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All Roads Lead to Rome for
Memopal PC Online Backup
Rome,
Italy - April 22, 2008 - today Memopal announced details of its online
backup service for XP and Vista PCs.
Memopal offers 250GB of space for archiving your files and many
other services for $99 per year. Memopal works in real time. Whenever you
save a file it is backed up online making it available immediately. Memopal
has geographic RAID 5 technology, which provides triple-copy storage in 3
different continents so that files are even protected against natural disasters.
...Memopal profile
Nirvanix Rains on Amazon's S3
SAN DIEGO - April 22, 2008 - Nirvanix
today announced a 30-day free trial promotion for users who want to test its
online storage service.
Nirvanix also announced the
availability of its 'Amazon
S3 Migration Tool' which enables the easy migration of files from an
Amazon Simple
Storage Service account while preserving folder structures.
"For
a company with just 50 terabytes of archived data, for instance, this fee
holiday can mean a setup savings of well over $9,000 to move to the world's
fastest, most reliable cloud storage platform in the world" said Jonathan
Buckley, Chief Marketing Officer with Nirvanix. ...Nirvanix profile
Downtime for Upline?
Editor:-
April 22, 2008 - an article on InformationWeek discusses problems which
led to a shutdown of HP's new online storage service called Upline,
AmeriVault is 10 Years Old
Waltham MA - April 1,
2008 - Today, AmeriVault is celebrating its 10th year in remote
online data backup, offsite storage, and recovery services.
"I'm
extraordinarily proud of where we've come and what we've accomplished,"
said Bud Stoddard, President and CEO of AmeriVault.
In 1998,
AmeriVault pioneered disk-based online backup, founded on the idea that
backup needs to be
automatically secured offsite with the highest reliability. Today AmeriVault
also offers
advanced
recovery services for clients that cannot withstand extended outages in the
event of a disaster, virus, or crash. Traditionally, the recovery process
following a disaster or outage can take several days and requires substantial
investment in labor. AmeriVault's services can help clients resume operations
faster than most other remote recovery strategies.
...AmeriVault
profile
Editor's comments:- that says something about the age
of the whole online backup
and storage market too. We created a directory for this topic in
March 2000. It
looked a bit
like
this - and was quaintly labeled "Edrives" but the term never
caught on.
IDC Says Enterprises Slower to Adopt
Online Backup Services
FRAMINGHAM, Mass
- January 7, 2008 - IDC estimates revenue for the online backup
services market will reach $715 million by 2011, representing a 33.3% compound
annual growth between 2006 and 2011.
IDC anticipates that more than 50% of spending in this market will be
in North America in earlier years, with other regions gaining share through
2011. Adoption by consumers and small businesses will dominate the market for
several years, with slower adoption by medium-sized businesses and enterprises.
"Consumers and small businesses especially are interested in
alternative methods of protecting their data, as
traditional backup
methods fall short regarding efficiency, reliability, and ease-of-use,"
said Doug Chandler, research director for Storage Services at IDC. "Online backup has become
an attractive approach for many customers, with the advent of cheaper broadband
access, users' greater comfort level with Web-based services, and the growing
business need for a 2nd site for remote data protection purposes."
...IDC profile,
Market research
Asigra Announces Milestone - 50,000
Remote Sites Protected
Toronto,
Canada - December 11, 2007 - Asigra Inc. today announced it has
exceeded 50,000 sites being protected by the company's remote and branch office
optimized backup and recovery software.
This equates to hundreds
of thousands of laptops, desktops, workstations, servers and virtual servers.
"Asigra has been solving this problem successfully for more than 20 years"
said Asigra's CEO David Farajun. "...With unprecedented levels of
protection provided without the need to install performance draining agents, a
growing roster of active managed service providers, integrators and VARs are
helping deliver our technology to market. Our long-time experience in this area
is allowing us to revolutionize the way remote sites are efficiently and
securely protected."
...Asigra profile
IBM Acquires Online Backup Company
ARMONK,
N.Y. - December 6, 2007 - IBM today announced a definitive agreement
to acquire Arsenal Digital Solutions.
Financial terms were
not disclosed. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals and other
customary closing conditions. Upon completion of the acquisition, Arsenal will
become part of the BCRS business unit in IBM Global Technology Services. IBM
says Arsenal brings unique capabilities in the
on-line data protection
market, complementing IBM Tivoli's flagship data protection offerings.
...Arsenal Digital
profile Solutions, ...IBM
profile
Nirvanix Expands Exec Team
SAN DIEGO - November 19, 2007 -
Nirvanix today announced the hiring of industry veterans Major
Horton as CFO, Jonathan Buckley as Chief Marketing Officer and Michael
Landesman as VP of IT and Data Center Operations.
