Infographic by CloudBacko: How to make Google Drive 10X better for backup

I think this is an interesting infographic created by CloudBacko that shows how their product can improve the usefulness of Google Drive.

Check it out:
http://www.cloudbacko.com/blog/how-to-make-google-drive-10x-better-for-backup/

BackupAgent has joined the Acronis family

With this acquisition, existing Acronis and BackupAgent partners will receive the most complete data protection solution to offer to their customers, and the existing 50 thousand customers of BackupAgent will enjoy the most complete, flexible and user-friendly cloud backup service.

Read the details at: http://www.backupagent.com/acronis

Zettabackup Youtube: "Server Image Backup: WAN-Optimized Cloud Backup Solution"

Chris Schin and Storage Switzerland catch up on using WAN optimization for no-appliance image backup, simpler restores through native Windows technology and how VHD enables a better BMR.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adyg_NxTcUk

A cool Youtube video: "Webinar: Go from backup pain to gain!"

Hear how Hutchins School has gained peace of mind with a combination of on premise and Cloud Backup and DR!

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHwS0Vd8W4g

Acronis Opens New Data Centers in Asia and Europe to Deliver Localized Cloud Storage

Acronis announced it has opened four new data centers in Asia and Europe in addition to already working datacenters in the US and France. The new data centers, located in in Germany; Japan; Russia and Singapore, bring secure, localized data protection to Asian and European businesses that are concerned about the privacy and security of their data.

“Today, businesses feel apprehensive about storing their data in regions far from their own,” said Stanislav Protassov, Acronis co-founder and senior VP of engineering and R&D. “Following the recent NSA scandal, the concerns associated with storing data have become more pronounced, as businesses and consumers alike look for more local and secure data protection services. Due to these demands, we have made the logical step to open an entire network of data centers in Asia and Europe, giving businesses in those areas exactly what they want—the ability to store their data in their own region.”

Details:
http://www.acronis.com/en-us/pr/2014/08/28-18-57.html

NAKIVO Helps Protect Decentralized Datacenters Running VMware Essentials

NAKIVO Inc. announced that customers can now order an unlimited number of licenses for NAKIVO Backup & Replication Pro and Enterprise for VMware Essentials.

"With more than one third of business data residing outside of centralized datacenters, the demand by our customers and prospects to protect their remote locations is growing exponentially," said Bruce Talley, CEO and co-founder of NAKIVO. "In response to this demand, NAKIVO Backup & Replication Pro and Enterprise for VMware Essentials are now available with no socket limits. Now VMware Essentials users can protect more of their vSphere Essentials, Essentials Plus, and Essentials ROBO environments with a lower TCO."

Details:

http://www.nakivo.com/Resources/news/NAKIVO_Helps_Protect_Decentralized_Datacenters_Running_VMware_Essentials.htm

CloudBerry Backup with AWS IAM Users for Amazon Glacier

From CloudBerry Lab's blog: CloudBerry Backup and CloudBerry Explorer provide users with an ability to leverage Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) service that allows to create multiple users for one AWS account and specify access rights for each user.
Below is a brief guide on how to:

• Use CloudBerry Explorer to configure multiple users with limited access to Amazon Glacier account
• Generate individual Access and Secret Keys for each user in CloudBerry Explorer
• Сonfigure CloudBerry Backup to use AWS IAM user account.

Details:
http://www.cloudberrylab.com/blog/cloudberry-backup-with-aws-iam-users-for-amazon-glacier/

Unitrends DRaaS Available to Resellers Now

Unitrends DRaaS backup appliance solution is now available through Tech Data’s TDCloud business unit in the company’s Solution Store.Tech Data Corporation is now offering Unitrends Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) to its extensive network of more than 115,000 resellers.

