Data Backup Servers

Datto Inc., a Norwalk Connecticut-based provider based hardware site and off-site backup, recovery disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions, has reorganized its partnership program with the new partnership program Alliance.

The program has three levels: Authorized, Certified and Preferred. The partners are points awarded based on the amount of storage of the device they purchased through Datto, and can earn bonus points by participating in Datto activities and promotions. Partners must accumulate a set amount of points and meet certain training requirements for the next level.

According Shannon Kohn, director of marketing and channel relationships for Datto, Preferred Partners receive benefits as a VIP technical support number, the delivery of the free camera, and more. "We wanted to offer benefits that partners would get excited," she said.

Datto has also published a welcome kit partner for new and existing partners. The kit includes a Quick Start Guide Partner overview of society, the explanation of services, training opportunities and Datto policies.

other elements of the program include a guided video virtual tour of Datto partner portal, customizable marketing materials, lead sharing opportunities, sales and marketing training, not for resale opportunities and partners badges loan website.

for more information on the Alliance partner program, visit www.dattobackup.com/ partneralliance.

Service Provider Cloud dinCloud announced the general availability of dinBackup. dinBackup is a cloud NetApp storage service that provides replication second site, redundancy, and overall capabilities disaster recovery for NetApp customers.

Part provisioning business dinCloud, dinBackup makes the implementation of a complete disaster recovery solution "affordable and painless for existing storage data base ONTAP customers," the company said in a press release submitted to Channelpro-SMB .

"traditional solutions for disaster recovery that back to a secondary data center are infrastructure and management of high costs, some something that many SMEs can not afford, "said dinCloud Vice President Ali Din.

Connectivity Developer Laplink Software Inc. has a new version of PCmover Image Assistant & Drive, a product designed to enable SMEs to restore an old image or hard drive to a new PC.

With the latest version, PCmover Image Assistant & training all selected transfer programs, files and settings from an image or hard drive to a new PC without overwriting, leaving the Windows operating system on the new PC unchanged. In addition, the applications selected to be restored are automatically installed, "eliminating the need to find applications already downloaded, CDs or serial numbers," according Laplink press release submitted to Channelpro-SMB.

"Free transfer Assistance is a big step forward in customer care," says CEO of Laplink Thomas Koll. "It addresses configuration untreated challenges by PCmover PC, but are essential for users to have a successful experience. "

PCmover Image assistant & training now also includes free transfer support, a service for SMEs setting up a new PC using PCmover. No additional charges, customers can now use free Laplink PCmover Transfer Assistance.

PITTSBURGH, PA - January 11, 2013 - Zenith Infotech Ltd. today announced a new series of seminars, " MSP CSP: a sheet of convenient traffic, "to support managed service providers (MSP) the transition to the cloud. The MSP of arms of the series with knowledge of the cloud market and technological options to provide Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and managed hosting. More than 50 seminars will be held throughout the country during the first quarter of 2013, in two sizes to meet the participants' planning needs.

"The cloud offers tremendous opportunities for MSPs serving small and medium enterprises. SMEs adopt cloud services at a frantic pace, and they want to turn to trusted service providers understand their needs and adapt the services to them. If the MSP is not ready to become Cloud services Providers (CSP), these companies are looking elsewhere, "says Maurice Saluan, Senior sales Vice President for Zenith.

Zenith developed the series "MSP CSP" to help service providers launch cloud offerings quickly and efficiently, so they can quickly start earning revenue in possession and accommodation infrastructure necessary to provide iSCSI storage and virtual servers and desktops to their clients. "Many MSPs are intrigued by our new solution TigerCloud virtual infrastructure. This workshop helps them develop a viable business model to become a CSP or IaaS provider, and evaluate the opportunities of cloud," says Saluan .

by attending "MSP CSP," vendors will develop a better understanding of the needs and preferences of SMEs that are driving their adoption of cloud, and how they can meet those needs by becoming a CSP . the experts will also show how TigerCloud virtualization controls, high performance iSCSI storage and business continuity activities integrated features can provide the technology to support their CSP activities
for more information or to register to attend "MSP CSP :. A sheet convenient traffic, "please visit http://www.zenithinfotech.com/MSP2CSP.

About Zenith Infotech
Zenith Infotech is a leading global company delivering innovative IT solutions for virtual infrastructures, data storage and backup and disaster recovery. Zenith partners with IT service providers serving the market of small and medium enterprises, with educational courses, technical, media sales and marketing. for more information, visit or follow www.zenithinfotech.com Zenith www.facebook.com/ZenithInfotechUSA and www.twitter.com/ZenithUSA.

provider of data backup solutions STORServer deployed its Virtual Appliance (VA) earlier this month. Downloadable virtual machine is designed to use VMware Consolidated Backup, giving SMEs the possibility to use existing infrastructure with STORServer software.

Whereas traditional line of STORServer Backup Appliances requires hardware, the new VA is a downloadable VMDK file. The idea, says STORServer in a press release submitted to Channelpro-SMB is to provide resellers and end-users an alternative to the traditional model of the device.

Built on IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, STORServer offers a full range of backup appliances, software and services designed to meet the challenges of backup, archiving and recovery of disaster aujourd 'hui. Each VA uses the same company or the TSM database software and other devices, provides disk-to-disk-to-DR (disk, tape, cloud, or device) and configurations future growth charts.

"The solution effectively supports multiple operating systems and messaging applications in addition to supporting the platforms and locations of the most popular databases, including virtual machines, local devices and remote, "says STORServer." backups and restores can take place in all network connections (NAS, SAN, LAN and WAN) from hundreds of storage devices. "

in addition, support STORServer offers single point of contact for warranty and the support of all non-hardware-related events.

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There are always a few "secret" in the industry - and the backup and recovery business has its share. Our secrets are widely known in the industry, but are less well known outside of it - for the obvious reason that none of these secrets help the majority of providers in this space. In this white paper, we will reveal these secrets to you.

Network attached storage is ubiquitous in small and medium enterprises allowing teams to share and backup files conveniently. However, NAS is often overlooked in a complete backup strategy (as a backup device), even though these devices can harbor critical terabytes of data. Many NAS devices use hardware data protection systems based as RAID, but software backup solutions for backing up a NAS device to another are generally subpar solutions, hobbled-together.

Iomega and Acronis hope to change that by teaming up to bring high quality, saving hassle-line Iomega px series NAS entire optional $ 49 upgrade.

Acronis Backup & Recovery for Iomega NAS is a new NAS backup approach, installing a new backup engine resident who brings the NAS to a first-class citizen rather than a dump. Acronis backup engine provides automated, fast incremental backup of the data on the NAS to a network storage target, which is to improve both the reliability of backups and speed compared to traditional tools copy open source file.

The real deal here is the combo package. Iomega offers new and a combination of both NAS backup software with a license for the OEM version of Acronis Backup and Recovery 11.5 for servers for $ 249 existing customers. The retail license through Acronis for only the server backup software generally runs north of $ 600 or more. There are some differences between the retail and OEM editions, ie OEM versions are not applicable to upgrade credit on the road, but it's still an incredible value.

Channelpro spoke network storage the CEO of Iomega, Marc Tanguay, in several safety steps call code top-secret yesterday that shed light on the value proposition for SMEs.

"Typically we and our competitors have provided backup software PC. Server Backup is something that is unique in our storage space products to offer ;. it is logical for us now is working closely Lenovo ThinkServer and [Offering] Acronis Backup and Recovery 11.5 really sends a message to a small business they can use Acronis on PCs, servers, and now the NAS. "

the upgrade process is relatively simple. Download the file and install it via the management interface on the NAS. Backup jobs are set up through the Acronis Management Console on the PC or server, which are then sent to the target device (eg NAS) and ran resident from there.

How Iomega brings new marketing tools package is a little less simple. On the European and Asian markets, Lenovo has bundled Acronis software with new models, one of which they announced today. In North America, the line px series will continue as it is, and Acronis Backup NAS can be purchased as an upgrade directly from Acronis. "The feedback we received from the channel and the channel sales team is that NAS products with many iterations already based on capacity, adding additional iterations for packaged software in the channel would source confusion and complexity, "says Marc.

When asked if the Acronis Backup would ultimately be a standard feature for the series px or decayed into other lines, Iomega would not comment directly, but they stress how their partnership with Acronis a significant step in providing a reliable backup software for a range of devices.

existing customers can purchase the upgrade here. If you are a European or Asian market dealer and want to check the new Lenovo EMC px series Acronis Backup Appliance, which also includes OEM versions of Acronis Backup and Recovery 11.5 for Windows and Linux servers, click here.

