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"San Diego-based backup software provider BakBone Software said this week that it has signed an OEM deal with NEC Corporation, where NEC will add the firm's NetVault: FASTRecover title to its product lineup."
"Ken Horner points out and discusses several areas to consider when designing an email archiving strategy to avoid potential gaps."
"BakBone Software introduced version 4.0 of NetVault: FASTRecover, BakBone's disk-based, real-time data protection solution for Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server and Windows File Servers. It includes a new distributed architecture to protect multiple remote or branch offices across the WAN using a single NVFR infrastructure, real-time data protection and replication converge in NVFR 4.0 to deliver an application and data recovery scenario that reduces downtime and data loss."
"BakBone Software, Inc. upgraded its NetVault: FASTRecover (NVFR) continuous data protection (CDP) data backup software to allow customers to replicate data from remote sites to a centralized file share."
"BakBone Software president and CEO, Jim Johnson, provides an executive viewpoint by examining potential challenges in the year ahead and the technologies that provide solutions, helping avoid major obstacles as data centers grow."
"From its beginning BakBone has stressed a comprehensive approach to managing and protecting data. This strategy served BakBone well when it first went up against the established bad boys of backup, and continues to serve today as BakBone grows its strong portfolio around integrated data protection and management."
"After a decade of providing data protection solutions, BakBone Software, perhaps now more than ever, is being considered a serious alternative to other storage vendors in both SMB and large enterprise environments."
"The expense of Windows clustering can scare off smaller companies, and larger organizations want extra protection offered from third-party replication and failover tools such as BakBone Software, Inc.'s NetVault: FASTRecover"
"Bakbone Software unveiled NetVault: Archive at the SNW Europe trade show in Frankfurt last week. The company is billing the solution as one that will allow businesses to benefit from a tiered storage strategy that encompasses policy-based storage automation, search and e-discovery, policy-based storage automation and audit management in a single product. Bakbone Software also announced the availability of NetVault: Archive for SharePoint."
"BakBone Software will release a new data-archiving capability for unstructured information by the end of the year. The pending NetVault:"
"In a society addicted to DVRs, Twitters, Facebook postings, blogging and a constant influx of digital information, email has become the new dial tone."
"BakBone Software announced Version 8.5 of its NetVault:Backup product, as well as new disk-based backup and data deduplication options with the launch of NetVault:SmartDisk."
"Storage maker BakBone Software is on the Fast 500 list as number 385."
"BakBone Software announced new version of NetVault: Backup software and NetVault: SmartDisk allowing deduplication and encryption and a Hyper-V plug-in that allows backup and recovery of virtual and physical environments."
"BakBone Software Inc. will begin phasing out its software virtual tape library (VTL) in favor of its new SmartDisk plugin, which adds data eduplication to BakBone's NetVault Backup product."
"BakBone Software has launched version 8.5 of NetVault: Backup and new disk-based backup and deduplication options with NetVault: SmartDisk. The latest advancement in the NetVault line, NetVault: SmartDisk is a product based on the company's Open Data Protection Platform."
"BakBone Software is finally getting into the disk-based backup game with today's release of NetVault: Backup 8.5, a new version of its flagship backup platform, which offers disk-based backup and data deduplication options through integration with a new product called NetVault: SmartDisk."
"Backup software and hardware VARs and integrators can offer their customers a wide variety of data backup software and hardware products. Large vendors such as CA, EMC, HP and Symantec maintain partner programs as do smaller backup vendors such as Acronis, Atempo and BakBone."
"The San Diego chapter of TechAmerica, formerly the American Electronics Association, announced the finalists for its annual awards."
"BakBone (stand 570) is unveiling the latest version of its flagship product, NetVault: Backup, which reduces storage costs and shrinks back-up windows even further. The latest upgrade will enable BakBone’s channel partners to offer customers the latest cutting-edge technologies to effectively address real-world issues while maximising existing investments."
"BakBone embraces disk-based backup. BakBone Software announced the launch of the Open Data Protection platform, which is optimised for disk-based backup while also allowing for tape-based operations. The new platform will allow users to centralise their data protection operations under one "pane of glass," even with third-party applications, while also offering these environments the ability to deduplicate their data using BakBone or third-party deduplication technology. Product rollout is set for later in the autumn."
"BakBone Software, a provider of universal data management solutions, announced the launch of its Open Data Protection platform this fall, extending the company’s focus from traditional tape-based data protection solutions to disk-based technology. BakBone’s customers will be able to centralize their data protection operations even with third party applications, while offering the ability to deduplicate their data using BakBone’s technology or using third party deduplication technology."
"Other popular commercial backup solutions for Linux include Symantec's Backup Exec with the Linux/Unix agent and BakBone Software's NetVault."
