ), a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, today announced that its 100GB SATA III enterprise-class Deneva 2 SSDs are now qualified on NETGEAR® (NasdaqGM:NTGR) ReadyDATA™ 516 networked-attached storage devices.  Announced on May 7, 2013, the ReadyDATA 516 is a 6-bay desktop NAS device designed specifically for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) without a data center or for branch offices requiring powerful on-site storage capabilities.  Delivering complete ‘data center storage in a box’ functionality, NETGEAR’s ReadyDATA 516 enables simplified storage at a price that is cost-effective for even the smallest business sites.

The ability to provide simplified, cost-efficient storage for business customers through a high-performance, enterprise-class, SATA III flash-based drive was a priority for NETGEAR in their selection of OCZ’s Deneva 2 SSDs.  SMBs looking to meet capacity requirements and boost performance require advanced features, like ReadyDATA’s SSD caching, which automatically copies frequently accessed data to SSDs.  The high-performing Deneva 2 drives are ideally suited for the ReadyDATA 516 platform delivering up to 80,000 IOPS performance (random 4K writes), a maximum throughput up to 550 MB/s with support for 100GB capacities in a 2.5-inch eMLC NAND format.  Providing power loss data protection, strong error correction for enhanced data integrity and data fail recovery provides the superior endurance and reliability that ReadyDATA 516 customers require.

“We are very pleased that our Deneva 2 SSDs are qualified on NETGEAR’s ReadyDATA 516 platform enabling small businesses to improve IT efficiency and reduce the risk of data loss as a result of a disaster, human error or system interruption,” said Wayne B. Eisenberg, Senior VP of Sales for OCZ Technology.  “We anticipate that the ReadyDATA 516 device provides the desktop storage capabilities that this business segment requires and should enhance NETGEAR’s position as one of the leading NAS vendors worldwide.”

“The OCZ Deneva 2 SSDs help to provide our ReadyDATA 516 customers with the performance benefits of hybrid storage and advanced data management features in a small form factor that is cost-effective and easy-to-use,” said Matt Pahnke, Senior Product manager for NETGEAR Storage.  “The ability for small businesses to achieve high I/O access, accelerated application performance and data protection were key capabilities in the selection of OCZ drives into the ReadyDATA 516 platform.”

For more information about Deneva 2 SSDs, please visit www.ocz.com/enterprise

For more information about NETGEAR ReadyDATA 516 devices, please visit www.netgear.com/readydata

About NETGEAR, Inc.
NETGEAR (NASDAQGM: NTGR) is a global networking company that delivers innovative products to consumers, businesses and service providers. For consumers, the company makes high performance, dependable and easy to use home networking, storage and digital media products to connect people with the Internet and their content and devices. For businesses, NETGEAR provides networking, storage and security solutions without the cost and complexity of big IT. The company also supplies top service providers with retail proven, whole home solutions for their customers. NETGEAR products are built on a variety of proven technologies such as wireless, Ethernet and Powerline, with a focus on reliability and ease-of-use. NETGEAR products are sold in approximately 35,000 retail locations around the globe, and through approximately 41,000 value-added resellers. The company’s headquarters are in San Jose, Calif., with additional offices in over 25 countries. NETGEAR is an ENERGY STAR® partner. More information is available at www.NETGEAR.com or by calling (408) 907-8000.

OCZ Media Contact:
Scott Harlin, Dir. of Marketing Communications
408-440-3484
sharlin@ocztechnology.com

NETGEAR Media Contact:
Jeff Norris, Weber Shandwick
408-530-8458
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OCZ Investor Relations Contact:
Bonnie Mott, Senior Manager of Investor Relations
408-440-3428
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Source: OCZ Technology

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By Alexander Eiriksson, COO at Securstore
May 17, 2013

Securstore Online Data Backup Expert Tips: Synchronizing your Value Chain

Customers expect the best from their interaction with your business. They want to have a consistency of experience every time they reach out to your organization. You can deliver value to your customers only when you have synchronized your value chain. You need to get consistent delivery of value from the business interactions with your suppliers. The systems and applications that you use to interact with your suppliers must be fine tuned, synchronized to provide you with the necessary business to business capability. You need to move beyond simple business connectivity to sophisticated integration with your partners in the Cloud.

B2B integration requires identification of the integration challenges—automation of business processes and collaboration for visibility into actionable information. The implication is that the organization must provision for secure movement of files, institution of a trading partner network to automate and extend internal processes, establishment of integration gateways for direct connection with strategic and demanding business partners, data transformation capabilities for transforming data into the format that business partners can use and much more. Cloud backup and recovery vendors facilitate many of the desired integration services and even permit organizations add many more customized application capabilities.

Synchronization of the value chain simplifies the management of the business community. Organizations can reap a number of benefits such as lower transaction costs and reduction in order backlogs. Organizations can synchronize with multiple systems while providing their client with a feeling of accessing multiple services from a single window. For instance, synchronization of hospitals with medical insurance providers will enable the medical staff and the patients know the level of insurance coverage available at the point at which the service is rendered.

The integration service is really a continuum that enables businesses meet virtually any kind of B2B integration need. Integration services in the Cloud are deployed in as an in-house software model or a hosted one. The in-house model obviously has a high cost attached to it in terms of time and money, while the hosted model abstracts the cost of development and deployment to the Cloud service provider. Research indicates that there is a lower cost and economies of scale associated with the hosted model. Services are always on and scalable on demand. The network is dynamic, agile, efficient and optimized for effective performance. Integration is achieved through service based connectivity and the creation of a secure electronic community of partners that have access to necessary collaboration tools and greater visibility into the process components over the Internet. A consistent set of enabled processes are defined for managing the dynamics of the interaction and delivering quicker response times.

Synchronization of the value chain has never been easier.

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
May 17, 2013

KineticD Online Data Backup Expert Tips: Securing Flexibility in the Cloud

With all of the chaos of modern life, knowing that we are protected and secure in any way is always a much-appreciated feeling, to say the least. Indeed, whether is comes from the obtaining of financial stability, the knowledge that you have the insurance protection that you need, or the ultimate security of a stable and loving relationship, feeling safe and protected is something that has always been universally sought after. And, with individuals and businesses alike relying more heavily on digital information than ever before, making sure that we keep our data protected and secure has become not only an increasingly desired service, but also big business as well.

So, with thousands of vendors now providing cloud services, how can one know that they have chosen the right one to keep their information intact and out of the wrong hands? Well, beyond making sure that your chosen online data specialist has a solid reputation, one other key element to consider when selecting a cloud vendor is that of flexibility. After all, the nature of digital information itself has become much more flexible through the use of smaller, more dynamic digital devices and more advanced mobile data access technologies. Therefore, it is of key importance to find a cloud vendor that can supply services that can flexibly match and adapt to these new modern ways of accessing and leveraging digital information, as well as to the individual cloud IT needs of all of their clients.

A good place to start is to consider the nature of the backup software that is supplied by the cloud vendor. This software should be flexible enough to meet your organization’s data backup needs no matter how unusual or extensive they may be. For example, any online data backup service provider that doesn’t allow you to choose when backups will happen is definitely not worth considering in the first place. Believe it or not, there have been cloud service vendors who have asked their clients to shut down all of their operations at certain times in order that they won’t interfere with the backup process! Obviously, any cloud vendor that behaves like this should be avoided entirely, and a more flexible online backup service provider sought after instead that can work with your company’s needs, rather than expecting you to work with theirs.

