MAY 2007

Industry News

VARs see managed backup for SMBs as the best storage market opportunity (Search Storage Channel)
Many VARs that provide storage systems are expanding their business by offering managed services to SMBs.

Data de-duplication: The one and only (Computer Business Review)
Getting a single version of the truth has long been an aim of the IT department.

64-Bit Native Televaulting (SNS Europe)
64-bit Televaulting supports orders of magnitude increases in overall performance and adds new capabilities.

Asigra Televaulting Receives Editors Choice Award
Televaulting heralded as perfect backup software for multi-location organizations.

Featured Success Stories

Telco Solutions
Terian Solutions' managed backup services selected to replace Veritas to ensure regular and more reliable data protection.

Vaalco Energy
When Vaalco Energy needed a data backup solution fast to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley, the $500 million oil and petroleum company opted for an Asigra-based managed services solution from NetMass.

s2s
Cisco specialist s2s turns to SecurStore's online data backup and recovery service, which uses Asigra's software.

Liverpool FC
UK disaster recovery provider Backup Technology is providing Liverpool FC with Asigra's agentless distributed backup and recovery software Televaulting.

Q&A

Q: How can I estimate how much data I have to back up and vault?

A: The LAN Storage Discovery Tool helps administrators collect and evaluate file data according to a number of pre-selected parameters and display each ROBO site in an Excel graphical format. This tool helps administrators define different tiers of data and how many versions of that data should be kept online in the DS-System. Some of the report templates include: Share Usage, Largest Files, Largest Duplicates, Ownership, File Type Distribution, Partition Size, Access Report, Dormant Files, Growth and Modified Files, SQL Server Size, and Exchange Server Size.

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Enterprise Resources

Remote Backup Security
White paper written by Jon Oltsik, Enterprise Strategy Group. Evaluate the security of your backup solution. In spite of storage security weaknesses, a secure remote backup infrastructure is entirely possible by integrating standard backup software with the right network defenses.

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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