DECEMBER 2007

Industry News

Asigra Reaches Remote Backup Milestone of More Than 50,000 Remote Sites Under Protection
Medium and Large Enterprises Rely on Asigra for Comprehensive Remote and Branch Office Protection.

A Storage Letter to SANta
Dear SANta,
How has your year been up at the North Pole? A bit warmer than normal? Have you had lots of visitors coming up to see the melting ice? Has the whited-out landscape given way to green grass or blue water?

Asigra and DS3 DataVaulting Accelerate Managed Backup Service Delivery Through the Channel
Asigra Inc. and DS3 DataVaulting, a provider of online data backup and recovery vaulting services, today announced a partnership which will deliver high-performance managed backup services to VARs, resellers and service providers throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico.

How Asigra became an overnight success, in just 21 years
Behind every business success is an entrepreneur with vision and determination. Asigra is no exception. David Farajun, CEO of Asigra, tells the story of how Asigra became an overnight success, in just 21 years.

UK Government should have used existing secure online data sharing technology
HMRC should have been using existing online secure, encrypted managed network technology – then it wouldn’t have lost the two CDs carrying millions of personal identity files.

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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Resources

Hardware Cost Implications of Data Protection Software
Calculating TCO without hardware costs is a dangerous illusion. Hardware acquisition costs are very much determined by the architecture and functionality of the software and can increase TCO by by 10 times.

Data Mobility Group: Managing the Life Cycles of Backups
Asigra Televaulting: Backup data has it own lifecycle and needs to be managed to maximize IT resources. BLM is a critical part of the overall management of data.