Cloud vendors should be flexible when it comes to their methods for restoring lost data as well. Restoring lost files from the online backup servers should be both fast and easy, while still at the same time performed with the proper level of data security in order to maintain the confidentiality of this important information. In fact, data encryption should be applied to all of the files as soon as they leave the systems that are being backed up, and this encryption should be of the highest level available, while still not weighing down your system’s resources during the backup process. And, it should be easy to quickly decrypt the files during the data restore process as well. The bottom line is that there are many ways in which both the online backup and restore procedures can be implemented, and quality cloud vendors should have the flexibility to offer your organization a host of different options so as to be able to leverage the most ideal backup and restore methods to meet your company’s needs.

Finally, one last element in which flexibility is key when it comes to the cloud is pricing. After all, one of the biggest advantages to backing up online is that you can purchase cloud IT using highly scalable, “pay-as-you-go” pricing systems that make it so that your organization will never have to worry about investing in levels of cloud services that it doesn’t actually need. When choosing an online backup service provider, make sure that they offer flexible pricing systems that can work with any budget, and with any combination of cloud IT requirements as well. Cloud vendors that offer free trials are particularly ideal, since you get to experience first-hand just how flexible their services are before you make a commitment, while at the same time being sure to find out how their pricing works so that you know that they will be a good financial fit for your organization in the first place.

Luckily, with more and more online backup companies popping up everyday, it is now easier than ever to find a cloud vendor that can supply services that are perfectly suited to the individual cloud IT needs of your business or organization. Of course, we here at KineticD are proud to have been in the online data backup industry for over a decade now, during which we have always maintained our 100% data recovery track record for all of our clients, and we have also always prided ourselves in offering the most flexible suite of online data backup and cloud computing services available anywhere. To learn more about why we’ve been called “a whole other category of backup”, please stop by our website and try our free 14-day trial today!

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

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By Sathyanarain Muralidharan, Marketing Analyst at Vembu Technologies
May 17, 2013

Vembu Online Data Backup Expert Tips: Data Backup and Disaster Recovery in Healthcare Industry

Data backup and disaster recovery is a must-have process in almost every industry in the world. But, the one industry for which data backup is absolutely critical is probably the healthcare industry.

With mounting data of patient records, reports and diagnostic images that needs to be kept secure and confidential, data backup for the healthcare industry is possibly the second most important operation of any hospital, the first one being health care itself.

With the growing number of regulations and laws regarding this health care data, it becomes top priority for IT managers to make sure that processes are in place to protect data.

Traditionally, health care backups, like most other industries, rely on tape backups. But, the problems with tape backups are aplenty, starting with the issue of reliability. It is no big secret that tape backups are insecure. Plus, the problem of physical storage is another big issue. There have been instances where IT managers discover during the point of restore, much to their despair that the tapes are beyond recovery.

HIPAA (The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996):
HIPAA states that every medical practitioner and health care provider should maintain EMR (Electronic Medical Records) with proper processes in place. The act further requires such data to be properly backed up and restorable apart from the fact that the data must be handled with utmost care and confidentiality.

If you are an MSP with a number of small healthcare customers, you must make sure that the backup and disaster recovery service provider follows a number of regulations like HIPAA compliance and SAS 70 certification. Vembu’sStoreGrid offering is both HIPAA compliant and SAS 70 Type II certified.

Furthermore, as an MSP you must ensure that the data backup and disaster recovery solution provides the highest level of data security as there is absolutely no room for error in such mission-critical industry.

Taking into account the critical nature of healthcare data, it is always advisable to not settle for the second best. A majority of small healthcare practices (small offices) are yet to fully adopt complete data backup and disaster recovery services. StoreGrid backs up thousands of such data silently and efficiently in a number of healthcare institutions worldwide. The healthcare practices now only do what they do the best – health care.

About the Author: – Sathyanarain Muralidharan, Marketing Analyst in 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, an award winning cloud solution has delivered tangible value to over 3,500 partners worldwide.

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By Damien Garvey, Technical Account Manager at Backup-Technology
May 16, 2013

Backup-Technology Online Data Backup Expert Tips: Data Breach Compromises Credit and Debit Card Information of MAPCO Customers

MAPCO Express, Inc. is the latest company to publicise that they have suffered a data breach - http://bit.ly/10TGTdt – that has compromised credit and debit card information of certain customers. It is believed that the hackers managed to infiltrate and access the payment card processing systems by using malware. Therefore alerts and warning are being made to any MAPCO customers who used their credit or debit card between 19^th- 25^th March, 14^th-15^th April and 20^th- 21^st April 2013. The affected stores include MAPCO Express, MAPCO Mart, East Coast, Discount Food Mart, Fast Food and Fuel, Delta Express, and Favorite Markets in Tennessee, northern and central Alabama, Arkansas, northern Georgia, Kentucky, northern Mississippi, and Virginia.

It is feared that this data breach could result in fraudulent credit and debit card transactions. Those who believe that their card details may have been compromised have been advised to contact their bank or credit/debit card Company and to stringently monitor their accounts.

MAPCO have confirmed that they managed to disable – http://bit.ly/10TH0FT – the malware once they became aware of the data breach and are stepping up their efforts to improve their security measures to help prevent such cases from happening again.

Tony Miller - http://bit.ly/10THfAS – who is the vice president of operations for MAPCO stated, “Our first concern is our customers. We regret any inconvenience this criminal act by hackers may have caused and are enhancing our information security efforts to combat future information security threats. Through our internal investigation and collaboration with forensics security firms, we have disabled the malware that was used in this incident while establishing additional safeguards designed to prevent this from happening in the future.”

This is yet another case where the security measures implemented by a company who are dealing with sensitive data have proved not to be good enough and is another case where a company is being reactive as to proactive.

There is no doubt that hackers are becoming more sophisticated with their attacks and therefore the need to protect your data is becoming ever more crucial. By having a robust cloud backup solution in place, if you did suffer from a security breach where data is modified or deleted, you have the peace of mind that you will be able to recover your data, no matter what happens to it on your live production servers.

Are you worried about cyber-hackers? Do you have a robust cloud backup solution in place to protect your data?

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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NovaBACKUP DataCenter 5.0 is a finalist of the Datacentre Solution Awards 2013.

Agoura Hills / (CA) USA, May 16, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ – The jury of the Data Centre Solution Awards 2013 has ranked NovaBACKUP DataCenter 5.0 by data protection specialist NovaStor as a finalist in this year’s award. Together with products by Veeam, FalconStor and EVault NovaBACKUP DataCenter is nominated as Datacentre Storage Software Product of the Year.

NovaBACKUP DataCenter First Choice for Corporate Backup
NovaBACKUP DataCenter has been shortlisted for the Data Centre Solutions Awards 2013 because of its uncompromised focus on backup and restore. The software is optimized for fast implementation and setup as well as simple backup management of medium-sized enterprise infrastructures. NovaBACKUP DataCenter backs up physical and virtual machines with one solution. Companies can manage the complete network from a single pane of glass. Unlike other products, NovaBACKUP DataCenter reduces the complexity of data protection for data centers and networks.

Alternative to Symantec Backup Exec
NovaBACKUP DataCenter version 5.0 provides businesses with an easy-to-use alternative to products such as Symantec Backup Exec. Beyond standard features, NovaStor’s enterprise backup software equips administrators with high-end technology such as multistreaming for massive reduction of any backup window.

NovaStor’s clear per server licensing ensures maximum benefit from network backup for Windows and Linux at a fixed price that fits limited budgets.

