BPI Information Systems Protects The Heterogeneous Data For 35 Customers Using Unitrends

Columbia, SC (PRWEB) January 13, 2010

Unitrends (unitrends.com), the leader in affordable, heterogeneous D2D (Disk-to-Disk) and D2D2D (Disk-to-Disk-to-Disk)-based data protection backup appliances, today announced that BPI Information Systems, a growing systems integrator and managed services provider (MSP) in Ohio, has optimized the delivery of backup and disaster recovery services for the heterogeneous data of 35 separate customers using Unitrends D2D data protection backup appliances.

Headquartered in Brecksville, Ohio near Cleveland and established in 1976, BPI Information Systems has served as a cornerstone for the IT Industry in Northeast Ohio. Privately owned, BPI Information Systems specializes in the design, installation, support, and emergency repair of network solutions for business, government and education. In 2005, BPI Information Systems realized that companies of all sizes need to protect their valuable business systems and data around the clock with full-featured cost-effective solutions. In response to this need, BPI Information Systems began to develop a new services offering: a backup service that would simplify, accelerate, and automate both local and remote backup.

Knowing that its customers each rely on multiple operating systems, BPI Information Systems needed a solution that would offer rapid recovery and complete restoration for most operating systems, especially Windows, NetWare and Linux platforms. The growing MSP selected Unitrends D2D data protection backup appliances because they were the only disk-based solution to offer automatic transfer of backups to an offsite location for affordable distributed disaster recovery that supported the wide range of operating platforms and applications used by BPI Information Systems customers.

We installed 35 Unitrends units at our customers sites that we manage every single day, said Scott D’Amore, senior systems engineer, BPI Information Systems. Since deploying Unitrends the backup window has gotten shorter for our customers; Unitrends backs up a lot quicker than tape backup. And, the Unitrends systems support every environment and feature that we need. BareMetal, Exchange, SQL, encryption, vaulting you name it, we use it.

Even as the backup window has been reduced, BPI Information Systems customers now also enjoy the benefits of whole system protection, meaning that entire servers can be recovered rapidly in the event of server failure. BPI Information Systems is able to not only protect physical servers, but also, with the growth of virtualization, the Unitrends solution permits whole system protection of customers virtual servers.

Now BPI Information Systems is able to remotely manage and protect more than 350 servers across their 35 small and mid-size customers in just hours. This improves BPI Information Systems IT staff productivity and profitability while delivering affordable, comprehensive disaster recovery for its diverse customers.

For more information, please view the complete BPI Information Systems success story.

About Unitrends

Small and medium businesses have the same critical reliance on the integrity of their data as enterprises, but often cant afford the operational expenditure of a dedicated staff or the capital expenditure of replacing their IT infrastructure. Unitrends provides enterprise-level data protection, at the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry, through a family of scalable disk-based data protection appliances that integrate and protect existing heterogeneous computer and storage systems through a single, intuitive, graphical user interface.

Unitrends uses a common backup and recovery engine for providing protection for over 100 different versions of operating systems and applications. This means you can support Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL, Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware, Sun Solaris, Novell OES, Novell Netware, Novell GroupWise, Novell eDirectory, Linux, FreeBSD, Apple MacOS X, IBM pSeries/AIX, HP HP-UX, SCO UnixWare, SCO OpenServer, IBM iSeries/OS400, and SGI IRIX on notebooks, PCs, workstations, and servers and on DAS, NAS, or SAN storage.

Information about Unitrends can be found at http://www.unitrends.com.

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BPI Information Systems Protects The Heterogeneous Data For 35 Customers Using Unitrends

Attix5 Protects 65% of UK School Data and Its North American Master Distributor Stage2Data is Aggressively Aiming for Market Leadership in Canada and the USA

Oakville, Ontario (PRWEB) January 19, 2012

This week Stage2Data, the exclusive Distributor for Attix5 in North America, announced that it is aggressively positioning Attix5 as the premier backup and recovery disk based solution for the North American education market.

The news follows confirmation in the UK of a significant deal between Attix5 and the London Grid for Learning (LGfL). The deal gives 65% of the UK schools access to Attix5 which is one of the UKs most trusted and reliable, automated information back-up and restoration systems. This new partnership equates to a total of 3000+ schools and 65,000+ people whose sensitive data could now be protected by Attix5 products.

According to Jeff Collier, President of Stage2Data, “Attix5 dominates the UK education market and will soon dominate the North American education market because it is ideal for schools – Attix5 is easy to use, requires minimum administrative intervention, has security encryption built in as standard and, it also saves on internal resources and storage.”

The private sector as a whole is under great pressure to ensure the data they hold is stored securely. Schools are not exempt from this and Stage2Data and Attix5 point to several examples of data breaches within schools in the last year.

