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.