NOVEMBER 2006

Industry News

Determining SMB storage options (Greg Schulz, StorageIO - SearchSMB.com)
Determining how and where to back up your data partly involves understanding how much data changes in a given period, your recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) requirements, and applicable threat risks.

Greg Schulz, StorageIO founder and senior analyst, discusses remote office backup options and Asigra’s agentless technology in this 7 minute video.

With distributed data and new regulator compliance laws, there’s more data at risk. The question is not of what to backup but “Can you afford not to backup?”

De-duplication technology whittles storage volumes (Jennifer McAdams - Network World)
Battling armies of cloned files that bog down enterprise storage operations, new data de-duplication techniques rid systems of extraneous versions of the same information -- a powerful promise that is causing a stir among enterprise IT buyers. Asigra data de-duping proved more than a buzzword for Vaalco Energy in preparing for Sarb-Ox audit.

Data protection – The next generation (Marc Staimer, DragonSlayer - ComputerWeekly.com)
Times have changed. With increasing regulatory compliance, plus the glut of stored date, which doubles down every 18 months or so, traditional data protection methodologies can no longer adequately protect the data.

Enterprise Strategy Group Branch Office Optimization research study evaluates ROBO backup from both offsite and headquarter perspectives.
Survey shows lack of IT resources cause for not backing up remote office data to central location. 40 percent of 626 respondents indicated their companies do not have centralized backup of offsite locations in place. Other survey findings

Q&A

Q: What data does Asigra Televaulting protect?

A: Televaulting protects data on all selected servers, desktops and laptops.

Televaulting has extensive OS support: Mac OS X, VMware, Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Novell NetWare, IBM AIX, SUN Solaris, HP-UX, HP-Tru64 UNIX, IBM iSeries OS-400, Red Hat Linux, Novell Suse Linux.

Televaulting backs up the following email systems and databases: Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange Server & Outlook 2000, 2003, Oracle 8 & above, IBM DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, IBM Lotus Notes/Domino Server, Novell Groupwise.

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