ShadowProtect Backup Software Testimonials |
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“We haven't had any failures... since we've had StorageCraft
in the equation."
Sean Furman,
president, STF Consulting
StorageCraft partners are always finding great
ways to use our technology and simplify their businesses. Here’s how one
managed service provider, STF Consulting, is using StorageCraft
ShadowProtect™ to keep his customers up and running. (read
more . . .)
“If I didn’t have my work life set up so well, I wouldn’t be
able to take time away for my family or for my hobby. I’m very
fortunate.”
Sean Furman,
president, STF Consulting
How do you balance work and family and still manage to save a little
time for fun? Here’s how one StorageCraft partner is doing all that, and
making a tidy profit. (read
more . . .)
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Management
at bedding manufacturer Sealy NZ Ltd are sleeping more soundly at night
after switching to an offsite remote disaster recovery (DR) solution
that ensures they lose no more than 15 minutes' data in the event of a
crash. The problem was identified during an annual IT review. Although
the company's former tape backup product was reporting successful
backups, minimal data was being written to tape in a readable format. As
a result, Sealy sought an alternative solution.
“We experienced the pain of potential data loss and decided we never
wanted to be in that position again. We made a strategic decision to go
with an organisation and solution that was able to eliminate the cost
and complexity of backup, file recovery and disaster recovery (DR).”
The solution was implemented by
Disaster Recovery Group (DRG), which uses StorageCraft's
ShadowProtect backup solution.
Hugh Rockfort - Directory, Sealy NZ Ltd
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Instead of taking more
than a day to recover data and get back online, as it would have done
using their former Symantec Backup Exec system, the ShadowProtect
solution from StorageCraft had them up and running again within two
hours. Business disruption was minimal.
“The sheer size of our system after we centralised demanded that we
used a backup solution that was easier to use and restored files faster.
ShadowProtect is much faster than our previous solution - up to twice as
fast depending on configurations - and better for our business needs.”
The Oaks Group has 40 ShadowProtect Server Edition licenses protecting
file servers, print servers, SQL clusters, an Exchange cluster as well
as Citrix servers and general servers. Mr. Solly introduced
ShadowProtect after using it in a previous job.
Bryn Solly - IT General Manager, Oaks Hotels and Resorts
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“As a State School, our
budgets are very limited and we have to watch every dollar. We migrated
to ShadowProtect for less than the annual maintenance renewal on our
existing backup product. Now that is value for money, especially when
you consider that if we had renewed the maintenance on our existing
backup product we could still have the same problems next year as we had
this year!"
"StorageCraft really have delivered an outstanding solution at the
right price point, so much that I would recommend every other school or
company to seriously look at StorageCraft ShadowProtect when their
backup product maintenance is up for renewal.”
Ferny Grove State High School - "Backup as simple as ABC" |
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“Easy to install, easy
to manage, easy to use and compared to other products - it works!”
John Koch, Network & Communications Analyst |
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The IT team at Great
Lakes Council, in NSW, breathed a collective sigh of relief recently
when their fallback backup system restored the drive in a crashed server
within three minutes.
“Using StorageCraft ShadowProtect, we had the server up and running
within three minutes, restored to the exact state of our last
ShadowProtect backup - which was absolutely amazing, I hate to think
what would have happened otherwise - the server rebuild would probably
have taken up to two days. We saved a great deal of downtime and
potential user problems.”
Gerry Locke - IT Manager, Great Lakes City Council |
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“I first saw
ShadowProtect 12 months ago and I was impressed with the ease of
installation and configuration, as well as its affordability. More
importantly the simplicity ShadowProtect brings to data recovery,
including bare metal restore, making it a disruptive technology that
Microsoft centric organisations must consider. With version 3.0,
StorageCraft have made a great product even more compelling.”
Dr. Kevin McIsaac - Advisor for Intelligent Business Research
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“ShadowProtect has
allowed us to dramatically streamline our backup and recovery
procedures, saving us time while providing a higher level of service to
our end users. If someone creates a file at 10am and deletes it at
10:30am, we can recover it in minutes. The HIR capability also makes
short work of hardware migrations and P2V. ShadowProtect has become an
indispensable part of our IT infrastructure.”
Robert Wilkinson - Systems Support Specialist, Ku-ring-gai
Council |
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“We had a need for a
simple but effective backup and replication solution. ShadowProtect was
able to accommodate this need. It's smart software at a very reasonable
price.”
Jon Dundas - Manager Administration & Information Technology,
Maitland City Council |
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Moving from a tape-based
storage environment last year to a disk-based one has paid dividends for
retirement village operator, MetLifeCare. MetLifeCare had used several
tape-based packages over the previous 10 years, most recently Symantec
Backup Exec.
“When licensing for that product was up for renewal last year, it was
a good opportunity to consider a new backup system," says Kai Sander, IT
Manager at MetLifeCare.
Implementation was made easier by the fact MetLifeCare was using
VMware and that StorageCraft and VMware are partners, however, even if
MetLifeCare hadn't been a VMware site, "it wouldn't really have mattered
- we would probably still have chosen StorageCraft."
