Archive for October 2009
StorageCraft Offers New Flexible Licensing, Delivery Options for ShadowProtect IT Edition
DRAPER, Utah, U.S.A. – Oct. 13, 2009 – StorageCraft Technology Corporation (www.storagecraft.com), a provider of innovative disaster recovery, system migration, data protection and security solutions for servers, desktops and laptops, today announced new flexible pricing, licensing and delivery options for StorageCraft ShadowProtect IT Edition™, part of the award-winning ShadowProtect™ line of disk-based backup, disaster recovery, data protection and system migration solutions.
The flexible pricing and licensing allows solution providers and IT administrators to purchase licenses of ShadowProtect IT Edition on a per-project basis. In addition to annual subscriptions, they may purchase ShadowProtect IT Edition for an annual, quarterly, monthly or a two-week period.
ShadowProtect IT Edition has a flexible licensing program which allows a technician unlimited use on Windows based servers, desktops and laptops for disaster recovery, system migration and data protection for physical systems and virtual environments.
ShadowProtect IT Edition includes hardware independent restore (HIR) features which allow IT administrators to restore or migrate systems to new hardware or virtual environments (P2P, P2V, V2P or V2V). ShadowProtect IT Edition is complementary to virtualization solutions such as VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Virtual Iron, Xen and other virtual environments.
“StorageCraft is offering new licensing terms for ShadowProtect IT Edition to help solution providers and IT administrators who may not want to purchase its use for an entire year,” said Curt James, vice president of marketing and business development at StorageCraft. “The flexibility of the licensing program means they can purchase ShadowProtect IT Edition for as long as they need to use it.”
ShadowProtect IT Edition also has the following disaster recovery, data protection and system migration features:
- Bare metal recovery of Windows servers, desktops and laptops in minutes.
- Ability to restore or migrate backup images without installing software.
- Bootable recovery environment which provides automatic hardware detection and network support.
- Complete support for Windows 7 and Windows 2008
- New Boot Configuration tool to improve migrations and restores to different hardware or to and from virtual environments.
- Ability to create full online or cold state backup images.
- A simple view to quickly recover files and folders or update backup images.
- Ability to compress and encrypt backup images for efficiency and security.
- Configuration tools to manage domains, mapped drives and networking.
StorageCraft ShadowProtect IT Edition Availability:
ShadowProtect IT Edition is available through Lifeboat Distribution authorized resellers and StorageCraft managed service providers (MSPs) and value-added resellers (VARs).
For more information about ShadowProtect IT Edition or to learn more about volume licensing, please call +1 801 545-4700 or visit www.storagecraft.com/products/ShadowProtectIT/.
About StorageCraft Technology Corporation:
StorageCraft Technology Corporation provides innovative disaster recovery, system migration, data protection and security solutions for servers, desktops and laptops. StorageCraft delivers software products that reduce downtime, improve security and stability for systems and data and lower the total cost of ownership for servers, desktops and laptops.
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Flexible Licensing & Delivery for StorageCraft ShadowProtect IT Edition
StorageCraft has new options for IT administrators and solution providers who use StorageCraft ShadowProtect IT Edition. Now you can license ShadowProtect IT Edition on a per-project basis, if you wish, rather than for an entire year. There are annual, quarterly, monthly or a two-week licensing options.
There are also a couple of new features in the just-released version of ShadowProtect IT Edition.
- Complete support for Windows 7 and Windows 2008, Windows 2008R2.
- New Boot Configuration tool to improve migrations and restores to different hardware – or to and from virtual environments.
You can view the press release announcing this here. If you have any questions about how the licensing changes will affect you, you can always call us (+1 801 545 4700) or e-mail us (sales@storagecraft.com) with your questions.
StorageCraft Sponsors ASCII Reseller Success Summit in Boston
DRAPER, Utah, U.S.A. – Oct. 9, 2009 – StorageCraft Technology Corporation (www.storagecraft.com), a provider of innovative disaster recovery, system migration, data protection and security solutions for servers, desktops and laptops, announced it will sponsor the upcoming ASCII 2009 Reseller Success Summit – Boston. The conference will take place Oct. 15 in Boston and is coordinated by The ASCII Group, Inc., a community of independent computer resellers.
In addition to sponsoring the event, StorageCraft will present an afternoon workshop showing resellers how to provide simple and profitable disaster recovery, data protection and system migration services to their customers.
Solutions providers will also have the opportunity to join the No-Cost StorageCraft Reseller Partner Program at the StorageCraft exhibitor booth and receive a free StorageCraft Channel Partner Kit which includes NFR copies of StorageCraft ShadowProtect Server Edition™, ShadowProtect Desktop Edition™ and ShadowProtect IT Edition™, a $2,000 value. Additional benefits include: product and sales training, lead sharing, as well as excellent pre-sales and product support.
The ASCII Reseller Success Summit will take place at the Hilton Boston-Woburn from 7:30 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. You can register for the event online at: https://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Register/IdentityConfirmation.aspx?e=7120df8f-c423-46f8-9ed4-387e826e855f.
Resources:
- StorageCraft ShadowProtect white paper
- StorageCraft Reseller Partner Program overview
About StorageCraft Technology Corporation:
StorageCraft Technology Corporation provides innovative disaster recovery, system migration, data protection and security solutions for servers, desktops and laptops. StorageCraft delivers software products that reduce downtime, improve security and stability for systems and data and lower the total cost of ownership for servers, desktops and laptops. www.storagecraft.com
About The ASCII Group, Inc. (ASCII):
The ASCII Group, Inc., was established in 1984, and is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland. Additional offices are located in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada; London, UK, and Delhi, India. ASCII is the largest paying community of independent computer resellers in the world with more than 3,000 members and system wide end-user sales of approximately $10.5 billion. ASCII provides technology tools, products and services to assist independent information technology resellers to increase profits, reduce costs, and grow their respective businesses. ASCII offers resellers the leverage of the group’s collective position in the industry to positively influence hardware manufacturers, software developers, IT service suppliers, distributors, the media, the government and the customer community. The Company can be reached at www.ascii.com.
