MARCH 2007

Industry News

Asigra offers only agentless backup for iSeries
Remote D2D backup solution offers improved support for the iSeries server. With Televaulting version 6.2, Asigra hopes to persuade multi-site iSeries shops to drop the tape juggling act and make the switch to a network-based backup solution.

SMBs reject tape for online backup
SMBs are gradually looking to online remote services for their server backup requirements, but tape backup continues to have a firm hold on the market. "Tape is cheap, so if they back up at all, they primarily back up to tape," states Adam Couture, principal research analyst, Gartner Inc.

Asigra supports national MSP associations.
Asigra joins CompTIA, MSP Alliance, and MSP Partners to support and educate managed service providers.

Asigra Joins MSP Partners
MSP Partners marketing alliance, along with founding members Cisco, Ingram Micro, Intel, Level Platforms and Microsoft, to accelerate the adoption of managed services through collective channel partners by providing a comprehensive source of education for successful managed services

Featured MSP Success Stories

Three Experts Make the Case for Managed Backup Services
Find out how three on-fire solutions providers fuel revenue and new growth with Asigra technology.

Liverpool FC gives tape back-up the boot to aid data restoration
The premiership football club has switched from tape to disk backup to reduce costs and provide greater peace of mind in the event of data loss.

Q&A

Q: How does Backup Lifecycle Management help me to manage my storage costs more efficiently?

A: Backup Lifecycle Management (BLM) recognizes the need for multiple tiers of active backup data according to end-user priorities. BLM moves active data among these tiers as needed to accelerate recovery performance and minimize storage costs. BLM can also archive inactive, or stale, data in an “archiving vault.” This frees up the storage space occupied by stale files on the DS-System, to reduce the cost of protecting inactive files on-line, while creating historical point-in-time copies of backup sets and allowing compliance with company policies for data retention. A single BLM Archiver may manage data from one or more DS-Systems and from the relevant DS-Clients connected to it. The BLM Archiver can be monitored and configured using a dedicated Java-based GUI.

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Resources

To MSP or not to MSP?
This Channel Advisory by Enterprise Strategy Group explains the advantages and disadvantages of launching an MSP line of business service. Also explores the advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing.

A Primer for End Users and IT Resellers on Utilizing a Data Protection Managed Service Provider (MSP)
This document examines the rationale for using a Data Protection MSP while providing guidelines to determine organizational appropriateness. Technical and business guidelines help you select the right Data Protection MSP.