DRAPER, Utah, U.S.A. –  Sept. 20, 2011 – StorageCraft Technology Corporation, a provider of best-in-class backup, disaster recovery, system migration and data protection solutions for servers, desktops and laptops, announces the release of StorageCraft ShadowControl™ ImageManager™ 5, software designed to help manage, customize and enhance the backup process.

ShadowControl ImageManager works in conjunction with StorageCraft ShadowProtect®, the award-winning line of backup and disaster recovery software. It includes tools and services that allow users to replicate backup images to the cloud, pre-stage backups as virtual machines, consolidate backup image files and monitor and manage backups created with ShadowProtect.

“Small to midsize businesses (SMBs) don’t often have the resources to manage costly systems that would provide redundancy in their computer environments. ShadowControl ImageManager gives them flexible, reliable tools to make that possible,” said Brandon Nordquist, vice president of product management at StorageCraft.

ShadowControl ImageManager increases control over backup images created with ShadowProtect®, which allows the user to more efficiently manage physical, virtual or cloud backups.

New and notable features of ShadowControl ImageManager include:

• ShadowStream™ accelerates the file transfer of backup images up to five times faster than traditional file transfer does. Its technology transports ShadowProtect backup files off-site quickly and reliably by controlling bandwidth capacity.
• intelligentFTP™ enables the user to filter files for replication locally, to the network, or to an off-site location. The user can set parameters for the replication, whether it’s every incremental backup or just backup files that have been verified.
• HeadStart Restore® reduces the recovery window by proactively constructing the backup image as a virtual machine, allowing the user to restore the system in minutes, saving critical time.

In addition, ShadowControl ImageManager provides management tools that allow users to verify and re-verify backup image files over time to make sure they are still intact. ShadowControl ImageManager also consolidates backup image files and allows the user to set up retention parameters locally and in the cloud, saving valuable storage space both on-site and off -site. Users can set up email notifications to track the status of backup images as well.

“SMBs have a critical need for simplified, automated business continuity solutions because they often cannot afford the infrastructure and resources required to manage complicated systems. Products like this one from StorageCraft are important because they provide backup and disaster recovery solutions to a large, underserved SMB market,” said Deni Connor, principal analyst for Storage Strategies NOW.

Pricing and Availability

ShadowControl ImageManager is included free with a ShadowProtect license. Jobs using ShadowStream, intelligentFTP and HeadStart Restore require additional licensing fees, depending on the software the user selects, and are available through Lifeboat Distribution, SYNNEX and authorized StorageCraft solution providers, managed service providers and value-added resellers.

For additional information about pricing and licensing, visit the ShadowControl ImageManager product page, contact StorageCraft Sales at (801) 545-4711 or email sales@storagecraft.com.

About StorageCraft Technology Corporation

StorageCraft Technology Corporation provides best-in-class backup, disaster recovery, system migration and data protection 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. For more information, please visit www.storagecraft.com.

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The ImageManager technology has always been a standard component of ShadowProtect since we release version 3 a few years ago, but it’s now branded as ShadowControl ImageManager with features like ShadowStream(TM), intelligentFTP(TM) and HeadStart Restore(R), the user can customize his or her settings to what best suits the scenario. Need to transfer large files over a highly-latent connection? Use ShadowStream. Are you already a pro at setting up off-site FTP servers? Then intelligentFTP may meet your needs. Want to pre-stage your backup image, making it possible to recover your data within minutes? HeadStart Restore is the tool for you. ShadowControl ImageManager puts you squarely in the driver’s seat.

We’ve also worked on creating pricing that makes sense. We encourage our partners to create customizable backup and disaster recovery solutions for their customers, and making you buy licenses and jobs you’ll never use just doesn’t fit with that philosophy. With the pricing structure for ShadowControl ImageManager, you pay only for the licensed jobs you need. Your pricing and perks will rely on your current configuration, so it’s best to contact one of our distribution partners – Lifeboat Distribution or SYNNEX – or one of our inside sales reps to get specifics.

Questions? Check out the product page or get in touch with our sales department; they’d be happy to answer any questions you might have.

Check out the ShadowControl ImageManager press release.

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DRAPER, Utah, U.S.A. – May 12, 2011 – With so many different combinations of physical systems and virtual environments in today’s storage strategy, it is important for IT professionals to use a disaster recovery solution built to handle systems and data backup in any environment in order to ensure business continuity.

