For the second year in a row, ShadowProtect is a finalist for the prestigious Storage magazine Product of the Year awards. SearchStorage.com posted an article about this year’s finalists in the Backup and Disaster Recovery Software and Services category.

From the article:

StorageCraft Technology Corp. ShadowProtect Virtual
StorageCraft ShadowProtect Virtual backs up Windows systems and can recover to a virtual machine, physical hardware or the cloud. New to this version: backup for virtual and physical environments, including support for Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V, Oracle VirtualBox and VMware; the ability to boot a backup of a virtual machine directly for fast access to data without performing a restore; and a new centralized management console.

It’s said a lot, but it’s a big honor just to be nominated. And we’re proud that we’ve reached this achievement two years in a row.

StorageCraft ranked 20th in the Utah 100 in our first year on the list!

We were (and still are, quite frankly) very excited about this. We’re proud to be noticed for our success; it’s a great testament to the hard work, passion and creativity of our people, and we plan to continue this high standard of performance for a long time to come.

It also feels humbling and gratifying to be on the list with several other successful companies that represent a pretty broad set of industries, including technology, biomedical, healthcare, retail, construction and financial services. Congratulations to all of our fellow winners!

Jeff is one of the original five founders of StorageCraft and has been here since the beginning in 2004. He has extensive management experience in a variety of technology-based industries. He served as President of Advanced Geometrics, a geophysical research company; Vice President of Megalogics, Inc., and later CEO of DataCatchers, Inc., both developers of job costing systems. In addition, he served as Operations Manager of Rival Energy, an experimental energy development company and as Managing Member of Spectral Group, LLC, a software system development company. Jeff has also served in public management, including a term as the Salt Lake County Chief Deputy Auditor. He holds a Juris Doctorate degree from The University of Utah College of Law.

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StorageCraft ShadowProtect is on an elite list today. It’s a finalist for Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com’s Product of the Year Awards for 2010.

The award is pretty prestigious, and it’s truly an honor to be named a finalist in the backup and disaster recovery software and services category. Everyone always says that, but we truly mean it.

The winners will be announced in the February issue of Storage.

Backups in SP are image-based, using the underlying VSS technology in Windows Server and providing very fast backups after the first full backup, as only changed sectors are backed up.

SP is a comprehensive product, offering efficient backups and smoothly blending the physical and virtual worlds for easy disaster recovery.

Check out the full review online and see why ShadowProtect is a great choice, especially if maximizing business continuity is really important for your company.

PC Magazine recently put together a how-to guide giving you some tips and tricks to make the process a little smoother. This guide explains the kind of storage to get and how to protect it.

You can set up your own local backup system given enough external storage space. If you’re going to take this course, we recommend creating not just a backup, but a whole drive image – —that is, a backup of not just your data, but your entire PC— – everything from your files to all the tweaks you make to your OS and apps so that they perform the way you want them to. The best software for this, hands down, is ShadowProtect Desktop 4.0.

Check out the entire article and pick up a few pointers. You may even have some of your own that the article doesn’t highlight. You can always share them here and give others the benefit of your wisdom and experience.

For years, StorageCraft’s ShadowProtect Desktop has been PC Magazine Editors’ Choice for drive imaging, and version 4.0 upholds the tradition. ShadowProtect Desktop 4.0 features unchanged core features as well as new features that make it easier and faster to get your system up and running from a backup even after a complete hardware breakdown makes your original hardware unusable.

You can check out Edward Mendelson’s complete review at pcmag.com, which starts with a reminder about the importance of backing up your PC. Have you heard that somewhere before?

In addition, there’s a slide show that will take you through some of the product screen shots. It shows several of products wizards and explains how the software works. It’s definitely worth a look.

“StorageCraft is honored to receive the 2009 Riding the Crest award from Programmer’s Paradise,” said Curt James vice president of marketing and business development. “This award demonstrates that StorageCraft ShadowProtect continues to be recognized as a reliable disaster recovery solution not only for physical environments, but virtual systems, as well. ShadowProtect solutions are an excellent way to improve Recovery Time Objectives and keep business up and running.”