"Our
ability to attract top talent to the Nirvanix management team is a clear
indication that we have already achieved an emerging leadership position in the
industry and that there is tremendous business potential in delivering our
innovative Storage Delivery Network to businesses and developers around the
world," said Nirvanix CEO Patrick Harr.
Horton previously served
as the Senior Vice President and CFO of Rackspace Managed Hosting, where he was
responsible for all finance, IT, procurement and change management functions at
the $225 million Internet services company. Prior to Rackspace, Horton held a
variety of Vice President posts at Dell Financial Services.
Buckley
comes to Nirvanix from
PowerFile where he
served as the company's VP of Marketing. Before that as the VP of Marketing for
the software, internetworking and blade switch businesses lines at
McDATA, Buckley's
efforts resulted in a turnaround and 50% year-over-year growth of those business
lines.
Landesman brings more than 20 years of infrastructure and data
center management expertise to Nirvanix. For the past decade, he has held senior
leadership roles overseeing data center operations for Exodus Communications
(acquired by) Cable & Wireless (acquired by) Savvis and Rackspace Managed
Hosting.
...Nirvanix profile,
Storage People
EMC Cozies up to Mozy
HOPKINTON, Mass. - October 4, 2007 -
EMC Corp today announced that it has acquired Berkeley Data
Systems, Inc.
BDS provides
Mozy.com an
online backup service.
The transaction will not have a material impact on EMC revenues or EPS for 2007.
Among Mozy's numerous service accolades this year, Walt Mossberg of The Wall
Street Journal writes that he prefers Mozy; Time Magazine readers ranked
Mozy.com as the #1 website in 2007; Consumer Reports recommended Mozy to readers
on the strength of its feature set and control capabilities; and Smart Computing
gave its "Smart Choice" award to Mozy for its full backup abilities,
ease of use, and private key encryption option.
...EMC profile
Editor's
comments:- that makes 444
gone away storage companies. Not as scary as 666 - but 2/3 of the way there.
ADrive Offers 50GB Free Online Backup
EMERYVILLE, Calif - October 2, 2007 - ADrive
LLC today officially announced and launched its beta online file storage
service offering users up to 50GB of free data storage.
ADrive serves as a centralized, online location for all file types
including photos, videos, music and more. Following the beta stage, users will
continue to receive 50GB of free storage with the option to purchase premium
plans. The premium plans will offer increased storage volume and enhanced
service features such as additional file-sharing and backup functionalities.
...ADrive,
online backup and storage
Editor's
comments:- in the late 1990s there were plenty of
free
online backup sites. At the peak of the dotcom boom those free sites were
sprinkled with online ads - which was the theoretical way they were funded. Then
one day the ads and the sites were gone.
ADrive, founded in 2007,
seems to offer a useful amount of free backup for most consumers, and yes, its
site does have a few ads. But is that enough to make a viable business model if
enough users don't use its forthcoming paid for services? I don't think so. But
it's a good way for a new company to get noticed.
Storage Elements Re-Launches as
Digitiliti
MINNEAPOLIS
– September 10, 2007 – Digitiliti Inc. announced today its
re-launch as a provider of on-demand backup services.
The company
first launched in 2003 as a software developer and hardware integrator under the
name Storage Elements but has since repositioned itself to focus solely on
servicing the storage needs of enterprise-level accounts. With primary off-site
vaulting to a former U.S. Federal Reserve bank and redundant replication to a
second secure location, customers' data is fully protected with no media or
transmission loss.
...Digitiliti
profile
CoreVault Chooses ONStor to Replicate
Online Backup
CAMPBELL,
Calif - July 30, 2007 - it was announced today that CoreVault has
chosen ONStor's Bobcat NAS Gateway as the foundational disaster
recovery solution for its customers.
CoreVault purchased one high availability cluster of ONStor Bobcats
for their primary production site and one single node for their secondary site,
thereby establishing a disaster recovery centre that provides failover
capabilities to protect their online backup and recovery business. The company
implemented ONStor Mirror software to replicate data from their primary data
centre to their secondary facility, approximately 150 miles away, via a Gigabit
Ethernet connection. CoreVault needed to replicate data to a secondary site far
enough away from the primary site to meet or exceed their customers' demands for
security and disaster protection. ...CoreVault profile,
...ONStor profile
Editor's
comments:- in the
UK this
month - the widespread flooding caused by the wettest July in over 300
years showed that backup
strategies have to include more than just media choices. In the following
weeks many companies will have to turn to
Data Recovery
companies to wring data from drowned servers and backups if they didn't have
online backup.
