Pivot Networks and Brookside Technology Partners, Inc. Team to Broaden Managed IT Services Offering for Texas SMBs

Austin, Texas (PRWEB) February 1, 2010

Pivot Networks, the preferred provider of managed IT services for Texas-based small- and medium-sized businesses, today announced a partnership agreement with Brookside Technology Partners, Inc., an Austin-based global managed services provider of Voice over IP (VoIP), data, video, and wireless (Wi-Fi) business communications systems. The strategic partnership will allow both organizations to expand their customer base and strengthen their portfolio of managed network services for new and current clients in 2010.

Weve had a chance to work with Brookside on several projects, and their approach to telecommunications proves to be second to none, said Brannen Mehaffey, founder and CEO of Pivot Networks. Growing small- to medium-sized businesses face the challenge of having little to no IT support, preventing them from focusing on core business tasks at hand. Collaborating with Brookside gives us the opportunity to expand our overall resources to help these companies build a solid IT foundation to grow and maintain their business and profitability for the long-term.

Brookside, through their branded Telefficiency Methodology and Program, doesnt simply sell phones but serves as true consultative architects of communication systems. This approach leverages the best-in-breed technology to render maximum results with minimum of effort, expense, or waste for all their customers. While the positive impacts of Telefficiency are many and varied, they generally always include tangible increases in bottom-line profits and overall improvements in employee efficiency and productivity.

With a combined 100 years of experience in the industry, the management team at Brookside maintains a solid staff of professionals trained to provide services in various areas of telecommunications, including Voice over IP, Unified Messaging, Wired and Wireless Networking, Contact/Call Center design, Multimedia Collaboration & Presence, Network Security, and Video Conferencing.

We are confident our team effort will bring great advantages to both companies since we share a common vision of having a relentless focus on customer service, said Ben Rizzo, vice president of Marketing, Brookside Technology Partners. Brooksides partnership with Pivot Networks will enable us to deliver a powerful portfolio of managed IT services to our customers, and we look forward to what the year will bring.

Pivot Networks has been a leader in the managed IT services industry throughout the Austin and Central Texas area for nearly a decade. Pivot Networks delivers a wide array of technology solutions to meet business and computer network needs for small- to medium-sized businesses, while lending expert project planning and consulting along the way. Services include Real-Time Network Monitoring and Alerts, Proactive Network Support, Remote and On-Site Tech Support, Off-Site Data Backup, Disaster Recovery and Planning, Quarterly Reviews, Hosted Services, and 24×7 professional services support.

About Brookside Technology Partners

Founded in 2002 Brookside Technology Partners, a subsidiary of Brookside Technology Holdings Corp., is a managed services provider that specializing in analysis, design, and implementation of Voice over IP, Unified Messaging, Data Switching, Wi-Fi, Contact/Call Center design, Multimedia Collaboration, Network Security, and Video Surveillance for companies and government agencies of various scope, size and structures. Brookside is positioned to not only design the infrastructure solution, but deploy the technology, provide knowledge transfer to users and system administrators, and provide ongoing managed services to protect and support the system and associated applications. For more information, please visit http://www.brooksideus.com/austin.

About Pivot Networks

Founded in 2001, Pivot Networks is a preferred provider of managed IT services to growing SMBs. With a relentless focus on customer service, we deliver reliable managed IT services to help SMB companies with little to no IT support manage and maintain their networks with 24/7 assistance. We bring both technology and business-savvy intelligence to serve the needs of your business, while implementing critical network management solutions that foster a solid IT foundation to successfully grow your company. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Pivot Networks is a privately-held company. For more information, please visit http://www.pivotnetworks.com.

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Backup My Info!"s Data Retention Strategy Helps SMBs Realize Quicker Restores and Increased Cost Savings

New York, NY (PRWEB) October 27, 2010

Backup My Info! (BUMI), the premier provider of managed online backup and recovery solutions for small to mid-sized businesses, today announced that its data retention strategy is helping SMBs realize quicker restores and significant cost savings. BUMI has recognized that as much as 90 percent of a typical organization’s data is no longer active, while the remaining 10 percent is dynamic and thus considered business-critical. While all data is important, organizations need a streamlined approach to getting their critical data back as soon as possible. By focusing on the changing data first, the business can get back up and running faster. The remaining 90 percent can be restored in a phased approach.

