Category Archives: Product News
StorageCraft Recover-Ability: Recover
Editor’s Note: This post is the fourth in a series outlining the StorageCraft Recover-Ability solution. Last week’s post focused on the need to manage your backups. One of our favorite sayings at StorageCraft is, “What good is a backup if you can’t recover?” Being able to recover with your backup is the whole point of even having
NETGEAR Announces Desktop Form Factor of ReadyDATA NAS — Supports ShadowProtect
StorageCraft Alliance Partner, NETGEAR®, on Tuesday announced a desktop form factor addition to their ReadyData™ family of network attached storage (NAS) devices. The ReadyDATA family delivers enterprise-class technology coupled with ease-of-use features that enable small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to effectively use them.
StorageCraft Recover-Ability: Manage
The StorageCraft Recover-Ability Solution has four key components, the third of which is being able to manage and monitor your backup environment.
StorageCraft Cloud Services Education—enroll in StorageCraft Academy to get the training you need
Get the reseller training you need to deploy StorageCraft Cloud Services in your disaster recovery business. Enroll in StorageCraft Academy today.
StorageCraft Recover-Ability: Replicate
Editor’s Note: This post is the second in a series outlining the StorageCraft Recover-Ability solution. Last week’s post focused on Backup. While the foundation of any good disaster recovery plan is to start with a good backup, equally important is having a separate copy of your backup in another site. Any storage industry analyst will
StorageCraft Recover-Ability: Backup
Last fall, when StorageCraft released our new cloud backup and recovery offering and rounded out our end-to-end business continuity solution, we began talking about all of our software and services as part of our StorageCraft Recover-Ability solution. There are four key components to the StorageCraft Recover-Ability solution: Backup, Replicate, Manage, and Recover. This is the
Why Do I Need Granular Recovery for an Exchange Server?
StorageCraft just released ShadowProtect Granular Recovery for Exchange 7. But why does anyone need an additional tool for Exchange recovery?
ShadowProtect Update
Today we released a new version of StorageCraft ShadowProtect—our award-winning line of backup and disaster recovery software. You can download ShadowProtect 5.0.2 from the StorageCraft website right now. It includes some updates and bug fixes. The big things to note are there are updates to the StorageCraft Recovery Environment and to StorageCraft ImageReady technology. To find
StorageCraft Cloud Services now available through US and Canadian Distributors
StorageCraft releases StorageCraft Cloud Services to distribution partners in the US and Canada.
StorageCraft Academy Brings StorageCraft Partners Flexible Training Options
StorageCraft Academy brings StorageCraft partners flexible training resources that fit well with busy schedules.
ShadowControl CMD 1.2
StorageCraft just released the latest version of StorageCraft ShadowControl CMD. If you’re already running ShadowControl CMD, version 1.2 EndPoints are updated automatically via Debian packages, so you don’t have to do a thing! If you’re not already running ShadowControl CMD, why not? It allows you to monitor all of the ShadowProtect backups you’re running in each
StorageCraft: the MSP’s Best Friend
StorageCraft has been working with Managed Service Providers (MSPs) for about six years now. You may not know, but StorageCraft was one of the first companies to offer our backup and disaster recovery solution, StorageCraft ShadowProtect, to MSPs on a monthly subscription basis. So we’ve pretty much been out in front of the disaster recovery
New In StorageCraft ShadowProtect 5: ImageReady
We just released StorageCraft ShadowProtect 5 with support for new Windows operating systems, including Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. That’s the new feature that affects most people, but there’s a brand new feature in ShadowProtect 5 that is a bit more “gee whiz” than operating system support. That’s our new ImageReady feature. If you
Exciting Times at StorageCraft!
Exciting times are at hand here at StorageCraft. Today is the day we release StorageCraft ShadowProtect 5, StorageCraft ImageManager 6, StorageCraft Cloud Services and the new StorageCraft MSP Portal. Having participated in several partner webinars preparing our channel for the release, I can tell you our customer base is looking forward to the new technologies
Upgrading to ShadowProtect 5
Upgrading software should be easy. With the new StorageCraft ShadowProtect 5, upgrading your server or desktop from ShadowProtect 4 couldn’t be easier. In this article we’ll discuss the steps to take to upgrade to ShadowProtect 5 as well as additional options you may or may not want to consider. So, let’s get started. We
Backup Basics
StorageCraft will be releasing ShadowProtect 5 this Thursday, and it has some cool new features. But even with this new release, we want to remind everyone that we will never get away from what we do best: backup and disaster recovery. Our company tagline is “Backup Fast, Recover Faster” for a reason. No matter how
ShadowProtect 5 Holiday Checklist
Over the past few weeks, the StorageCraft marketing team has been making our launch list and checking it twice to make sure we have everything ready for the upcoming product releases. We’re trying to anticipate every question you may have about the latest version of StorageCraft ShadowProtect, and hoping we will be able to provide
At Long Last: ShadowProtect 5!
We could use a lot of clichés to describe the upcoming release of StorageCraft ShadowProtect 5: Good things are worth waiting for. Don’t mess with something if it isn’t broken. Never get involved in a land war in Asia. All of these are true with the new version of ShadowProtect. The new features that are in
StorageCraft Announces Release Date for StorageCraft Cloud Services and StorageCraft ImageManager 6
With great anticipation and excitement, StorageCraft today announces the upcoming availability of StorageCraft Cloud Services for MSPs in the U.S. and Canada on December 13, 2012. In addition to the MSP-specific release, all StorageCraft users will benefit from the new release of StorageCraft ImageManager 6 at the same time. StorageCraft will also release an updated
ShadowProtect IT Edition – An Invaluable Disaster Recovery Tool
When we talk to managed services providers (MSPs), resellers or IT administrators about the disaster recovery solutions we offer, invariably we mention StorageCraft ShadowProtect IT Edition. StorageCraft delivers the software on a USB thumb drive that the solution provider or network administrator can plug into a USB drive on any Windows system (servers, desktops and
Updating ShadowProtect
If you’re looking to update to ShadowProtect 4.2.7, our good friend Wayne Small has written a great post on his SBSfaq blog, giving you step-by-step instructions on exactly how to do it. If you haven’t updated ShadowProtect before, I recommend checking out Wayne’s post. It’s also helpful to look through the release notes because there are
ShadowProtect and Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 is coming soon – better get ready now. The new server OS is slated for release next month, but some people have already had the chance to preview it and are already weighing in on new features. As a Microsoft Gold ISV Competency partner that makes disaster recovery solutions for Windows servers, StorageCraft has
ShadowProtect Update
You may have already noticed that we just released a new version of ShadowProtect, on the heels of the update we released less than two weeks ago. Unfortunately, as sometimes happens in the world of software, the software had a critical bug. In some circumstances, StorageCraft VirtualBoot won’t work in ShadowProtect 4.2.6. No previous versions
StorageCraft Amnesty Program
When you title your blog post “StorageCraft Amnesty Program” it sounds a little like you’re running around providing diplomatic immunity or letting people off with a reduced sentence. It’s nothing quite so important as that, but it is important if you’re a ShadowProtect Granular Recovery for Exchange (GRE) user and you aren’t current on your maintenance.
ShadowProtect Update
StorageCraft is releasing a new version of ShadowProtect today. Drumroll please… Okay, that was probably over the top because this isn’t a major product release. But it is a product update that you’ll want to know about. ShadowProtect 4.2.6 has these new features: Enhanced Hardware Independent Restore in the StorageCraft Recovery Environment to allow continuation