Under the new arrangement, data and key databases are backed up every
quarter of an hour - "and it's proven itself when people have deleted
files and we've got them back within 15 minutes.”
MetLifeCare - Success Story - "I haven't seen anything better" |
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The authority has
implemented the ShadowProtect disk-based backup and disaster recovery
solution from StorageCraft, which has reduced data loss from a typical
18 hours in the event of a computer crash, to only 15 - 30 minutes.
“What previously meant several hours' downtime has been reduced to
minutes with ShadowProtect. We can recover an entire server on to
different hardware and have it fully operational within half an hour.
This represents almost immediate disaster recovery. What has impressed
us most is its hardware independent restore technology, which works
flawlessly and adds only a few minutes to the rebuild process.”
Alvaro also values the technology's ability to test backups using
integration with VMware. He can test backups with a few mouse clicks and
bring up a production server into a non-production virtual environment
to prove that backups have worked correctly. Alvaro Lozano -
Rous Water, Regional Water Supply |
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“We use ShadowProtect IT
Edition as part of our strategy in new desktop deployments. With
ShadowProtect we can image desktops with complex software configurations
and migrate them to the new hardware without having to re-install the
original software. It saves us a considerable amount of time."
"Great solution - Thanks StorageCraft.”
Ann Royston - IT Desktop Administrator, Wyong Shire Council |
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“ShadowProtect is
proving its worth. We are using it to protect critical information on
all of the company servers. By taking a full image on Sundays and
automated hourly incremental backups during the week, we can restore at
any time and on any hardware with minimal data loss in the event of a
disaster.”
Scott Harris - IT Manager, Miller Harris Lawyers |
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“I am a tough IT Manager
to please. It has been a long time since I have seen a product as
versatile and as easy to use as ShadowProtect. With a tight budget and
aging hardware, I sleep better at night knowing my servers are 100%
protected from any sort of failure."
"Never has a software package got me so excited. To perform a bare
metal rebuild of my Domain Controller onto different hardware was
fantastic. To do it in under an hour blew me away. The ease of use with
managing your backups is amazing. The new ways ShadowProtect allows you
to manage data restoration takes disaster recovery to a new level."
"For under $1000 per server, ShadowProtect offers great value for
money and a low TCO. The free training (not that I think anyone needs
it) provides your IT staff with all the knowledge they need to
effortlessly manage and maintain full server protection.”
Geoff King - IT Manager, Sphere Healthcare |
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“ShadowProtect is an
outstanding solution - undefined it has substantially reduced the cost
and complexity of providing backup, recovery and disaster recovery for
all our Windows servers. For years I have struggled with reliable
backups. Other "market leading" products are quite simply too complex
and too expensive. Version 3.0 of ShadowProtect builds on their already
robust engine and makes it an enterprise class technology. The Forever
Incremental technology now enables me to take one base backup and then
only sector based incrementals that are tiny compared to other file
based backup products, as frequently as every 15 minutes undefined now I
can rest assured that I will never again lose more than 15 minutes of
Data, Exchange or SQL transactions after a crash or corruption!"
"I find the Hardware Independent Restore technology a life saver. I
can now migrate a crashed server to a new, totally different server or
virtual environment in literally minutes - amazing. I would recommend
ShadowProtect to any company who has had to deal with traditional backup
problems.”
Karan Mehta - IT Director, B M & Y |
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“When Auckland company
James Odell, which customises cars, was gutted by a fire, it was faced
with a wrecked laptop that contained all the vital information about the
company."
"The laptop was melted and burnt, as well as being water-damaged from
fire hoses, and would have looked to most people as if it was beyond
repair."
"But the company was able to retrieve its valuable data by
using ShadowProtect software and virtualisation technology and was able
to re-open from new premises just days later."
"James Odell contracted Softsource to retrieve the data and also to
rebuild the company's IT infrastructure. This now includes new servers,
PCs and a laptop.”
Planning for the unlikely - and the unthinkable (view
article)
Backup and recovery are imperative to even small businesses |
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“The most important part
of any disaster recovery solution isn't the backup procedure and ease of
use undefined it's the reliability and speed during a restore. We tested
this in a lab with each backup product, but the ultimate test is when
your server is dead (and when users are screaming) and you have to bring
it back online. That's when you really have to trust your software. Make
sure that whichever product is chosen, a lot of testing is done to
ensure it will perform as expected when calamity strikes.”
Editor's Choice Award - 4.5 Stars - APC Magazine, August 2007 |
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“The ShadowProtect
Desktop 3.1 image-backup utility would be worth ten times its
price for the peace of mind it brings. You won't find a better
product in this field."
"This software provides the fastest and smoothest backups and
restores of any drive-image utility on the market, and a
Vista-based emergency disk guarantees compatibility with the widest
range of backup hardware. ShadowProtect Desktop 3.1 is the best such
product and worth ten times its price in terms of peace of mind and
flexibility."
"Fast, reliable image backups to local and network drives. Easy
restores, even to different hardware. Plentiful scheduling and security
options. Can mount images in VMware Workstation or Microsoft Virtual
PC.”
Editor's Choice Award - PC Magazine, January 2008. |
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