The new licensing option is based on the previous year’s usage, plus a negotiated consumption increase goal for the next three years, with the MSP getting everything above that goal at no cost.
The Asigra Cloud Backup Evolved platform targets ransomware Attack Loops, which corrupt backup data in order to prevent successful restores and force organizations to pay ransoms. It also adds a new management interface, GDPR compliance certification, and container support.
The new Asigra program will support partners in being able to attract new customers by letting them offer Asigra backup for half of what the customer is currently paying.
The enhanced integration introduces self healing tickets, and also makes Storage Guardian the first ConnectWise ecosystem partner that can be accessed directly from ConnectWise software, which in turn makes things easier for MSPs.
Asigra looks to fill a void in the marketplace by providing its MSPs with a tool for snapshot management in AWS, which will assist partners with workload migrations to AWS and provide a service for which they can charge.
Asigra has a different set of marketing concerns than a decade ago, when customers didn’t know their name at all, but they are continuing to ramp up their efforts.
Toronto solution provider Storage Guardian has opened a new data centre, which also contains space and facilities to provide temporary office space to customers whose offices are closed by a disaster.
At its partner event, Asigra discussed its continuing strategy for keeping itself and its partners competitive in a world of sinking backup margins, including new ways to cut partners’ hardware costs and create new revenue opportunities for them.
In a grim future of zero backup pricing, Asigra’s CEO told partners their future profitability – and survival – depends on their ability to build trust with the customer, and on their ability to sell additional services around it. An archiving capability, centred on Asigra’s new appliance, is a key part of this.
The long-time cloud backup solution’s new features include Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service enablement, open infrastructure support for FreeBSD on ZFS and CentOS, and integration with Linear Tape File System for archiving.
Partners asked Asigra to provide an integration with the AWS cloud because AWS prices now make it feasible to use it and make money.
Backup software vendor Asigra builds an open-source stack that it says can cut MSP’s storage costs on backup-as-a-service in half
A majority of enterprises feel backup and recovery licensing models that charge by actual recovery events would better suit their organizations.
With data volume continuing to skyrocket, a flat cost for both data backup and recovery is becoming unsustainable, cloud backup vendor Asigra says.