"Erstwhile backup-application-software specialist BakBone Software will, in the coming weeks, announce some major additions to its portfolio as part of..."
"BakBone Software, un fournisseur de solutions de gestion des donnees (Universal Data Management), annonce sa plate-forme Open Data Protection, dont le role est de modifier son approche traditionnelle dans le domaine de la protection des donnees sur bandes."
"BakBone Software, a provider of universal data management solutions, announced the launch of its Open Data Protection platform this fall, extending the company’s focus from traditional tape-based data protection solutions to disk-based technology. BakBone’s customers will be able to centralize their data protection operations even with third party applications, while offering the ability to deduplicate their data using BakBone’s technology or using third party deduplication technology."
"BakBone Software, a leading provider of Universal Data Management solutions, will sponsor a live webcast detailing how to recover and overcome Exchange failures. The webcast will be hosted by Devin Ganger, Microsoft Exchange MVP, Microsoft Certified Master Exchange 2007 and author of multiple books and Microsoft white papers. Ganger will share best practices for protecting Exchange environments and provide guidelines for Exchange protection and recovery to address common challenges."
"Responding to the inevitable, backup software supplier BakBone is extending its NetVault data backup products to disk as well as tape, building on capabilities it has already introduced, such as NetVault: FastRecover."
"BakBone Software, a leading provider of Universal Data Management solutions, will be unveiling its innovative Open Data Protection platform that will shift its traditional tape-based data protection and open the doors for new disk-based capabilities. As the needs of organisations worldwide change with new standards and tougher requirements, BakBone is evolving its solution set to fit these needs."
"BakBone Software announced it will launch its innovative Open Data Protection platform this fall. With the roll out of its new disk-based platform, BakBone's customers can centralize their data protection operations under one pane of glass, even with third-party applications, while offering the ability to deduplicate their data using BakBone's technology or using third-party data deduplication technology."
"When Dan Woodward, senior vice-president at BakBone Software, a data protection company based in San Diego, puts together a team of..."
"If someone asked you “Did you backup today?”, your reaction might include: Getting a little personal, aren’t you? No problem – the reverse in my car’s transmission works fine."
"Businesses today are looking for ways to reduce data protection costs without reducing effectiveness. They want a way to offer greater protection and scale with the needs of the business. Companies of all sizes are entertaining new vendor options that can compete with their current solutions at a greatly reduced price."
"GameStreamer, in digital distribution and streaming solutions for games worldwide, has signed on to use NetVault: Replicator to enable real-time sync with their clients."
"Tennis Channel uses BakBone Software Inc.'s NetVault software to back up broadcast data stored on an Apple XSan system."
"Spectra Logic announced that the Tennis Channel recently selected a Spectra T950 robotic tape library with six LTO-4 drives and 950 activated slots to store and protect 50 TB of video footage. Tennis Channel partitions the Spectra T950 into two virtual tape libraries, and conducts a full backup on weekends, with incremental backups on weekdays. The first, enterprise partition uses Symantec to back up the Windows environment using the two LTO-4 drives. The second XSAN partition uses BakBone NetVault software to back up Apple environment data."
"In a society addicted to DVRs, Twitters, Facebook postings, blogging and a constant influx of digital information, email has become the new dial tone. If there is any interruption, life as we know it suspends..."
"The volume of data created and stored by organisations continues to grow at amazing rates. Balancing the need for application availability and performance with that to capture and store back-up copies of the data, many organisations that for years focused on tape as their primary back-up destination are now turning to disk as the initial (and sometimes final) destination, a process that has become known as disk-to-disk (D2D) back-up."
"Backup technology is changing, and it is changing fast. Not so long ago, backing up meant copying your primary data from hard disk to tape - initially to the spools of half-inch tape beloved of film directors, and more recently to various types of tape cassettes and cartridges."
"-ColdSparkTM, a BakBone Software® company (OTCBB:BKBO), and leader in next-generation enterprise messaging infrastructure, has expanded its Compliance Catalyst solution to enable customers to easily migrate between different e-mail archiving solutions and vendors. The new version of the Compliance Catalyst solution also provides organizations with a centralized point of control from which all e-mail archiving policies can be created, managed and monitored."
"BakBone Software, a provider of Universal Data Management solutions, has appointed industry veteran Roy Hogsed as senior vice president of worldwide sales."
"Toujours plus vite et en virtuel: ainsi se résume l'offre NetVault FastRecover de BakBone. Cette solution associe la sauvegarde sur disque en temps réel et la restauration quasi-instantanée des données Exchange, SQL Server ou tous serveurs de fichiers Windows sur un serveur virtuel ou physique secondaire. La solution est "logicielle" mais existe également sur une 'appliance'."
