NAKIVO Inc. announced that its NAKIVO Backup & Replication has achieved VMware Ready status. This designation indicates that after a detailed validation process NAKIVO Backup & Replication has achieved VMware’s highest level of endorsement, and can be found on the VMware Solution Exchange (VSX) at https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/products/nakivo-backup-replication
Day January 5, 2013
Unitrends Reports Explosive Growth and 16th Consecutive Record Quarter with 96% Sales Growth in Q4 and 98%+ Customer Satisfaction Rating in 2012
Company surpasses milestone of 15,000 downloads of Unitrends Enterprise Backup Free Edition since June; more than 1,400 interested IT staff register for a preview of Unitrends 7.0
Unitrends announced that the company experienced double digit revenue growth in 2012 – the best year in the company’s 24-year history. Q4 2012 marked the company’s 16th consecutive quarter of record growth, with 96% sales growth and 288% channel sales growth.
Unitrends achieved dramatic growth in Q4 and throughout 2012. Strong leadership, innovative and market-leading technologies, unrivaled customer support, aggressive competitive replacement programs and go-to-market initiatives all propelled the company to success. Highlights include:
- 96% growth in sales Q4 2012 over Q4 2011, and 88% growth 2012 over 2011.
- 288% growth in channel sales Q4 2012 over Q4 2011, and 104% growth 2012 over 2011.
- More than 390 new customers signed across industries, including banking, government, healthcare and higher education, in Q4 2012.
- Unrivaled customer support evidenced by the company’s 98%-plus customer satisfaction rate. Attributing to this ranking is the fact that, on average, customer support phone calls are answered in three rings or less.
- More than 15,000 downloads of Unitrends Enterprise Backup Free Edition, the software-only version of the company’s Recovery Series of physical appliances, since the solution launched in June 2012.
- Channel staff within Unitrends grew by 100% 2012 over 2011, and the number of channel representatives supporting Unitrends grew by 154% 2012 over 2011.
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Zetta.net unveils 2013 predictions for online backup and recovery
Zetta.net unveiled five predictions for the online backup and recovery market for 2013, all pointing to the broader adoption of online backup in more industries and the extinction of hardware backup appliances. From education and government, to SMBs and large enterprises with distributed office locations, online backup will become mainstream as organizations seek hassle-free, lower cost reliable solutions.
The five predictions are:
1. Online backup will become dominant in SMB, education, and local government
2. Appliance dinosaurs give way to hybrid backup 2.0
3. High-performance enterprise online server backup will establish its own category
4. Integrated backup, disaster recovery and archiving make data protection achievable for SMBs
5. Large enterprises will leverage online backup vendors for distributed offices
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