Zetta.net, a provider of 3-in-1 hybrid cloud backup, archiving and disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS), based in Sunnyvale, Calif., unveiled a new multi MSP activation marketing and lead generation program. The program takes advantage of a marketing model used, leading potential customers to the site Zetta.net through the relevant educational content.

There are three levels of support, providing a range of services. The basic marketing program includes training inbound and content marketing foundation, cloud server backup and disaster recovery value proposition and messaging, content strategy, and a basic workshop conversion optimization. Advanced support added tips for SEO optimization, landing pages, better conversion optimization, and community outreach. And support Pro includes consultation and budget for improved engine optimization, PPC optimization, and help the development of the keyword strategy.

In addition, partners will be invited to participate in a workshop of measures, common webinars and custom-generated content Zetta.net.

For more information, visit www.zetta.net or www.facebook.com/zettastorage.

backup, replication, and virtualization provider Veeam Software management solutions, has announced that the latest iteration of its backup & Replication adds integrated WAN acceleration and backup snapshots of storage.

Backup & Replication Version 7 includes over 50 new features and improvements, according to a press release Veeam subject to Channelpro-SMB . Among these improvements are the Veeam Explorer for SharePoint Integration vCloud Director, Self-Service Recovery virtual machines and customer files and Tape Native support.

"Veeam provides protection of modern data organizations that is built for virtualization," says President and CEO Veeam Software Ratmir Timashev. "Veeam Backup & Replication v7 removes barriers to saving offsite with built-in WAN acceleration and brings to life the full potential of protecting the virtual infrastructure data. "

integrated WAN acceleration

Developed by Veeam and optimized specifically for Veeam backup files, integrated WAN Acceleration feature enables the automatic transfer of backups to offsite locations up to 50 times faster using a regular file copy.

This process eliminates the need to buy and deploy a WAN device for general use in acceleration or acquire additional network bandwidth for backups off site.

VMware backup snapshots of storage

in addition to the function integrated WAN Acceleration, backup & Replication v7 adds VMware backup snapshots of storage. This was developed in partnership with HP and HP uses StoreVirtual VSA, HP StoreVirtual (LeftHand, P4000), or HP StoreServ (3PAR). It is designed to improve RPO while reducing the stress on the virtual infrastructure.

"IT administrators can make as many backups as often as they want throughout the day, even for I / O intensive virtual machines," said Veeam in its press release.

Options and availability

in addition to the free editions, Standard and Enterprise Veeam backup & Replication, Veeam has created a new edition called Enterprise Plus. This option includes both integrated WAN acceleration and backup snapshots storage.

the existing Enterprise Edition customers (as well as those who purchase the Enterprise Edition before July 1st, 2013) can upgrade for free to the Enterprise Plus Edition through November 1, 2013.

Veeam Backup & replication v7 will be available in the third quarter of 2013. prices will be :.

• standard Edition - $ 750 / socket
• Enterprise Edition - $ 1250 / socket
• more Enterprise Edition -. $ 1999 / socket

Veeam Backup Free can be downloaded and installed for free from [ www.veeam.com/virtual-machine-backup-solution-free.html .

The Persistent Systems software developers released its rCloud 4 Universal Architecture with Instant Restore capabilities.

The new rCloud Universal Architecture is a cloud platform provider agnostic, supporting a wide variety of physical and virtual backup solutions, including Dell AppAssure, StorageCraft ShadowProtect and ESX / vSphere VMWare.

rCloud 4 enables SMEs to take existing party at the venue, and based backup images at a lower cost compared to traditional disaster recovery solutions. The rCloud service protects physical and virtual machines (VM) server outages or local site by replicating snapshots to rCloud, identifying each snapshot as an instant recovery point. With Universal Instant feature architecture restoration, customers can restore all physical and virtual environment in minutes

The main features of the architecture include Universal rCloud :.

California based Campbell, Barracuda Networks Inc., a provider of security and cloud-connected storage solutions , began a relationship with Kroll Ontrack to provide granular recovery to protect Microsoft SharePoint with Ontrack PowerControls. This technology extends the SharePoint recovery options available for Barracuda Backup clients.

With Ontrack PowerControls and Barracuda, customers can recover individual data sets from SQL Server backups with just a few clicks. Customers can also view the revisions and search for files

Ontrack PowerControls provides Barracuda Backup customers the ability to :.

• search using specific criteria across multiple data sources
• Recover individual items from existing SharePoint backups
• Recover individual items, lists, libraries and folders
• conduct eDiscovery searches and backups of collections

"Optimism" summarizes the findings of the State Channelpro 2015 SMB Channel investigation. Over 89 percent of respondents report increased revenues and profits from 2013 to 2014, and 92 percent expect a further increase in 2015. Perhaps most importantly, the channel is poised for growth, with 48 percent of respondents plan to add staff.

Channelpro collected data electronically from over 550 respondents, most of whom are business leaders and industry veterans, between December 2014 and February 2015. Of the respondents, more than 87 percent are in management, 75 percent have been in business for at least 10 years, and the state 55 percent that their businesses generate $ 1 million and more revenue.

profit Leaders

practices and solutions that generate the most profit for the channel includes backup and disaster recovery (BDR), managed services, solutions cloud, monitoring and remote management (RMM), and safety.

cloud services continue to gain ground, with 77 percent of respondents who provide these solutions today. The top five solutions are spam filtering, A / V, BDR, email hosting and website hosting.

Today, 40 percent of respondent said that 10-49 per cent of their turnover is now generated by cloud services, and 50 percent expect growth of cloud increased in 2015 .

managed services remain the cornerstone of supply channels, with 87 percent of respondents who currently provide these solutions. Furthermore, a large majority (83 percent) generate 49 percent of their review by the managed services. And growth in this area continues, with 46 percent of respondents expect growth in this area in 2015.

In the future, digital signage, Google Apps managed print services (MPS) and the top of the videoconference the list of future growth areas, according to respondents

business opportunities Selection, threats

asked where the most large future business opportunities are for their businesses, respondents identified the top five as :.

1. access control solutions
2. New customer acquisition
3. BDR
4. cloud services
5. digital display

respondents also report the possibility to expand into new industries, as well as in areas such as health, improving sales processes, compliance and security, video surveillance and hosted VoIP.

regarding the five main threats their businesses, respondents identify those that:

1. thin margins cloud offerings
2. Banalisation MSP
3. resistance cloud customer
4. decline in the economy resulting from reduced spending on IT / telecommunications
5. Distraction to be focused on improving the expertise of
channel pros

other threats include increased competition from other partners and big box stores, cyber security breaches to customers and internal violations and suppliers bypassing the channel and go directly.

Careers

Despite potential threats, over 93 percent of respondents see the economy as a whole improved in 2015 and express their optimism high specific companies. Significantly, more than 93 percent see the salaries of staff in 2015. trend Respondents say that most compensation growth opportunity is for sales and technical staff

The State 2015 SMB Channel respondents work in all major vertical markets, with the top five leaders of vertical growth of retail trade, manufacturing, legal / professional, home / SOHO, and government.

published Zerto Zerto Virtual Replication 3.5, business continuity and disaster recovery (BC / DR) the solution of the business with new features, including offsite backup. The new backup feature allows the long-term preservation of data and applications on the target site, in addition to continuous replication, providing simplified data protection for recovery, archiving and compliance in a single solution. Zerto Virtual Replication 3.5 allows vendors and cloud service companies to meet all internal and external requirements for data protection. For companies looking to take advantage of the cloud, Zerto Virtual Replication 3.5 provides disaster recovery in the cloud with the long-term retention in the cloud.

"A complete solution DR and backup is particularly useful for companies that have a long -TERM retention requirements because it eliminates the need to buy a separate backup product," says Gil Levonai, VP products and marketing at Zerto "In addition, Zerto Virtual Replication 3.5 can be used with no clouds. - public or private hybrids -. Organizations to choose the IT environment that best suits their needs without disrupting existing production environments "

Additional features of Zerto Virtual Replication 3.5 include:

• manipulation heightened alert, including applicable and problem resolution information
• simplified management activities, including the operations of the hypervisor by Zerto Virtual replication and clearer status and activity
• Richer set of APIs to automate the management

Features Zerto offsite backup include:

• data protection with disaster recovery and backup in one solution
• streamlined management with configurable backups, including daily, weekly and monthly options
• Reduced impact on production applications with backup infrastructure the target site
• Support business needs with the ability to recover in different places
• backup to local or remote storage and even recover third party infrastructure, including clouds public

for more information, visit: http://www.zerto.com [

Unitrends unveiled its Virtual Backup (UVB) 8.0, a virtual appliance offering protection at hypervisor to VMware, Microsoft and Citrix. Formerly known as PHD Virtual Backup, this product release Unitrends offers performance and management enhancements that simplify virtual data protection, backup speed and recovery, and enable companies to save environments multi- whole hypervisors in just four mouse clicks.

