Developing managed backup services

If you're a value-added reseller (VAR) or systems integrator looking to launch and offer such managed data protection services, this tip will present you with key considerations to take into account. Your options for developing a managed backup service involve one of the following or a combination of the following approaches.

Manufactures of software for managed backup services include Asigra, Avamar and EVault, among others. Managed service providers include Iron Mountain, AmeriVault, Storage Elements, Hewlett-Packard, EVault and Arsenal. Other backup and data

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protection packages include those from Yosemite, EMC Dantz, Intradyn, FilesX, Vembu, Hewlett-Packard and IBM.

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About the author: Greg Schulz is founder and senior analyst with the IT infrastructure analyst and consulting firm the StorageIO group. A 25-year IT veteran, Greg has worked as an IT customer, vendor, author and industry analyst. He has worked with applications, servers, databases, networks, storage, DR/BC, performance and capacity planning and associated management tools in IBM Mainframe, OpenVMS, Unix, Windows and other environments. Greg is also the author and illustrator of the book Resilient Storage Networks. (Elsevier) and has contributed material to Storage magazine and other TechTarget publications. Greg holds degrees in computer science and masters in software engineering from the University of St. Thomas.

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