StorageCraft Technology Corporation, a provider of innovative backup, disaster recovery, system migration and data protection solutions for servers, desktops and laptops, will released StorageCraft® ShadowProtect®Virtual™ on May 17, 2011, which allows the user to backup systems and data   on any Windows system and recover it to any kind of environment: a virtual machine, physical hardware, or in the cloud.

“ShadowProtect Virtual offers the flexibility needed to maximize existing IT resources – with options for recovery to the same system, another virtual machine or even a different hypervisor – ensuring limitless business continuity. Our highly competitive pricing makes system backup and disaster recovery affordable for hybrid environments in any organization,” said Brandon Nordquist, vice president of product management at StorageCraft.

The Advantages of Virtualization
ShadowProtect Hardware Independent Restore™ (HIR) technology is agnostic to the physical hardware or virtualization platform, allowing for maximum flexibility within the infrastructure. Instead of licenses priced per host or per socket, ShadowProtect Virtual licenses feature pricing per virtual machine (VM), versatility that allows the user to deploy ShadowProtect wherever needed in a hybrid environment.

“The IT industry is now fully into a second wave of server virtualization deployments where we’ve moved beyond test and development environments to putting production, mission-critical workloads in a VM. Organizations are looking for robust solutions with broad hypervisor support to protect their growing VM deployments,” said Dave Russell, Vice President of Storage Technologies and Strategies at Gartner.       

ShadowProtect Virtual includes support for VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, and Oracle VirtualBox.

ShadowProtect Virtual webinars
StorageCraft is offering free webinars in conjunction with the ShadowProtect Virtual product release. The webinars, which will take place on May 12 and May 17, will share product information, including a product demo.

Pricing and Availability
ShadowProtect Virtual is available from authorized StorageCraft distributors and value-added resellers (VARs). Volume discounts are available.

For additional information about StorageCraft ShadowProtect Virtual or to learn more about volume licensing, visit the product information page, send an email or call StorageCraft at +1 801 545-4700.

About StorageCraft Technology Corporation
StorageCraft Technology Corporation provides innovative disk-based backup, disaster recovery, system migration and data protection 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. For more information, visit www.storagecraft.com.

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DRAPER, Utah, U.S.A. – April 20, 2011 – Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) face unique challenges when it comes to backing up, restoring, searching or migrating their Exchange database (EDB) files. It’s often expensive and time consuming, which can bring productivity to a screeching halt.

StorageCraft Technology Corporation, a provider of innovative backup, disaster recovery, system migration and data protection solutions for servers, desktops and laptops, makes searching and restoring Exchange servers faster and easier with the release of StorageCraft® ShadowProtect® Granular Recovery for Exchange™.

“Microsoft Exchange is one of the most popular email servers for companies of all sizes, but Exchange backup can also be complex, which sometimes makes it difficult to recover and restore individual mailboxes and email messages. ShadowProtect Granular Recovery for Exchange takes the guesswork out of that process, restoring critical data within minutes instead of hours or days,” said Brandon Nordquist, vice president of product management at StorageCraft.

ShadowProtect Granular Recovery for Exchange complements ShadowProtect Server and ShadowProtect Small Business Server, which provide point-in-time backup images of an Exchange server. With those existing images, IT administrators can simply use ShadowProtect Granular Recovery for Exchange to access the Exchange EDB backup file contained in the backup image, navigate to the desired email files – whether it’s entire mailboxes, individual email messages, or email attachments – then drag and drop the needed files to a production Exchange server or save them to a PST file. Additional benefits include:

•    Rapid restore of deleted email
Find and restore a single email in minutes, eliminating the need for a comprehensive restore of an entire server to recover a few missing files.
•    Rapid recovery of specific mailboxes
Expedite the recovery of a single mailbox or specific groups of mailboxes without requiring an entire database recovery, saving time and money.
•    Swift search of email archives
Search email messages and attachment file name by key word, subject, sender, recipient, or send date. An optional add-on allows even more in-depth search with the ability to scan attachment contents.
•    Easy migration to a new Exchange server
Drag-and-drop user mailboxes to the new Exchange server once it’s online, minimizing migration time.
The new version of ShadowProtect Granular Recovery for Exchange, which also has an available trial version, also supports Exchange 2010.

Pricing and Availability
ShadowProtect Granular Recovery for Exchange is available from authorized StorageCraft distributors and value-added resellers (VARs). Volume discounts are available.

