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Asigra, the expert in agentless, secure online backup and restore solutions protects over 4 petabytes of remote office/branch office (ROBO) data from laptops, desktops and servers. Since 1986, the company's agentless Televaulting solution has centralized data management and eliminated agent-based software compliance, pricing and performance issues and currently protects over 50,000 remote sites.

Asigra's Televaulting software eliminates many backup pain points through technology that is designed for enterprise-wide centralization, built from the ground up to perform on a global level. It is tested and certified compatible by leading infrastructure providers not to take the place of data center backup software, but to complement it for multi-site backup and recovery.

Televaulting 6.0 is available to enterprises as a complete software package or as online backup provided through service providers who have licensed the Televaulting software to deliver managed backup/recovery services. Asigra software is distributed globally through resellers.

The company ensures interoperability of its Televaulting software through validation performed with third-party vendors' hardware and software storage platforms at the Asigra Certification Lab. Asigra's lab engineers run tests with hundreds of millions of files in a single volume to determine disk subsystem performance and file system limitations, including multi-mount point file system support.

Asigra technology partners include: BlueArc, Dot Hill, EMC, EqualLogic, Exanet, HP, Isilon, Level Platforms, Network Appliance, Nexsan, ONStor, SUN, VMware, XenSource and Xyratex.

The privately held company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Asigra Technology Leadership

Asigra leads the industry in innovation, being the first to introduce new technologies that are changing the way distributed enterprises protect corporate data. Asigra innovations include:

• First agentless backup/recovery software solution
• First multi-site backup/recovery software packages designed for both enterprises and service providers
• First ILM-aware backup solution
• First Backup Lifecycle Management (BLM) software product
• First service-oriented architecture for backup service providers and corporations requiring greater accountability of backup processes
• First agentless Bare Metal Restore (BMR)
• First distributed backup/recovery solution to offer email Message Level Restore (MLR)
• First agentless backup and recovery for Mac OS X
• First agentless CDP for remote offices
• First agentless 64-bit native remote backup solution
• Most powerful backup and recovery solution for virtual servers
• First agentless backup support for Microsoft SharePoint

Products

Asigra Televaulting
Asigra Televaulting is agentless, remote office/branch office (ROBO) backup/recovery software that combines utility service provisioning with a disk-based WAN-optimized architecture to shatter the limitations of traditional distributed-backup software. Televaulting offers a highly secure D2D backup solution with up to 256 AES encryption and data encrypted in-flight and at-rest. Asigra Televaulting provides grid-based performance and capacity scaling for virtually unlimited data growth, allowing the software to support any backup load and multiple platforms and operating systems.

Asigra Televaulting ILM-aware
For organizations with previously implemented Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) solutions, Asigra provides an ILM-aware backup/recovery solution. Customers can deploy an optimized Televaulting solution with 3rd party Email Archiving or Hierarchical Storage Management software, allowing customers to lower the cost of protecting their data and to avoid data duplication. Televaulting's ILM-aware capability allows the automated movement of backed-up data, not touched for a specific period of time or of a certain file type or event, from a high performance online disk backup system, to lower cost, lower performance archival storage media.

Asigra's Televaulting solution is optimized and licensed to both enterprises and service providers.

• Televaulting for Enterprises - Asigra Televaulting for Enterprises is a backup/recovery solution that's geared specifically to help organizations properly manage and protect their entire network of data offsite, from one centralized location. Data both structured and unstructured on every machine on the network--including desktops, laptops and file and print servers--is automatically backed up and protected, effectively eliminating usage inefficiencies across the board.

• Televaulting for Service Providers - Asigra Televaulting for Service Providers is a WAN platform solution for delivering backup/recovery service as a utility. It incorporates everything service providers need in order to deploy, provision and sell storage as a service. A built-in, multi-tiered storage billing system saves the time and expense of developing or modifying an existing billing system, a process that could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Markets

Asigra Televaulting solutions are part of a $100 billion data storage market. The software is licensed to OEMs or sold through the reseller channel for use in the enterprise directly or as a utility through service providers. The Asigra software is licensed based on a compressed capacity licensing model, regardless of the number of sites or target machines to be protected. This unique licensing model is a first for the backup/restore software industry.

Business benefits that differentiate Asigra's offering from other backup solutions include true regulatory compliance, reduction in worldwide IT management expenditures, compounded reduction of hardware/software capital and license costs enterprise-wide, a pay-as-you-grow pricing model and the highest level of assurance that all company data is protected.

Asigra's agentless architecture uniquely positions the company as a less intrusive, more secure alternative to vendors that require customers to install an agent on each server or computer needing to be backed up. Information from all company computers are backed up with common files eliminated.

Management Team
David Farajun, President
Eran Farajun, Executive Vice President

Corporate Headquarters
1120 Finch Ave. West, Suite 400
Toronto, ON M3J 3H7
Canada
Tel: +1 416-736-8111
Fax: +1 416-736-7120
http://www.asigra.com

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