The virtual appliance also introduced a new Web user interface (UI) and the intelligent optimization Unitrends, built-in intelligence that automatically optimizes each step in the process of backup and recovery, accelerate the installation and daily management of backup for the complete recovery of the site. Unified Web-based UVB management capabilities and unique dashboard enable organizations to evaluate backup environments site and off entire site at a glance.

"Unitrends Virtual Backup 8.0 supports more complex small businesses easily and affordably overcome obstacles to the protection of virtual environments," said Joe Noonan, senior product manager, Unitrends. "This version is another key deliverable in our overall strategy to provide organizations, flexible agile solutions that go well beyond the backup data for applications, systems and infrastructure. We are 100 percent focused on the end of the actual game for our clients recovery and business continuity. "

UVB 8.0 is available through direct sales and channel partners. Pricing starts at $ 625 for two doses. The product is also offered as part of the Recovery Suite Unitrends Certified, software provided that enables companies to select the solutions provided to safeguard their physical and virtual specific, archiving and disaster recovery needs at an inclusive price. for more information, visit www.unitrends.com site.

With much industry attention to "SOFTWARE- defined" infrastructure, organizations considering storage defined by the software are facing multiple approaches to using software to pool together, manage and share storage resources while providing high levels of data integrity, availability and scalability.

A defined software environment leverages the software running on industry standard servers to the pool and material resources summary, providing a high level of automation, flexibility and efficiency . It also enables the convergence of computing and storage on the same set of standard servers.

Maxta, a developer of the platform VM-centric storage MXSP that transforms standard servers into a computing solution and Converged storage for virtualized environments, offers the following five tips to evaluate the defined storage software:

1. Did the job storage software-Defined

Yes. Convergence of computing and storage and storage software defined have been field-proven in leading companies - Facebook, Amazon and Google, to name a few. Yet in many cases, storage defined by the software has been developed for specific workloads, mainly big data rather than for general workload of the company. With the increase in virtual infrastructures in environments of all sizes and that server virtualization provides a natural platform for convergence, it is clear that the combination of server virtualization and storage software is defined by the management of enterprise workloads.

2. Does Storage Software-Defined sense to me?

software-defined storage reduces costs and operational complexity while streamlining IT. It offers efficiency, simplicity, agility, and the benefits of the availability. There are some computing environments where these benefits are not desirable.

3. Am I able to implement Storage Software-Defined?

software-defined storage is simple to implement and configure. It should be a perfect integration plug-and-play in a virtualized environment, and should not require customization, managing day to day, or any special skill storage / network. In most cases, a single administrator can manage the computing and storage resources.

4. Can I use the storage and existing servers to deploy Software-Defined Storage?

Yes. Storage solutions perfectly defined software should coexist with existing infrastructure. You should be able to use your existing servers as the platform for software defined storage and your existing storage arrays for applications that are already using. In addition, the storage defined by the software should be able to leverage existing capacity storage networks with all the benefits of the management of all storage resources with a single console pane-of-glass that manages assets of storage as simply as virtual machines.

5. Do I sacrifice enterprise class data services to implement Storage Software-Defined?

No Software-defined storage implementations should provide all business class services, such as data sharing, live migration of virtual machines, dynamic load balancing, high availability, disaster recovery, snapshots, clones, thin provisioning, compression online, and data deduplication. These services should be provided on standard industry servers alongside software and server virtualization applications.

Maxta offers storage software defined for all virtualized data center environment. The aggregate platform Maxta converges storage and computing and storage resources scattered on standard basic equipment, and provides enterprise-class capabilities required by the virtual data center.

To commemorate the 10 ^e anniversary of its online My Passport drives portable external hard WD My Passport Ultra unveiled - Metal Edition and My Passport drive Ultra - Anniversary Edition. Both discs feature metal exterior, up to 2 fight against TB capacity in the smaller speakers, content protection, including backup and integration of cloud

The My Passport Ultra -. metal discs Edition and Anniversary Edition include a spin-radial design in aluminum enclosure, which provides protection against everyday knocks encountered in the hands of mobile consumers. Additionally, the player offers hardware encryption and user protection by password to prevent unauthorized use of the drive in case of loss or theft. To protect additional content and remote sharing, My Passport Ultra - Metal Edition drive includes the WD SmartWare software Pro integration with Dropbox, which enables users to back up the contents of their computer to the player and drive to the cloud and retrieve content from their Dropbox account for the My Passport drive

My Passport Ultra -. metal reader edition is available on the WD store wdstore.com and at select retailers and distributors. My Passport Ultra - Anniversary Edition drive is expected to be available in limited quantities from early September 2014. My Passport Ultra - Metal Edition 1TB drive has an MSRP of $ 89.00 and 2 TB has an MSRP of $ 139.00. Both players offer a regional limited 3-year warranty.

Each fall, Channelpro-SMB asks his readers and a panel of experts from outside to name the SMB technology providers of the most interesting and least appreciated of the world in a range of key product categories. And every year, we receive the most notable suggestions that we can not fit.

This year is no exception. Want a glimpse of superstar of tomorrow vendors? Read on.

>> REMOTE MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT <<

CentraStage
The Internet things can be even more concept than a reality for most companies at present, but CentraStage UK will be ready when it happens. The RMM solution cloud business which, it can be installed in as little as 60 seconds, followed not only PCs, servers, smartphones and tablets, but just about any other gadget you can connect to a network as well. Under CentraStage simple pricing system, buyers pay a flat monthly price for each of these devices, regardless of type or platform. www.centrastage.com

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AffinityLive Inc.
the software-as-a-service solution PSA the San Francisco company is a good fit for channel pros who value flexibility. Partners can mix and match alone modules for the customer, project, notes and management contracts, or deploy the entire platform as a complete unit. Eiger Creative LLC, an MSP in Bristol, Conn., Uses two modules now, but Richard Munger, company director, likes to know that tacking on more simple. "All the components are integrated, which makes the prospect of adding service at a later date," he said. So also the low price, which starts at $ 5 per user per month for individual modules or $ 34 per user per month for the entire suite. www.affinitylive.com

Vorex Inc.
The depth of the ambition of the Plano, Texas, the company to be a serious competitor in the PSA market is became clear in September, when it announced the hiring of longtime coach Stuart Selbst managed services business as its new Chief operating Officer. The hosted solution now oversees Selbst has been carefully designed for maximum simplicity, right down to the pricing model, which has a per-user, per month rate for each of the three editions of the product at no cost to installation, use, or cancellation, and no data limit. There are also no long-term commitment to worry, because all contracts are monthly. www.vorex.com.

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Arganteal Corp.
Looking for a way to squeeze a little more room for Office 365 offers? Invest less time and overhead in deployment could be the answer. Arganteal, Austin, Texas, is a "deployment automation compiler" that simplifies every step of the implementation process Office 365. According satisfied users as Manny Lloyd, CEO and president of the company NC Wilmington, Manuel W . Lloyd Consulting, the results are the deployments that take hours rather than months. "That to me a significant amount of money is," says Lloyd. Www.arganteal.com

Attached Apps
This is another good way to boost your Office 365 gains. This Bellevue, Wash., the flagship product of the company allows Office 365 users (as well as editions of Exchange and Outlook website) share a common pool of contacts. Two additional offers add functionality for collaborative management sales pipelines and customer interactions. resellers receive 20 percent of the user's subscription fees in the first year and 10 percent per year thereafter. Although this is not likely to generate torrents additional income given the modest price Apps attached loads, the three systems are easy add-on sales that can give a little boost, but welcome to the otherwise meager contracts. www.attachedapps.com

CloudFounders, Inc. Gridstore and scale Computing
All three of these companies are private cloud-in-a-box solutions that combine networking, storage, and virtualization into a single uniform package, and all three are sold exclusively through the channel. This, however, is where the similarities.

Indianapolis-based product Scale Computing, called HC3, comes with proprietary hardware running an operating system based on Linux. Both CloudFrames vRun, Belgian CloudFounders cloud-based providers, and Gridstore, Mountain View, Calif.-based Gridstore are fully software-defined solutions that run on x86 server hardware product.

