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posted on 19 August 2008 09:27

TORONTO – August 19, 2008 – Asigra Inc., a provider of agentless information recovery management, empowering service-oriented business continuity for the real-time enterprise, today announced that it has posted an IDC Opinion piece about the company on its website.

Written by IDC and sponsored by Asigra, the report discusses Asigra's Information Recovery Management Platform, Televaulting™, the opportunities and trends in the market it is targeting, and its positioning for growth.

IDC’s Vendor Viewpoint notes that, “Asigra is addressing the need for effective, affordable, and easy to manage backup and recovery with its Information Recovery Management Platform — Asigra Televaulting.” According to IDC, “Asigra’s key differentiation – its agentless service-oriented architecture (SOA) – makes the solution less intrusive and simple to deploy and maintain, decreasing management costs for service providers and increasing their profitability.”

As the document points out, businesses of all sizes around the globe are virtually drowning in data and seeking the right technology to help them keep their heads above water.

“IDC data shows that the amount of digital information that will be created, captured, and replicated will grow from 161 exabytes (EB) in 2007 to 988EB in 2010, a six-fold increase (Worldwide Archiving Software 2008–2012 Forecast, IDC #212216). With so much information being digitized as well as mobilized through laptops and mobile devices, companies are trying to define retention policies and retrieval processes to meet management objectives and regulatory requirements (Worldwide Storage Services 2008–2012 Forecast, IDC #212063).”

The study goes on to note that traditional backup technology is proving insufficient to deal with exponential information growth and constantly increasing regulatory requirements.

“With mounting pressure to comply with regulatory requirements and improve disaster recovery practices, companies are experiencing dissatisfaction with traditional backup methods that are falling short regarding efficiency, reliability, and ease of use,” said Krista Collins, research analyst for IDC. “Asigra Televaulting is delivered to both small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and large enterprises through managed service providers, including outsourcers and integrators. The platform is designed to make it easy and cost-effective for customers to achieve regulatory compliance and drive greater benefits from virtualization.”

The study points out that organizations have typically turned to their primary storage providers to provide managed storage services. It notes that, “the management and support of most solutions, which require agents on customer endpoints, can represent additional costs and complexity for the storage service provider. Furthermore, the costs associated with storing increasing amounts of data is concerning. If the cost structures become too prohibitive, then service providers risk losing their recurring service revenues from these customers.”
Asigra Televaluting directly addresses the challenges that, as IDC notes, are plaguing organizations and their storage providers. The capabilities of the platform provide organizations with “a simple approach to data backup protection for businesses in industries with regulation and compliance concerns such as legal, financial, healthcare and oil and gas,” according to the study. Delivered through either a software-as-a-service (SaaS) utility or an on-premise deployment basis, Televaulting combines functionality with flexibility that maps to organizational business objectives.

The IDC report notes that Asigra Televaulting addresses competition in the marketplace in a number of ways:

- Agentless architecture is less invasive and easy for service providers to deploy and manage, as well as being optimal for protecting virtual servers by reducing overhead;

- Delta processing, compression, and de-duplication reduce network bandwidth and storage consumption;

- Scheduled automatic backups ensure continuous protection;

- Restores are designed to be fast, easy, and manageable;

- Planning, reporting, and charge-back billing empowers remote service delivery, and

- Intelligent retention through backup life-cycle management enables customers to classify data and develop retention policies to reflect business requirements in accordance with data value.

“We think the IDC study accurately captures the challenges organizations of all sizes and their managed service providers continue to face. We believe that the future will see more and more service providers looking to Asigra for an affordable, flexible solution to meet their customers’ constantly growing backup and recovery needs,” commented Eran Farajun, COO for Asigra.

About Asigra
Asigra is the award-winning leader in agentless information recovery management empowering service-oriented business continuity for the real-time enterprise. Asigra Televaulting™, the company’s service-oriented information recovery management platform, is in use by hundreds of IT outsourcers who deliver managed backup and recovery services and enterprises to protect more than 50,000 locations internationally. Televaulting provides simple, centralized management of the information recovery process, ensuring information availability while eliminating the capital and operational expenses associated with agent-based solutions. Founded in 1986, Asigra is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with partner offices around the world. For more information, visit www.asigra.com.

^{[Formatted by Paul Warren.]}