TORONTO-March 2, 2010-Asigra
Inc., a leading Cloud Backup™ and recovery software provider
since 1986, today announced a strategic relationship with NetApp
that will enable service providers to deploy a tightly integrated
hardware-software solution for the delivery of backup and recovery
as a service (BRaaS). As the leading software technology supporting
the NetApp® BRaaS solution, Asigra enables scalability for
deployments in any size business environment with the security and
advanced management required for enterprise-class cloud backup
services. The result is a single, unified cloud backup and recovery
solution that empowers service providers to meet demanding
service-level agreements while improving storage infrastructure
efficiencies.
"As the adoption of cloud computing services
continues to rise, it is clear that backup will be among the top
applications considered for implementation in 2010 and
beyond1. Service providers seeking greater competitive
advantage in this evolving market will increasingly rely on the
vendors they partner with to help in achieving success," said Eran
Farajun, Executive Vice President, Asigra. "Asigra and NetApp are
perfectly matched from both a technology and business partnering
model with service provider programs that redefine the
vendor-partner experience. As a result of our strategic alignment,
service providers not only benefit from the best-of-breed
technology currently available, but from years of experience that
could enhance their prosperity."
The Asigra and NetApp BRaaS solution is
designed to help service providers rapidly deploy and accelerate
time to market of the industry's most feature-rich cloud backup
solution. The integrated cloud backup and recovery solution
addresses service provider challenges of interoperability,
scalability, security, performance and ease-of-use by combining
production-hardened technology from two industry leaders. Asigra
and NetApp's BRaaS solution incorporates advanced features that
include:
- Agentless mass deployment and operation
- Full-featured SLA monitoring and management
- Built-in multi-tiered cloud backup billing system
- High-level security with FIPS 140-2 certification
- Unrestricted protection of all physical and virtual computing
systems - from the laptop to the datacenter
- Grid-based scalability across vault and customer environments
for unlimited growth
- Intelligent backup data ingestion and global data
de-duplication for maximum cloud efficiency
- Single unified storage infrastructure for fast time-to-market
and leading efficiencies
Another advantage of the Asigra and NetApp
BRaaS solution is the vast installation and configuration
flexibility that service providers now have. Public, private and
hybrid cloud implementations are all service provider deployment
options. Regardless of how the hardware and software are deployed,
organizations have an enterprise-wide backup and recovery solution
to protect all computing systems and manage under a single
application without the added expense, security issues and hassle
of countless software agents.
In conjunction with the solution's
best-of-breed technology are the corresponding business processes
and best practices of how to bring a profitable cloud backup
service to market quickly, from a single storage infrastructure,
and with the best ROI. As part of this relationship Asigra and
NetApp will share more than two decades of experience in working
with service providers, which will support service providers
globally in delivering the market's most compelling cloud backup
offering.
"NetApp and Asigra are teaming to power BRaaS
for the industry's leading service providers. The formation of this
strategic relationship and resulting solution came from our joint
efforts in addressing service provider and customer demands for a
better way to protect their critical information," said Patrick
Rogers, vice president of Solutions and Alliances, NetApp. "Our
joint offering will enable service providers to rapidly deploy
BRaaS using a unified, scalable storage infrastructure to implement
highly reliable, yet cost-effective BRaaS solutions."
"The Asigra and NetApp BRaaS solution
eliminates the need to manage different backup tools to protect
both physical and virtual environments as well as business
applications. Instead, the single integrated solution unifies all
backup and recovery processes to reduce complexity and keep support
requirements to a minimum," said Daniel Milburn, Senior Vice
President and Chief Operating Officer of Hosting and Infrastructure
Services for Consonus, an IT solutions provider using the Asigra
and NetApp solution to deliver cloud backup services. "From a
service provider perspective, Asigra and NetApp have gotten the
model right by providing great technology and enabling their MSPs
to deliver the service component for a 100% solution
partner-focused approach."
"This is a perfect melding of two exceedingly
synergistic companies with business models and technologies that
are very complementary," said Lauren Whitehouse, Senior Analyst for
Enterprise Strategy Group. "With cloud backup being identified as
one of the top services to be deployed by MSPs over the next
several years, the pairing of Asigra and NetApp presents an
excellent combination of brand, experience and technology to help
service providers execute effectively on the growing market
opportunity."
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About Asigra: The Cloud Backup
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Leading organizations reduce costs by applying cloud computing to
backup and recovery with efficient,
cost-effective and
transformational solutions from Asigra. Customers
consistently redirect savings derived from our approach to projects
of higher strategic and personal value, many of which have been
on-hold for a year or more. The positive business outcomes made
possible from a low touch agentless architecture deliver enormous
value with little up-front investment. The company and its products
have been widely acclaimed by leading partners such as CDW, HP,
NetApp and SunGard as well as renowned Global 2000 enterprises.
Asigra is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices globally.
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1IDC, Cloud Computing 2010, an
IDC Update, Doc # IDC_P20476, , September 29, 2009