Stefan Utzinger, CEO at NovaStor: „NovaStor appreciates the recognition for NovaBACKUP DataCenter by such a renowned jury as the DCS Awards. NovaBACKUP DataCenter is a big step towards simplifying backup and increasing its efficiency. With NovaBACKUP DataCenter 5.0 we have taken a different approach than other providers, and the nomination shows that there is a need out there for taking the stress out of backup.”

Links for additional information
DCS Awards 2013 Shortlist – http://dcsawards.com/awardsShortlist.php?id=1
NovaBACKUP DataCenter 5.0 – http://www.novastor.com/en/software/data-center-backup

About NovaStor
NovaStor (www.novastor.com) is a leading international provider of software solutions for data protection and availability. NovaStor provides backup software for small Windows environments, heterogeneous networks (Windows, Linux, Unix) and mulit-site data centers. NovaStor supports a transparent licensing model for clear pricing and long-term budget-security. Clients include home, mobile, and SMB users, service providers as well as international corporations.

NovaStor’s cost-effective solutions are platform- and hardware-independent and ensure that optimal technological and economical use is gained from the customer’s existing and future IT environment. NovaStor is headquartered in Switzerland (Zug), has offices in Germany (Hamburg) and the USA (CA, Agoura Hills), and is represented in numerous other countries through partnerships.

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Summary:

- 73% of SMEs using old-fashioned tape back-ups
- 90% of businesses never perform test back-ups
- 26% of SMEs aren’t backing up all their data as their tape is at capacity
- SMEs could save £2,500 a year by moving to cloud back-up

Businesses using traditional tape back-ups rather than cloud-based alternatives could unknowingly have a major gap in their disaster recovery plans, according to latest research.

Icomm Technologies’ Cloud Backup Solution is powered by Asigra

Manchester, UK – May 15, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — Leading IT service provider Icomm Technologies spoke to SMEs about their back-up solutions – finding that 73% use old-fashioned tapes to back-up data. Tapes, which are increasingly being replaced by cloud-based storage, are more prone to failure and are more subject to human error than newer systems.

The research also showed that 90% of SMEs using tapes never ran a test back-up, while 26% were over-capacity meaning not all their data is being protected.

Icomm’s, Ian Callens, said: “The words ‘disaster recovery’ usually conjure up images of fire, theft and terrorism but a simple server failure is much more likely and can be just as disruptive. Some research even shows that as many as 93% of businesses that suffer a major data loss will go bankrupt within a year*.

“Our new findings suggest that many businesses would not only lose data but also face delays of several days to restore their back-ups if they had an IT failure.”

The Icomm data also shows that SMEs that use tape back-up could be wasting as much as 61 hours a year on managing their back-up systems.

Ian Callens continues: “Our estimates suggest that businesses could save £2,500 a year over a three year period by switching to a cloud-based back up system and cutting down on wasted admin time.”

One business that has recently switched from tape to cloud-based back-up is the Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals (CIPP) – the UK’s only membership organisation for individuals working in payroll.

Torsten Roesler, IT co-ordinator at the Institute, explains: “Each night, the previous night’s tape would be taken out of the drive, and I would take it home with me. We’d have a daily back-up tape at my house, along with weekly back-ups. So at any one time, I would have two tapes at home.”

Now, both CIPP’s sensitive working data and its server images are backed up to two separate remote locations in different parts of the country. Should the worst happen, the CIPP could be up and running again in a matter of hours.

Torsten Roesler continues: “We can now log in from anywhere and be fully operational. It is reassuring to know that our data is being protected and stored on UK soil at two separate locations for additional peace of mind.”

About Icomm Technologies

With over 30 years experience, Icomm Technologies is the technology delivery arm of Probrand and offers a Deloitte Fast 50 award winning approach to private and public sector organisations with a market leading retention rate of 98%.

The business has managed to grow year-on-year with a focused approach to maximising availability for users, driving home security and compliance of networks and infrastructure, extending the life of assets and managing IT costs. Pivotal subjects on the agenda of organisations large and small that Icomm’s mix of proactive IT service, support and specialist solutions meets head on.

Icomm is a technically led business with over 60% of its workforce leading the way as CRB security cleared technical professionals with combined experience stretching to over 300 years. The business operates out of Birmingham and Manchester.

Probrand employs over 165 staff and boasts 2,000+ active customers, of which more than 500 are specific to Icomm. Probrand supplies ICT to government and business and boasts sales of over £70M.

For more information visit www.icomm.co.uk

ENDS

* Source: National Archives & Records Administration in Washington

Methodology:
Icomm research based on interviews with 121 SMEs.

Backups and restores times can vary based on file type and size being restored, bottlenecks caused by hardware, condition of the drive and media, finding the correct tape etc. Therefore all figures are averages.

Of the SMEs surveyed 26% of SME’s are not performing a full backup. This figure was deduced by looking at the customers running close to tape capacity.

27% of Icomm customers have converted to Cloud Backup. Based on the company’s average customer base these customers are saving on average £2,500 over a 3 year period when compared to a tape solutions.

Contact
Icomm
Tel: + 0121 248 7878
salesr[@]icomm.co.uk
www.icomm.co.uk

Addresses:
Birmingham Office
45-55 Camden Street
Birmingham
B1 3BP
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Manchester Office
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Trafford Plaza
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M16 0LD
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Cloud Backup Provider’s MobilePlus Service for Partners, SMBs Protects Valuable, At-Risk Corporate Data; Average Cost of Lost Laptop Data is $50,000

DANVERS, Mass. – May 15, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — VaultLogix, a business-class cloud backup service provider for SMBs and resellers, today announced a free trial of its business-class MobilePlus service, which provides backup, recovery and data protection for mobile workers’ Windows and Mac laptops and desktops.

The two-week trial offer runs through June 30, 2013 and gives users full access to business-class security features, including remote data deletion, remote management and remote policy implementation.

Need for Mobile Protection
Mobile workforces generate massive amounts of data, often many miles away from corporate headquarters. This business-critical information is being generated and stored on devices outside of companies’ infrastructure and protection. Unfortunately, each week more than 12,000 laptops are lost or stolen in US airports alone, with the cost of lost laptop data averaging about $50,000. In fact, laptops have a 10 percent chance of being lost or stolen over three years, and only five percent are recovered. Moreover, only 25 percent of companies use encryption to protect laptops, and 31 percent who use a laptop for work connect to the company’s network via a free or public Wi-Fi service.

VaultLogix MobilePlus protects SMBs by locking down data with disk encryption, port access control, remote data deletion and device tracing. In the case of lost or stolen laptops, remote data deletion eliminates the fear of mobile data breaches. Data can be recovered onto new devices in its current state, helping to ensure business continuity.

According to Tim Hannibal, founder and CEO, VaultLogix, “Anytime mobile workers carry computing devices containing critical business data outside the office, companies are at risk of costly data breaches. Like larger enterprises, SMBs’ need for remote data protection goes beyond the server room. We strongly advise clients to try this valuable service at no risk or obligation.”

Free Trial Sign Up
Interested parties can obtain more information about and sign up for the free MobilePlus trial at www.dataprotection.com/lp/vaultlogix-mobileplus. In addition to accessing the free trial, signees will receive a copy of the “Ending Endpoint Apprehension” white paper as well as a MobilePlus data sheet.

About VaultLogix
Since 2002, VaultLogix has specialized in providing businesses with cloud backup and data protection services. The company offers online backup solutions to meet the data protection and regulatory requirements for a wide range of businesses. VaultLogix prides itself in offering the latest backup services for SMBs and resellers. Visit us at http://www.dataprotection.com or by calling 877.828.5856.