RBS Doubles Size of Online Backup HQ
Memphis, TN - July 25, 2007 - Remote
Backup Systems Inc. is doubling the physical space of its international
headquarters and doubling its staff of developers and backup support personnel.
The company says this follows the most successful quarter in the
company's history with record shipments of its RBackup online backup software.
Founded in 1987, RBS has shipped its online backup software solution to more
than 1.5 million clients in 68 countries.
...Remote
Backup Systems profile
Asigra Summarizes Typical Online Backup
Service Needs
Editor:-
July 17, 2007 - Asigra Inc. today published a market model which
summarizes the typical online backup needs of customers segmented by company
size.
This is the most useful classification of online backup
needs I've seen.
Consumers and SOHOs:- (1 to 5 machines) generally have one
site to protect; run Windows or Mac systems; have less than 15GB of data to back
up at one time, mostly in the form of files; and a maximum recovery time
objective of about one week. This group typically needs only email support and
is very price conscious (under $20 per month); in fact, price is usually the
primary motivating factor in selecting a backup service.
SMBs:- (6-499 employees) can have as much as 3TB of data to be backed
up, including files, applications (usually Windows-based), and network data. The
data being backed up is mission-critical and its loss can have a negative impact
on the company's bottom line. Many SMBs use major platforms, including Windows,
Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and Novell, and these systems need to be included in the
backup process. Recovery time requirements for this group range from 24 to 72
hours, a significant differentiator from the consumer/SOHO group. SMBs demand
both phone and onsite support and typically look for service fees balanced
against business value. This group most often selects service packages between
$150 and $500 per month, depending upon their environment. Price is only one
factor this market considers in selecting a managed backup provider: the service
provider's reputation and references also play a key role in the selection
process.
The needs of mid-market (500+ employees) and enterprises
(1,000+ employees) limit the number of managed service providers that can
realistically address this market. Large enterprises need everything that SMBs
need and then some. The data load is typically no less than 3TB and often
hundreds of terabytes.
Enterprises typically have 10 or more remote
locations and a recovery time objective of less than 24 hours. The data being
backed up can have an enormous financial impact in the current regulatory
climate, especially for public companies. Phone and onsite support are
essential, as is local disk-based (onsite) backup for near-instant data
recovery. Large enterprises also require consistent service in multiple
languages, globally located backup vaults and offsite disaster recovery centers
for relocation of personnel in the event of a catastrophe.
...Asigra profile,
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What are
Digital Vaults? - article by Cyber-Ark Software
Digital
Vaults enable users across the internet to share access to sensitive information
in a simple secure way.
This article by Cyber-Ark gives a brief
overview on digital vaults and looks at why they are growing in popularity.
...read the
article,
...Cyber-Ark Software
profile,
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| the
Fastest Growing Storage Companies |
This
is the 6th annual edition of this popular article, and is compiled from
analyzing the reported results from the top 1,000 storage companies.
The
top 3 companies had over 300% year on year revenue growth.
If
you're looking to team with successful storage companies or want to emulate
their success, this article will tell you who they are and the market segments
they are in. ...read
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Flash
Memory vs. Hard Disk Drives - Which Will Win? - article by Semico Research
There's
a confusing picture in many consumer products like phones, cameras and music
players in which one day it seems that the storage function is done by flash
and next day another company announces they're doing the same thing with
miniature hard disks.
Is there any sense to this seemingly random
choice?
This article uses pricing trends, technology trends and
unique market analysis insights to show that users and oems may be able to
reliably predict which storage devices will be most cost effective depending
where you are on the future history curve. ...read the article,
Hard disk drives,
Flash Memory,
Market research,
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Dispelling
the Myths of Online Server Backup & Recovery - article by AmeriVault
What's
the impression that comes to your mind when someone mentions - web based
backup?
For years this segment has had a flaky image, due to the rush
of get-rich-quick dotcoms that rushed into web backup around the turn of the
millenium, with unrealistic business plans. Most of them vanished without out
trace not long after.
Well, it's time to revise that image for two
reasons. Firstly, the online backup companies which are still around in 2006 are
those which survived the cold winds of recession which blew away the
fly-by-night operators. Today's internet backup companies survive and thrive
because they offer sound services to real customers. Secondly, this type of
service is now an established part of the storage landscape and is not going to
go away. This article dispells some of the myths about internet backup from the
viewpoint of that experience. ...read the article,
...AmeriVault profile,
Web based backup and
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