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StorageCraft Partners with Doyenz
Companies join forces to offer backup, DR and migration services from near line to the cloud
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LAS VEGAS – Oct. 2, 2009 – StorageCraft Technology Corporation and Doyenz, Inc. today announced at SMB Nation a partnership to provide small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) easy, secure and affordable backup, disaster recovery and migration services from near line to the cloud.
This partnership will allow SMBs to replicate point-in-time backup images created using StorageCraft ShadowProtect™, and transfer them to the cloud with the Doyenz ShadowCloud™ platform. ShadowProtect, the award-winning line of disk-based backup, disaster recovery and migration technology, creates these backup images which are securely stored and made available offsite in the Doyenz ShadowCloud – either for file and folder recovery or to be restored and run as a virtual machine in the event of a production failure.
Doyenz delivers a virtualization and cloud-based managed service platform that provides Active Disaster Recovery, Failover in the Cloud and Migrations in the Cloud for the SMB market. Its partnership with StorageCraft, will make it easy for SMBs to leverage both technologies to secure their valuable systems and data. StorageCraft is a provider of innovative disaster recovery, system migration, data protection and security solutions for servers, desktops and laptops.
“We are very pleased to be offering such flexibility in our support for both physical and virtual environments through our partnership with StorageCraft,” said Ashutosh Tiwary, CEO, Doyenz. “By combining the two solutions, clients recover rapidly both onsite and in the cloud, while the trusted business advisor derives a significantly better ROI by leveraging their cloud storage dollars with additional cloud services.”
“This partnership is a complementary fit because it will allow SMBs to quickly, easily and affordably backup their servers to the cloud,” said Curt James, vice president of marketing and business development at StorageCraft. “Doyenz ShadowCloud allows IT administrators to automatically save their StorageCraft ShadowProtect images in an offsite location, where they can be automatically restored as virtual machines and used for failover in the cloud, or to perform migrations, testing or upgrades. In the event of a disaster, you can failover to the cloud in a matter of minutes.”
Managing Daily Backups:
StorageCraft ShadowProtect can create backup image files of a server at 15 minute intervals throughout the day, and then consolidate these incremental files with ShadowProtect Image Manager. The consolidated images are then transferred to the Doyenz ShadowCloud platform where the machine is replicated and available for disaster recovery and testing.
IT administrators can access and restore production system backups as virtual machines in a secure lab for testing and migration, or in a full failover mode for disaster recovery.
The Doyenz ShadowCloud platform provides another level of protection for IT service providers by replicating StorageCraft ShadowProtect backup images from a near line disk location – such as USB, NAS or SAN – to the cloud. By using a near line to offsite method for disaster recovery and business continuity planning, the Doyenz ShadowCloud platform and StorageCraft ShadowProtect together ensure systems and critical data are protected in all disaster scenarios.
Pricing and Availability:
StorageCraft ShadowProtect Server Edition™ and ShadowProtect Small Business Server Edition™ are available from the StorageCraft Web site, through Lifeboat Distribution and through additional authorized StorageCraft distributors, managed service providers (MSPs) and value-added resellers (VARs). Volume discounts are available.
The Doyenz ShadowCloud is an affordable SaaS subscription offering currently available through its MSPs and VARs.
About StorageCraft Technology Corporation:
StorageCraft Technology Corporation provides innovative disk-based backup, disaster recovery, system migration, data protection and security solutions for servers, desktops and laptops. StorageCraft delivers software products that reduce downtime, improve security and stability for systems and data and lower the total cost of ownership for servers, desktops and laptops.
About Doyenz:
StorageCraft partners now can leverage their investment in ShadowProtect by adding off-site cloud storage and failover at an affordable price. The Doyenz ShadowCloud is a cloud-based platform that leverages virtualization and automation to deliver enterprise-grade IT at SMB costs. The Doyenz ShadowCloud provides IT Service Providers a replicated copy of their SMB client’s customer’s production infrastructure in the cloud. Doyenz enables partners to take ShadowProtect images to the cloud and failover clients in an outage and then use the Doyenz Production-Ready Virtual Test Lab to run tests, accelerate migrations, and perform upgrades. The Doyenz ShadowCloud service is an affordable SaaS subscription offering that allows IT Service Providers to build a recurring revenue stream and grow their profits, while lowering costs and improving service to their SMB clients. Founded in 2007, Doyenz is based in Bellevue, Washington and privately funded. For more information, please visit www.doyenz.com.
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StorageCraft Partnership with Doyenz
StorageCraft is teaming up with Doyenz, the people who created the Doyenz ShadowCloud. This means you can now failover your ShadowProtect images in the cloud. It’s a great way to do your offsite backup, while still allowing you to keep your ShadowProtect images onsite.
You’re protected if you need rapid recovery of your systems and/or data no matter what happens. If it’s user error, you can quickly mount your ShadowProtect backup image and recover files and folders. If it’s server failure, you can do a bare metal recovery. And if you have an entire site wiped out, you can access your entire server from the Doyenz ShadowCloud.
We’re highlighting the new partnership at SMB Nation this weekend. Stop by our booth (#213) and say hello, if you’re in Las Vegas.
If you’d like more information about this partnership, you can view our news release here.