Talking about the importance of protecting school data Mike Law, Chief Executive at Attix5 said:

We are able to provide some of Londons most vulnerable citizens (children) with the most up-to-date, comprehensive data protection. Schools up and down the country are really starting to take data security seriously and I hope the rest of the public sector will follow suit.

Echoing that message in North America is Jacques Swanepoel, the Stage2Data Chief Technical Officer who suggests that “Our education institutions are beginning to realize the weaknesses in their systems. With Attix5 in our suite of solutions we are able to deliver the best backup and recovery solution, superior student data security and substantial savings.”

Stage2Data comes to the education market with an impressive track record. The company has experience working with Mohawk College, Niagara College, St. Clair Catholic District School Board, Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board as well as many others.

Company Stage2Data

Stage2Data is a privately held company founded by Jeff Collier and Jacques Swanepoel in 2009. The company is dedicated to working with Enterprise and SMB’s to safeguard their data against disaster or loss using cloud based, disk to disk technology. Stage2Data is the Master Distributor for Attix5 in North America and is a recognized leader in backup and recovery. Stage2Data is headquartered in Oakville, Ontario with offices in the USA. For additional information about the company, please visit http://www.stage2data.com.

About Attix5

Attix5 is an international provider of secure data management, storage and restoration, specializing in virtualization and cloud based solutions. Its world-class data protection software uses FIPS-compliant Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption for security and provides absolute peace of mind to listed Enterprises and SMEs across the world. Attix5 services the key global industry sectors, including Financial Services, Education and Retail. Attix5 is the SIMS partner for Capita Childrens Services in the UK and provides secure data back-up for 65% of UK Primary Schools, Founded in 1999, Attix5 is headquartered in the UK with offices in South Africa.

Founded in 1999, Attix5 is headquartered in the UK with offices in South Africa.

About London Grid for Learning

The London Grid for Learning is a Consortium of all London LAs working together to put in place online resources and services for schools which exceed (in terms of quality, scope and value for money) what can be achieved by working individually. The LGfL Trust was established in June 2000 by the 33 London LAs to provide extensive and cost effective ICT services, particularly broadband and e-learning tools.

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Attix5 Protects 65% of UK School Data and Its North American Master Distributor Stage2Data is Aggressively Aiming for Market Leadership in Canada and the USA

AMLI Residential Protects Critical Disaster Recovery, Replication Apps with Exinda

BOSTON, Mass. (PRWEB) November 27, 2012

Exinda, a global provider of next-generation WAN optimization and application performance assurance solutions, announced today that AMLI Residential, one of the preeminent multi-family housing companies in the United States, has chosen Exinda to assure the performance of its disaster recovery and backup systems between its Chicago and Atlanta locations.

AMLI relies on a MPLS network to connect its sites around the country, with the Chicago and Atlanta sites connecting with a 45 Mbps link. AMLI backs up two very large storage area networks as well as its database servers, internal applications, voice applications and more across the WAN to the Atlanta disaster recovery site, and also replicates its production data from all sites to Atlanta. When its MPLS connections started to become heavily congested causing production data replication to fall significantly behind, AMLI turned to Exinda.

We consider data recovery and backup a critical part of our production environment, and we were falling more and more behind with our existing WAN Optimization solution, said Billy Keller, vice president of IT infrastructure at AMLI. Our replication was almost a year behind; we were in a heavy-risk situation. If something happened in Chicago, wed have to rebuild from scratch and would lose a lot of data and a lot of money.

With Exinda’s network optimization capabilities in place, AMLI quickly caught up on the replication of its production data, and just as importantly, does not need to invest in additional bandwidth to relieve congestion. This has been a great fit in ensuring our critical production environment can come back up on a seconds notice, Keller said. Exinda has allowed me to sleep better at night knowing that if something does happen, we are prepared.

AMLI was able to see significant improvement in their disaster recovery and replication backups with Exindas WAN optimization 2.0 solutions, said Brendan Reid, vice president of product marketing for Exinda. They are a great example of how Exinda is working with enterprises to help them assure the performance of the applications that are most strategic to their business.

About Exinda

Exinda is a leading global supplier of WAN optimization and Internet traffic control solutions. Exinda enables organizations to assure a predictable user experience for strategic business applications through policy-based WAN optimization and Internet Control that intelligently allocate network bandwidth and optimize traffic based on the priorities of the business. The company has helped more than 2,500 organizations in over 80 countries worldwide assure application performance, improve the end-user experience, contain recreational applications and reduce network operating costs for the IT executive. For more information, please visit http://www.exinda.com.

About AMLI

Headquartered in Chicago, AMLI is one of the preeminent multifamily companies in the nation. The company is focused on the development, acquisition and management of luxury apartment communities. AMLI is committed to customer service and providing our residents a worry-free, high-value living experience in our communities. AMLI

AMLI Residential Protects Critical Disaster Recovery, Replication Apps with Exinda