Each solution also uses a different hypervisor. The scale of the product runs on the open source KVM hypervisor, while for now at least the CloudFounders solution only supports VMware ESX, and Gridstore system only supports Microsoft Hyper-V.

Ray Lucchesi, president of Silverton Consulting Inc., a consulting firm storage in Broomfield, Colo., Admire the courage of the strategy of the Microsoft hypervisor oriented Gridstore. Private cloud and convergent infrastructure providers typically focus initially on the platform market leader VMware and Hyper-V add the media later, if necessary. "By taking on Hyper-V First, they may have a more difficult market to penetrate because Windows Storage Server is already a dominant player in this space," says Lucchesi. www.cloudframesvrun.com, www.gridstore.com, www.scalecomputing.com

Smartsheet.com Inc.
Most project management applications were originally designed with PCs in mind. Bellevue, Wash.-based Smartsheet.com the solution, however, was designed from the ground up for mobile computing touchscreen, so it is extremely simple to learn and use, according to Christopher Chute, Vice-President research in the global SMB Cloud & Mobility research practice at analyst firm IDC. "They use the cloud and mobile single front ends to make management easier for the project to deploy line-of-business users who do not have computer training," said Fall. Www.smartsheet.com

Zynstra Ltd.
If you still have clients running Windows Server 2003 and Small Business Server 2003, Zynstra UK is a name you should know that support for Microsoft products ends next June, and the cloud SMB server apparatus managed Zynstra sent a good upgrade option. Equipped with everything you need to run a full hybrid cloud infrastructure, the system has not yet available in North America as of press time, but Zynstra plans to start selling on these shores soon. www.zynstra.com

Virtualization has become not only common, but vital between companies, but what should a company know when architecting its virtual server backup strategy? Here are five tips, including what to ask suppliers and how to go about future proofing your organization.

Axcient, a provider of Recovery-as-a-Service cloud (RAAS), has released the latest version of its cloud recovery company, providing faster replication and recovery system for both physical and virtual environments, and file and folder recovery accelerated with added support drag-and-drop. The latest version of the Axcient solution offers improved performance up to nine times faster than before and allows companies to reduce their recovery point objectives (RPO) and failover systems instantly.

With the latest version of Cloud Recovery Company, United Axcient, organizations can now export all image replication of physical and virtual server as a VMDK file, making it easy to retrieve not only VMware snapshots, but also to recover and / or migrating snapshots of physical servers as virtual machines. This (P2V) physical-virtual process is performed instantly with one click via the Axcient web interface without any conversion process.

The new version supports drag-and-drop recovery of the local device via integration with Windows explorer, allowing users to move large numbers of files and entire folders to a target device . Axcient has also extended its support instant failover. Previously, the company has supported the snapshot server failover to the most recent snapshot of the system, and with this version, allows companies instantly recover systems to a snapshot point in time. This can be done both locally and in the cloud.

latest Axcient is currently in beta and will be deployed for new and existing customers at no additional cost in the coming weeks. For more information, contact Axcient to axcient.com, sales@axcient.com email, or call (800) 715-2339.

CloudBerry Lab, a provider of backup and management solutions for public cloud storage services, announced that it now supports AWS Key management service in addition to its existing customer encryption and server side (SSE) security capabilities. The Key Management Service AWS (KMS) will be supported for CloudBerry Backup, which backs up the data on Amazon S3, and CloudBerry Explorer, which allows end users to access, move and manage files across local storage and buckets Amazon S3.

AWS Key Management Service (KMS) is a managed service that provides a single view into all of the key usage in the organization of the end user and is designed for end-users to easily create , rotate and control the encryption key used to encrypt data.

"Customers are rightly concerned about the security of the data they store in the cloud," said Aleksy Serkov, CTO at CloudBerry Lab. "CloudBerry has always provided users full control over the keys that are the foundation of data security - or CloudBerry or the cloud provider never has access to customer data Now, organizations have a backup solution. support files management that takes fully KMS AWS, enabling them to leverage the latest security enhancements to Amazon to quickly and easily create, control and centrally manage encryption keys used to keep their data S3 safely. "

For more information, visit www.cloudberrylab.com.

The ASCII Group 2015 SMB IT Success Summit Series was held on 19 and 20 August at the Westin Waltham in Waltham, Mass. the sixth leg of the tour a year. The Success Summit is an opportunity for participants to obtain education, hear presentations from industry, browse the flag of solution providers, attend a meeting ASCII members, and network with peers .

The pre-day activities on Wednesday include lunch and exchange business cards. Here Ted Roller, a partner in GetChanneled a "virtual channel chief" advice, which will detail the 2015 IT industry outlook and trends.

Vendor sponsored sessions on Wednesday covering topics such as continuity of business, cloud computing, simplified business management, marketing, compliance and managed services, and using iT assessments to develop the business. the day ends with a welcome reception followed by a meeting ASCII members.

the main event of the day will begin with an exchange breakfast for networking and peer map. guest speaker and ASCII member CJ Ezell, founder and CEO of PointClear Networks, an integrator of health care systems and managed services provider based in Fairhope, Ala., talks with participants on "dental Integration Add your managed services Practice." His speech was followed by an introduction of ASCII community ambassadors.

APC by Schneider Electric provides an update on its partner program, followed by a presentation on the summary of the Executive MSP market. After the morning break, Datto will provide updates on its channel program. And the Community ASCII Business Building Together Session, participants will hear how the next wave of services will also be built leveraging the ASCII community and helping take forward business suppliers.

Member ASCII Charles Tholen, President and CTO, Cognoscape LLC, has "successfully Win in the legal market with Managed Services." And ASCII member, Eugene Tawiah, an Ethical Hacker certified, speaks of "proven triggers for help SME customers focus on cybersecurity. "

guest speaker is Joe Navarro, best-selling author and former cons-intelligence officer of the FBI recognized as the leading expert on nonverbal behavior. in his presentation, "Sales and analyst FBI read-renowned speed says it all," he explains how to "speed-reading" people: decode sentiments and behaviors, avoid hidden pitfalls, and look for behaviors misleading it will also. explain how your body language can influence the prospects, customers, and personal knowledge and what foreigners think of you

Presentation topics include :. seller business continuity, being a perpetually valuable MSP strategies white-label cloud, disaster recovery, mobile capabilities, and more.

participants also have the opportunity to travel the pavilion solutions, meet the staff ASCII, and vote on supplier prices.

The day ends with a ceremony of closing prices and gifts, followed by a meeting ASCII members.

The Summit series is designed for trained professionals in the computer industry and managed service providers, and is targeted towards those looking to increase revenues and improve their current business model. ASCII members receive free admission to the event.

The ASCII Group is a community based on adherence independent MSP, VAR and solution providers. Next stop on the tour of eight city this year is September 16 and 17 in Washington

For more information go to www.asciievents.com.

ioSafe, a provider of data storage solutions for disaster tolerant, published ioSafe BDR 515, a fire -. waterproof hybrid backup and disaster recovery (BDR) of the device that allows data to be stored locally and replicated to the cloud

"Leveraging our unique technology, we combined a hybrid / private cloud with the fire of the world and sealed BDR unit on site to create the SMB recovery in case of disaster and ultimate compliance solution. 100 percent secure against almost any conceivable disaster scenarios, including the loss of Internet connection , a natural disaster, and theft, "said ioSafe CEO Robb Moore.

According to the company, other BDR products do not provide a complete data protection until it is replicated to the cloud, creating a window of vulnerability during periods when an Internet connection are not available - as is often the case in major disasters. The ioSafe BDR hardened window closes and combines physical protection of data on site with the benefits of the cloud.

Powered by Windows Server 2012 R2 and StorageCraft ShadowProtect SPX the ioSafe 515 BDR provides a flexible architecture that can be administered by the partners and is available in capacities from 5 to 30TB. Other features include:

• 100 percent private cloud backup with dedicated target device BDR located ioSafe Cloud
• ability to reproduce, virtualize and protect the primary server using the ioSafe BDR
• Windows / Intel-based hardware available
• protection on site fire up to 1,550 ° F, 30 minutes per ASTM E-119 depth
• data protection on site flooding up to 10 feet for 3 days in complete immersion
• mounting lock floor and rack mounting kits protection against physical theft and security on site
• Replicate, test, save, and manage via StorageCraft software suite
• Collect a file or folder, or restore an entire system to the same or different material
• VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V Ready

the ioSafe RDB 515 is now available exclusively through ioSafe Advantage program partners. Prices vary depending on capacity and service plan.

