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Lakeview Launches Vaulting Services with Partners
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| WARWICK, R.I. and EMERYVILLE, Calif., Nov. 14, 2006 - SafeData, LLC, a technology company focused on the data security and disaster recovery needs of small
and midsize organizations, today announced its partnership with EVault, Inc., the experts in secure, online backup and recovery solutions. EVault's Internet-based backup
technology will be a key component of the SafeData disaster recovery (SafeData/DR) solution, enabling organizations to meet their business continuity requirements. |
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| EVault provides online (disk-to-disk) backup solutions to protect its clients' mission-critical data. When clients suffer data loss or disaster, EVault automatically sends
the client's data to SafeData's Medford, Mass. state-of-the-art data center where the data are loaded onto a secure server. The clients are then able to immediately access their
data through a virtual private network (VPN) until their own servers are operational again. |
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| "EVault is the leader in online data protection solutions and an obvious partner for our disaster recovery solution," said Peter Briggs, president of SafeData. "They have a stable
Internet-based backup that enables companies to easily and securely protect their data. With EVault as part of our disaster recovery offering, we are now able to help companies gain more
rapid access to their data and easily transfer the data back to their servers after a disaster. EVault also supports the iSeries computing platform, which is the chosen platform for most
of our clients. This is a rarity in the vaulting industry and solidified our decision to partner with them." |
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| "SafeData has been designated an EVault Platinum Partner, our highest level, because of the significant value their disaster recovery technology offers our clients," said Tony Barbagallo,
VP of Marketing at EVault. "Our solutions truly complement each other, providing our clients with a complete disaster recovery solution. We look forward to further building our relationship with
SafeData and jointly offering peace of mind to organizations concerned about their data." |
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| SafeData/DR is a reliable disaster recovery service for companies with a recovery time objective of 10 hours or less. SafeData/DR provides point-in- time capture of changed data through the Internet
and stores them off-site. The incremental data are compressed and encrypted to make this process efficient and cost-effective. In the event of a failure, SafeData would perform a disk-to-disk restore of the
client's data to a standby server in one of its data centers, enabling the client to be up and running within the recovery time objective. The lower cost of both the middleware and hardware makes SafeData/DR
a cost-effective solution for companies who do not need high availability. |
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| Lakeview, however, says that its MIMIX Vault is different because it will encompass so many partners from so many different industries, such as AgVantage and Avnet, who will offer the vaulting service to
complement their regular software and services. "We looked at some of the current trends in the marketplace, one of them being the uptake in SMB purchasing," Vesely says. "This plays directly into that market,
and our partner network allows us to capture a portion of that market very quickly." |
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| In AgVantage's case, the ISV bought an i5 520 that runs the vault in a remote location. One third of the machine is dedicated to its software customers, who have MIMIX solutions installed on their own iSeries
and backup their operations to the 520. A second third backs up data for customers of AgVantage's application service provider (ASP) business, and the remaining third serves as a recovery system that customers can
work from in case of a disaster. |
| MIMIX Vault services support i5/OS, AIX, Windows, and Linux and can be custom-fit to the customers' needs using MIMIX HA1 or DR1. "We're not a one-trick pony," Vesely says. In addition to supplying the software
used by its partners, Lakeview gives guidelines to its partners outlining how the service should work, it helps to pitch the idea to the partners' customers, and it helps partners to draft disaster-recovery plans for
their customers. |
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