CONTACT:
Elyse Familant (for VaultLogix)
George Cohen Communications, Inc.
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LOS ANGELES, May 15, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — Infrascale™, developer of SOS Online Backup™, is expanding its list of cloud backup and recovery services for IT channel partners by offering its award-winning data protection app in a private cloud hosting model. This meets the growing demand from MSPs and their customers to own the hardware on which their data is stored and on which the online backup application is run.

Private Cloud Backup Improves Data Security for Downstream Clients
While many firms have found infrastructure cost savings by hosting their online backups in a public cloud, an equal number have become wary of the public cloud. Numerous data breach incidents and spontaneous shutdowns of major data centers in recent years have contributed to this concern. In 2011, IDC reported that 53% of IT managers felt that private cloud hosting was more secure than public cloud hosting.

Infrascale’s SOS Online Backup Powers Data Protection on Five Continents
SOS Online Backup has created its application with the ability to be run in different data centers in a variety of locations. It currently hosts data in data centers on five continents. It was a logical transition for SOS to enable its partners to host their white-label cloud backup solution in the data center of their choice.

“In 2012, we saw an increase in customers wanting to take advantage of our software, but to have the control over the cloud,” said Ken Shaw, CEO of Infrascale. “We’ve put over 100 man-years into development of our Dashboard and our online backup application. Our partners now have the ability to take the power of that secure online backup application, re-brand for their firm, and host it in the data center of their – or their customers’ – choice. Our objective has always been to integrate with our partners’ businesses. Offering private cloud deployment of our application is yet another way to do just that.”

Managed Service Providers Can Host Their Online Backup without Compromising on Features
SOS Online Backup’s private cloud deployment offers all of the same features currently offered by its hosted service. Partners will be able to white-label the solution, monitor account activity and storage in the Dashboard, and even deploy software and backup policies remotely.

About Infrascale and SOS Online Backup
SOS Online Backup is developed by Infrascale, whose technology powers over one-thousand cloud service brands, including FileLocker™. Infrascale is a Safe Harbor participant.

Headquartered in El Segundo, California, with offices in Kiev, Ukraine and Chennai, India and data centers on five continents, Infrascale operates a massively scalable, security focused, global platform and end-to-end technology stack, from device to cloud. Infrascale technology powers FileLocker and SOS Online Backup for VARs and MSPs. Visit www.infrascale.com.

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

Address
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Suite 100
El Segundo, CA
USA, 90245

SOURCE: InfraScale

A similar press release was released on May 21, 2013 by SOS UK:

Infrascale Launches On-Premise Online Backup Solution for Managed Service Providers

Developer of white-label online backup solution introduces local hosting model enabling Data Protection Act compliance.

MANCHESTER, England, May 21, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ – SOS Online Backup™, developed by Infrascale™, is expanding its list of cloud backup and recovery services for IT channel partners by offering its applications in a private cloud hosting model. This meets the growing demand from Great Britain’s Managed Service Providers and IT consultants to offer online backup that is stored within the country.

SOS Powers Online Backup Hosted in the UK
While many firms have found savings in infrastructure costs by hosting their online backups on a public cloud, very few firms actually store the data they protect inside the UK, or even the European Union. SOS Online Backup’s private cloud deployment model can be deployed inside a local data centre, including a Managed Server Provider’s data centre. Downstream clients can then be reassured that their data is stored inside the UK.

The Data Protection Act Mandate Doesn’t Have to Be a Challenge to UK Companies
While the DPA (Data Protection Act) penalizes firms who do not store business and customer data insideGreat Britain, there are additional security risks involved in using public clouds. Hacks and other breaches of security are becoming increasingly common. CIOs have recognized this. In 2011, IDC reported that 53% of IT managers felt that private cloud hosting was more secure than public cloud hosting.

Infrascale’s SOS Online Backup Operates Data Protection on Five Continents
SOS Online Backup has created its application with the ability to be run in different data centres in a variety of locations. It currently hosts data in data centres on five continents, including the United Kingdom. It was a logical transition for SOS to enable its partners to host their white-label cloud backup solution in the data centre of their choice.

“In 2012, we saw a dramatic increase in interest from IT distributors in the UK. One of the reasons for this explosion in interest was, of course, the DPA and our data centre in London,” said Ken Shaw, CEO of Infrascale.  “Our partners now have the ability to take the power of that secure online backup application, re-brand for their firm, and host it in the data centre of their – or their customers’ choice. Our objective has always been to integrate with our partners’ businesses. Offering private cloud deployment for our partners in the UK is another way to do that.”

SOS Online Backup’s private cloud deployment offers all of the same features currently offered by its hosted service, including three-tiered military-grade encryption. Partners will be able to white-label the solution, monitor account activity and storage in the Dashboard, and even deploy software and backup policies remotely.

About Infrascale and SOS Online Backup
SOS Online Backup is developed by Infrascale, whose technology powers over one-thousand cloud service brands, including FileLocker™.  Infrascale is a Safe Harbor participant.

Headquartered in El Segundo, California, with offices in Kiev, Ukraine and Chennai, India and data centers on five continents, Infrascale operates a massively scalable, security focused, global platform and end-to-end technology stack, from device to cloud. Infrascale technology powers FileLocker and SOS Online Backup for VARs and MSPs. Visit www.infrascale.com.

Tweet this: @SOSOnlineBackup MSPs get white-label app and data hosting inside the UK.

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London, UK – 14 May 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ –

• 40 per cent of companies don’t fully understand any of the ten main provisions being proposed
• 87 per cent unable to estimate likely costs of draft proposals to their business
• ‘Debate must be based on valid evidence. This reform is too important for guesswork’ – Information Commissioner

An independent survey commissioned by the Information Commissioner’s Office has found a clear lack of understanding across business around the proposed EU data reforms.

That uncertainty extends to businesses’ estimated cost expenditure on meeting their data protection responsibilities under the new law, bringing into question the data on costs found in existing evidence, for instance figures produced by the European Commission and Ministry of Justice.

The findings are published today in a report by London Economics. It was commissioned by the ICO to better understand the challenges the planned reforms would place on UK businesses, and included a survey of 506 businesses.

The study also found:

• 82 per cent of survey respondents were unable to quantify their current spending on data protection
• Estimated average costs of data protection are skewed by a small number of observations by large organisations, who are more able to put a figure on their data protection expenditure
• The vast majority of companies with over 250 employees or processing more than 100,000 records already employ a member of staff focused on data protection compliance, a key part of EU proposals
• Key sectors need to be targeted with information about the plans: the service sector (specifically health and social work), financial and insurance services and public administration

The report is being launched today at the third European Data Protection Day conference in Berlin today. Information Commissioner Christopher Graham said:

“Few people I’ve spoken to disagree with the need for an updated European data protection law to better meet the challenges of the 21st century. But to deliver real improvements, it’s crucial that legislation is developed that better reflects the way personal information is used today and will be used in the future.

“The key is finding the right balance between the theory and the practice of strong data protection rights. Inevitably, there will be burdens for those who have to deliver the benefits, whether businesses or regulators. The question is does the benefit justify the burden?

“There has been much talk of ‘what is best for business’, but that must be based on valid evidence. This reform is too important for guesswork.

“Today’s report is the latest contribution from the ICO to this debate. We’d urge the European Commission to take on board what it says, and to refocus on the importance of developing legislation that delivers real protections for consumers without damaging business or hobbling regulators.

