Should You Back Up Enterprise Data to the Cloud?

backupnews-140820Insurance Networking News: For individual consumers, the value of cloud-based backup sites — such as Dropbox, Box, Carbonite, and Microsoft OneDrive — can become apparent very quickly, especially if one’s PC hard drive crashes. The idea of backing up files and pictures in the cloud takes a way a lot of worries.

Read this article:

http://www.insurancenetworking.com/blogs/should-you-back-up-enterprise-data-to-the-cloud-34766-1.html

Unitrends introduced New DRaaS Offering

backupnews-140810Unitrends has introduced a new hybrid cloud Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offering, which utilizes the company’s ReliableDR, Unitrends Enterprise Backup, and Unitrends Bridge technologies, and provides an automated business continuity solution that guarantees full recovery of entire IT infrastructures in the cloud within hours of a declared disaster.

The new hybrid cloud DRaaS offering enables customers to perform on-site backups with instant recovery of physical and virtual environments and then continuously replicate their data, systems, and applications to the cloud through Unitrends’ No Limits Cloud service. In the event of a disaster or catastrophic failure, live virtual machines and physical systems are spun up within the same cloud for complete recovery of entire IT infrastructures.

Details:

http://www.channelpronetwork.com/news/unitrends%E2%80%99-new-draas-offering-brings-recovery-assurance-customers

CloudBacko Pro and Lite support Mac OS X backup now

backupnews-140807CloudBacko, a fast growing cloud backup software vendor, today announced the release of its version 1.5.2.0, featuring the support of Mac OS X for their CloudBacko Pro and CloudBacko Lite editions.

“The new storage combination feature is available for all the 3 editions of CloudBacko. Thus, businesses can now use CloudBacko Pro to backup their business servers, virtual machines to the cloud with free storage cost. On the other hand, workstation users can use CloudBacko Lite and home users can use CloudBacko Free to backup their desktops and laptops. Since both Google Drive and OneDrive now offer 15GB free storage, users can simply combine 10 of these free storage accounts to get over 150 GB of free cloud backup space.” said Adeline Wong, CloudBacko Marketing Executive.

Download 30-days free trial:

http://www.cloudbacko.com/en/download-cloudbacko-advanced-cloud-local-server-workstation-amazon-S3-google-backup-software-free-trial.jsp

Arcserve Becomes an Independent Company

bn_20140806Arcserve announced that it began operations on August 1, 2014 as a standalone company following the completion of its sale to Marlin Equity Partners, a global investment firm with over $3 billion of capital under management. Arcserve is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minn., and continues to conduct business and serve its 43,000 customers around the globe.

Details:
http://www.arcserve.com/us/news-and-press/press-releases/2014/arcserve-becomes-an-independent-company.aspx