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Veeam Software backup provider announced that Veeam Availability Suite v9, generally available later this year, will include unlimited backup Respository Scale-out, a new storage capacity designed to reduce total cost of ownership of backup storage, lower hardware costs, and simplify management of backup storage in business environments complex. The repository creates a virtual storage pool that essentially any storage device can be added to increase capacity without the need to manage each device individually.

Further, the unlimited scale-out backup repository allows companies to use their current storage investment to reduce costs, and according to the company, may increase the existing storage capacity by as much as 30 percent because it frees up space which is generally used in a backup of the legacy storage environment. Using Backup investment policy files, Veeam speeds backup and recovery by enabling it to assign full and incremental backup files to separate storage devices for better performance and the creation of the full backup processing synthetic.

"With Veeam, enterprise IT can go beyond safeguarding the heritage to embrace the actual availability of the data center for all data and applications," said Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam . "Our new unlimited Scale-out capacity backup repository is another example of how we are taking full advantage of new technologies to improve availability to the company. in this case, the result is a dramatic simplification and reducing backup storage management costs, making it easier and more cost effective to provide "always on" performance ".

for more details on the new unlimited Veeam backup directory out Scale- including a webinar coming up on the new feature, visit http://go.veeam.com/v9.

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A backup recovery system and disaster (or BDR) is a required component for a disaster recovery plan. However, the answers to such questions as, should I buy a BDR or build one? And, What makes a good solution for me? require some thought and consideration. We have done the hard work for you so you can make an informed decision on how to deploy your next backup and disaster recovery appliance. Learn the main arguments for the construction or purchase of a BDR so you can decide that you or your customers should.

In a major new incursion into Replibit LLC crowded market for backup and disaster recovery, data protection vendor eFolder Inc. has acquired software maker BDR based in Orlando, Florida. the price tag and other terms of the agreement are not disclosed.

Until today, five BDR solutions basic-Ga. Atlanta, eFolder all combined its own cloud storage infrastructure with software from leading third-party providers, including Replibit. Now officially called eFolder Replibit system will be the first offering in the BDR family eFolder products he owns and operates entirely on himself.

The solution Replibit, neutral material system with bare metal restore capabilities, local and remote virtualization, and support for a variety of both private and public cloud storage environments, made his debut in 2014. eFolder published Replibit edition of its BDR platform in May of last year.

"the product obtained rave reviews of our distribution partners," said Ted Hulsy (photo), vice president of sales eFolder. The purchase of the supplier responsible for product aligned with the long term vision of eFolder, he added.

"We are really position the company as a company Software-as-a-service where we own the intellectual property of the end of cloud point of software," he said. "Replibit part of this strategy overall quite good. "Joining forces was equally attractive to Replibit he continues.

" They were looking for a way to take their product to another level with a larger organization, and it just became a good combination, "said Hulsy.

John Motazedi, CEO eFolder partner based Joplin Mo., SNC Squared, feels the same way." for us, Replibit and eFolder are a perfect combination, "at -he said in a press release. "We fell in love with the Replibit software early, since the characteristics of reliability and automation help us reduce our costs of labor."

Sweetening the deal for eFolder is the treasure of patents that CEO Replibit Andy Bensinger, a veteran BDR who played a key role in the design and development of backup software once sold by defunct Zenith Infotech provider of managed services, brings with him .

"This is an important part of the value that we will acquire," Hulsy said, adding that these patents are primarily a "defense system" offering protection against intellectual property lawsuits. Bensinger has agreed to remain with eFolder and will be "deeply involved in product innovation," according Hulsy, in a new role that has not yet been determined.

Despite the announcement of today, MSP's empowerment to choose from a range of options BDR remains an essential element of the eFolder strategy Hulsy stresses and offering a complete solution on its own does not change the commitment of the company to its other four partners of the alliance BDR Acronis International GmbH Dell AppAssure StorageCraft Technology Corp. and Veeam Software .

"These relations are strategic, and we believe it is an excellent strategy to offer a choice to the MSP," says Hulsy. "Naturally, Replibit take a kind of primary position in our product portfolio."

Replibit MSP partners will experience nothing but positive changes also after today Halsy states, including more support and closer account management.

"We received a lot of feedback from partners that they wanted Replibit as part of a larger organization," he said. "That, I think, a dimension to the case."

Hulsy would not rule out future acquisitions in pursuing the aspirations of eFolder offering MSPs a suite of business continuity solutions based on cloud-owned.

"It is really to help ensure and protect business productivity for their customers, "he said." Everything is sort of this regime would be fair game. " Just do not expect more news like today is in the near future.

"Right now our plate is pretty full," said Hulsy.

Did you lose gadgets easily? Smartphones, laptops, tools, sunglasses and keys; there's a lot to keep an eye on. If you are one of those people who keeps losing a little something, you can consult FinderCodes.

FinderCodes are small stickers and labels that go on all your gadgets and other essentials. Put one on your dog, if you want; they go on all you seem to get lost on a regular basis. It seems very easy but FinderCodes actually have a little something special inside - technology! When someone finds your lost items, they can simply scan the QR code on the label with a smartphone and access your information.

This is very similar to Apple's Find My iPhone app, except it works with other items that are not the iPhone.

Now, if you lose something really cool, the viewfinder may not want to return. However, if you have a good Samaritan (and there are many of them out there!), FinderCodes makes it much easier for that person to hunt you down. In addition, once scanned the code, you receive a notice by email or text.

"We are extremely pleased to join AT & T to bring this innovative product and incredibly useful for consumers," said Blake Sohn, president of FinderCodes, LLC. "We are convinced that the strength and support of the AT & T brand combined with this unique product offering will FinderCodes a winner on store shelves and in homes across the United States and Canada."

tags are available for backpacks, babies, sports equipment, and other items. the electronic kit is currently available for pre-order, with a pack of nine tags which go for $ 24.99. This allows you to get five adhesive labels, a small label with a stainless steel ring, and an average tag with a stainless steel ring.

All tags are ripstop waterproof and durable. in addition, you can easily change the contact information, so you do not have to get a new set of tags whenever you need to make a tweak.

cloud provider backup and recovery solutions Asigra Inc. announced the latest version of its Asigra Cloud backup product.

Asigra Cloud Backup is a secure single set of end to end data protection software to protect data across physical, virtualized, and cloud terminal operating environments. The new Backup v12 Cloud adds the cloud applications support (SaaS and PaaS) as well as support for mobile devices, the advanced virtual disaster recovery for VMware environments, and anytime / where data recovery.

"An advanced solution for consolidated backup ,, endpoint and physical virtual cloud environments is here," says CEO David Asigra Inc. Farajun. " Asigra Cloud Backup v12 is a data recovery technology that allows users to completely centralize all backup operations for the ultimate in confidence and control. This is essential for service providers looking for a competitive advantage while reducing capital and operational costs and Asigra offers on all points. "

Features of Cloud Backup v12

Asigra Cloud backup v12 sports backup capacity and retrieve all company data in a single repository. This includes a target coverage range of endpoint, including support for Windows workstations, Linux and Mac computers laptops, Android / iPad tablets, iPhone and Android smartphones. improvements include support for non-rooted Android devices for complete recovery of call logs, settings, applications, data from the SD card, calendar, wake , music, SMS / MMS communications, bookmarks, photos and videos.

the latest generation of software Asigra redefines cloud backup with cloud application data carrier. For example, Asigra Cloud Backup now protects the complete Salesforce.com database, including accounts, contacts, leads, campaigns, and custom objects. When recovery is required, users are able to retrieve only the data or can recover both the schema and data. Users retain control of their Salesforce.com backup data and maintain security with AES 256 encryption in flight and at rest.

In addition, v12 offers protection against virtual machine failures with backup copies of VMs and instant activation of backup copies. Remote site protection is provided with the virtual machine backup center off-site (s) of data with business operations continues as data is recovered to the primary site.

Price and availability

v12 Asigra Cloud Backup is available exclusively through Partners Asigra Hybrid. Price is available on request.

Data storage and backup media company Maxell Corp. of America announced the certification of its LTO Ultrium 6 (LTO 6) of the data cartridge.

"Maxell recently completed the verification process of the compliance of the data cartridge LTO Ultrium 6, including a series of tests to confirm the exchange compatibility with other drives and media," says a press release Maxell Corp. subject to ChannelPro- SMB . "The users of Maxell LTO Ultrium products can be assured compatibility and interchangeability between Maxell LTO Ultrium media and all brands of Ultrium drives and media."

LTO 6 functions Write Once, Read Many (WORM) functionality and advanced encryption capabilities, making it well suited for backup and archiving applications requiring high security, including vertical markets such as legal SMEs, consistent with medical and financial Sarbanes - Oxley Act.

