Acronis Inc. is revitalizing its reseller program, with a wide ranging set of channel offerings to increase reseller margins to as much as 30 percent and distributing in excess of $7 million of qualified leads to business partners.
Month August 2009
EMC Launches Academic Alliance Program
The EMC Academic Alliance program, a collaboration with colleges and universities worldwide, was created to address the skills gap resulting from the growing volume and complexity of data . This sharp increase in data creation and the heightened importance of storing, protecting, and managing it, has elevated information storage as a central function of the IT infrastructure.
There is no cost to the institution to join EMC Academic Alliance. EMC offers the unique ‘open’ Information Storage and Management (ISM) course as part of our commitment to global citizenship and social investment, – sharing our expertise with educational, governmental, and social institutions, so more people around the world can access and share knowledge and ideas.
Details: https://education.emc.com/academicalliance/default.aspx
Mozy Released a Physical Storage vs. Digital Storage Graph
Mozy wants to show you how data storage has changed over the years. It’s pretty mind-blowing.
Mozy stores the equivalent of 1000 libraries of CongressDetails: http://www.mozy.com/blog/misc/physical-storage-vs-digital-storage/
Arkeia and FalconStor Team Up to Deliver Seamless Backup and Restore of Deduplicated Data Volumes
Arkeia Software, a worldwide provider of backup and disaster recovery software, and FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC), the provider of TOTALLY Open™ data protection solutions, today announced a broad sales, marketing and technology partnership to deliver fast and flexible backup and restores of deduplicated data sets across deployment modes. The foundation of the partnership is the completion of rigorous testing and validation between FalconStor® Virtual Tape Library (VTL) Virtual Appliance and Arkeia Network Backup v8 backup software, ensuring seamless operation between the enterprise-class deduplication and backup solutions as virtual appliances.
Details: http://www.arkeia.com/company/PR/Arkeia-PR-Arkeia-and-FalconStor-Team-Up-2009-0427-EN.php
GreenSoft Solutions, Inc., R1Soft Partner to Provide High-Speed Backup Service
GreenSoft Solutions, Inc. (“GSI”), a leading provider of PCI compliant and managed hosting services, today announced they have joined the R1Soft Hosting Partner Program (R1HPP). Along with their hosting services, GSI offers secure, off-site backups for Linux, Windows, and MySQL featuring R1Soft’s Continuous Data Protection (CDP) backup technology.
BackupAgent Launches Instruction Video: SQL Server Restore
This video focuses on the Restore of MS SQL Server databases. It shows how to conduct a disaster recovery with the remotely backed up SQL Server data.
Details: http://www.backupagent.com/en/blog/archive/2009/08/26/instruction_video_part_10:_sql_server_restore
CUBE Global Storage Partners with Atempo to Protect High-Value Client Data
Atempo, Inc., a leading provider of cross-platform data protection and archiving solutions, today announced a partnership with CUBE Global Storage, one of the world’s most secure off-site records management and storage facilities, to provide its backup, recovery and archiving software solutions as online services. CUBE relies on Atempo Time Navigator and Atempo Live Backup to provide its security-minded clients with a high level of data protection service for their high-value digital assets.
RBS Virtual Hosting
RBS Virtual Hosting is an alternative to purchasing your own hardware and software to operate an Online Backup service. You distribute a custom branded version of our industry leading Online Backup Client software to your customers, and they back up to RBS’ data centers. You maintain your own customer relationships, determine your own end-user pricing, and distribute software with your own branding.
New 6.3.1 versions of Handy Backup and Handy Backup Server
Handy Backup has made noticeable improvements and fixes to MS SQL Server Backup and DB2 Backup plug-ins. Now you can back up MSSQL databases that are physically located on networked workstations (on a client-server scheme, using Handy Backup Server). Local DB2 backup issues have been resolved and the functionality has been restored in the program.
They also introduced new free plug-ins for backing up popular applications:
Nomadesk Launches On-Demand File Sharing Software to SMBs and Virtual Teams in the U.S.
Nomadesk, the easiest and most secure on-demand file sharing software, today announced its entrance into the U.S. market. Nomadesk 3.0 brings the power of cloud computing to small and medium-sized businesses, while alleviating the hassles and minimizing the high costs of managing, sharing, backing up, securing and synchronizing confidential project files. Whether you are online or offline, working at the office or on the road, Nomadesk allows business teams to secure, sync and share data with no limits or change in behavior. Each virtual file server acts just like a hard drive, storing important documents in one place with local and remote access from a PC, Mac or iPhone. Users simply drag and drop their docs into the Nomadesk virtual file server, and files are immediately encrypted, backed up and available for file sharing.
Details: http://www.nomadesk.com/about/news/
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