Archive for September 2010
StorageCraft Sponsors Interface 2010 Events
DRAPER, Utah, U.S.A. – Sept. 23, 2010 – StorageCraft Technology Corporation, a provider of innovative disk-based backup, disaster recovery, system migration, data protection and security solutions for servers, desktops and laptops, today announced it will sponsor Interface 2010 Events in several cities in the next two months.
Interface 2010 is a technology symposium that connects IT decision makers with technology experts and leading solution providers. StorageCraft is sponsoring today’s forum in Phoenix, as well as upcoming events in Denver on Oct. 7, Salt Lake City on Oct. 21, and Seattle on Nov. 17.
In addition to its sponsorship, StorageCraft will present seminars on disaster recovery and data protection planning showing IT managers how to maximize business continuity. StorageCraft is also highlighting the release of ShadowProtect™ 4, the latest version of its award-winning backup, disaster recovery and system migration solution for Windows servers, desktops and laptops. ShadowProtect 4 includes features that will help solution providers to improve their recovery time objective (RTO), maximize business continuity and simplify backup and disaster recovery management.
For more information about upcoming Interface 2010 events and to apply for registration, please visit: http://www.f2fevents.com/
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. www.storagecraft.com
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Disaster Recovery & Data Protection Planning
Over the next couple of months, StorageCraft will be taking part in some Interface 2010 events. Interface 2010 is a technology symposium for information technology managers that connects them with key IT influencers and technology vendors.
We are one of the vendors sponsoring the Interface event in Phoenix today. As part of today’s event, we’ll be holding a seminar on disaster recovery and data protection planning that will show IT managers how to maximize business continuity.
If you want to find out more about hard drive imaging and how the ShadowProtect award-winning line of disaster recovery, data protection and system migration technology can help keep your business going 24/7, you may want to visit us at Interface 2010 or one of the many upcoming technology trade shows we’ll be sponsoring and attending this fall. We’ll keep you posted on all the places where we will be over the next few weeks and months. If you have plans to attend any trade meetings from now through November, chances are we will be there.
For now, here are a few more Interface events coming up where we hope to see you:
Denver October 7
Salt Lake City October 21
Seattle November 17
To apply for registration at an Interface 2010 event, please visit: http://www.f2fevents.com/.
NETGEAR and StorageCraft Partner to Take Business Backup from Hours to Minutes
Partnership delivers exceptional reliability, speed and affordability for disk-based backup and disaster recovery
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SAN JOSE, Calif. – September 20, 2010 – NETGEAR®, Inc. (NASDAQGM: NTGR), a worldwide provider of technologically innovative networking solutions for businesses, homes and service providers, today announced a technology partnership with StorageCraft, a provider of disk-based backup, disaster recovery and system migration solutions, to take backup and recovery times from hours to minutes. The complementary combination of NETGEAR’s ReadyNAS® network storage systems and StorageCraft’s ShadowProtect software provides exceptional reliability, speed and affordability for disk-based backup and disaster recovery, and represents a tremendous advance over traditional tape-based solutions.
“There’s no better way to do a complete restore to a new system,” says Corey Westbrook, IT Manager at Financial Business Machines. “My local and offsite ReadyNAS systems combined with StorageCraft ShadowProtect let me recover any VM from a remote location in moments, faster than I ever thought possible.”
NETGEAR ReadyNAS is a storage industry leader, with over 700PB shipped to date and the largest market share position in entry-level commercial storage. This partnership demonstrates NETGEAR’s ongoing commitment to offer the most affordable backup and disaster recovery solutions for midsized enterprise business customers. Customers considering tape replacement or migrating to virtual environments can now perform complete system backup and recovery times at disk and wire speeds.
The partnership also benefits channel partners seeking an affordable alternative to traditional costly vendors. With this solution, channel partners can deliver backup and disaster recovery solutions that cover both physical and virtual environments, solving replication, disaster recovery, and individual file restore problems.