For additional information about StorageCraft ShadowProtect Granular Recovery for Exchange or to learn more about volume licensing, visit the product page, send an e-mail or call StorageCraft at +1 801 545-4700.

About StorageCraft Technology Corporation
StorageCraft Technology Corporation provides innovative backup, disaster recovery, system migration and data protection 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. For more information, visit www.storagecraft.com.

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DRAPER, Utah, U.S.A. – April 21, 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 the release of StorageCraft ShadowProtect ImageManager Enterprise™ 4.0. The newest version in the ShadowProtect™ line of award-winning backup, disaster recovery and system migration technology dramatically decreases the amount of time required to restore Windows systems and improves central management of ShadowProtect backups.

ShadowProtect ImageManager Enterprise includes a new feature called HeadStart Restore™ (HSR), which allows IT managers to automate recovery – getting servers back up and running in a matter of mere minutes, rather than hours. IT managers create a system restore job from their ShadowProtect Server™ or ShadowProtect Small Business Server™ scheduled backups. The HSR job begins the recovery process immediately – and the restore job is updated with incremental changes throughout the day. Following a disaster, the administrator is able to finalize the restore and get the server online again very quickly.

“System restores often involve terabytes of data, which means a realistic RTO is hours,” said Scott Barnes, chief technology officer at StorageCraft. “With HeadStart Restore, we’ve drastically reduced the time it takes to recover your systems and data because most of the system and data recovery occurred before there was even a failure.”

How HSR Works
To prepare a server for HSR, the IT administrator sets up a system restore job in ShadowProtect ImageManager Enterprise, which begins recovery right away.
HeadStart Restore

Any incremental changes to the backup are also sent to the system restore job and applied. The Lag Time Apply feature in HSR also allows administrators to delay incremental changes – to account for corruption from malware or a virus. By default, this is set to three days, but this can be changed to suit IT requirements.

In the event of a disaster, the administrator finalizes the restore – which usually takes seconds to apply the incremental updates – then prepares the virtual environment, runs ShadowProtect’s Hardware Independent Restore™ technology, reboots the server, and is back up and running. The elapsed time is several minutes, not several hours.

“Being able to get a jump on the restore process with HeadStart Restore is a tremendous asset for our business and for our customers,” said Shawn Massey, director of NetAssist at Camera Corner/Connecting Point Computer Center. “We’re able to get servers up and running in a fraction of the time it used to take. Downtime is expensive, and knowing that it won’t take all day or all weekend to rebuild a server is invaluable.”

Additional Features
ShadowProtect ImageManager Enterprise also includes replication technology, to allow you to send your backup images to a separate location, on-site or off-site. Once you’ve configured replication, you can send backup images to one or multiple locations. This feature also lets you save backups to an off-site location to meet compliancy and archival requirements.

In addition, ShadowProtect ImageManager Enterprise allows administrators to verify and re-verify ShadowProtect backup image files, consolidate backup image files to minimize storage usage and streamline management and set up e-mail notification to track the status of backup jobs.

ShadowProtect ImageManager Enterprise has the following features:

·         HeadStart Restore
·         Lag Time Apply
·         Image replication
·         Image verification and re-verification
·         Image consolidation
·         E-mail notification

Pricing and Availability
ShadowProtect ImageManager Enterprise is available from authorized StorageCraft distributors and value-added resellers (VARs). Volume discounts are available.

For additional information about StorageCraft ShadowProtect ImageManager Enterprise 4.0, or to learn more about volume licensing, please e-mail sales@storagecraft.com, call +1 801 545-4700 or visit: www.StorageCraft.com/ShadowProtectIME.

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.
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DRAPER, Utah, U.S.A. – April 21, 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 released StorageCraft ShadowProtect Server™ 4.0 and StorageCraft ShadowProtect Small Business Server™ 4.0. The newest version in the ShadowProtect™ line of award-winning backup, disaster recovery and system migration technology addresses the Recovery Time Objective (RTO) for businesses, the need to integrate disaster recovery planning with virtualized systems as well as centralizing management of backups.
ShadowProtect Server 4.0

“The new functionality is truly game changing for us and we look forward to utilizing ShadowProtect 4.0 in our managed services offering.”
ShadowProtect Server 4.0 includes several recovery options that allow you to improve RTO by reducing the time your systems and data are offline. ShadowProtect gives you the flexibility of choosing granular recovery of files and folders or full bare metal recover of your server in a matter of minutes. Hardware Independent Restore™ (HIR) technology makes it quick and easy to recover to the same system, to dissimilar hardware or to and from virtual environments. ShadowProtect’s HIR feature also makes system migration to new servers or consolidation to virtual environments a straightforward process.

