Gillett School District Relies on Unitrends for Fast, Reliable Data Backups

Columbia, SC (PRWEB) March 29, 2010

Unitrends, the leader in affordable, heterogeneous, vertically integrated, disk-based all-in-one data protection appliances, today announced that Gillett School District, a kindergarten through grade 12 school district which includes parochial schools, military academies and secondary schools that provide academic and technical courses in Wisconsin, relies on a Unitrends for reliable, easy-to-use backup and archiving.

Before March of 2007, when Gillett began using Unitrends, the school district had problems recovering files quickly and easily or even recovering files at all. Tim Rysewyk, computer technician for Gillett School District, was worried that unreliable tape solution would not only be problematic with slow backups, but he was also concerned the tapes would not protect the important operating systems for Gilletts student and financial software.

In 2007, Gilletts decision to change to Unitrends solved the problems of their slow, unreliable tape solution.

I needed to have a reliable fast recovery solution, and Unitrends offers all that you need, said Rysewyk. Its reliable, fast solution makes it easy to recover files from backups. There are no more tapes to worry about and Unitrends makes backing up servers a snap.

Unitrends is successfully backing up Windows Server 2003 Standard and Windows 2003 Exchange, and vital student and financial software, all with the outstanding support service praised by Rysewyk.

The Unitrends support team really knows the product inside and out and helped in every situation we needed, said Rysewyk. Support is extremely helpful and timely.

After implementing Unitrends, Gillett School District now enjoys daily disk-to-disk (D2D) file backups that are much faster and more reliable than what the old tape backup solution provided. The company also performs archiving using the Unitrends solution with archive disks that are rotated offsite, keeping the original backups on the Unitrends appliance for speedy disaster recovery when needed.

Unitrends is pleased to provide Gillett School District with the data protection solution that is critical to their business, said Maria Ellison, senior vice president, support, Unitrends. Education and municipal customers cannot commit to IT solutions with uncertain year-to-year support costs and an unstable infrastructure. Unitrends prides itself on the service and support that is needed to provide piece of mind for data protection services and we are proud to have Gillett use our products and services.

For more information, please view the complete Gillett School District 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 various versions of 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 all using a single backup appliance.

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

A virtual appliance free trial is also available for download.

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Dolly Drive offers free online storage to college students to backup their Macs as part of Back To School readiness.

Miami, FL (PRWEB) September 02, 2011

College is all fun and games until someone loses an eyeball. Or a term paper. Or a semester worth of notes.

Cloud services provider Cirrus Thinking is giving 1000 college students 1 free gig of Dolly Drive, online storage for Apple Time Machine, plus the chance to win $ 1000 in college spending money, in an effort to encourage students to backup their papers, projects and schoolwork online.

The Dolly Drive service uses Apples native backup application, Time Machine, which automatically saves and archives selected content notes every hour, to backup the content to the cloud. As long as the Mac is connected to the internet, the content gets backed up offsite without the user even having to think about it.

College students are constantly on the move with their laptops and probably not thinking about What if scenarios like losing their papers, projects and schoolwork to a crash, spilled coffee, or theft, said Anthony Palermo, CEO of Dolly Drive. But if we can just get them to set up their Macs Time Machine to backup their schoolwork to Dolly Drive, as they get ready for the semester, then we feel can save them from lost paper nightmares. The chance to win $ 1000 hopefully helps encourage them as well.

The ReBoot&Rally contest includes the chance to win $ 1000 by tweeting a special message on Twitter. That message can be found on Twitter.com/dollydrive or at

Students can also download the already free Dolly Clone application which makes an exact duplicate of a Mac on an external drive, so if anything goes wrong with the Mac, they can just Reboot right away, and keep going from where they were.

Dolly Drive is a subscription software and online storage service designed for Apples Time Machine. In addition to providing Mac users offsite cloud storage directly through the Time Machine application, the application allows users to create a bootable clone of your Mac on an external hard drive for local disaster recovery. It works with Apples Lion and Snow Leopard platforms. Launched in January, Dolly Drive was named MacLife magazines Best of Show and Best Software at MacWorld 2011. http://www.dollydrive.com

About Cirrus Thinking

Cirrus Thinking was founded in 2009 by a pair of passionate Apple fans with the goal of delivering the critical advantages of cloud services to Apple users at the consumer, small businesses and enterprise levels. The first product Dolly Drive, an online backup solution for Apples Time Machine launched in 2011 and was named MacLife Magazines Best Software and Best of Show at MacWorld 2011. Cirrus Thinkings entire range of Mac and PC products and services provide cutting edge solutions for auto-archiving, online backup, hard drive cloning, online storage, file syncing, and more. Cirrus Thinking has offices in New York and Miami, with data centers located in the United States and Europe.

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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

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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