“The threats to business data continue to evolve and proliferate, from simple power outages to the latest in viruses and Web malware,” said Drew Meyer, director of storage marketing at NETGEAR. “Yet small businesses and remote offices have no new budgets or personnel to handle this tidal wave of risk. The need for instant backup and recovery solutions led to our partnership with StorageCraft, bringing exceptional performance gains and new levels of functionality to ReadyNAS customers and partners.”
“In this economy, small and mid-market enterprises are looking for complete, cost-effective system protection that will help them do more with less,” said Curt James, vice president of marketing and business development at StorageCraft. “NETGEAR’s reputation as the leader in mid-market storage solutions combined with our award-winning ShadowProtect backup and disaster recovery technology provides the speed and reliability our mutual customers need.”
NETGEAR’s commercial ReadyNAS systems use enterprise-class drives, support unified NAS and SAN architecture, include secure replication utilities and are backed by a five-year hardware warranty. StorageCraft ShadowProtect is the award-winning line of disk-based backup, disaster recovery and system migration technology for Windows servers, desktops and laptops. ShadowProtect addresses the Recovery Time Objective for businesses and the need to integrate disaster recovery planning with virtualized systems as well as centralizing management of backups. The complete commercial ReadyNAS product line, including the 24TB ReadyNAS 4200 with 10 Gb Ethernet support, complements StorageCraft’s ShadowProtect Server, ShadowProtect Small Business Server™ and ShadowProtect Desktop™ software in any small or medium-sized business or remote office location. These complementary products are immediately available and sold separately via leading global resellers.
For more information, please visit: http://www.netgear.com
About NETGEAR, Inc.
NETGEAR (NASDAQGM: NTGR) designs innovative, branded technology solutions that address the specific networking, storage, and security needs of businesses and home users. The company offers an end-to-end networking product portfolio to enable users to share Internet access, peripherals, files, multimedia content, and applications among multiple computers and other Internet-enabled devices. Products are built on a variety of proven technologies such as wireless, Ethernet and powerline, with a focus on reliability and ease-of-use. NETGEAR products are sold in over 27,000 retail locations around the globe, and via more than 36,000 value-added resellers. The company’s headquarters are in San Jose, Calif., with additional offices in 25 countries. NETGEAR is an ENERGY STAR® partner. More information is available at http://www.NETGEAR.com or by calling (408) 907-8000. Connect with NETGEAR at http://twitter.com/NETGEAR and http://www.facebook.com/NETGEAR.
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.
www.storagecraft.com
©2010 NETGEAR, Inc. NETGEAR, the NETGEAR logo, and ReadyNAS are trademarks or registered trademarks of NETGEAR, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Information is subject to change without notice. All rights reserved.
StorageCraft, ShadowProtect, ShadowProtect Server, ShadowProtect Small Business Server and ShadowProtect Desktop are trademarks of StorageCraft Technology Corporation. Other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 for NETGEAR, Inc.:
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Specifically, statements concerning NETGEAR’s business and the expected performance characteristics, specifications, reliability, market acceptance, market growth, specific uses, user feedback and market position of NETGEAR’s products and technology are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Safe Harbor. These statements are based on management’s current expectations and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation, the following: the actual price, performance and ease of use of NETGEAR’s products may not meet the price, performance and ease of use requirements of customers; product performance may be adversely affected by real world operating conditions; failure of products may under certain circumstances cause permanent loss of end user data; new viruses or Internet threats may develop that challenge the effectiveness of security features in NETGEAR’s products; the ability of NETGEAR to market and sell its products and technology; the impact and pricing of competing products; and the introduction of alternative technological solutions. Further information on potential risk factors that could affect NETGEAR and its business are detailed in the Company’s periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, but not limited to, those risks and uncertainties listed in the section entitled “Part II – Item 1A. Risk Factors,” pages 36 through 52, in the Company’s quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal second quarter ended June 27, 2010, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 5, 2010. NETGEAR undertakes no obligation to release publicly any revisions to any forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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StorageCraft Sponsors ASCII Success Summit – Orlando
DRAPER, Utah, U.S.A. – Sept. 14, 2010 – StorageCraft Technology Corporation, a provider of innovative disk-based backup, disaster recovery, system migration, data protection and security solutions for servers, desktops and laptops, announced it will sponsor the upcoming ASCII 2010 Reseller Success Summit – Orlando. The conference will take place Sept. 16 in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. and is coordinated by The ASCII Group, Inc., a community of independent computer resellers.