Prior to the start of any customer engagement, BUMI works with clients to develop a data retention strategy that will immediately restore the highest priority data. The critical changing data, or 10 percent, is backed up to BUMI’s online vault as well as in a local location on the clients’ network – and can be restored quickly. Data that has not changed for a long period of time, or data that does not require immediate recovery, is kept on the BUMI retention vaults utilizing lower cost storage. If a large amount of data needs to be restored, BUMI will ship this data overnight in encrypted and compressed format on a USB hard drive which can then be restored rapidly at no charge to the client. As a standard practice, a BUMI engineer will be remotely connected to assist in all recovery procedures and they are available 24 hours a day for emergency support.

“Explosive data growth is driving SMBs toward cloud-based data backup services,” said Deni Connor, principal analyst at Storage Strategies NOW. “Without a strategic backup and restore plan in place, data infrastructures can be impacted by all types of data loss scenarios. To that effect, organizations should take a closer look at their IT operations, and like BUMI’s ’10 percent’ findings, identify the business-critical components to ensure they are in the best position for a speedy recovery.”

Supporting all major operating systems, BUMI provides an automated off-site data backup and recovery service. With data protection and reliability a prime concern for all organizations, BUMI has built several layers of security into its online backup solution. Data is encrypted at the point it leaves a customer site and remains encrypted at all times. Additionally, BUMI’s senior engineers continuously monitor backup processes to ensure customer data is properly safeguarded and proactively follow up if they identify any errors or problems. From a disaster recovery and business continuity perspective, all off-site backups are stored in SAS70 Type II data centers located in Canada.

“By providing our customers with a customized recovery strategy on top of solid, secure backups, BUMI is able to satisfy clients’ objectives,” explained Jennifer Walzer, CEO at Backup My Info!, Inc. “These objectives include the management of exponential growth in companies’ critical data, as well as reduce the backup window which can be crucial for businesses that need 24 hour uptime.”

About Backup My Info!

Founded in 2002, Backup My Info! (BUMI) specializes in delivering online backup and recovery solutions for small to mid-sized businesses. Based in New York City, BUMI provides an off-site data protection solution that addresses critical issues such as rapid growth of data, business continuity, and regulatory compliance. Every BUMI client is cared for by a team of senior-level engineers dedicated to providing proactive and personalized support. Clients include professional service organizations such as banking, financial, insurance, accounting, hedge funds and law firms. For more information, visit http://www.backupmyinfo.com, call (866) 444-BUMI (2864), or follow on Twitter at http://twitter.com/backupmyinfo.

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BluPointe Enhances Business Email with Hosted Email Archiving for SMBs

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) May 24, 2011

BluPointe DRS today announced its email archiving solutions for complete data recovery in situations when disaster occurs and database-level backup of Exchange is not enough.

Every business experiences a flow of email messages containing critical information, including documents, contracts, invoices and more. Over time, the content of an organizations emails becomes spread across a number of mailboxes, where it ends up buried or lost. For some businesses, regulatory demands, increased surveillance, and the threat of possible future litigation mandate an audit-ready file system that will store emails for prolonged periods of time.

BluPointes Mailbox, PST File and Public Folder Archiving solution provides an administrator-driven solution designed to selectively move or copy messages from Exchange mailboxes, PST files, and public folders to any storage device visible to the application, via the network.

BluPointes archiving program assists companies with storage and compliance requirements while offering a flexible archiving architecture that does not require proprietary hardware or a SQL database.

BluPointes email archiving also serves its clients needs with indexing and storing solutions that offer an auditing function to store logs in a tamper-proof fashion. Clients can:

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X-ISS Offers Unique Combined On-Site/Cloud Remote Data Backup and Recovery System Specifically Designed For SMBs

Houston, TX (PRWEB) June 01, 2011

With an active hurricane season projected for Houston, X-ISS, a leading provider of information technology consulting and support services for small to medium businesses (SMBs) in Greater Houston is offering special introductory pricing on their cutting-edge, cost-effective solution that makes data backup and recovery faster, easier and more secure than other systems. The X-ISS data backup and recovery system is the first affordable, total solution offered in Houston to combine the benefits of on-site backup with the protection of remote support utilizing the latest in cloud-based technology that is designed specifically to meet the needs of SMBs.

