MARCH 2008

Industry News

Asigra Appoints Seasoned Management Team to Meet Growing Demand for Enterprise Information Recovery Management
Asigra announced key executive appointments to its sales, business development, government and channel operations

Prince Street Capital Management Reports Asigra-empowered Managed Backup Services Delivered by Data Storage Corporation Provides Rapid Data Recovery
Asigra Inc. announced that Prince Street Capital Management has selected Data Storage Corporation (DSC) to deliver Asigra-empowered managed backup services

Agentless Backup Options for VMware Virtual Machines
Protection of VMware virtual machines (VMs) is becoming a key part of the day-to-day job responsibilities for a growing number of backup administrators

Northampton Saints Stay on the Ball with Asigra
As is so often the case with small and medium-sized organisations, it took a disastrous data loss for Northampton Saints Rugby Club to implement a business continuity and disaster recovery strategy

Case Study: Emprise turns to oncoreIT for Server Overhaul
Oncore IT provides 1T support using its PReSS (Proactive Remote Engineering Support Service) system; on-line data back-up (OLB) based on Asigra software; and a disaster recovery service (DRS)

Accountancy firm recovers from data loss
A Desaur & Co. was using a tape-based solution when the server failure occurred in April 2007. The tape restore failed entirely because its IT support company had not carried out trial data restores, which would have revealed that the backups were not working

Asigra Televaulting Minimizes VMware Software Licensing Costs; Calculates Total Capacity After Global Dedupe
One of the "gotchas" of server virtualization is that the benefits of server consolidation are not universal. The hardware benefits of deploying VMware are the ones often cited - fewer physical servers, less storage hardware

Customer Success Stories

A Desaur & Co.
A Desaur & Co. was using a tape-based solution when the server failure occurred in April 2007. The tape restore failed entirely because its IT support company had not carried out trial data restores, which would have revealed that the backups were not working.

Emprise
Emprise was experiencing unreliable communication lines with multiple points of failure, inducing periods of downtime and costing the business in terms of wasted man hours and expensive license fees for hardware and software

Q&A

Q: How difficult is it to restore data?

A: Restoring with Asigra Televaulting is easy. Asigra Televaulting does not use cumbersome "synthetic fulls." Televaulting software is an "incremental forever" disk-based backup and restore software. The software will automatically use data from several file generations to provide the user with a complete version of the file that needs to be restored.

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Resources

The Agentless Backup/Recovery Architecture
This white paper describes how the Asigra Televaulting agentless architecture improves remote site backup and recovery processes to reduce costs, bolster security and simplify scaling. The paper contrasts these benefits with the security risks, high licensing costs, administrative complexity, and CPU/LAN overhead problems associated with agent-based backup/recovery alternatives.