In addition to sponsoring the event, StorageCraft™ will participate in a panel discussion about cloud computing called, “Cloud Consulting – The Conversation You Need to Have Now With Your Clients.”
Solutions providers will also have the opportunity to join the No-Cost StorageCraft Reseller Partner Program at the StorageCraft exhibitor booth and receive demo CDs of StorageCraft ShadowProtect Server ™ and ShadowProtect Desktop ™. Benefits of the StorageCraft Reseller Partner Program include: NFR copies of StorageCraft software solutions, product and sales training, lead sharing, as well as excellent pre-sales and product support.
StorageCraft is also highlighting the release of ShadowProtect™ 4, the latest version of its award-winning backup, disaster recovery and system migration solutions for Windows servers, desktops and laptops. ShadowProtect 4 includes features that will help solution providers to improve their recovery time objective (RTO), maximize business continuity and simplify backup and disaster recovery management.
The ASCII Reseller Success Summit will take place at the Regal Sun Resort from 7:30 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. You may register for the event online.
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. www.storagecraft.com
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Business Continuity Suite Web Training
Today’s Business Continuity Suite Web training is underway, but there are still a couple of opportunities to sign up. These free, one-hour Webinars will show you how easy it is to offer your SMB customers simple, affordable cloud backup with the Business Continuity Suite powered by StorageCraft and Symform. Next week, we’ll have two training session, on Tuesday and on Thursday, so you can learn how StorageCraft ShadowProtect and the Symform Cooperative Storage Cloud can make it easy for you provide cloud backup to your customers. In addition to easy implementation, the Business Continuity Suite is also very cost effective. Hard to believe? The free Web training will explain why it’s time to move your customers to the cloud.
Here are some benefits of the Business Continuity Suite:
* Rapid recovery
* Restore to bare metal, to dissimilar hardware or to and from virtual environments.
* Backup near-line and in the cloud
* Encryption of backup files using 256-bit military grade AES algorithm
* Redundant storage of secure files in multiple locations and around the world.
In addition to saving money, the Business Continuity Suite is also fast and extremely secure. You won’t have to worry about unwanted intruders stealing you or your customers’ data.
The upcoming online training events are Tuesday, September 14 and Thursday, September 16. Check out the Business Continuity Suite Web site to find out more, and to sign up for a Webinar.
Analyst’s view of the Business Continuity Suite
StorageCraft and Symform zoom into online disaster recovery and business continuity
Partnership between software vendors for MSP storage services
By Deni Connor
Senior Analyst
Storage Strategies NOW
September 2010
Data protection and recovery software developer StorageCraft and cloud services provider Symform moved into the world of cloud-based disaster recovery and business continuity with a recent partnership in which Symform will be a platform for protecting StorageCraft ShadowProtect images.
The Business Continuity Suite powered by StorageCraft and Symform allows Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to offer their customers backup and disaster recovery as a cloud-based storage offering. Using ShadowProtect™ technology, MSPs save backup images onsite and offsite, via the Symform Cooperative Storage Cloud™ to enable near-line and cloud-based disaster recovery.
Simply, the Business Continuity Suite powered by StorageCraft and Symform allows ShadowProtect image-level backups to be securely distributed across other small and mid-sized businesses and among its IT service providers in a cooperative and shared storage fashion in order to protect it and ensure its recoverability.
StorageCraft and Symform are among the first vendors to craft such a deal, which provides their MSP partners and their SMB customers with an affordable and easily implemented means of disaster recovery.