"Other products available with block-level continuous data protection near-CDP functionality includes BakBone Software, NetVault: FASTRecover (NVFR), CA Inc.'s XOSoft, Double-Take Software Inc.'s Backup, FalconStor Software's Continuous Data Protector, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack, InMage Systems Inc.'s DR-Scout and Microsoft's Data Protection Manager."
"BakBone Software, long recognised for its flagship NetVault product families primarily focused on backup and recovery, recently splashed out to acquire ColdSpark and the technology from Asempra as part of its new strategic direction which it describes as Universal Data Management (UDM I presume)."
"Asempra acquired a few weeks ago by BakBone to increase Windows applications coverage."
"BakBone, specialist in 'universal data management', heeft Asempra Technologies en ColdSpark overgenomen. Data protectie specialst Asempra wordt onderdeel van Bakbone's storage management divisie. Message management specialist ColdSpark wordt een aparte divisie van BakBone."
"BakBone Software’s NetVault: Backup solution has allowed the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) at the Open University to design and deploy a reliable, low-maintenance and affordable backup strategy."
"Storage vendor BakBone is rebranding itself as a ‘universal data management’ specialist following its double swoop on Asempra Technologies and ColdSpark."
"BakBone Software, Incorporated (OTCBB: BKBO), a leading provider of Universal Data Management solutions, today announced that its NetVault: Backup solution has allowed the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) at the Open University to design and deploy a reliable, low-maintenance and affordable backup strategy. KMi uses the software to protect 15 terabytes of data on multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems."
"BakBone Software has appointed industry veteran Roy Hogsed as senior vice president of worldwide sales."
"The company now backs up both sites daily onto disk and tape using BakBone NetVault: Backup which comes as part of the Snap software suite, weekly on to tape and archives for added security. "It's made my life much easier," remarks Batchelor. "I can retrieve files for the designers more quickly than before; even if they are deleted from one site we can deliver them from the other."
"BakBone Software announced availability of its NetVault: FASTRecover products. These products provide disk-based, real-time data protection capabilities for Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server and Windows file servers."
"One expert tip is to use a tool to consolidate data before it ever touches a tape system in the data center. Gary Parker, a spokesperson for BakBone Software, says the process of “shoe-shining” is where the data being archived is not properly tuned for the backup because the data transfer rate falls below a minimum threshold and the drive is constantly adjusting for the disparate data segments."
"BakBone Software is now shipping NetVault: FASTRecover, a new disk-based, real-time data protection product for Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server and Windows File Servers."
"Backup and recovery specialist BakBone Software is touting an extremely fast recovery to any point in time with a brand new backup and recovery offering."
"Le fournisseur de solutions de gestion des données (Universal Data Management) annonce de nouvelles solutions, baptisées NetVault FASTRecover. Elles disposent de fonctions de protection des données sur disques en temps réel pour environnements Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server et serveurs de fichiers Windows. L'application proposée par BakBone Software se dispense des fenêtres de sauvegarde."
"BakBone Software announced the elimination of backup windows with the availability of its NetVault: FASTRecover solutions."
"BakBone has introduced a new continuous data protection product called NetVault FASTRecover, saying it will eliminate backup windows and recovers Exchange, SQL Server, and Windows File server data in as little as 30 seconds."
"BakBone Software is claiming the elimination of backup windows with the availability of its NetVault FASTRecover solutions. The solutions provide disk-based, real-time data protection capabilities for Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server and Windows file servers, while giving users the power of extremely fast recovery to any point in time."
"BakBone Software, a leading provider of Universal Data Management solutions, today announced the elimination of backup windows with the availability of its NetVault: FASTRecover solutions."
"Fresh from its fire-sale acquisition of Windows CDP partner Asempra Inc., BakBone Software has released a new series of software-only versions of Asempra’s Business Continuity Appliance dubbed NetVault FASTRecover (NVFR)."
"Data protection vendor BakBone Software has announced that it has completed the acquisition of ColdSpark, a leading provider of enterprise email."
"Data protection software vendor BakBone Software has expanded its business with the acquisition of a small developer of messaging solutions."
"Ten days after picking up Exchange CDP vendor Asempra, BakBone Software Thursday grabbed an entire message management division."
"Integrated data protection vendor BakBone Software has purchased Colorado-based ColdSpark as a route into the enterprise message management market."
"Fresh from buying collapsed Assempra's continuous data protection assets, data protection software supplier BakBone has splashed out $16m to buy ColdSpark, which sells enterprise e-mail systems."
"BakBone Software, Inc. has completed the acquisition of ColdSpark, provider of enterprise email infrastructure solutions and platforms. "
"Provides Entrée into Rapidly Growing Enterprise Message Management Market..."
"ColdSpark Inc., an enterprise-email company based in Broomfield, has been bought by data-protection firm BakBone Software Inc. of San Diego in a deal worth $15."