Up until the launch of the X-ISS Combined On-site/Cloud Remote Data Backup and Recovery System late last year, Houston SMB choices for data backup and recovery were limited. For affordability and the convenience of on-site access to data, many SMBs have chosen to use tapes for backup that are then stored at an off-site location. However, the tape-based backup approach is often tedious and time-consuming, and delays in backing up data can result in much of the most current data being lost. In addition, off-site tape storage locations arent always safe when a major disaster strikes. Finally, recovery time from a major disaster with tapes is typically slow and expensive. The X-ISS Combined Backup and Recovery System maintains the convenience and affordability of having an on-site system, but eliminates the costs of hardware, labor and storage – all while providing a whole new level of data protection and ease of recovery, says Deepak Khosla, President of X-ISS.

Other businesses, which rely heavily on their data, have sometimes chosen to use web-based remote backup and recovery services to get around the limitations of tape-based systems. However, this approach too can take valuable days or weeks of recovery time to become fully operational after a major disaster to their system.

The X-ISS Combined On-Site/Cloud Remote Data Backup and Recovery System, says Khosla, Not only speeds recovery time, but also makes available a host of integrated features, like data de-duplication, in a cost-effective package for SMBs. Other features and options of the combined data backup and recovery system include backup of all data changes to both local and redundant secure remote devices as often as every fifteen minutes, and the ability to easily retrieve previous versions of documents including files that have been deleted, overwritten or corrupted on the local device.

One of the systems unique feature options is that if a business is struck by a disaster that destroys their on-site device, they can be operating as normal the next day with a new, fully operational on-site device containing all of their latest data that’s been delivered to them overnight. For those whose businesses can’t afford even a moment of downtime, the X-ISS data backup system makes available instant virtualization – with the capability to seamlessly transform into a virtual server with complete capabilities and data integrity while the local server is being restored.

The new X-ISS combined on-site/cloud remote back-up system is also completely secure with both encrypted data communication and storage, and includes 24/7 assistance and proactive monitoring by a team of highly experienced technical experts.

With the advent of the hurricane season, were excited to be able to offer Houston businesses a better backup and recovery solution featuring the latest technology and providing the best in data protection and ease of use, says Khosla. Were particularly proud were able to offer this at a price thats affordable to small businesses, and in many cases at equal to or less than the costs they are investing in inferior backup tapes and other solutions.

For more information about the X-ISS Combined Data Backup and Recovery Solution, please visit

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X-ISS is a leading provider of IT consulting services and the trusted choice of small-to-medium businesses (SMBS) in the Greater Houston area who want to maximize the performance and protect the security of their IT resources affordably. Best known for their exceptional expertise, professionalism and responsiveness, X-ISS has been delivering a full range of cost-effective IT services to a wide range of loyal clients for over fifteen years.

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Robust Demand for Mobile VoIP Services and Growing Adoption Among SMBs Drives the Business VoIP Services Market, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

San Jose, CA (PRWEB) August 14, 2012

Follow us on LinkedIn In this age of cut throat competition, where companies are increasingly compelled to extend their reach beyond geographic boundaries, the need to establish communications with a wide range of internal and external business partners, including customers, suppliers, distributors and employees becomes critical. This brings to the fore, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), which as a technology is fast replacing traditional PSTN based voice communication services, that too at significantly lesser costs. Capable of converting voice signals into digital data packets, which are then transmitted over the IP Networks such as Internet or private networks, VoIP comes as a highly cost efficient solution for delivering voice communications for businesses, and therefore is growing in tremendous popularity across the globe. A special case of providing VoIP capability for businesses, Business VoIP services is fast growing in popularity as well as in commercial implementations in the enterprise segment.

As a key initial investment, adoption of Business VoIP infrastructure comes as an important strategic decision for enterprises, and therefore needs critical evaluation of requirement, including the actual need for change in enterprise telephony strategy, availability of economic and technical resources for making the change, and consideration of key benefits that the new technology may provide to the company. The ability of Business VoIP services to provide exceptional cost benefits with regard to voice communications is the key rationale for businesses moving from traditional PSTN to VoIP infrastructure. Business VoIP allows enterprises to use existing Internet infrastructure as means to place free phone calls, thereby driving significant cost benefits. By allowing both voice and data traffic to be transmitted over a single network, VoIP saves considerable infrastructure costs for businesses, which would have otherwise been spent on establishing separate voice and data networks. Given that price of VoIP extensions are also significantly lower than traditional PBX and key systems, also make VoIP services more economically viable than traditional PSTN based telecommunications.