“Similarly, businesses and other stakeholders need to constructively engage with the debate about burdens and the importance of privacy rights, while the process can still be influenced.”

View the full report including executive summary (pdf)

Read our blog  posts introducing the EU data reforms and explaining the key areas of debate.

Notes to Editors

1. The Information Commissioner’s Office upholds information rights in the public interest, promoting openness by public bodies and data privacy for individuals.

2. The ICO has specific responsibilities set out in the Data Protection Act 1998, the Freedom of Information Act 2000, Environmental Information Regulations 2004 and Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003.

3. The ICO is on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Keep up to date on the ICO blog and e-newsletter.

4. For more information, please contact the ICO press office on 0303 123 9070.

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ICO
Press Office
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Email: pressoffice@ico.gsi.gov.uk
Website: http://www.ico.gov.uk

Source: ICO

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Recruiting Top Talent and Employee Development will be Key Focus for New HR Leader

BOSTON – May 14, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — Carbonite, Inc. (NASDAQ: CARB), a leading provider of cloud backup solutions for small businesses and consumers, has expanded its executive team with the appointment of Randy Bogue as Vice President of Talent. Bogue, who joins the Carbonite team with nearly two decades of experience in recruiting and talent management, will be responsible for the human resources vision and strategies that include talent acquisition, retention, development and enhancing our high performance culture.

“Talent acquisition and management is an important strategic initiative at Carbonite, and as the company grows and expands its focus on the small business market, we need to expand our team with the best people to deliver on our mission,” said David Friend, CEO and Chairman of Carbonite. “We are happy to welcome Randy to the management team to ensure the Carbonite culture of entrepreneurialism and innovation continues attracting and fostering great talent and delivering industry-leading cloud solutions.”

“I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to make an impact at Carbonite and work with an amazing group of colleagues who are passionate about doing great work,” said Bogue. “To be a successful and sustainable technology company, you must hire and retain outstanding people, provide them with the right environment and the best tools, and ensure a strong culture that enables each employee the opportunity to realize their full potential. Carbonite is focused on each of these elements and I am excited to help drive this strategic initiative forward.

Prior to joining Carbonite Randy was the President and founder of Venator Partners, an executive search and advisory services firm. Since its founding in 1995, Venator Partners completed hundreds of searches for high growth technology companies and provided advisory and training services to improve companies’ ability to attract, assess and retain top talent. He also brings a strong entrepreneurial background to the position, having founded Venator Partners as well as Environmental Homes. He has also held positions at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.

About Carbonite
Carbonite, Inc. (NASDAQ: CARB), is a leading provider of online backup for small businesses and consumers. Subscribers in more than 100 countries rely on Carbonite to provide easy-to-use, affordable and secure cloud backup solutions with anytime, anywhere data access. Carbonite’s backup solution runs on both the Windows and Mac platforms. The company has backed up more than 300 billion files, restored nearly 20 billion files, and currently backs up more than 350 million files each day. For more information, please visit www.carbonite.com, twitter.com/carbonite,twitter.com/carbonitebiz, or facebook.com/CarboniteOnlineBackup.

Media Contact:
Erin Delaney
Carbonite
617-421-5637
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www.carbonite.com

Source: Carbonite

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Thousands of Educators and Students Depend on Backupify for Cloud-to-Cloud Backup to Protect Crucial Data and Meet Compliance Requirements

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 14, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — Backupify, the leading provider of cloud-to-cloud backup and recovery solutions for Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, today announced it has significantly grown its education customer base to nearly 100,000 users – tripling the number of users compared to last year. The company has seen increased traction among educational institutions using Backupify for Google Apps to protect critical administrative and student data. With more than 40,000 new education users since January, Backupify has emerged as the premier backup and recovery solution for educational institutions seeking to gain control of their data assets on Google Apps.

Educational institutions depend on Backupify for Google Apps, including colleges such as Rice University and Berklee College of Music; K-12 school districts such as Fairport Central School District in New York; and private schools such as The Meadowbrook School of Weston.

As a result of widespread adoption of Google Apps for Education, the education sector now faces a unique set of challenges around data control, compliance and integrity. Protecting data assets from accidental loss and addressing complex legal data requirements are among the most pressing needs of academic organizations. Backupify for Education is designed to reduce IT burden by allowing schools to create a secure, secondary backup of important Google Apps data and by helping meet compliance requirements for data privacy and retention.

“Millions of students and educators around the world are currently using Google Apps to enhance collaborative learning,” said Rob May, CEO of Backupify. “The education sector is ahead of other industries in this regard, but faces unique compliance requirements for data privacy and retention that demand an effective backup strategy. We developed Backupify for Education to help educators address these specific needs and ensure compliance with comprehensive data archiving capabilities.”

“Backupify fills a vital niche for organizations looking to protect their confidential data in a simple and reliable way,” said Jonathan Schmid, Director of Innovation & Technology at The Meadowbrook School of Weston. “Recently, we needed to recover a collection of email and documents, and Backupify was there to save the day. I recommend Backupify for anyone in need of a comprehensive Google Apps backup solution.”

More than 20 million students use Google Apps for Education. To visually showcase the ever-changing landscape of Google Apps for Education adoption, Backupify created an infographic “Growing Up Google” which depicts the widespread implementation of Google Apps – from kindergarten through university. The infographic is available on the Backupify blog.

For more information on Backupify for Education, visit https://www.backupify.com/solutions/education-solutions.

For more information on Backupify, visit www.backupify.com.

About Backupify
Backupify is the leading backup provider for cloud application data, offering an all-in-one archiving, search and restore solution for the most popular online services including Google Apps, Salesforce, Facebook, Twitter and more. Backupify ensures that companies can access and control the data they entrust to these systems and prevents data loss from external threats, user error or service failure. Backupify was founded in 2008 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

For more information, please visit http://www.backupify.com or follow @Backupify on Twitter.

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Source: Backupify

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Redesigned interface and new music player harness the cloud space of email accounts

SAN MATEO, CALIF. May 14, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — Backup That, the first web-based service leveraging personal email accounts to provide free storage and file management unveiled its new platform today. The new platform merges file syncing and music streaming in one place. Users can upload iTunes playlists for streaming on any computer, manage versions of working files with one click, and instantly switch between the file management system and music library.

Unlike most cloud services, which cap free accounts at 2 to 5 gigabytes of space, Backup That is the first web-based service that harnesses personal email accounts to provide free, virtually unlimited storage.

“We help users access the storage they don’t realize they already have;” says Co-Founder and CEO Eli Nir, “and we save their files in a folder separate from their inbox to avoid clutter.” Since files, photos, and music live in the security of a mailbox, users can view their files from any device with email access. If more storage space is needed they can simply add another email account.

Ideal for people with large music libraries, Backup That’s new media player gives music lovers quick and easy access to their favorite tunes from any computer. Users can even spy on their friends’ playlists and see what their friends are listening to in real time. And while most music streaming services only work within the United States, Backup That streams iTunes playlists anywhere in the world where Internet is available.

“So many people already email themselves files,” explains Co-Founder and CFO Shanna McClearn. “There was no other company tapping into the potential storage of email.”

Backup That lets users sync their digital world without downloading or installing any application on their computer. Setup is fast and easy. Users just connect their email accounts, choose their files, folders, and iTunes playlists, and they’re done.

To start using Backup That, visit https://www.backupthat.com/

About Backup That
The free backup service for people on-the-go, Backup That syncs your files and music with your personal email accounts. With Backup That, you can access your files and play your music anywhere in the world. Launched in 2013, the company is backed by William H.C. Chang, Chairman of Westlake International Group and Co-Owner of the San Francisco Giants.