The data cartridge also includes a linear tape file system, allowing it to be used in a manner similar to that of hard disk drives. It also features a transfer rate of the compressed tape drive faster up to 400 MB / s and a maximum storage capacity of 6.25 TB.

The incorporation of NeoSMART Maxell (Super Maximum capacity Advanced Reliability band) technology is designed to improve the benefits of LTO 6. For example, the ultra-fine ceramic-armored metal particles increase the capacity and LTO 6 create an additional level of protection against corrosion.

In addition, Maxell has developed dispersing and calendering processes designed to improve read / write performance and ensure high efficiency and stability.

protection specialist NovaStor of data began to enter into cooperative relations with the United States, the United -um, and German users of its product line backup NovaBACKUP.

users in the UK who are interested in backing up their data to a local online storage provider will be able to do partner with professional cloud backup NovaStor UKBackup.

"with UKBackup, customers will not only have a local partner to personal support, but they can also trust that UKBackup backup practices conform to the same laws and regulations applicable to themselves," says NovaStor in a press release submitted to Channelpro-SMB [data.

"Cloud services offer flexibility and cost savings," said NovaStor CEO Stefan Utzinger. "Yet many companies have reservations about sending their data to a limited company, multi-national. NovaStor's cooperation with UKBackup offers guests a comfortable alternative that reduces the effort for data backup and also ensures transparency in terms of data storage. "

in addition, users will have the choice of cloud storage options. NovaStor incorporates independent online storage providers NovaBACKUP. Customers may choose to Amazon S3, FTP, or one of the many storage vendors professionals cloud.

With UKBackup, customers will not only have a local partner to personal support, but they can also trust that UKBackup compliant data backup practices with regional laws and regulations.

Wizards guide users not only by all the processes of backup and recovery and provides the steps for registering an online storage account. The account is available immediately for the practical safeguarding of critical data.

managed services solutions provider Continuum offers a "quick and easy way to breathe new life into existing backup and disaster recovery equipment. "the Continuum BDR Revive is a re-imaging tool that upgrades BDR Zenith Infotech, Dell AppAssure, Axcient, HEROWare, Chartec BDR and other hardware devices to include Continuum Vault.

Continuum announced the immediate availability of BDR Revive this week. Until April 15, the company offers free BDR Revive partners to place an order Continuum Vault.

The business continuity solution Continuum Vault provides protection, instant virtualization, replication and cloud-based recovery, monitoring and management support, and cloud storage option unlimited. Supported by the NOC of Continuum, on-premise and cloud backups are monitored 24/7.

"We have heard many of our partners they want to reuse existing equipment they have already invested in," said Continuum CEO Michael George. "The combination of BDR Revive and safe is a victory for our partners, who want to leverage existing hardware investments and offer BDR functionality while maximizing profits."

replication, availability and disaster recovery provider Vision Solutions Inc. has launched its new Protection & Recovery Cloud ( CP & R) offers. The new solution is based on Double-Take and MIMIX products company, and is designed to enable cloud services providers to accelerate their cloud business by offering their customers Recovery-as-a-Service ( RAAS) through pay-per-use pricing.

"Businesses of all sizes, from SMB to the enterprise, considering the cloud cover as a non-disruptive path to cloud adoption," says Vision Solutions CTO Alan Arnold.

"We are. Glad to introduce our Protection & Recovery offers cloud with a goal to enable cloud providers a new path to revenue and their SME customers a reliable data protection solution"

protection & Recovery Cloud Vision Solutions offering includes:

• Recovery-as-a-Service (RAAS) Platform - Double-Take Cloud protection and Recovery ( CP & R) CloudStack Edition allows cloud providers running Citrix CloudPlatform and Apache CloudStack cloud to offer integrated Recovery-as-a-service to their end customers.
• Using Metered - Double-Take and MIMIX Metered Usage allow cloud providers to consume disaster recovery licenses, migration and high availability solutions Vision solutions in a pay -as-you-go mode.
• Software Development Kit (SDK) - Double-Take SDK provides cloud providers the ability to use API for Double-Take customized cloud integration into their ecosystem. This allows a high degree of automation and reduces administrative costs for cloud providers.

product portfolio 'Realignment

With the launch of its cloud, Vision Solutions said it is also "realign" its product portfolio into three categories of solutions: Cloud protection & Recovery, High Availability & Disaster Recovery, and migration & Cross-Platform data sharing.

high availability and disaster recovery Vision solutions have set the standard for 22 years in the industry, ensuring resilience through the clouds, virtual and physical environments. Products include:

• Private / Public Cloud Protection - vCloud Director Aware Data Protection
• Protection Server (Cloud, virtual, physical) - Double-Take Availability for Windows and Linux, MIMIX Availability and iTERA Availability for IBM i and Double-Take RecoverNow for AIX
• Agentless VM protection - Double-Take Availability for Hyper-V and Double-Take Availability for vSphere

Knowing the basics of backing up Microsoft applications is great, but if you use their Dynamics result, you have not even begun to scratch the area. This is your accounting to process management data, it is what works your business day to day. Learn how to backup your Dynamics data in the right direction.

Whether a natural disaster or human error, data loss is inevitable for all companies, but many do not have to proper data backup plan or recovery in place. The key to the data loss is the successful implementation of a data protection policy that will allow you to quickly recover from a data loss.

UC Zultys solutions provider unveiled the latest iteration of its unified communications platform MX.

MX Release 8.0 adds MXnetwork redundancy and improvements to MXcluster Redundancy, strengthening disaster recovery and resilience of Zultys' All-in-One, unified communications architecture based on SIP.

MX version 8.0 also marks the introduction of MXoutbound a configurable, integrated solution for outbound dialing ideal for the implementation of appointment reminder services, outbound marketing campaigns, reporting systems disaster, and surveys automated clients.

MX version 8.0 also incorporates a wealth of additional features, including improved backup and restore, additional system monitoring tools and usability improvements.

"With our exciting release of version 8.0, Zultys continues its history of innovation and providing advanced capabilities to our customers in a reliable, economically efficient IP phone," says the head of sales and Zultys Steve Francis marketing.

resilience and redundancy

the MXnetwork redundancy feature provides SMEs with cross-site automatic failover for IP phones, MXIE UC clients, and groups call / Contact Centers.

Each user can have a failover node configured. in the unlikely event that their home node becomes unavailable, telephone, UC and customer contact center user groups will become immediately operational .

in addition, version 8.0 incorporates evolutionary improvements of MXcluster N + 1 redundancy architecture. MXcluster administrators appreciate the management interface redesigned, allowing the provision of MXcluster provides information clearer status and simplifies control.

Zultys MXoutbound

MXoutbound, a fully integrated outbound dialing solution provides flexible automated process to reach out to the customers of an organization. MXoutbound is suitable for virtually any application requiring automated outbound dialing. The call message can be as simple as a single recorded phrase or a customer survey developed with a series of questions based on previous answers.

Support for Apple Mac OS X

The customer Zultys UC application, called MXIE is natively supported on Windows operating systems, Mac and Linux. Version 8.0 sees the addition of an integrated softphone for Mac OS X Apple systems.

More features

Further improvements to the latest Zultys MX platform include :.

• Ability to store historical backups
• New GUI design for easy configuration of scheduled backups and faster system recovery.
• Help for secure file transfer SFTP and FTPS over SSL / TLS encryption.
• Ability to restore an old backup to a new firmware version.
• automatic and interactive voice response Reception (IVR) monitoring tools.
• monitoring of caller interactions with the auto attendant (AA), interactive voice response (IVR) and MXoutbound dialer.
• real-time monitoring of HTTP level external Web queries related to the interactive voice response (IVR) systems and MXoutbound.
• Keyboard usability improvements in MXIE UC client.

Price and availability

MX 8.0 is available for download immediately. Existing customers with a current software subscription are eligible for a complimentary upgrade and should contact their Zultys Authorized Channel Partner for more information.

Unitrends Easy-to-Use Design, a provider of all-in-one backup, d archiving, instant recovery and disaster recovery solutions, launched Unitrends release 7.2, the latest version of the next generation of software power its Unified offers data protection for backup and recovery of virtual and physical devices.