“Our agreement with Tech Data tremendously expands our channel presence by making Unitrends DRaaS available to a vast reseller base,” says Bob Gagnon, Unitrends’ vice president of channel sales. “We are making a best-in-class managed service available for purchase on a subscription basis. And, doing so through Tech Data’s Solutions Store enables us to greatly simplify the ordering process for our IT channel.”

Details:
http://www.channelpronetwork.com/news/unitrends-draas-now-available-resellers-through-tech-data%E2%80%99s-solutions-store

Unitrends’ New DRaaS Offering Brings Recovery Assurance to Customers

Unitrends 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 now supports Mac OS X

CloudBacko, 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

Veeam Continues Strong Performance Record Reporting Overall Growth of 30 Percent for the First Six Months of 2014

Veeam released Q2 2014 results, reporting overall growth of 30 percent for the first half of 2014 over the corresponding period last year. The second quarter of 2014 marks Veeam’s 26th consecutive quarter in which quarterly total bookings revenue has experienced double-digit percentage growth over the same period during the previous year. With more than 111,500 customers, Veeam now protects over 6.5 million virtual machines around the world.

“Enterprise IT's growing demand for 24/7 business operations continues to fuel Veeam’s growth and increased market share,” said Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam. “The second quarter capped a solid first half of the year for Veeam with strong revenue growth, several new product announcements, and consistent growth of our partner ecosystem. As we enter the second half of 2014, we anticipate a continued growth trajectory as a result of the general availability of the new Veeam Availability Suite v8 and our ability to continuously innovate and execute in response to the new era of data center challenges our customers are facing. In conjunction with virtualization, the cloud and other enabling technologies, the new Veeam Availability Suite will further enhance the ability of our customers to achieve a complete modern data center and ensure their critical applications remain always on from any place, at any time, on any device.”

Details:
http://www.veeam.com/news/veeam-continues-strong-performance-reporting-overall-growth-of-30percent-for-1h-2014.html

Vembu released new FileShare for Android & iOS devices

With the latest version of the Android and iOS FileShare app, there’s lots more to experience so go ahead and read through to get a quick glimpse of it. Vembu has completely redesigned Vembu FileShare mobile apps for Android smartphones and tablets, iPods, iPhones and iPads with two key ideas in mind: 1) make the mobile apps extremely simple, user-friendly and intuitive 2) improve the overall performance and stability of the app.

Details:
http://blog.vembu.com/experience-the-refreshed-vembu-fileshare-for-android-ios/

New Veeam Management Pack v7 for System Center with Support for Microsoft Hyper-V Now Available

Veeam announced that the new Veeam Management Pack (MP) version 7 for System Center is now generally available. Veeam MP v7 adds Microsoft Hyper-V support, providing full app-to-metal visibility within Microsoft System Center for both the Hyper-V and VMware vSphere layers to proactively monitor and alert IT of issues before they affect operations. Veeam has also introduced the full-featured Enterprise Plus and the Enterprise edition to meet the different IT management needs and budgets of System Center users.

Veeam MP v7 extends System Center Operations Manager’s features to deliver complete visibility of virtual and physical infrastructures and their dependencies. IT managers receive the monitoring, analysis and planning tools needed to quickly resolve issues, make informed decisions and meet the 24/7 availability needs of today’s business.

Details:
http://www.veeam.com/news/new-veeam-management-pack-v7-for-system-center-with-support-for-microsoft-hyper-v-now-available.html

NETGEAR and StorageCraft co-release ReadyRECOVER backup and recovery appliance

NETGEAR announced ReadyRECOVER, a new addition to their innovative ReadyDATA unified storage (NAS/SAN) platform. ReadyRECOVER is a backup appliance built to run exclusively with the ReadyDATA family of storage appliances. With ReadyRECOVER, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are able to create full backups of servers, desktops and laptops every 15 minutes that can be independently used to quickly and reliably restore files, folders, databases or systems to any platform, physical or virtual. For the first time, businesses can confidently back up their data forever, without ever needing inefficient and time-consuming periodic full system backups.

