Asigra Inc., a cloud backup and recovery software provider, announced a strategic relationship with NetApp that will enable service providers to deploy an integrated hardware-software solution for the delivery of backup and recovery as a service (BRaaS). Asigra enables scalability with security and management for deployments in any size business environment.
“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 beyond. Service providers seeking greater competitive advantage in this evolving market will increasingly rely on the vendors they partner with to help in achieving success,” says Eran Farajun, executive vice president, Asigra.
The Asigra and NetApp BRaaS solution is designed to help service providers rapidly deploy and accelerate time to market. The integrated cloud backup and recovery solution addresses service provider challenges of interoperability, scalability, security, performance and ease-of-use by combining technology from two industry leaders. Asigra and NetApp’s BRaaS solution incorporates such features as:
- Agentless mass deployment and operation
- SLA monitoring and management
- Built-in multi-tiered cloud backup billing system
- 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
- Intelligent backup data ingestion and global data de-duplication
- Single unified storage infrastructure
Public, private and hybrid cloud implementations are all service provider deployment options. Regardless of how the hardware and software are deployed, organizations have an company-wide backup and recovery solution to protect all computing systems and manage under a single application without software agents.
“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,” says 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.”