"storage, backup, and disaster recovery applications are skyrocketing while data volumes grow, but unfortunately staffing levels are not rising with them," says Dr. Mark Campbell, Chief strategy and technology officer Unitrends. "IT directors at small and medium businesses are continually challenged to do more with less. Our mission has always been Unitrends to provide enterprise-class data protection for heterogeneous environments that is affordable, easy to use and intuitive. Smaller budgets and limited resources should not mean businesses must sacrifice the data protection and Unitrends Version 7.2 ensures that this is not the case. "

Unitrends Enterprise Backup, backup and recovery software virtual appliance only for the company, and Unitrends Recovery Series, its family of scalable physical appliances are solutions that offer data protection Simply scalable, heterogeneous "lower" total cost of ownership (TCO). Unitrends 7.2 provides administrators a user experience "more intuitive" - ​​freeing up valuable time and resources they can devote to other pressing tasks. Unitrends Release 7.2 features include:

• A wizard Replication: Replication configuration Active "quick and easy" as all replication functionality is managed on a device via a single user interface.
• Masters with Include: Provides granularity for increased data protection by enabling administrators to specify inclusion lists for Windows master file level, differential and incremental backups. With this enhancement, users now have the ability to specify what data they want to save - to a folder or a specific file type.
• Legal Hold: Enables administrators to maintain control over the retention by specifying backup groups that should not be purged from the system for a specified number of days or indefinitely. This new feature ensures companies meet compliance requirements and service level agreements.
• DNS / DHCP support for Windows: Simplifies managing clients by removing the requirement IP address for backups.
• Second-level menu, task-oriented: Includes drop task-based-down options on the main menu of the interface for greater ease of use.

Unified Data Protection offers Unitrends supports more than 100 different versions of servers, operating systems, platforms, storage, hypervisors and applications. With Unitrends 7.2, enterprises now also receive expanded data protection support for Oracle 11g on Linux and Solaris, Debian 7.0 and Ubuntu 13.04 Linux and VMware resource pools. Administrators also now have the ability to exclude a subset of VMware virtual machine disks from backups, which reduces the backup size, saves storage space, and increases retention.

Unitrends 7.2 also includes new features focused on the MSP. The new generation of software includes integration with the tool of professional service automation ConnectWise, as well as systems monitoring and remote management. With this new support, MSPs can monitor and manage the infrastructure of end users, including backup and recovery process, directly through their PSA or RMM system. This integration greatly reduces TCO and time error prone manual process of replacing automated system monitoring tasks that can be managed through a single interface.

For more information on Unitrends MSP program, go to http://www.unitrends.com/partners/msp-program. For more information on Unitrends' Release 7.2, visit www.unitrends.com.

HIPAA data backup, recovery and protection equipment and HEROware software vendor is releasing the latest iteration of Defender Hero- its all-in-one business continuity solution.

HERO-Defender provides full server failover without data loss. He shoots V7.0 party Double Take, replication and protection engine for physical and virtual servers.

"complete instant backup for both on-premise and cloud using StoreGrid V4.4 saves time and money, prevent disasters and save jobs," said HEROware in a statement submitted to Channelpro-SMB .

also HEROware publishes a plug-in module to enable remote monitoring and management of Kaseya Defender devices from a single browser interface.

In January based in the Netherlands when - Channelpro-SMB spoke with René Oldenbeuving CEO of online IASO backup software vendor, there was no mention of plans to be acquired by an American company. At that time, GFI Software is a partner; IASO now part of GFI, which provides remote monitoring and management for MSPs and network security, anti-spam, patch management, fax, mail archiving, collaboration and Web monitoring.

But we'll roll back the tape. According Oldenbeuving, IASO has developed its own cloud backup service seven years ago and entered the US market in 2012 through a partner who "sold so many licenses they have convinced us of go directly to the market. " There was no channel strategy until Tech Data Corp. intervened and provided a distribution agreement.

the solution was originally developed as a software product for backing up servers, but in 2011 it was migrated to the cloud and storage was added. IASO had moved to a pay-as-you-go model - with the idea of ​​recurring revenue for partners - and never looked back.

Regarding a goal for IASO will, Oldenbeuving hope to be recognized as a superior backup service and see more revenue in the United States that the company in Europe. "So high expectations," he said.

High expectations? Perhaps, but Oldenbeuving says the company fills a niche that goes beyond the competition. "Many of our competitors stop when the [backup] selected size is more than one terabyte, "he said. "While [beyond one terabyte] is a sweet spot, we can hit. We have a client with up to 50 terabytes."

IASO has storage locations in London, Amsterdam, Düsseldorf, Sydney and Atlanta, with facilities in San Francisco and Toronto which should now be available.

new top-of-the-line desktop NAS, the ReadyNAS 716, short of Netgear a quad-core 3.2GHz Intel Xeon Ivy Bridge E3-1225v2 and 16 GB of ECC memory, and includes two 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports and two Gigabit Ethernet ports. Be the first desktop NAS to include 10GBASE-T Ethernet support is the foundation of the company's speed claims, with upgrades ReadyNAS operating system to version 6. Netgear ReadyNAS 716 (RN716X) is able to support up to 500 concurrent users and Blu-ray stream multiple HD movies at once.

"We surveyed the enterprise storage space, looking at vendors like EMC and NetApp, and made these affordable features for small and medium enterprises," said Matt Pahnke, senior marketing manager Netgear "and the new ReadyNAS OS 6 facilitates the management."

If the CPU and the sound memory as server statistics, the price valid image. retail price is $ no 4500 disc in six locations that accept hot-swappable hard drives 3.5- and 2.5-inch. Total capacity with 4TB drives is 24TB, but adding three disk arrays holding 20TB each extension provides a total capacity of 84TB declared.

options and flexibility
for companies interested in a new NAS box to support local backup, the ReadyNAS 716 gives them more options and flexibility than competitors. The operating system enables thin clients and local servers to an unlimited number of snapshots (depending on available disk space, of course). Individual users can restore their personal files via the browser interface, but administrator privileges are required to return to previous snapshots. All data on a 716, including snapshots, can be played remotely to another ReadyNAS device.

Image support for virtual thin clients now becomes practical to a desktop price, Pahnke said. "Most NAS boxes can not handle the workload of all students loading their desktop image for tablets or laptops thin clients at once at the beginning of the day. The 716 can."

The companies that want their own private cloud can pull ReadyCLOUD party, now included with all ReadyNAS 716. No data stays any offsite location, but the service acts as a bridge Netgear ReadyCLOUD, giving remote users with secure access to ReadyNAS 716. We tested the ReadyDATA 5200, the first product with ReadyCLOUD, and provided remote easiest access to all NAS we've seen.

In addition, anti-virus software module free checks each file that is written to the disk space on the 716. Pahnke expects most ReadyNAS 716 units to deploy in back-office situations for capacity and increased storage backups.

ReadyNAS 716 is now available through distribution. Each unit comes with a guarantee including all five.

Apacer has launched an SSD-based high-end cloud - SFD (SATA Flash Drive) 25A, which exceeds SSD SATA 2.0 interface of the enterprise server. With the adoption of the SATA 3.0 transmission interface, SFD 25A achieves double the capacity of transmission and storage capacities up to 256GB. SFD 25A is designed for online storage in the cloud storage center save the cost of server space to optimize its operating conditions featuring high speed, stability and energy saving. Other features:

• Wear-leveling and Global Block Management
• Integrated ATA Secure Erase and S.M.A.R.T. Functions
• Intelligent Power Failure Recovery
• support TRIM command
• DEVSLP Support (optional)
• 9.5mm and 7mm housing (optional)

Jeff Lin, embedded application manager of the business unit of Apacer, suggested that, "Cloud-based SSD Apacer SFD 25A highlights its performance breakthrough efficiency, benefiting a maximum speed sequential transmission up to 475/440 MB / s and input / output operations per second (IOPS) up to 70,000. It overcomes the bottleneck encountered by traditional hard drives using mechanical hard drives, making it as efficient as RAID consists of more than a hundred mechanical hard drives. the excellent performance of SFD 25A SSD enhances the efficiency of data processing center in the cloud, and businesses can achieve exceptional efficiency in the budget. "

Apacer has launched the new SFD 25A Cloud- SSDs in response to the trend of large data storage. The company has a strict quality production, excellent customization and technical support in real time. Apacer offers the Fix B.O.M. support longevity on recognition and verification of customer products. Samples of the new 25A SFD is now available for customers to test execution. For more information, contact a local sales representative Apacer.

Connected Data has published its latest Drobo storage system with 4 bays with new features such as USB 3.0, rebuild faster times, and increased support for time Machine from Apple. The company also launched a $ 50 USD program customer loyalty discount off of all first and second generation Drobo customers.

This third generation Drobo offers a completely new architecture, with three times faster performance than the previous generation, and an extra battery provides backup protection in the event of power failure.