“Business continuity is key,” said Deni Connor, principal analyst with Storage Strategies NOW, a research firm focusing on storage technologies. “Having a disaster recovery plan, recovering data quickly with a minimal loss of productivity, can mean the difference between staying in business and closing your doors. That’s why backup and disaster recovery software such as ShadowProtect can be critical for maintaining access to your Windows servers and all of the business-critical applications and data on them.”

Virtualization Technology
ShadowProtect Server 4.0 improves on its virtualized technology features such as HIR with new VirtualBoot™ technology to give administrators the ability to boot any ShadowProtect backup image into a virtual machine using Sun VirtualBox. The backup image file can be booted into a .VMDK or .VHD format. In addition, ShadowProtect Server 4.0 can convert any ShadowProtect backup image into a virtual machine without the need to use any third-party technology.
VirtualBoot

“We could not be more excited about VirtualBoot and the other features that ShadowProtect 4.0 is bringing to the table,” said Sean Furman, president of STF Consulting. “The new functionality is truly game changing for us and we look forward to utilizing ShadowProtect 4.0 in our managed services offering.”

Centralized Management
ShadowProtect Server 4.0 includes a management console, at no additional cost, for central management of ShadowProtect on multiple servers. IT Administrators may push an agent simultaneously to multiple machines, group servers, import or export node information or check the status of ShadowProtect backups.

In addition, ShadowProtect ImageManager™ allows administrators to verify and re-verify ShadowProtect backup image files as well as consolidate backup image files to minimize storage usage and streamline management. Additional features are included in ShadowProtect ImageManager Enterprise™.

Recovery Features
ShadowProtect Server 4.0 also includes Resume on Interruption – the ability to continue a restore, even after it’s been halted by a power failure or other disruption. In addition, it has an updated user interface.

ShadowProtect Server 4.0 includes the following features:

·         Hardware Independent Restore (HIR),
·         Bare metal recovery,
·         Granular recovery of files and folders in moments,
·         Resume on Interruption,
·         Central management console,
·         VirtualBoot,
·         Virtual converter,
·         ShadowProtect ImageManager,
·         Image verification and re-verification,
·         Image consolidation.

“The new features in ShadowProtect Server 4.0 will give IT administrators flexible options for getting their systems and data back online very quickly,” said Scott Barnes, StorageCraft CTO. “Backup is easy and everyone is doing it. Restoring massive amounts of data quickly and making it accessible is the difficult part. ShadowProtect’s advanced technology helps get business back online in minutes, not hours or days.”

Pricing and Availability
ShadowProtect Server and ShadowProtect Small Business Server are available from authorized StorageCraft distributors and value-added resellers (VARs). Volume discounts are available.

For additional information about StorageCraft ShadowProtect Server 4.0, or to learn more about volume licensing, please e-mail sales@storagecraft.com, call +1 801 545-4700 or visit: www.StorageCraft.com/ShadowProtectServer or www.StorageCraft.com/ShadowProtectSBS.

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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In particular VirtualBoot™. With VirtualBoot, you can right click on any ShadowProtect™ image file and boot it as a virtual machine. This feature makes it very easy to test new software in your server environment or boot legacy systems for archival purposes.

“We could not be more excited about VirtualBoot and the other features that ShadowProtect 4.0 is bringing to the table,” said Sean Furman, president of STF Consulting. “The new functionality is truly game changing for us and we look forward to utilizing ShadowProtect 4.0 in our managed services offering.”

VirtualBoot uses Sun VirtualBox to boot the file into .VMDK or .VHD format.

Other features in ShadowProtect Server 4.0:

• Central management console,
• Virtual converter,
• ShadowProtect ImageManager™,
• Image verification and re-verification,
• Image consolidation,
• Resume on Interruption,
• Hardware Independent Restore™ (HIR),
• Bare metal recovery,
• Granular recovery of files and folders in moments.

Check out the ShadowProtect product pages for additional information, including data sheets, white papers and product tours.

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DRAPER, Utah, U.S.A. – Sept. 24, 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 the release of StorageCraft ShadowProtect™ 3.5, the latest update to the award-winning line of disk-based backup, disaster recovery and system migration software for Windows servers, desktops and laptops.

