SEPTEMBER 2007

Industry News

Asigra and XiloCore Team to Deliver Enterprise-Class, Rapid-Recovery Business Continuity Services to VARs Servicing Small and Medium Businesses
Asigra Inc. and XiloCore LLC announced a new suite of business continuity solutions designed exclusively for VARs and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) in the U.S. and Canada.

Data De-duplication During Backups Promotes Green Computing
Asigra Inc. announced additional benefits of data de-duplication technologies for large distributed enterprises.

Asigra Honored as First Data Protection Vendor to Receive Accreditation by MSPAlliance
Asigra is the first data protection vendor to receive accreditation for its managed backup services delivery platform.

Asigra Partners with Jamcracker to Offer On-Demand Business Applications to Communication Services Providers and Resellers
Jamcracker Services Delivery Network (JSDN) to provide Asigra-enabled managed backup.

CDP Makes Backup Better, Faster, Cheaper (Information Security Bulletin)
The challenge is to drive the RTO to as close to zero as possible and to have the RPO be minimal, while being able to afford it.

ILM-Aware Backup Solutions to Reduce Storage Costs and Prevent Data Retention Law Infringements
Data Mobility Group discusses backup lifecycle management and the need to manage backup data to control costs and ensure compliance.

Featured Success Stories

DFA Law Saves Time and Money Moving from Tape Backup to Asigra’s Agentless Online Backup and Recovery Solution (Computerwire)
The concept that underpins data de-duplication is far from new, it is set to be one of the most important storage technologies to emerge this decade

West Yorkshire Fire Service goes for online data backup (IT Pro)
West Yorkshire Fire Rescue Service has turned to online backup in order to centralise its data recovery strategy. It has deployed an agentless backup product from Asigra to replace its tape backup.

Art of Performance saved from total data loss (Manufacturing Computer Solutions)
A small business has been saved from the brink of disaster, thanks to having implemented disk-to-disk online backup and recovery software.

Property Developer Stanhope Moves from Tape Backup to Asigra's Online Backup and Recovery Software (IT Analysis)
Stanhope plc, has dispensed with outmoded tape backups in favour of an automated online backup service from managed service provider, hSo.

29 Bedford Row Chambers
29 Bedford Row Chambers differs greatly from most other Chambers in that it has chosen to completely outsource its IT function to Asigra service provider oncore IT.

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 for Windows NT, 2000, XP, 2003; Novell NetWare, VMware, Mac OS X, IBM AIX, SUN Solaris, HP-UX, HP-Tru64 UNIX, IBM iSeries OS-400, Red Hat Linux, and Novell Suse Linux.

Televaulting provides extensive database support for Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange Server & Outlook 2000/2003, Oracle 8 and above, IBM DB2, and MySQL, PostgreSQL.

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Resources

White Paper: 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.

White Paper: Remote Office Evolution
From Tapes and Agents to Tapeless and Agentless, this white paper describes the benefits of the Asigra Televaulting solution for remote office backup and recovery. The paper considers problems inherent to incumbent tape-based systems at remote sites, including perspectives on security, bandwidth, and the economic drawbacks of many traditional options.