"San Diego-based data protection provider BakBone Software Inc. has acquired ColdSpark, a provider of enterprise e-mail infrastructure..."
"San Diego-based BakBone Software has acquired email infrastructure provider ColdSpark, in a deal worth approximately $15.9M..."
"According to BakBone, it willl pay approximately $15.9M in a combination of cash and stock for ColdSpark, consisting of $8.125M in cash..."
"BakBone Software, a local firm that makes data protection software, said May 14 it completed the acquisition of ColdSpark, a Colorado software firm..."
"San Diego-based BakBone Software has acquired email infrastructure provider ColdSpark, in a deal worth approximately $15.9M, the firm said Thursday."
"San Diego-based BakBone Software Inc. has completed the acquisition of Broomfield-based ColdSpark for $15.9 million. ColdSpark provides e-mail infrastructure solutions and platforms to businesses."
"San Diego-based data backup and recovery firm BakBone has acquired Broomfield, CO-based ColdSpark, a provider of enterprise email solutions."
"It looked like a small deal when San Diego-based data backup and recovery company BakBone Software acquired the assets of Santa Clara, CA-based Asempra Technologies earlier this week...In fact, the value of the overall, cash-and-stock transaction was approximately $3 million, but the real significance may be in showing how hard times can make for good deals."
"BakBone Software Inc. has acquired its Windows data backup and continuous data protection (CDP) partner Asempra Technologies Inc. in a mixed cash and stock transaction valued at just under $2 million...‘We're getting a really mature technology set for the consideration we're giving,’" BakBone senior VP of Corporate Development Ken Horner said.
"BakBone Software Inc. has announced that it has acquired certain assets from Asempra Technologies Inc., a privately-held company based in Santa Clara, Calif."
"Integrated data protection vendor BakBone Software has acquired certain assets from privately held Asempra Technologies, to broaden its portfolio."
"San Diego-based BakBone Software, a developer of data protection and backup software, announced this morning that it has acquired "certain assets" of Asempra Technologies."
"BakBone Software Inc., a San Diego-based provider of data protection solutions, has acquired certain assets from Asempra Technologies Inc., a privately held company based in Santa Clara, Calif."
"A Lancashire sixth form college has shortened staff time for backup and recovery by 90% following the implementation of BakBone Software's NetVault:Backup..."
"Data protection vendor BakBone Software is pointing its partners towards verticals where they may get more high data availability business compared with other sectors."
"BakBone Software has disclosed the findings of a poll of 100 UK IT decision makers, which found that 20% of organisations in the UK could not maintain normal operations if data was not accessible for up to one hour."
"The BakBone NetVault product touts its ability to fully protect the VMware environment so even BakBone's win is a nod to the popularity of VMware. (And, at last count, VMware had somewhere in the neighborhood of 80 percent of virtualization installations.)..."
"BakBone Software announced that its flagship data protection solution NetVault: Backup is now certified by VMware. The NetVault: Backup VMware Plugin gives storage administrators automatic integration with supported devices, including a virtual tape library (VTL), storage area network (SAN), NDMP or locally attached drives..."
"Leading the market with tightly integrated VMware support and script-free VCB backups, BakBone is one of the few backup vendors that has developed VMware data protection capabilities to fully comply with VMware's program. Today, in a separate announcement, BakBone announced formal certification by VMware for NetVault: Backup VMware Application Plugin Module..."
"Many organizations have virtualized their test, development, and low-duty-cycle application servers, freeing up rack space and reducing the power and cooling load in the data center. Now, as these organizations get ready to virtualize the servers that hold their most vital, high-traffic data, they're wondering: How do we back these things up?..."
"2008 was a year marked by acquisitions but innovation continued, and the finalist list reflects that innovation is coming from the big guys as well as smaller, emerging companies."
"BakBone Software has added new Microsoft application data protection capabilities to the latest versions of its NetVault: Real-Time Data Protector, NetVault: Backup Application Plugin Module for SQL Server, and NetVault: Backup APM for Exchange Server."
"BakBone Software continues to strengthen its Microsoft application data protection capabilities with the latest versions of its NetVault: Real-Time Data Protector, NetVault: Backup Application Plugin Module (APM) for SQL Server and NetVault: Backup APM for Exchange Server. The range of Microsoft data protection solutions offered by BakBone gives users the ability to tailor their BakBone solutions to their particular recovery needs and budgets."
"In the last couple of years BakBone has been busy implementing its 2007-announced Integrated Data Protection (IDP) strategy by adding more capabilities while ensuring operation is kept straightforward. One of its more interesting developments is its NetVault: RealTime Data Protector (RDP) product, the first implementation of which was announced in late 2008."