NETGEAR is the first technology provider to enable incremental backups as full restore points delivering extremely simple recovery point management. ReadyRECOVER integration of the ReadyDATA storage appliance with award-winning ShadowProtect backup and disaster recovery software from StorageCraft Technology Corporation (http://www.storagecraft.com/) results in each incremental snapshot functioning as a full recovery point, but consuming a minimal amount of storage space. In addition, each snapshot captures the entire system, the Microsoft Windows OS, and all settings and data for a rapid full system recovery.

Details:
http://www.storagecraft.com/blog/netgear-storagecraft-simplify-data-backup-recovery-new-readyrecover-appliance/

ReadyRECOVER:
http://www.netgear.com/business/products/storage/readydata/readyrecover.aspx

Ahsay released version 6.19 of their managed backup software

Ahsay released v6.19 of their AhsayOBM, AhsayACB, AhsayOBS, AhsayRPS, AhsayRDR and v2.19 of AhsayUBS. The new version now supports VMware Player 6.0, VMware Fusion 6, Oracle Database 12c, and Lotus Domino 9.

Details:
http://www.ahsay.com/jsp/en/home/index.jsp?pageContentKey=ahsay_about-us_latest-news

Jolicloud released Drive, a new way to manage online storages

Jolicloud announced the release of its new app, Drive. Drive is a new way to access all your files and manage all your storages in the cloud. “We see drive as the missing file system for the cloud everybody has been waited for. Our lives are stored in multiple services but until now there was no easy way to access everything in one place. Today we are making our work available to our 1.5 million users but also to all Chrome and Chromebook users around the world.” says Tariq Krim, CEO and founder of Jolicloud.

Details:
https://www.jolicloud.com/assets/files/2014-06-17-drive-by-jolicloud.pdf

CloudBacko Youtube: How to get unlimited free cloud backup space

A step by step guide to teach you how to get unlimited cloud storage space for backup large data produced by CloudBacko.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7szmDoTjRks

StorageCraft offers free data backup, disaster recovery software to businesses impacted by tornadoes, flooding in South, Midwest

Businesses and non-profit organizations in areas of the Southern and Midwestern United States that were affected by this week’s destructive tornadoes and floods are being offered a free three-day version of backup and disaster recovery software from StorageCraft Technology Corporation. The free download offer is for StorageCraft ShadowProtect IT Edition and is available for affected areas in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Tennessee.

Once accessed, the award-winning software gives users three days to backup and recover an unlimited number of laptops, desktops and servers, even if ShadowProtect wasn’t installed on the machine prior to the disaster. ShadowProtect IT Edition will help affected organizations in their efforts to regain or maintain business continuity in the aftermath of these natural disasters.

Details:
http://www.storagecraft.com/blog/storagecraft-offers-free-data-backup-disaster-recovery-software-businesses-impacted-tornadoes-flooding-south-midwest/

NAKIVO Introduces Enterprise 6-Pack Bundle for VMware Essentials Shops

NAKIVO Inc., the leader in virtualization data protection, has introduced today the new edition of their NAKIVO Backup & Replication: Enterprise for VMware Essentials. The new edition has the same feature set as the Enterprise edition, but is designed to work only with VMware Essentials and Essentials Plus editions of vSphere.

Priced at just $299 per socket, the new edition is the most affordable data protection solution for SMBs running VMware Essentilas kits that enables to protect virtual infrastr

uctures leveraging enterprise-level data protection features.

Aiming to provide the most affordable data protection software, NAKIVO also introduces a special promotion: SMBs can purchase a 6 license bundle of NAKIVO Backup & Replication v3.9 Enterprise for VMware Essentials edition at just $999. More details are available at www.nakivo.com/enterprise-essentials.htm

Details:
http://www.nakivo.com/Resources/news/NAKIVO_Introduces_Enterprise_6-Pack_Bundle_for_VMware_Essentials_Shops.htm