Contact
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Backup That
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www.backupthat.com

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Nir Zahavi, Marketing Communications Manager at KineticD
May 13, 2013

KineticD Online Data Backup Expert Tips: Securing Your Laptop’s Data with Cloud Backup

Less than a decade ago, most people would have been quite startled to find out how readily available and relatively commonplace laptops and other easily portable digital devices would be here in the year 2013. Indeed, thanks to advancements in technology, using computers has now become an increasingly mobile activity to say the least, with laptops now having by far become the most popular style of full-fledged computer. And, as desktops continue to disappear from homes and offices worldwide, this trend is definitely showing no signs of stopping.

However, while many of us are enjoying all of the convenient aspects of laptops, it is important to also keep in mind their vulnerabilities as well. The fact of the matter is that while computers have become more portable, the data that is being stored on them has also become increasingly vulnerable to being lost, stolen or otherwise compromised. And, with many of us collecting our personal photos, videos and other memorabilia on laptops while on vacation, and relying on laptops to transport our important files while on business trips, it has now become more crucial than ever before to back up and protect the data that we need to create, store and readily be able to access from our laptop computers.

No matter how well-built and sturdy a laptop may be, the fact that more and of us are taking them with us almost everywhere that we go means that there are now far more ways that these computers can become damaged during transportation. In addition to this, I would challenge anyone reading this post to give me an example in which someone “loses” their desktop computer, while laptops can easily be left behind at any location by accident. And, the increased portability of our data also means that it is unfortunately now at more of a risk of being hacked by malicious agents who exploit unsecured public Wi-Fi networks at locations like airports and coffee shops.

In all of the above examples, if your laptop is damaged or stolen, you can always replace it, but the data inside these machines, if not backed up properly, will unfortunately be lost forever. While some people still prefer to perform their own manual backups to external digital storage devices, the most efficient and rock solid way to ensure that you are protecting your irreplaceable laptop data is by backing it up online. With online data backup, copies of all of your files are stored at a remote, secure location, safely out of harm’s way at all times, where special processes including data encryption and replication ensure that all of your files are always fully protected from every data security threat imaginable, including theft, natural disasters and computer viruses.

Of course, one of the main advantages of having a portable computer is that the information that you store on it will be portable as well. If a business person were to have a data loss incident during an important business trip, the fact that they have a secure backup on a hard drive back at the office wouldn’t do them a bit of good if they needed to be able to access those files before returning from the trip! With online data backup on the other hand, you can easily retrieve your files from the cloud from any location that has access to the Internet. Moreover, any file that is created or edited while travelling can also automatically be remotely backed up and protected through the use of cloud data services.

Finally, backing up laptops online can help you save money as well. External hard drives can be very expensive, and most computer users know that they do not last forever, with many of them often becoming prone to errors and mechanical failures over time. This is, of course, not to mention the fact that many organizations end up having to hire their own in-house IT specialists to handle the local backup of larger data sets on multiple devices, which obviously can become very expensive as well. With cloud backup and IT, all services are usually fully automatic, and also generally highly scalable, allowing businesses to only have to pay for the level of cloud IT services that they need at any given time.

The bottom line is that with an increasing number of us relying on our laptops, it has become much more important to make sure that the irreplaceable data that we are storing on these machines is always backed up and secure. Of course, we here at KineticD understand how important digital information has become, and that’s why we are so proud to have been in the online data backup industry for over a decade now, all the while having never lost a single one of our clients’ files. Whether protecting an individual’s digital assets that are being stored on a laptop, or backing up the expansive servers of a large organization, we have always made it our top priority to supply the most advanced, state of the art cloud backup services available to all of our clients. For more information about how KineticD can help you easily secure the data on your laptop and more, please visit our website today!

About the author: Nir Zahavi is Marketing Communications Manager at KineticD, a Toronto based online data backup service provider.

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The Necessity Of Backup In An Evolving Marketplace

Etech 7 CEO Emil Isanov reveals his company’s trade secrets on successful data management

New York, NY – May 09, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — As any experienced businessman knows, running a business is often a risky venture. In the world of capitalism, many things remain uncertain: the number of future clients, supply meeting demand, demand meeting supply, and market share, to name only a handful. It would seem, then, that a successful business strategy involves avoiding risk whenever possible, so as to help guarantee as many successes for the company as are feasible. Yet, if such is the case, why then do companies take so many risks when it comes to their valuable electronic business data? Emil Isanov, CEO of Etech 7, may just have the answer.

“A lot of the confusion with backup” Mr. Isanov says “comes as a result of poor phrasing. When we discuss with a client their options in terms of backing up their business server data, we don’t mean to imply that backup is optional. In a world where electronic records of company data are more valuable than ever, and are in fact necessary in nearly all cases for tax purposes as well as for records purposes in regards to employee and supervisor liability, to say that backups are necessary is a vast understatement, and should be assumed by everyone in the business world. The most apt metaphor is that of a store owner locking up their store at night: it might not be necessary for the store’s goods to be protected—after all the odds that someone is going to try to break in are slim—but if the store owner doesn’t bother to lock up their goods, and one night everything in the store is stolen, then in one fell swoop the owner has lost his source of income, potential new customers, and respect by other business owners.”

The case of backup, Mr. Isanov says, is exactly the same.

“When it comes to backup, the idea that we have to convince our clients to employ it is in many ways astounding. After all, a number of things could happen to their data; it could be stolen by malicious hackers, the software could crash and erase it, the hardware could fail and erase it—for that matter, an employee could simply make an error and irreparably damage a company’s data. If any of those things happened, what then? Could a company CEO honestly save face and tell his investors that he or she is sorry because they only had one copy of all their company records kept in one location?”

This is why, Mr. Isanov says, the employment of an automated online server backup service is absolutely necessary. “Even in companies that already make a practice of backing up their data, human error can factor in, and people can forget to run the backup software. But with Etech 7, a company can request to have software installed that creates remote backups to eliminate any uncertainty in the security of a business’ data.”

About the Company:
ETech 7 is a technology services leader offering managed IT services, IT outsourcing, backup and disaster recovery solution. Please visit ETech7.com or contact (212) 997-1202 for more information.

Contact
Emil Isanov
Etech7
212-997-1202
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www.etech7.com

Address
ETech 7 Inc.
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New York, NY
USA, 10036

Source: ETech7

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Leading Lighting Manufacturer Replaces Symantec Backup Exec with Zetta.net to Overcome the Challenges of Tape Backup

SUNNYVALE, Calif. - May 13, 2013 – /BackupReview.info/ — Zetta.net today announced that Westinghouse Lighting has selected Zetta.net’s cloud server backup and disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) solution to optimize its backup and recovery processes. Since deploying Zetta.net the leading manufacturer and marketer of light bulbs, ceiling fans, light fixtures and decorative lighting hardware has seen a 50 percent improvement in time spent on backup management compared to its previous tape-based backup solution.

To manage the business data produced by Westinghouse’s design, manufacturing and marketing processes, the company has 35+ servers, including 10 virtual servers, which produce more than 5.5TB of data that must be backed up every week. This critical data, including creative images, marketing content, ERP information and Microsoft Exchange email data, needs to be reliably protected for easy access and recovery in the event of downtime or a natural disaster.

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Traditionally, the company had relied on Symantec Backup Exec, backing data up from its servers. Over time, the archaic tape-based solution continued to have significant management and connectivity problems.