Data Protection

If a drive fails, Drobo automatically protects data without user intervention. In addition, users can purchase the capacity to increase the space by adding additional hard drives, or exchanging smaller disks with larger later. Drobo also protects against one or two simultaneous drive failures in a single click.

investment protection

The third generation Drobo is built on the BeyondRAID technology. BeyondRAID is the foundation that allows the first and second generation Drobo customers upgrade to a new Drobo removing the disc pack their existing Drobo, and moving to their new.

Time Machine Support

Time Machine Apple will consume the entire capacity of an external storage system without an easy way to set limits capacity specific. Drobo has released an integrated feature that allows users to allocate a specific amount of capacity to be dedicated to Time Machine backup that retains the maximum space available for data storage.

Customer Loyalty Program Price and availability

Logged data provides the first and second generation Drobo customers a discount USD of $ when they buy a new Drobo to 9 June 50, 2014. MSRP for the new Drobo Gen3 is $ 349 USD. Pre-orders are accepted www.drobostore.com, and some channel partners. Deliveries are scheduled to begin in late April.

Intronis, Inc. introduced the inducted ECHOplatform, a backup cloud secure, scalable, and full data recovery solution, supporting a variety of on-demand services, plug-ins and extensions such as the server and imaging laptop, VMware and Hyper-V, SQL and Exchange backup, and bare metal restoration soon (BMR) and the synchronization file and share. Designed for IT service providers, the new platform is the basis for data protection and recovery of activity of the company's solution.

Designed to simplify the delivery of cloud services backup and data protection for channel partners, the new all-in. a platform features an open API, integration with leading RMM and PSA tools and technologies today, and a management portal that provides a single view window glass all activities account

other characteristics Intronis ECHOplatform include:

• offers unlimited cloud channel and unlimited local storage partners for a price fixed flat rate SMB website, as well as access to a growing portfolio of services, plug-ins and extensions necessary to offer customers a complete data protection. In addition, channel partners can standardize, customize and evolve their storage solution to meet customer requirements without adding additional costs.

• Can be completely rebranded by IT service providers to reflect the company logo and colors, and deploy Intronis ECHOplatform as their own solution for data protection and recovery activity.

• allows channel partners to consolidate their existing backup under a single platform.

The new Intronis ECHOplatform is now available to channel partners. Under the newly launched Intronis U ² up, the price is offered at a fixed monthly cost for unlimited cloud and local storage. More information about the new Intronis U ² Plan can be found at www.intronis.com/nolimits.

"Having the flexibility simply, securely, and cost effectively deal unique data protection needs of a client creates a significant market opportunity for channel partners who are serious about success and want to expand their data backup services to complete business recovery, "says Chuck Delouis, vice -President, product management, Intronis. "the new Intronis ECHOplatform technology gives channel partners, services and support necessary to provide a complete data protection and enhance their revenues and profits."

For more information on visiting www.intronis.com/echoplatform Intronis ECHOplatform or call Intronis at 800-569-0155.

San Jose storage products, Calif.-based Netgear Inc. won good reputation on the market for small businesses by providing performance and value. Now Netgear strengthens the midsize market with a storage device based on cliché built on the new platform the company ReadyDATA. By combining the device with the software StorageCraft Technology Corp. in Draper, Utah, Netgear now promises better appliance snapshot for less money than current products in space.

Intended for businesses with 250 seats, ReadyRECOVER will bridge the gap between SMB backup appliances and NetApp and EMC units costing much more, said Matt Pahnke, senior product marketing manager at Netgear. "This line goes beyond a typical stupid box NAS disks and has tons of intelligence to manage snapshots, thin provisioning, and more. Integration [StorageCraft’s] ShadowProtect software makes this more than the sum of the two parties. "

main point Netgear sales for ReadyRECOVER is its ability to take full snapshots every 15 minutes using the storage block level incremental, but do every instant of a complete restore point . Rather than existing equipment that may need to compile weeks of incremental updates since the last restore point for full recovery, ReadyRECOVER promises to complete restorations of any and every shot. Users can restore the complete snapshot of the virtual machine, for example, or select a single folder or file. This will reduce the time and aggravation of any restoration process, no matter how small or large.

Although the equipment remains on site, Netgear supports the cloud block-level replication to its managed ReadyDATA 5200 or 516 products for disaster recovery. Customers with these units on hand can download ReadyRECOVER of licenses and add additional features. up to 360TB disk capacities are supported with expansion (the office ReadyDATA 516 tops out at 36TB with hard drives currently available). Pahnke claims that Netgear's competitors are not expandable in this way.

Any typical storage protocols (iSCSI / NFS / SMB / AFP / FTP) are supported, and the optional SSD caching improves performance. Deduplication (only the changed data is written) and real-time verification during the backup process (checksums of mismatched blocks are written and verified as correct before continuing backup) add additional layers of storage efficiency and the backup integrity.

VHDX- format backups can be restored to virtual or physical machines. Server and PC Client backups require no file conversion for restoring files, folders, Windows-based systems or data bases for any platform. All major hypervisors for Windows servers are supported.

Once you have a system appropriate ReadyDATA (5200 or 516), you must add licenses for each backup source that can be purchased directly from StorageCraft or Netgear. Each physical server, virtual server, Windows Small Business Server, and desktop / laptop PC must have a license.

Pahnke believes the new line of ReadyRECOVER will find a quick replacement of the existing house band systems still found in many companies. "There is not much new investment in the band," said Pahnke, "but guests perhaps one in three that we see ReadyRECOVER still use tape in some capacity. Globally, some regions have been slower to adopt the band replacement equipment. "

" We have the best warranties and do not require maintenance contracts, "continues Pahnke. "No one can take full backups of pictures every 15 minutes and make everyone a full restore point."

With Netgear and StorageCraft work closely, Pahnke said ReadyRECOVER makes it easier for companies to improve their backup processes still have a single point of contact. Netgear resellers provide the company with hardware and StorageCraft StorageCraft software VARs will sell the Netgear equipment

The licenses for physical servers cost $ 979 each .; Virtual servers are $ 369 each. PC client licenses are $ 94.99 (estimated retail price). The software includes a free trial period of 30 days. price of the system includes a 5-year warranty limited hardware, 24x7 technical support for life, and 5 years, replacing the company the next day.

ReadyRECOVER units and software licenses are available now. Netgear Powershift authorized partners should check http://powershift.netgear.com.

At VMworld 2014, VMware introduced VMware Inc. Workspace Suite, a new integrated platform for application management, data and devices. VMware Workspace Suite provides a single portal for integrated access to AirWatch by VMware and mobile content management solutions and VMware Horizon. For end users, the result is a unified experience across mobile devices and desktop, while providing complete IT management solution.

"VMware Workspace Suite represents a key milestone, providing a better experience for the end user industry in a single workspace, virtual unifies mobile, desktop and data - enabling people to work at the speed of life, "said Sanjay Poonen, executive vice president and general manager, end user computing, VMware." VMware offers a best-of-breed and integrated solution that runs from data center . appliances, to make this end-user Following the simple computer and safer for the line of business and IT "

other features of the workspace Suite VMware include:

• Single Sign-on - Internet access, SaaS and Windows applications using mobile devices
• unified platform scalable for hybrid clouds - Provides a unified platform that can monitor and automate resource management in private and public clouds using VMware vCloud automation Center and VMware vCenter Operations Manager

VMware also introduced new innovations in desktop and application virtualization at VMworld 2014. updates VMware desktop product portfolio include:

• Real- Time Application delivery with CloudVolumes - adding CloudVolumes offers real -time delivery of applications, user settings and data to all virtual desktop, which allows customers to provide personalized desktops with economy of shared infrastructure
• Rich High performance graphics applications on Chromebooks . - - Collaboration between VMware, Google and NVIDIA offers a glimpse of the high-performance technology, workstation class applications and desktops accessible from Chromebooks
• applications- as-a-service with VMware Horizon DaaS. - This solution provides complete delivery of published applications, shared desktop sessions, and full virtual desktops and applications via a DaaS multi-tenant public cloud
• office as a service European expansion - VMware Horizon DaaS will be available for global customers in the UK and a third office service option, VMware Horizon DaaS Enterprise offer high performance DaaS environments to a wider set of profiles users

VMware. Workspace Suite is now available. Contact VMware Sales or a VMware reseller partner to local prices. VMware Horizon DaaS Enterprise, support for published applications and new services in the U.K. are expected in Q3 2014. For more information, click here. The CloudVolumes solution is now available. Contact CloudVolumes sales prices. Quick access to list of applications rich in graphics technology running on Chromebooks available for VMware and NVIDIA customers. For more information, visit the registration page.