ShadowProtect 3.5 includes several new features, including the ability to backup failing hard drives – so IT administrators can salvage as much data as possible. This new feature allows you to continue a backup even if some areas of the hard drive can no longer be read.

“ShadowProtect 3.5 allows you to back up as many sectors on a failing hard drive as you can,” said Brandon Nordquist, vice president of product management at StorageCraft. “You may not be able to save all of the data on the drive, but you can recover as much as possible and save the data to new hardware.”

In addition, IT administrators can set up ShadowProtect 3.5 to notify them when a hard drive begins to fail so that they’re able to quickly take a backup and recover as much data as possible.

Additional Features:

Besides the new Ignore Read Failures feature, ShadowProtect 3.5 also includes several other improvements, including the following:

-      Enhanced e-mail notification improving client administration services;

-      Improved management over backup commencement, allowing you to specify how quickly a backup begins following a system reboot;

-      Improved management of Hardware Independent Restore features, allowing administrators to have greater control over hardware drivers when migrating to new, different hardware;

-      Improved Boot Configuration tool.

ShadowProtect 3.5 also has several maintenance updates which are incorporated into all editions, including ShadowProtect Server Edition™, ShadowProtect Desktop Edition™, ShadowProtect Small Business Server Edition™, and ShadowProtect IT Edition™.

Pricing and Availability:

ShadowProtect 3.5 is available from authorized StorageCraft distributors, managed service providers (MSPs) and value-added resellers (VARs). Volume discounts are available.

For additional information about StorageCraft ShadowProtect 3.5, or to learn more about competitive upgrade pricing and volume licensing, please email discounts@storagecraft.com, call +1 801 545-4700 or visit: www.storagecraft.com.

Resources:

-      StorageCraft ShadowProtect white paper: http://www.storagecraft.com/documents/ShadowProtectwp.pdf

-      StorageCraft ShadowProtect 3.5 ReadMe file:  www.storagecraft.com/documents/SP3.5/readme.rtf

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

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Discounted Pricing
“As a managed services provider for businesses primarily running Windows Small Business Server, we depend on ShadowProtect to protect our customers’ servers,” said Mark Crall, CEO, Charlotte Tech Care Team and Microsoft SBSC PAL. “ShadowProtect minimizes our risk through media-less, image-based recovery to virtual machines during a disaster recovery. The fact that StorageCraft is lowering the price for this kind of SBS protection is just icing on the cake for us.”

On top of the special discounts for small business servers, StorageCraft is also offering competitive upgrade pricing. The special pricing includes a discount for businesses that use server versions of Acronis True Image and Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery wishing to purchase StorageCraft ShadowProtect Small Business Server Edition 3.3.

Most small businesses need to be able to protect their server and data – just as large enterprises do, but often they cannot afford the complex backup and recovery software, or the time it takes to implement such a system. StorageCraft ShadowProtect Small Business Server Edition 3.3 not only is an affordable, scalable solution, its simple interface and easy-to-follow wizards do not require hours or days of training to implement.

“One of the obvious benefits for small businesses to use StorageCraft ShadowProtect Small Business Server Edition 3.3 is that you can set it up to take scheduled backups of your server in just a few minutes,” said Brandon Nordquist, vice president of product management for StorageCraft. “Once you’ve scheduled your backups, you don’t have to do any monitoring or maintenance. We’ve designed StorageCraft ShadowProtect Small Business Server Edition 3.3 to be very easy to use.”

HIR Features Give Disaster Recovery and System Migration Flexibility
StorageCraft ShadowProtect Small Business Server Edition 3.3 also gives small businesses the flexibility of restoring or migrating their small business servers to another small business server environment – whether virtual or physical.  This includes migrating from a physical machine to another physical machine (P2P), a physical to a virtual machine (P2V), a virtual machine to another virtual machine (V2V) or even from a virtual machine to a physical machine (V2P).

Pricing and Availability
StorageCraft ShadowProtect Small Business Server Edition 3.3 is available for $495 (US) 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.

For additional information about StorageCraft ShadowProtect Small Business Server Edition 3.3, visit: http://www.storagecraft.com/products/ShadowProtectSBS.

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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·         Enhanced retention policy for removable drives,

·         Updates to the graphical user interface,

·         Improvements to ImageManager.

