Tag Archives: ShadowProtect
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
Tech Tips with Steve Episode Nine: Recovering a File or Folder with ShadowProtect
Tech tips. In this episode, Steve shows you how to recover files or folders using StorageCraft ShadowProtect.
Tech Tips with Steve Episode Eight: Recover a System with ShadowProtect
Tech tips. In this episode, Steve shows you how to recover your systems using StorageCraft ShadowProtect.
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 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
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
Case Study: Getting the Best of Both Worlds
While all companies strive to be the best, rivals often produce great products with similar features. Unfortunately, not all companies consider support a feature. Some might leave you high and dry when you really need help. You should never have to pick between a great product and great support—especially when you’re talking about something as
An MSP Reviews the MSP (Microsoft Surface Pro)
Vince Tinnirello of Anchor Network Solutions reviews the Microsoft Surface Pro.
Backing Up Hyper-V Host Machines Using ShadowProtect
It’s important to backup not only your Hyper-V host machine, but each virtual machine as well. Here’s a quick a guide on how to do it.
Communication Through Language Barriers
Language can be a tough barrier to understanding and supporting customers. How can you help them if you can’t understand them? It’s always worth it to try new methods to understand them, even if they seem strange sometimes.
Highly Reliable Systems RAIDFrame Plus and RAIDPacs
StorageCraft Alliance Partner, Highly Reliable Systems, is always pushing forward the capabilities of hardware backup systems that feature removable media.
What You Can Learn from a Broken Computer- Two
A lot of us have learned to rely on our computers to do our thinking for us, but what does that mean for our problem-solving skills?
Success Story: CAVU Networks
Introducing a new success story featuring John Benjamin of CAVU Networks.
Infographic: The Future of Big Data
Check out this infographic to learn about the pros, the cons, and the future of Big Data.
What You Can Learn from a Broken Computer- One
Sometimes failure just happens, but that’s why we plan. Here’s what a simple broken computer can teach you about failure and disaster planning.
Enjoy hands-on, instant virtualization with StorageCraft Cloud Services ShadowCloud technology.
When asked how StorageCraft Cloud Services differs from other solutions, instant virtualization of backup images in the cloud always sets our solution apart.
Blood, Sweat, and Tears: The Tale of One Server Disaster
True stories from the front lines of network administrators can be hair-raising. Here’s one that we can live through with the real-time tweets of the harried system admin.
Downgrading to Windows 7 from Windows 8 with ShadowProtect
Do you want to easily downgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 7? We’ve got a simple solution.
StorageCraft MSP Model: A Great Way to Protect Your Clients
The MSP model allows us to sell software for a monthly fee on a month-to-month basis; the StorageCraft solution is much easier for a client to adopt at a monthly rate as opposed to purchasing the full version with maintenance.
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
Testing 1-2-3
The New Year is upon us, and you know what that means. It means that all of those resolutions to finally upgrade servers, workstations and laptops are knocking at your doorstep. Are you ready? Several of our customers have mentioned using StorageCraft’s ShadowProtect software to test upgrades without risking production systems. In other words they’re
Migrating Data and OS to New Devices
It’s almost the New Year and I’m sure that many of you have ideas on where to spend the last of your hardware budget. With all of the new electronic equipment you plan to purchase, have you thought about how to migrate your data, OS, and applications to the new gear? StorageCraft ShadowProtect is more
Death of the Optical Disk
Tape came and went, floppy disks are toast, how long before optical disk drives disappear from our computers entirely?
eFolder Leveraging New Features to Lower Costs and Increase Profits
StorageCraft Alliance Partner, eFolder, has announced availability of eFolder Backup version 3.8.1. The eFolder team has been hard at work improving the eFolder BDR for ShadowProtect and eFolder Cloud for ShadowProtect by incorporating new features available in ShadowProtect 5 and ImageManager 6. This new release includes over 150 enhancements, fixes, and auto-healing behaviors — lowering costs and increasing profits
The StorageCraft Wish List
With the holidays fast approaching, we’ve developed a list of backup and disaster recovery related gifts we’d love to receive this year. 2-person Survival Kit This one really is essential. It takes care of all the basic needs of two people for 72 hours. Food, water, light, communication, tools, hygiene, sanitation, and first aid are
