Disaster Recovery

Paragon Software unveils simpler unified host-based backup pricing model

April 24, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

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

New Year’s Podcast Series: Shawn Massey of Storagecraft

February 10, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off

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.

Asigra broadens converged data protection in Version 13

February 10, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.

The double life of data

January 12, 2015 Guest Poster Comments Off

Avnet Technology Solutions explores the dual roles solution providers play in helping customers gain value from their data, and keeping that same data safe.

New version of EMC Avamar Virtual Edition integrates with Azure

December 16, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

Azure becomes the first public cloud supported by Avamar outside the EMC federation.

Canadian retailers ring up low scores in backup protection in new EMC-sponsored study

December 5, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

EMC Canada’s Michael Sharun also stressed that channel partners (and sales people generally) need to do a better job of adding backup and recovery to their storage sales.

Selling disaster recovery

November 20, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Shawn Massey of Storagecraft on how solution providers can position disaster recovery and differentiate their offering in a crowded marketplace.

Nutanix announces all-flash appliance, new synchronous replication capability

October 9, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

The company is announcing its first all-flash offering, the NX-9000 appliance. It is also announcing Metro Availability, a new capability which allows a customer to deliver synchronous data replication to two data centres.

EMC partners with Ottawa’s CloudLink on integrated RecoverPoint cloud solution

September 30, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

The joint offering with EMC, available through EMC and its channel, is designed to provide a secure Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service offering that is less expensive and less complex to deploy than existing DR solutions.