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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ShadowProtect, ShadowProtect Server Edition and ShadowProtect Desktop Edition are trademarks of StorageCraft Technology Corporation. Other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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DRAPER, Utah, U.S.A. – StorageCraft Technology Corporation, a provider of innovative disk-based backup, disaster recovery, data protection and security solutions for servers, desktops and laptops, today announced the release of StorageCraft ShadowProtect Server Edition™ 3.0 and ShadowProtect Desktop Edition™ 3.0, the latest versions of the award-winning ShadowProtect™ line of disk-based backup and disaster recovery software.

ShadowProtect Server Edition 3.0 and ShadowProtect Desktop Edition 3.0 include hardware independent restoration (HIR), allowing IT administrators to backup, restore or migrate server, desktop and laptop systems to any environment, whether physical or virtual.

“ShadowProtect has revolutionized the way we approach data backup and recovery,” said Dave Watts, president of NetFusion, Inc., a Los Angeles-based systems consulting firm specializing in outsourced support for small to medium-sized businesses. “ShadowProtect allows us to recover an entire server from scratch in an hour or two, and ShadowProtect 3.0 even allows us to restore to different hardware!”

HIR Features Give Disaster Recovery and System Migration Flexibility
ShadowProtect Server Edition 3.0 and ShadowProtect Desktop Edition 3.0 allow IT professionals to restore or migrate servers, desktops and laptops in any environment – whether virtual or physical.

In addition, ShadowProtect can migrate to new systems with tremendous flexibility – whether from a physical machine to another physical machine (P2P), a physical to a virtual machine (P2V), a virtual machine to another virtual machine (V2V) or even from a virtual machine to a physical machine (V2P). ShadowProtect Server Edition 3.0 and ShadowProtect Desktop Edition 3.0 support virtualization solutions, such as VMware platforms and Microsoft Virtual Server and Virtual PC, for quick and reliable disaster recovery, system migration and consolidation.

“We’ve engineered ShadowProtect 3.0 to help IT professionals protect every Windows system in their computing environment,” said Scott Barnes, chief technology officer at StorageCraft. “This means there aren’t any limitations on the types of Windows systems you are backing up or migrating to – whether virtual or physical.”

Improved Recovery Features
The improved features in ShadowProtect Server Edition 3.0 and ShadowProtect Desktop Edition 3.0 also make it easier to recover servers, desktops and laptops following a catastrophic failure. New features in ShadowProtect include tools that help administrators get systems up and running in minutes.

ShadowProtect Server Edition 3.0 and ShadowProtect Desktop Edition 3.0 have an improved recovery environment which includes additional drivers to make it easy to recover systems and data. In addition, ShadowProtect allows IT professionals to dynamically load drivers to provide complete flexibility in adding new storage controller drivers or NIC drivers, for example.

Additional features in ShadowProtect Server Edition 3.0 and ShadowProtect Desktop Edition include:

• Bootable recovery CD based on Windows Vista; includes automatic hardware detection and network support.
• New Verify Backup Image tool to ensure backup files are recoverable.
• Additional optical media support (CD-R/RW, DVD+-R/RW, Blu-ray R/RE (both single and dual layer).
• Network throttling during backup for improved performance.
• Improved image management.
• Windows Vista support.
• Visual partitioning support.
• Remote management of recovery environment.
• Improved user interface.
• Bare metal recovery of servers, desktops and laptops in minutes.
• Ability to take online or cold state backup images without the need to install software.
• Simple view to quickly recover files and folders or update backup images.
• Network Configurator to manage domains, mapped drives and network resources.

“ShadowProtect has changed the way we protect our clients’ most valuable assets – their data,” adds NetFusion’s Watts. “Before implementing ShadowProtect, we backed up our clients’ data to tape, once a day. With ShadowProtect, we backup our clients’ servers to disk – even their Exchange servers – every 15 minutes, instead of once a day. ShadowProtect gives us the flexibility to restore from any one of those points in time.”

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• Improved recovery environment, including the ability to dynamically load new storage and network drivers.
• Bootable recovery CD based on Windows Vista; includes automatic hardware detection.
• New Verify Backup Image tool to ensure backup files are recoverable.
• Additional optical media support (CD-R/RW, DVD+-R/RW, Blu-ray R/RE (both single and dual layer).
• Windows Vista support.
• Visual partitioning support.
• Remote management of recovery environment.
• Improved user interface.
• Bare metal recovery of servers, desktops and laptops in minutes.
• Ability to take online or cold state backup images without the need to install software.
• Simple view to quickly recover files and folders or update backup images.
• Network Configurator to manage domains, mapped drives and network resources.