Market background
In the SMB market, although 50% of businesses have a local backup strategy, they often do not have an affordable and efficient means of moving data offsite for protection in the event of a disaster. They may shuttle tapes offsite or they may use an online backup service such as EMC MozyPro or Carbonite, whose pricing is based on a capacity of storage stored. An SMB will soon find that these methods for protecting data and providing business continuity are too error-prone, cumbersome to administer and time-consuming means to recover data quickly. And, they are expensive – online backup services can cost almost $400 a month to protect even just one file server.
Enter the Business Continuity Suite
StorageCraft has partnered with Symform to use its distributed storage system across small and mid-sized businesses and their IT storage service providers. Here’s how the Business Continuity Suite powered by StorageCraft and Symform works.
StorageCraft ShadowProtect Server™, ShadowProtect Small Business Server™ or ShadowProtect Desktop™ creates an encrypted, image-based backup of a designated system. This series of differential and incremental point-in-time backup image files are then stored in locally hosted folders. The Symform Node software, which is installed on one computer in the customer’s network, is pointed at these local folders, where it monitors them for file adds or changes. It then automatically mirrors the adds and changes made to local storage to the cloud, where it creates a duplicate file structure.
Each StorageCraft image file is reduced to a series of 64MB blocks, which are then encrypted using AES-256 encryption algorithms. These 64MB blocks are then shredded locally into 1MB fragments. Using an erasure encoding algorithm called Reed-Solomon, 32 parity fragments are added to every 64, resulting in 96 fragments. Dubbed RAID-96™ by Symform, any 64 of the 96 segments can recreate the original block, thereby guaranteeing recoverability and high-availability.
All 96 fragments are distributed using a random statistical model to 96 participating Nodes in the Symform Cooperative Storage Cloud. An application called Symform Cloud Control™, which runs at Amazon Cloud Services (EC2) acts as a traffic controller, tells the local machine where to place each of the fragments.
When the Symform Node is configured, the end-user or MSP determines how much local disk space it plans to contribute to the cloud. This can be disk space at a local office or that of a MSP. An SMB or its MSP simply needs to contribute as much disk space as the disk space they want to consume with StorageCraft image-level backups.
Channel impact
The Business Continuity Suite powered by StorageCraft and Symform is a completely channel-focused program, with pricing determined by StorageCraft and Symform MSPs. It makes disaster recovery practical for SMBs and at much less cost – approximately $50 per month per protected server.
The solution lets MSPs provide disaster recovery and business continuity services without a huge outlay for business continuity infrastructure. By simply donating disk space to the Symform Cooperative Storage Cloud, the MSP can reap the advantages of acting as a storage services provider (SSP).
SSG-NOW Assessment
StorageCraft’s and Symform’s approach to cloud-based business continuity is a shoo-in for the small and mid-sized business, which is faced with expensive and often unreliable solutions for cloud enablement. The MSP focus of this announcement is close to perfect for the SMB who does business with a particular MSP because of the customer’s inability or disinclination to provide IT resources and because of its relative inexperience with technology. The Business Continuity Suite powered by StorageCraft and Symform is priced right for the MSP market – at $50 per protected server, it provides an affordable, easy for the MSP to implement alternative to other inefficient cloud-based backup and recovery solutions on the market.
StorageCraft Partners with Symform to Create Comprehensive Cloud Backup
Joint offering gives SMBs affordable off-site backup and disaster recovery
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DRAPER, Utah, and Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. – Sept. 1, 2010 – StorageCraft Technology Corporation, a provider of innovative disk-based backup, disaster recovery, system migration, data protection and security solutions for servers, desktops and laptops, and Symform, a pioneer in decentralized cloud computing services for data protection, today announced they are partnering to provide an affordable cloud backup solution for small-to-midsized businesses (SMBs).
The companies are jointly releasing the Business Continuity Suite powered by StorageCraft and Symform to provide comprehensive backup and disaster recovery to SMBs both on-site and off-site. The Business Continuity Suite will enable SMBs to backup their data on-site with StorageCraft ShadowProtect™ technology and then transfer their backups to the Symform Cooperative Storage Cloud™.