The upcoming years are forecast to witness strong demand for mobile VoIP services. Increasing number of mobile workforce, and constant need for such employees to stay in touch with corporate headquarters, and carry out functions such as making sales transactions, passing sales or purchase orders, and reporting productivity even while away from the office, is driving strong business case for Mobile Business VoIP services. Enabling traveling executives, telecommuters, and call-center agents within an organization to use softphones for accessing features of corporate phones while working at home or while on the go, mobile VoIP services are increasingly being adopted by businesses, thereby driving the overall Business VoIP market. Hardware price reductions of IP telephony systems will turn out to be a good incentive for consumers to invest in next-generation systems and converged networks, thus encouraging faster migration to Business VoIP services.

Another major factor driving business prospects in the Business VoIP Services market is the ability of the technology in enhancing productivity. Business VoIP features and capabilities such as desk calling, automated attendant, extension management, follow me/gather me, outlook integration, remote office, unified mutter mail, voicemail, call record, conference calling, and video conference, allow companies to leverage the power of seamless and uninterrupted connectivity among employees and with external business partners, to realize overall productivity enhancements within organizations. The latest VoIP applications and business systems such a unified communications and collaboration ensures collaborated team work, irrespective of the location of team members, thereby positively influencing employee morale and overall productivity.

Mushrooming of small and medium businesses (SMBs), especially in the developing countries, and the subsequent need for voice communications among these enterprises is leading to increased adoption of VoIP services in this consumer segment. Hosted Business VoIP services, which eliminate the need for capital investments, especially on VoIP systems and provide cost effective scalability especially makes Business VoIP practically viable for SMBs, thereby increasing its adoption among this customer cluster. As an increased number of SMBs begin to recognize the advantages of IP telephony and as older telephony platforms reach the end of their lifecycle, Business VoIP adoption is expected to continue gaining momentum.

As stated by the new market research report on Business VoIP Services, Europe represents the largest regional market, accounting for a majority share in global market revenues. Asia-Pacific represents the fastest growing market with annual revenues from the region waxing at a CAGR of about 17.3% over the analysis period. Booming economies, robust growth in the enterprise sector, international business expansions, increase in enterprise mobility, especially in emerging markets such as China and India, are fingered as key factors driving growth in the region. Managed IP PBX Services is the fastest growing market segment with growth projected to wax at a CAGR of 12.2% over the analysis period. Value and cost savings are poised to drive growth in the Hosted VoIP and Unified Communications market.

Major players in the global marketplace include 8×8 Inc., AAPT, AT&T Inc., BroadView Networks Inc., British Telecommunications Plc, Cable & Wireless Worldwide Plc, Cbeyond Inc., CenturyLink, Inc., Comcast Corporation, Megapath Inc., Verizon Business, INET Telecoms Ltd., (Voipfone), Level 3 Communications Inc., M5 Networks Inc., Masergy Communications, Inc., Net2Phone Inc., New Global Telecom Inc., NTT Communications Corporation, Orange, XO Communications, LLC, among others.

The research report titled Business VoIP Services: A Global Strategic Business Report announced by Global Industry Analysts, Inc., provides a comprehensive review of market trends, issues, drivers, company profiles, mergers, acquisitions and other strategic industry activities. The report provides market estimates and projections for Business VoIP Services (in US$ million) for major geographic markets including the US, Canada, Japan, Europe (France, Germany, Italy, UK, Spain, Russia and Rest of Europe), Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Rest of World. Key segments analyzed for the global market include managed IP PBX Services; Hosted VoIP and Unified Communications; and IP Connectivity Services.

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ProviDyns Assessment and Readiness Program Helps Ensure Technology and Business Goals of SMBs are on PAR

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) March 30, 2012

ProviDyn, a provider of IT support, strategy and services, announces the ProviDyn Assessment and Readiness (PAR) program designed to evaluate the technology infrastructure of small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) and, in turn, uncover opportunities to increase efficiency and determine readiness for new technology.

For many SMBs, a focus on growth can result in a reactive approach to managing technology. However, problems arise when an incident, such as an equipment failure or security breach, negatively impacts productivity. Often times, these situations can be prevented with awareness and proactive management of a companys IT infrastructure. ProviDyn developed PAR to provide growing businesses with a comprehensive view of their existing technology infrastructure, along with expert advice on selecting the best technologies and solutions, increasing efficiency and planning for anticipated future needs — before an issue arises.