Programmer’s Paradise selects award winners based on total annual sales.

“The Programmer’s Paradise Riding the Crest Award to StorageCraft represents our customers’ choice as to the best-of-breed solution for business continuity and disaster recovery of their virtualized environments,” said Shawn Giordano, Vice President of Sales for Programmer’s Paradise. “They clearly recognize ShadowProtect’s value in minimizing downtime, improving business continuity and lowering their total cost of operations.”

This is the 14th year they’ve given out Riding the Crest awards.

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DRAPER, Utah, U.S.A. – April 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 that StorageCraft ShadowProtect™ won the 2009 “Riding the Crest” award from Programmer’s Paradise in the Virtualization: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery category. This is the second year in a row that Programmer’s Paradise recognized ShadowProtect for a Riding the Crest award.

Programmer’s Paradise, a leading reseller of software, systems and services for information technology professionals, presents the annual award recognizing leading products from its exclusive “World View” software ecosystems for Application Lifecycle Management, Virtualization, Security, Database Infrastructure, Networking and Business Productivity. The Riding the Crest awards are now in their 14th year.

“The Programmer’s Paradise Riding the Crest Award to StorageCraft represents our customers’ choice as to the best-of-breed solution for business continuity and disaster recovery of their virtualized environments,” said Shawn Giordano, Vice President of Sales for Programmer’s Paradise. “They clearly recognize ShadowProtect’s value in minimizing downtime, improving business continuity and lowering their total cost of operations.”

StorageCraft ShadowProtect is the award-winning line of disaster recovery, system migration and data protection solutions for Windows servers, desktops and laptops.

“StorageCraft is honored to receive the 2009 Riding the Crest award from Programmer’s Paradise,” said Curt James vice president of marketing and business development. “This award demonstrates that StorageCraft ShadowProtect continues to be recognized as a reliable disaster recovery solution not only for physical environments, but virtual systems, as well. ShadowProtect solutions are an excellent way to improve Recovery Time Objectives and keep business up and running.”

For a complete list of 2009 Riding the Crest winners, please visit: http://www.programmers.com/ridingthecrest.

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 Programmer’s Paradise
Programmer’s Paradise – a subsidiary of Wayside Technology Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: WSTG) – is a leading reseller of software, systems and services for information technology professionals in the United States and Canada. Programmer’s Paradise sells an extensive line from leading publishers of software and tools for application lifecycle management, virtualization, database modeling, security, business continuity/disaster recovery, application and network infrastructure, science/engineering, and other technically sophisticated domains.  Software technology professionals and corporate purchasing managers rely on Programmer’s Paradise for unparalleled value and selection, knowledgeable service reps, in-depth product expertise, great service, and fast, accurate turnaround. For more information, visit www.programmers.com, or call +1.800.599.4388, or +1.732.389.8950. In Canada, call +1.888.423.2700.

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StorageCraft intends to continue its program of product expansion in the year ahead. One area that Nordquist has identified as having growth potential is virtualization, a key area for many software developers. Another major effort will be to increase the speed of recovery in all of its ShadowProtect applications.

“When you’re really in a crunch—when servers are down or the CEO’s laptop is not working—that’s when you need to do a very fast restore,” he says, noting that the key difficulty IT administrators have is keeping up with the daily accumulation of work data that then has to be restored in the event of a failure.

Nordquist also discusses StorageCraft’s business model, product line and some future plans in the article.

You can read all about the award in this news release. Interested in finding out more about the StorageCraft Reseller Partner Program or our Managed Service Provider Partner Program? There is a lot of information on the StorageCraft Partner Program pages on our Web site.

“Solution Providers seek out innovative vendors that create new and innovative ideas to help them build revenue and customer loyalty,” said Robert C. DeMarzo, senior vice president and editorial director, Everything Channel. “Our Emerging Tech list is where Solution Providers go to find these vendors.  We congratulate all of the vendors for their innovation and creativity and their commitment to the technology sales channel.”

It’s nice to be recognized by a channel authority like CRN. You can check out the press release announcement here: http://www.storagecraft.com/news/2009/crn-names-storagecraft-2009-emerging-tech-vendor.php.