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Backup Service Providers Witness Substantial Growth Fueled By Agentless Asigra Software; Data Protection Firms See a 140 Percent Increase in Capacity Growth Over 2004 Full Year Figures - in Just the First Ten Months of 2005

Posted on: Wednesday, 14 December 2005, 09:00 CST

Asigra(TM), the technology leader in agentless distributed backup and recovery software for network computing, today announced that backup service providers have reported substantial increases in data under protection for the first ten months of 2005. Reviewing physical compressed capacities that are under management by Asigra Televaulting(TM) in the period from January 1, 2005 through October 31, 2005, backup service providers are showing dramatic increases of 140 percent in the first ten months of 2005 as compared with figures for the entire 12 months of 2004.

"As awareness of online, off-site data protection solutions expands, backup service providers should expect to see the market blossom," said Adam Couture, principal analyst at Gartner. "Two years ago 40 percent of the companies we surveyed were dead set against managed backup services. This year that number dropped down to 6 percent. Some of the reasons are that providers have made huge improvements in online backup technology, services divisions of global corporations are integrating these technologies to become backup service providers, and storage levels are increasing considerably in size, bringing visibility and momentum to this market."(1)

Asigra Televaulting for Service Providers incorporates everything needed to deploy, provision and sell storage services, including business features not available from off-the-shelf backup software packages. Televaulting's agentless architecture ensures that installation and maintenance is fast and easy, and its built-in multi-tiered storage billing system saves the time and expense of developing or modifying an existing billing system to accurately track expenses by operating unit, division or department.

Deployed easily by installing Asigra's agentless client software on just one node of each remote or branch office throughout the enterprise, Televaulting's advanced security features, including authentication, strong encryption and non-escrowed keys, protect data with encryption 'in-flight' and 'at-rest' to provide the peace of mind corporate executives expect.

"Companies today are seeking a level of off-site protection that can reduce corporate exposure and vulnerability, and they are turning to backup service providers to gain needed protection in a cost-effective manner," said Stacy Hayes, vice president of operations and business development for DS3 DataVaulting. "An opportunity exists today for backup service providers to address these expanded data retention demands, and we continue to see companies turning toward outsourced backup to protect corporate data."

"The ability to offer a secure and efficient method for managed off-site backup and recovery services, without incurring infrastructure complexity, is a data protection strategy that resonates with business," said Kerry Classen, chief technology strategist at NetStandard Inc. "As we look for value-added services for businesses, the ability to provide data protection as a utility will open the doors for easier adoption of business continuance initiatives."

Asigra's Televaulting, an agentless WAN platform solution that delivers backup/restore service as a utility, brings an easy-to-deploy multi-site data protection solution for enterprise use. Providing a highly scalable and secure method for business continuity needs, Televaulting delivers a simplified management platform that provides backup and retrieval of corporate data for businesses, as well as the ability for service providers to expand beyond regional boundaries to open up new markets.

According to Eran Farajun, executive vice president of Asigra, "The substantial growth of storage under management is a strong sign that businesses are learning more about Asigra Televaulting and choosing our agentless approach to solve their data management and data protection needs. Service providers using Televaulting allow enterprises to protect their data in the most secure and efficient way possible, and we look forward to seeing continued growth as companies move to address their data protection requirements with the benefits that Televaulting brings."

About Asigra

Founded in 1986, Asigra is the award-winning leader in agentless distributed data backup and recovery solutions for network computing. With Asigra's Televaulting software, enterprises and service providers such as HP Services, DS3 DataVaulting and Net Standard can reliably protect mission-critical information across geographically dispersed "data islands," whether those islands reside on servers, desktops or laptops. Leading all other distributed backup and restore disk-to-disk software vendors, more than 3 petabytes of data is protected with Asigra Televaulting. The privately held company is based in Toronto, Canada. For more information, visit the company's website at www.asigra.com.

Asigra, Asigra Televaulting, and the Asigra logo are trademarks of Asigra Inc. All other brand and product names are, or may be trademarks of their respective owners.

(1) Gartner Research "User Survey: Storage Service Opportunities, North America, 2005" by A. W. Couture. October 27, 2005.

Source: Business Wire

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