The ProviDyn Assessment and Readiness Service is a four step process:

Stakeholder Interviews Conversations with business owners, department heads and stakeholders to determine current IT issues and successes, along with goals for the future. Understanding the company and its drivers for growth help determine if the right technology is in place to drive the business toward meeting its goals.

Physical Discovery An evaluation of the current systems and network infrastructure to determine quality, brand and model, age and proper deployment. This step also includes checking for proper cabling, switching and routing, along with inspecting backup system hardware.

Environmental Discovery – Identifies any environmental factors, such as exposure to heat, dust and particulate matter. This step will also note vulnerability to fire and water (flood or fire suppression), theft and possible protection from employee tampering or accidental damage.

Digital Discovery A review of current software licensing, versions of licensing, legal and technological compliance. The ProviDyn team will also look at the configuration of digital systems to see if they are able to prevent both internal and external security threats. This will help identify strategic alternatives such as updating to a more current software version, selecting a better software for a particular job and/or configuring firewalls for added security.

Our experience with SMBs shows that a one size fits all approach is not effective in establishing a reliable technology infrastructure and scaling to meet future growth, said Hamish Davidson, co-founder and president of ProviDyn. Taking what weve learned from working with SMBs, we created PAR to give clients a custom assessment of their current technology situation, identify gaps or inefficiencies in IT systems and resources and provide strategic recommendations for selecting the best technology and services in the future.

About ProviDyn

ProviDyn provides technology expertise, services and support to Atlanta-area small and medium-sized businesses. Backed by certified technology professionals, ProviDyns services include managed services, cloud computing solutions, virtualization, help desk and computer support, IT strategy, network security, backup and disaster recovery and IP telephony. ProviDyn delivers the right mix of technology and expertise allowing its clients to focus on growing their business. To learn more about how ProviDyn is Driving Business Through Technology and helping companies reduce costs, improve efficiency and maximize productivity, visit http://www.providyn.com or follow us on Twitter.

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ProviDyns Assessment and Readiness Program Helps Ensure Technology and Business Goals of SMBs are on PAR

ProviDyns Expands Its Hardware as a Service (HaaS) Offering to SMBs

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) July 31, 2012

July 31, 2012 — ProviDyn, a provider of IT support, strategy and services, announces the expansion of their Hardware as a Service (HaaS) offering designed to provide capital equipment advantages to small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) for a reasonable fixed monthly fee.

For many SMBs, there are infrastructure and network equipment needs that require a significant capital investment. Often times, with constrained budgets, it is difficult to justify a large cash expense to procure the necessary hardware to allow their business to perform efficiently with business class stability.

ProviDyns HaaS program is designed to allow SMBs to shift their capital equipment expenses to an operational cost, but also include the cost of software and management with those devices. In todays market, servers, firewalls, switches, routers, wireless access points, etc., have become the norm rather than the exception. Often, the cost of acquiring these devices can be prohibitive, leading the business owners and decision makers to make sacrifices in their network architecture in order to preserve capital or cash on hand.

Along with the financial benefits, the HaaS program also creates flexibility and scalability as SMBs grow. Rapid growth often leads to continual upgrade and replacement of hardware and equipment. Under the HaaS model, companies can maintain a predictable monthly cost, and upgrade into more advanced devices as dictated by company growth.

Weve reached a point where all businesses, both big and small, have difficulty operating without a proper infrastructure, said Hamish Davidson, co-founder and president of ProviDyn. In the past, capital investment has been costly and inflexible for SMBs. With our HaaS program, these companies can now acquire the proper equipment and software, without making sacrifices that weaken their technology, within a reasonable and manageable budget.

About ProviDyn

ProviDyn provides technology expertise, services and support to Atlanta-area small and medium-sized businesses. Backed by certified technology professionals, ProviDyns services include managed services, cloud computing solutions, virtualization, help desk and computer support, IT strategy, network security, backup and disaster recovery and IP telephony. ProviDyn delivers the right mix of technology and expertise allowing its clients to focus on growing their business. To learn more about how ProviDyn is Driving Business Through Technology and helping companies reduce costs, improve efficiency and maximize productivity, visit http://www.providyn.com or follow us on Twitter.

