i365 offers new backup capabilities for SMBs

November 13, 2008, 04:50 PM —  Computerworld — 

Data backup vendor i365 Inc. is adding enterprise-class data backup and infrastructure disaster recovery capabilities to its products aimed at small- and medium-sized businesses.

I365, a division of storage drive vendor Seagate Co., announced Wednesday three new products that can be added to its EVault online backup and recovery software to give SMBs a wider range of options when planning for disaster recovery.

The add-ons bring key new features to EVault, including the ability to track data changes and create backup points as often as five minutes apart -- which wasn't possible previously with EVault -- and another module that gives smaller users the ability to have a remote, virtualized backup of their entire application, data and hardware infrastructure in the event of a total disaster at their main facility.

"It's a new approach" for i365, said Valerie Fawzi, senior director of product marketing at the Santa Clara. Calif.-based company. "Small to medium businesses can't afford the level of service from larger disaster recovery vendors, where they have expensive data center backups."

But by leveraging EVault installations and adding the new modules, "this allows backup of your data and your systems, and we can reconstruct your key servers and data into a virtual server" that can be accessed remotely over the Internet using any PC," Fawzi said. "For you to recover your operations, you can plug a PC into the Internet and get back to work."

Other vendors offer similar capabilities, she said, but this is a plug-in addition that can be used by any of i365's 22,000 customers to easily improve their capabilities.

The new products let users recover whatever they need, ranging from a single file to a server to a whole system, she said. "We're expanding our options for a faster and more complete recovery. Customers are realizing that not all data and not all systems are created equally during recovery," and i365 is providing a means for them to prioritize their recovery strategies to be able to get their most critical data up first.

The new offerings are:

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