APRIL 2007

Industry News

The Best Time to Pitch New Products (CRN)
Resolving a business problem is still the reason companies purchase technology, but the process has become more regular thanks to a combination of planning and the prevalence of support contracts.

Taming the Storage Lion (Processor)
IT managers trying to control storage costs at many companies must feel like lion tamers at a circus gone wild. There are ways to reclaim this three-ring circus from the lions.

Asigra Introduces 64-Bit Native Televaulting to Bring an Exponential Increase in Remote Office Backup Performance.
Asigra’s next-generation backup and recovery software supports orders of magnitude increases in overall performance with new capabilities, including enterprise-wide data reduction and block-level incremental processing of significantly larger files to support highly optimized remote office/branch office backup

Featured Success Story

EEOC "All Backup is Not Equal" (CRN)
It took three years, but the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has finally gotten a handle on its data backup and recovery procedures thanks to the help of a provider of managed solutions.

Q&A

Q: How does Autonomic Healing ensure successful backups and restores?

A: Autonomic Healing serves as a network immune system, constantly scanning all backup data for corrupted or otherwise problematic files. This can include files with data corruption or logical inconsistencies caused by third-party technologies (such as faulty RAID controllers, file systems, operating systems, disk subsystems, network packet loss, etc.). As Autonomic Healing checks backup files, it automatically corrects file and directory ID duplications, without the need of human intervention. When Autonomic Healing finds a problematic file that it can’t fix at the offsite location, it automatically triggers the system’s software at the primary site to re-synchronize and resend any corrupted files during the next scheduled backup. Autonomic Healing runs in the background, analyzing, repairing and replacing files as required – if there are any additional needs that it can’t handle, the software quickly notifies the IT backup administrators to take manual action.

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Enterprise Resources

Compliance: Is Remote Office Data Your Achilles Heel?
This white paper discusses the risks of non-compliance and explains how deploying Asigra as part of an overall compliance solution can help protect both you and your remote office data.

Three Ways to Ensure Trouble-free Remote Backup: Tips for Better Data Protection at Remote and Branch Offices.
StorageIO analyst Greg Schulz looks at applicable threats and exposure risks to help safeguard your business data.

MSP Corner

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Enterprise Strategy Group Channel Advisory
To MSP or not to MSP: is the MSP model good for you?

Three Experts Make the Case for Managed Backup Services
Three MSPs discuss how delivering Asigra Televaullting has impacted their business.

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Build, Resell or Refer: Paths to Success in Managed Services