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nGenx Launches a Hosted Virtual Desktop with QuickBooks for Small and Mid-size Businesses (SMBs)

(PRWEB) October 02, 2012

nGenx, a leading cloud services provider of hosted applications and desktops, today announced the launch of nFinity Desktop SMB Edition which is a cost effective virtual desktop solution that combines QuickBooks and several of its most popular plug-ins with Microsoft Office and Exchange inside a Windows 7 experience. This powerful bundle provides the core business productivity and accounting applications used in a majority of small businesses and delivers them as a service securely from the cloud.

nFinity Desktop SMB Edition is unlike anything else on the market today. We allow SMBs to get the benefits of cloud computing without leaving familiar and productive applications like QuickBooks and Office by making them work seamlessly on a PC, Mac, iPad or Android device while their data is stored securely in our cloud, said Robert Bye, President and CEO of nGenx. SMBs see that larger competitors are taking advantage of tablets and Smartphones, and they want a cost effective and secure solution that will enable workspace mobility and bring your own device (BYOD) policies. Our new offering targets SMBs who want to increase agility and improve efficiency but dont have the depth of technology expertise required to meet that challenge.

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Three Times the Peace of Mind for SMBs

Sydney, NSW (PRWEB) October 15, 2012

Australias cloud services provider Ninefold has joined forces with disaster recovery specialist Triplebackup to offer an affordable, scalable online disk imaging and file backup solution for small to medium sized businesses. The service means a business can now have onsite and offsite data, disaster recovery and business continuity protection across its entire suite of physical, virtual and cloud computers with one solution. It makes near-zero downtime an affordable reality for Australian businesses.

Until now, SMBs have operated with sub-optimal disaster recovery and business continuity solutions. Often theres a need for manual input, such as tape or disk rotation. Many use file backup services like Mozy, or file storage and synchronisation services like Google Drive and AWS S3 that dont mirror the entire server. Others pay for expensive solutions, with multiple license and hardware capex costs. Even when post-disaster recovery is possible it can take days or weeks to rebuild.

Now, using Triplebackups Live Image with Virtual Failover service, a business facing a server loss can start using an exact clone in Ninefolds cloud in a matter of minutes. After a site disaster a server can be restored to the same or dissimilar hardware or to a virtual computer from the bare metal backup, in less than a day.

Its a scenario Dr Darryl Gauld, CEO & Principal, Macquarie Education Group Australia, knows only too well: We recently suffered over a week of downtime while we waited for one of our servers to be rebuilt from offsite file backup. This downtime severely hampered our ability to continue with our business. We were in mid-audit by inspectors from the Board of Studies and everything was inaccessible!

That experience was enough to convince Dr Gauld to move to Triplebackups new solution, which can backup base images up to 750 GB across an ADSL2+ internet connection. Bigger images are accommodated on faster connections it is expected to backup 15+ TB images on National Broadband Network connections. The solution works across a business entire suite of physical, virtual and cloud servers, laptops, tablets and workstations, with no need for a dedicated Internet line, additional hardware, software license or capex investment.

Vanessa Wilson, CEO of Triplebackup, says their service offers SMBs affordable protection that works seamlessly across their entire suite of computers: It combines onsite image backup for local protection, and next-generation online image & file backup, with virtual server failover for market-leading post-disaster recovery and optimum business continuity.

Ninefold ensures that all backed up data and virtual failover servers are kept securely in Australia, without the legal and compliance requirements that come with offshore storage. The low cost of Ninefolds cloud storage means the Triplebackup product can be offered at price-points that suit SMBs and Ninefolds large-scale virtual failover capacity protects businesses even if a major disaster hits an entire city.

Gartner has reported that by 2015, at least a quarter of large enterprises will have given up on conventional backup / recovery software and will employ snapshot and replication techniques instead. The same report (The Gartner Enterprise Backup and Recovery Magic Quadrant Report, 11 June 2012) found that “By 2016, one-third of organisations will change backup vendors due to frustration over cost complexity and/or capability.”

Vanessa Wilson says that the same issues face smaller businesses, but, until now, they didnt have the time or resources to commit to an effective solution. She says Triplebackups technology and user friendly interfaces, combined with Ninefolds hourly virtual server pricing and low cost cloud storage, have facilitated a change that will have a big impact on the SMB sector.

We have made it simple for the end user, who can self-recover their files from their image backup via their own web-dashboard. We provide our channel partners with a scalable, zero capex market-leading service that fits a serious market need. Partners can now rebuild client systems in hours, and offer business continuity within minutes. We will be introducing cloud NAS backup in the coming months, so that our Partners can provide all of their clients backup and disaster recovery needs, from a single web-portal, says Wilson.

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