Back in April, we had some fun and created our first video about two online backup brothers, Cloud and On-Premise. The last time we saw them, they had put aside their long-simmering sibling rivalry to embrace each other’s strengths and form a hybrid on-premise/Cloud backup solution.
In the latest episode, will their new found brotherly love fall apart as Cloud and On-Premise seek the affection of Lady Customer?
Check out the video below to see what happens and please let us know what you think:
Another big week for EVault® for Microsoft® System Center Data Protection Manager (EVault for DPM) as we announced that The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles selected EVault for DPM for their cross-platform, online backup needs, and also saw the Twittershere and Blogosphere heat up with discussions about ESG Lab’s review of our all-in-one backup and recovery solution for Microsoft-centric, mixed computing environments.
The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles is a nonprofit committed to caring for Jews in need, ensuring the Jewish future and engaging in the community in Los Angeles, Israel and around the world. The Jewish Federation deployed two EVault for DPM backup and recovery appliances to extend DPM 2010 into all IT environments with offsite protection against site disasters as well. As the press release states:
The primary appliance is protecting Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, and a VMware® virtual environment. The second appliance will be housed in another location, allowing the Federation to securely send the backup data offsite for disaster recovery. Previously, The Jewish Federation had used tape-based processes that did not fully support the newest generation of Microsoft applications, such as Exchange 2010, and provide seamless integration with VMware. Now with EVault for DPM, The Jewish Federation has a true disk-to-disk solution that will enable the organization to accelerate their backup windows and the time it takes for them to recover their critical applications.
As for the ESG Lab review, it’s been popping up at the ESG and InfoStor websites and System Center/DPM guru Jason Buffington (@jbuff) at Microsoft blogged about it here pulling this nugget from the review:
When ESG asked users to name their priorities for data protection investment in 2010, the top four responses were: improving disaster recovery capabilities, backup of virtual server environments, improving application backup, and desktop/laptop backup and recovery. EVault for DPM provides the capability to address all of these needs for small to mid-size customers.
A couple of weeks ago we launched the EVault Cloud-Connected Service Provider (CCSP) program, enabling Value Added Resellers (VARs) to offer their own Cloud backup and recovery service that is both powered AND protected by EVault.
The program has been taking the channel community by storm as both partners and the press are recognizing it as a unique channel offering that packages EVault technology and best practices to help participating VARs quickly build a profitable, multi-tenant, Cloud-based data protection service-backed by i365 expertise, EVault technology, and the EVault Cloud.
The latest to recognize EVault CCSP as bringing a viable Cloud business model to the channel is CRN, which recently wrote in “The 10 Biggest Storage Stories of 2010“:
This past year saw the words “cloud” and “storage” paired together more times than anyone can count as vendors unveiled initiatives to help business customers move their data to public and/or private clouds, usually with the help of solution providers.
For instance, i365, a Seagate company, unveiled in November its EVault Cloud-Connected Service Provider program which provides solution providers a storage appliance and software to build a storage cloud for customers tied to another cloud for redundancy.
Keep your eyes out on this space as we’re only just getting started…..