“We were having trouble with our backups every week”, said Carol Nestor, an IT support specialist with Westinghouse Lighting. “The Backup Exec restores were cumbersome and sometimes couldn’t even be executed because the backups were not complete.”

It was at this point that Westinghouse decided to evaluate options for online server backup. The idea of backing data up to an offsite location was very attractive because the company wanted to improve the performance of its disaster recovery solution in the event of a natural disaster. Specifically, Westinghouse wanted a software-only solution to avoid purchasing any more hardware or tapes. The solution needed to support both Windows and Mac systems, scale with the company’s growth, and offer a set-it-and-forget-it type of management approach. Westinghouse also wanted a solution that would make restores fast and easy so it would never have to wait for a recovery again.

“The Zetta.net solution met all of our needs”, said Jesse Reyna, IT support supervisor for Westinghouse. “There are no appliances to hassle with, it has a very simple management dashboard, and restores are simple and easy. Even better, because it backs up our data offsite we were able to cancel our expensive offsite storage service. We’re spending at least 50 percent less time managing our backups compared to our previous tape solution. Zetta.net has been excellent from its responsive, 24×7 customer service, to its easy-to-manage and incredibly reliable cloud server backup solution. We couldn’t be more pleased.”

Westinghouse put Zetta.net’s disaster recovery solution to the test during Hurricane Sandy. The company successfully backed up its critical transaction database to the East Coast data center and with the help of the customer service team was able to replicate the data to the West Coast data center just in time before Hurricane Sandy affected the area. Once offices were open and normal operations continued, they simulated a restore test which worked successfully without a hitch.

“Aging tape backup systems can cause organizations pain and costly downtime”, said Gary Sevounts, vice president of marketing, Zetta.net. “We offer a solution that seamlessly delivers the multiple functionality of cloud server backup, disaster recovery as a service and archiving in one, so companies can eliminate a lot of time and resources without spending exorbitant amounts of money. There is simply no reason to be held hostage by outdated and expensive appliance-based solutions anymore.”

For the full case study visit: http://www.zetta.net/case-study-westinghouse.php

About Zetta.net
Zetta.net is an award-winning provider of enterprise-grade 3-in-1 backup, disaster recovery and archiving technology for small/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, offsite, 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 was established in 2008 by successful serial entrepreneurs and technology executives from companies such as Netscape, VeriSign, Symantec, EMC, and Shutterfly. For more information, visit www.zetta.net or www.facebook.com/zettastorage. Follow Zetta on Twitter at www.twitter.com/zettanet.

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VaultIT is an affordable disaster recovery and cloud backup service created especially for small to medium sized businesses

New York, NY, May 02, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — Precision IT, a top IT consulting firm, announced the launch of VaultIT, a breakthrough fully managed disaster recovery and cloud backup service for small and medium businesses. With unpredictable disasters, the need for business continuity to the SMB market is immense.

“During Super Storm Sandy in 2012, many Precision clients needed assistance setting up stations to work from remote locations, or to activate their disaster recovery plan,” said David D’Arcy, founder and President of Precision IT and VaultIT. “Out of frustration, we realized there needed to be an easier, more affordable way for small businesses to minimize the damage of future disasters.”

Typically, disaster recovery plans can be expensive and may still need IT management on staff. VaultIT recognizes this challenge for small companies and takes spending issues into consideration; its cloud backup solution is agentless and replication packages start as low as $400 per month.

Its services will also replace Precision’s cloud offerings. VaultIT’s vision for small and medium businesses is to provide affordable solutions that help them enhance profitability and improve business continuity by replicating data in real time.

About VaultIT:
VaultIT launched in April 2013 as a fully managed disaster recovery and cloud back up service for small to medium sized businesses. With cloud-to-cloud backup and recovery for SaaS and PaaS-based applications, VaultIT can back up, recover, and restore data on any device. VaultIT is headquartered in New York. For more information, visit http://www.vaultit.com.

About Precision IT:
Recognized as a top 100 MSP in the country and 5 years on the Inc., 5,000’s list of fastest growing companies, Precision IT continues to provide a wide range of expertly engineered solutions and technology to SMB and enterprise clients. Precision IT Group’s service portfolio includes managed IT services, project management, cloud hosting, backup and disaster recovery solutions, asset management and procurement services. Precision IT is headquartered in New York with a satellite office in Charlottesville, Virginia. For more information, visit http://www.precisionit.com.

Contact:
Shalane Layugan
Precision IT Group
917-258-0845
slayugan[@]precisionit.com
www.precisionit.com

Source: Precision IT

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By Ben Puzzuoli, Technical Sales Director at KineticD
May 10, 2013

KineticD Online Data Backup Expert Tips: How Cloud Backup is Improving Healthcare

Through the perpetual process of innovation, technology is constantly improving the quality of our lives in many ways. In fact, it is easy to quickly bring to mind numerous everyday examples in which technology has made our lives more convenient and efficient, such as email, smartphones and the Internet itself. However, it can be equally easy to forget that digital technology is also bringing about the improvement of the services provided by the organizations that are in charge of keeping us healthy, happy and alive in the first place. Indeed, the ins and outs of the healthcare industry are being revolutionized by our new, more mobile digital technology, with online data backup and cloud computing being on the cutting edge of these improvements.

By storing and backing up patient data in the cloud, an increasing number of healthcare organizations are making this data much more readily accessible to the physicians that need it, which is serving to save vital time for both doctors and patients alike. Thankfully disappearing are the days in which hospitals had to delay appointments while important medical records were sent through the mail, with more and more people now simply expecting that when they visit their doctor’s office their medical case history and other pertinent information will be right in front of their physician with no delays at all.

But less time spent in the waiting room and the eliminating of annoying medical paperwork transfer delays are just the start of the advantages that cloud data is bringing to the medical industry. After all, the ability for physicians to act quickly and efficiently means that the quality of the healthcare that we are receiving in general can be far more precise and timely. In an emergency, the ability to access patient case histories as quickly as possible is obviously of the utmost importance. If an unconscious patient is brought into the emergency room of a hospital different than their own, vital time can potentially be wasted as doctors and nurses check for blood type and other details that have already been previously documented. By contrast, with cloud data technology, all of the relevant medical information that has been collected on us can be ready to utilize at a moment’s notice.

While medical offices have always done their best to protect the documents of their patients, unforeseen circumstances like natural disaster, theft and, in our increasingly digital era, hardware failure and computer viruses, can all easily render this information corrupted or entirely unavailable. And, simple human error in the form of mislabeled, misfiled or accidentally deleted patient documentation can also lead to the loss of important medical information as well. Luckily, by storing their medial records online, a steadily increasing number of healthcare organizations are being able to eliminate all of these data loss dangers entirely.

Unlike conventional, onsite data backups, cloud backups are stored at a remote location, making them effectively impervious to the aforementioned dangers of fire, natural disaster and physical theft. In addition to this, the element of human error is also overcome through cloud data storage technology, with most high-quality cloud vendors utilizing hands-free data backup techniques in which backups are performed automatically to any file that is altered or saved anew. And finally, cloud backups are almost always encrypted as well, ensuring that this highly confidential information will never be able to fall into the wrong hands.

The bottom line is that cloud data is bringing about higher levels of security and accessibility to digital information of all kinds, and nowhere is this more important than when it plays a key roll in keeping us healthy, not to mention when it can help to save someone’s life. We here at KineticD know all too well how important data can be, and for this reason we are proud to have been in the online data backup industry for over 10 years now, all the while having never lost a single one of our clients’ important files. We leverage only the most advanced cloud technologies available, including our uncrackable 448-bit Blowfish encryption and our patented Continuous Protection technology. Please stop by our website today to learn more about how KineticD can help your organization never have to worry about losing a file again!