Pricing and Availability
ShadowProtect IT Edition is available through the StorageCraft Web site and through authorized StorageCraft distributors, managed service providers (MSPs) and value-added resellers (VARs). Volume discounts are available.

For more additional 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 disk-based backup, disaster recovery, data protection, migration 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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ShadowProtect and ShadowProtect IT Edition are trademarks of StorageCraft Technology Corporation. Other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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DRAPER, Utah, U.S.A. – StorageCraft Technology Corporation, a provider of innovative disk-based backup, disaster recovery, data protection, migration and security solutions for servers, desktops and laptops, today announced the upcoming release of the latest version of its ShadowProtect™ line of disk-based backup and disaster recovery software, StorageCraft ShadowProtect IT Edition™ 3.0.

ShadowProtect IT Edition includes features which allow hardware-independent restoration following a catastrophic data loss or hardware failure of a Windows server, desktop or laptop. This allows IT professionals to create a live or cold state backup image and restore it to a completely different system.

“The addition of HIR allows us to restore to any environment, either virtual or physical,” said Ken Edwards of Maverick Mesa Computer Specialties. “With ShadowProtect IT Edition, we are able to get our customers up and running in less than an hour.”

With ShadowProtect IT Edition, IT professionals are also able to restore a backup image to virtual environments, which can be the fastest method of restoring a system in the event of a catastrophic failure. Recovery to a virtual environment may also save money by avoiding costly downtime.

ShadowProtect IT Edition allows administrators to backup, restore or migrate to new systems with flexibility – whether they are going from a physical machine to another physical machine (P2P), a physical to a virtual machine (P2V), or even a virtual machine to a physical machine (V2P).

“This means there are no limitations on the types of Windows hardware you are backing up or migrating to,” said Scott Barnes, Chief Technology Officer of StorageCraft. “We’ve designed ShadowProtect IT Edition to help IT professionals protect every system in their computing environment.”

Improved Recovery of Servers, Desktops and Laptop
ShadowProtect IT Edition also makes it easier to recover servers, desktops and laptops from a catastrophic failure. New features include tools to help IT professionals get their systems up and running in minutes from the StorageCraft Recovery Environment.

ShadowProtect IT Edition has an improved recovery environment which includes thousands of additional drivers to make it easy to recover systems and data. In addition, ShadowProtect IT Edition allows IT professionals to dynamically load drivers to provide complete flexibility in adding new storage controller drivers or NIC drivers, for example.

“When our customers need to restore a server, desktop or laptop from bare metal, the last thing they want to do is spend hours trying to add new drivers to make sure their systems are loading properly,” said Brandon Nordquist, Vice President of Product Management. “The improved recovery environment in ShadowProtect IT Edition means customers now have automatic hardware coverage, which makes it easy to restore systems quickly and with limited intervention.”

• Bare metal recovery of servers, desktops and laptops in minutes.
• Ability to take online or cold state backup images without the need to install software.
• Simple view to quickly recover files and folders or update backup images.
• Network Configurator to manage domains, mapped drives and network resources.
• Bootable recovery CD based on Windows Vista; includes automatic hardware detection.

Pricing and Availability
ShadowProtect IT Edition will be available in mid-April, through the StorageCraft Web site and through authorized StorageCraft distributors, managed service providers (MSPs) and value-added resellers (VARs). Volume discounts are available.

For more additional 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/.

ShadowProtect and ShadowProtect IT Edition are trademarks of StorageCraft Technology Corporation. Other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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• Create active point-in-time backups—scan, share, update or work with any backup image as if it were the original volume
• Mount thousands of point-in-time backups simultaneously, simplifying file and folder recovery
• Create and restore ExactState™ images from the StorageCraft Recovery Environment™
• Take snapshots of multiple volumes simultaneously and back them up at the same time, reducing the time required to back up
• Remotely control the disaster recovery process without the need to purchase additional software
• Enhance database backups such as Exchange and SQL using Microsoft VSS
• Backup only changed data, if desired, to minimize storage consumption
• Consolidate point-in-time backups for simplified image management
• Create crash-proof incrementals—continue incremental backups even following a system crash
• Backup to any disk-based storage device, such as a SAN, NAS, RAID, USB or FireWire.