“The Business Continuity Suite is a perfect solution for our customers,” said Jamison West, founder and CEO of JWCS, a Seattle-based solution provider for SMBs. “We’re serious about data protection and this suite gives us comprehensive on-site and off-site coverage.”
How the Business Continuity Suite Works
SMBs, resellers and managed service providers (MSPs) can use the Business Continuity Suite to backup all of their Windows systems both on-site and off-site. Using the award-winning ShadowProtect technology, IT administrators take regular backups of their Windows servers using ShadowProtect Server™ or ShadowProtect Small Business Server™, and desktops and laptops using ShadowProtect Desktop™. They choose an on-site destination for rapid disaster recovery in the event of a catastrophic failure, and an off-site destination via the Symform Cooperative Storage Cloud. With the Symform Cooperative Storage Cloud, SMBs and their MSPs contribute inexpensive, local storage and get valuable online storage in return. Symform handles the day-to-day management of network security and administration so that businesses can be assured their backup files are safe and readily available, following a disaster.
“The Business Continuity Suite fits a need that SMBs have – affordable, reliable backup and disaster recovery both on-site and off-site,” said Curt James, vice president of marketing and business development with StorageCraft. “Our partnership with Symform is a natural fit because it fills the need for decentralized, distributed and secure backup that easily can be accessed in the event of a disaster.”
“We’re delighted to be partnering with StorageCraft,” said Kevin Brown, vice president of sales and marketing at Symform. “The Business Continuity Suite brings together the two best products in the BDR segment and creates a solution for complete data protection – better yet, any business can afford it!”
Business Continuity Suite Training Seminars
To help solution providers understand how to make the most out of the Business Continuity Suite, StorageCraft and Symform are offering a series of online training seminars in the next few weeks. To learn more about these one-hour classes or to sign up for training, please visit: http://www.businesscontinuitysuite.com/bcs-webinar/.
Pricing and Availability
The Business Continuity Suite is available from authorized Symform reseller partners in North America only. Volume discounts are available.
For additional information about the Business Continuity Suite, please e-mail contactus@businesscontinuitysuite.com or visit: www.businesscontinuitysuite.com. You may also contact Symform at (206) 906-9212 or info@symform.com.
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. www.storagecraft.com
About Symform
Symform, a privately held company based in Seattle, is developing cost-effective solutions to large-scale distributed data management problems. Symform is dedicated to the belief that technology products built on the cooperative, decentralized principles underlying the Internet are inherently more affordable, dependable, scalable, and sustainable than centralized data-center-based alternatives. www.symform.com
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Business Continuity Suite powered by StorageCraft and Symform
Looking for a way to have your cloud and still make money, too? We announced our new joint cloud backup venture today, the Business Continuity Suite powered by StorageCraft and Symform. The news announcement highlights our partnership and how MSPs can use the Business Continuity Suite to backup their customers’ systems and data near-line and off-site — without it costing an arm and a leg.
In the next few weeks, Symform and StorageCraft will offer Web-based training courses so you can learn how the Business Continuity Suite works and how to set it up to get the most benefit for your customers. Basically, you use StorageCraft ShadowProtect technology to backup servers, desktops and laptops and then save the point-in-time backup images to the Symform Cooperative Storage Cloud.
The Business Continuity Suite will help you provide the following:
• Get systems up and running quickly after a catastrophic failure.
• Backup on-site and replicate to the cloud for flexible disaster recovery options.
• Restore to bare metal, to dissimilar hardware or to and from virtual environments.
• Multiple levels of encryption and military grade security of backup files to prevent intrusion.
• Schedule full and incremental backups to be saved automatically on-site and in the cloud.
• Contribute excess storage and get valuable cloud storage in return.
• Rapid recovery of files, folders or your entire system should a disaster occur.
You can learn more about the Business Continuity Suite at www.businesscontinuitysuite.com, where you’ll find white papers, data sheets, an analyst’s report and more. Or sign up for the free, one-hour classes which will show you how you can offer simple, affordable cloud backup to your customers.