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