Disaster Recovery

Cloud

Asigra building brand, partner opportunities, with aggressive marketing campaign

June 18, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Asigra building brand, partner opportunities, with aggressive marketing campaign
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.

Solution Provider News

Toronto’s Storage Guardian’s new data centre protects data, business operations

June 18, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Toronto’s Storage Guardian’s new data centre protects data, business operations
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.

Data Centre

Accelerite acquisition of Convirture gives partners end-to-end management solution

June 17, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Accelerite acquisition of Convirture gives partners end-to-end management solution

Adding Convirture’s day to day operations management capability to Accelerite’s disaster recovery focus provides a single pane of glass with a consolidated view of the management of the multiple clouds and internal virtualization technologies in modern hybrid data centres.

Managed Services

LogicNow introduces new per-device pricing for MAX Backup

June 10, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on LogicNow introduces new per-device pricing for MAX Backup
The company formerly known as GFI MAX is introducing a new DRaaS pricing option that charges by the device instead of data usage, something they believe will especially appeal to partners serving larger customers.

Cloud

Veeam to add cloud-based VM replication to Veeam Availability Suite v9

June 10, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam to add cloud-based VM replication to Veeam Availability Suite v9
The new functionality will also let service providers provide their customers with cloud-based disaster recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) through the new Veeam Cloud Connect Replication for Service Providers offering.

Cloud

Axcient targets remote and branch offices, smaller businesses with Direct to Cloud offering

May 18, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Axcient targets remote and branch offices, smaller businesses with Direct to Cloud offering
The new cloud-only solution is targeted at customers who don’t want the expense or trouble or deploying a physical or virtual device locally, and is expected to significantly increase the number of Axcient’s MSP partners.

Small Business

Paragon Software unveils simpler unified host-based backup pricing model

April 24, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Paragon Software unveils simpler unified host-based backup pricing model
Paragon’s market is the sub-100 user market, and they believe this new model is priced and simplified to become disruptive in this space.

Shawn Massey on selling disaster recovery
Podcasts

New Year’s Podcast Series: Shawn Massey of Storagecraft

February 10, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off on New Year’s Podcast Series: Shawn Massey of Storagecraft
Storagecraft channel sales manager Shawn Massey recaps 2014 in DR, and offers his preview for what his company, and the industry, will accomplish in 2015.

Cloud

Asigra broadens converged data protection in Version 13

February 10, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Asigra broadens converged data protection in Version 13
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.

data security
Big Data

The double life of data

January 12, 2015 Guest Poster Comments Off on The double life of data
Avnet Technology Solutions explores the dual roles solution providers play in helping customers gain value from their data, and keeping that same data safe.