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

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By Sajesh Krishnadas, Business Analyst – Product Management at Vembu Technologies
May 10, 2013

Vembu Online Data Backup Expert Tips: Cloud – A Powerful Game Changer for MSPs

Everyone would have heard a lot about the cloud and its hype already. So, lets take a sneak peek into its adoption in businesses, especially among the channel partners.

Cloud adoption is accelerating at an impressive rate, especially among the developers, business units, and CFOs because of its varied advantages. Developers are likely to adopt cloud because of its flexibility, which is being showcased by their peers by delivering a lot of new ideas and doing a lot of cool stuffs. Business units claim that cloud can be used readily out of the box which requires no maintenance, particularly the SaaS applications. The finance side of business saves a lot with cloud as they can avoid unnecessary capital expenditure, headcount and budget. The IT managers on the other hand who used to get nightmares about the security in the cloud, have already started showing interest towards cloud adoption.

“The public cloud services market is forecast to grow 18.5 percent in 2013 to total $131 billion worldwide, up from $111 billion in 2012” – Gartner

Fig. Public-Cloud-Services-Market-Annual-Growth-Rate

So, what is happening in the world of channel market/partners? As a MSP, if you are thinking that the cloud is a [channel killer] and waiting to see the impact of it, then you are definitely late for the race. Most of the MSPs in the market have started offering cloud services so you will end up losing your clients and the market share. The traditional managed services will, however, be part of the foreseeable future, but the adoption of cloud services is supposed to displace a certain proposition in the market.

As a channel partner, you will have to adopt an integrated approach to deliver both the managed services and cloud services, that is, a best of both worlds “solutions” approach to IT. Indeed, it is the same reason why we offer both on-premise and cloud-based option to our partners to help them succeed with their strategies when it comes to offering a file sharing and collaboration solution.

About the Author: Sajesh Krishnadas, Business Analyst – Product Management for SyncBlaze, Vembu Technologies. SyncBlaze is a comprehensive file sharing and collaboration solution designed for business users and exclusively offered through Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Value Added Resellers (VARs).

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Marketing Enablement Webinars are Designed to Help MSP Backup Partners and Resellers with Limited Marketing Budgets to Increase High Quality Leads by up to 100 Percent in Six Months

SUNNYVALE, Calif.– May 08, 2013 – /BackupReview.info/ – Zetta.net today announced a series of free webinars designed to share lead generation best practices with MSP backup partners and resellers. The series, which continues Friday, May 10, 2013 is part of Zetta.net’s MSP marketing enablement program, announced earlier in April.

MSP Lead Generation 101
Friday, May 10 at 10 a.m. PDT
This webinar will outline how MSPs can increase high quality leads by 100 percent in six months using a content marketing strategy. Offering digital content makes it easier for potential clients to educate themselves and more likely to become a customer as a result. MSPs will also learn how to increase their conversion rates by 50 percent by promoting their successes and the brands they represent.

May 10 webinar registration: https://zetta-events.webex.com/zetta-events/onstage/g.php?d=662685565&t=a

MSP Lead Generation 102: SEO Basics
Friday, May 17 at 10 a.m. PDT
MSPs will learn how organic search can be the most cost-effective source of new business leads, and will cover:

• Basic SEO optimization

• Landing page development

• Simple link building

May 17 webinar registration: https://zetta-events.webex.com/zetta-events/onstage/g.php?d=668845779&t=a

MSP Lead Generation 103: PPC + Online Advertising
Wednesday, May 22 at 10 a.m. PDT
MSP Lead Generation 103 will discuss how to generate new leads with PPC advertising on a low budget, with the implementation of:

• A keyword strategy: How PPC and SEO keywords are the same, yet different

• PPC landing pages: Page elements that get conversions from PPC

• Adwords vs. display: Sharing the budget to get the most value on the dollar

May 22 webinar registration: https://zetta-events.webex.com/zetta-events/onstage/g.php?d=667405931&t=a

For more information, see Zetta.net’s blog post about MSP Lead Generation 101 at:
http://www.zetta.net/blog/webinar-announcement-msp-lead-generation-101/

About Zetta.net
Zetta.net is an award-winning provider of enterprise-grade 3-in-1 backup, disaster recovery and archiving technology for small/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, offsite, 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, and Shutterfly. For more information, visit visit www.zetta.net or www.facebook.com/zettastorage. Follow Zetta.net on Twitter at www.twitter.com/zettanet.

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Zetta Contact:
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(650) 590-0950

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Leading HTML5 Technology to Transform Content Experience on Box and Applications Everywhere

LOS ALTOS, CA – May 9, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — Box today announced the acquisition of Crocodoc, the web’s leading HTML5 document rendering and viewing solution. Crocodoc’s technology will be deeply integrated into the Box experience, and also become a core standalone platform offering, bringing HTML5 document viewing to third party applications across the web and mobile devices. The full Crocodoc team will join Box, with Crocodoc co-founder and CEO Ryan Damico serving as Box’s Director of Platform.

“Content sits at the center of every business, and nearly every business application,” said Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO of Box. “Together with Crocodoc, we’re going to transform collaboration on Box and beyond, creating a seamless, beautiful experience for our customers and helping to reimagine the future of documents. We’re going even deeper in the content space, extending Crocodoc’s HTML5 technology to every developer in the world who’s building an application that touches content.”

Founded in 2007, Crocodoc has served hundreds of millions of document previews in the last two years alone. The service powers HTML5 document conversion and viewing for top-tier applications across industries, including Yammer, Facebook, LinkedIn, Edmodo and Blackboard, all of which will continue to be supported. Built on open standards, Crocodoc’s technology for extracting and rendering documents will provide new, sophisticated experiences for Box customers, which include more than 15 million individuals, 150,000 businesses, and major brands such as Gap, McAfee, Schneider Electric and P&G.

“We’re excited to join an amazing team at Box in building the next great enterprise collaboration platform,” said Ryan Damico, co-founder and CEO of Crocodoc. “We want to bring Crocodoc’s technology to as many services and as many people as possible, and joining Box gives us unparalleled reach to accomplish our vision. We’re going to change the way people share and collaborate at work, while continuing to redefine the future of documents on the web and mobile.”

Customers of Box and Crocodoc can expect that:

• Crocodoc’s technology will be deeply integrated into Box’s cloud content collaboration service, replacing the existing document previewing experience for all users.
• The Crocodoc API will become a core Box platform offering, powering HTML5 document viewing for third party applications across the web and mobile.
• Box will invest significantly in building out Crocodoc’s technology and ecosystem.
• Box will continue to support all of Crocodoc’s customers.

To experience Crocodoc’s latest technology, visit:  preview.crocodoc.com

For more details about the acquisition, visit the Box blog.

About Box
Founded in 2005, Box provides a secure content sharing platform that both users and IT love and adopt. Content on Box can be shared internally and externally, accessed through iPad, iPhone, Android and Windows Phone applications, and extended to partner applications such as Google Apps, NetSuite and Salesforce. Headquartered in Los Altos, CA, Box is a privately held company and is backed by venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Emergence Capital Partners, General Atlantic, Meritech Capital Partners, NEA, Scale Venture Partners, and U.S. Venture Partners, and strategic investors salesforce.com and SAP. To learn more about Box, visit www.box.com.

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