StorageCraft Releases ShadowProtect Edition 3.0
ShadowProtect Server Edition 3.0 and ShadowProtect Desktop Edition 3.0 include hardware independent restoration (HIR), allowing IT administrators to backup, restore or migrate server, desktop and laptop systems to any environment, whether physical or virtual.
“I first saw ShadowProtect 12 months ago and I was impressed with the ease of installation and configuration, as well as its affordability,” said Dr Kevin McIsaac, Advisor for Intelligent Business Research Services (IBRS), a provider of research and advice services specific to IT and business managers for Australian and New Zealand organisations. “More importantly the simplicity ShadowProtect brings to data recovery, including bare metal restore, makes it a disruptive technology that Microsoft Windows centric organisation must consider. With version 3.0, StorageCraft have made a great product even more compelling."
HIR Features Give Disaster Recovery and System Migration Flexibility
ShadowProtect Server Edition 3.0 and ShadowProtect Desktop Edition 3.0 allow IT professionals to restore or migrate servers, desktops and laptops in any environment – whether virtual or physical.
In addition, ShadowProtect can migrate to new systems with tremendous flexibility – whether from a physical machine to another physical machine (P2P), a physical to a virtual machine (P2V), a virtual machine to another virtual machine (V2V) or even from a virtual machine to a physical machine (V2P). ShadowProtect Server Edition 3.0 and ShadowProtect Desktop Edition 3.0 support virtualization solutions, such as VMware platforms and Microsoft Virtual Server and Virtual PC, for quick and reliable disaster recovery, system migration and consolidation.
“We’ve engineered ShadowProtect 3.0 to help IT professionals protect every Windows system in their computing environment,” said Scott Barnes, chief technology officer at StorageCraft. “This means there aren’t any limitations on the types of Windows systems you are backing up or migrating to – whether virtual or physical.”
Enhanced Recovery Features
The enhanced features in ShadowProtect Server Edition 3.0 and ShadowProtect Desktop Edition 3.0 also make it easier to recover servers, desktops and laptops following a catastrophic failure. New features in ShadowProtect include tools that help administrators get systems up and running in minutes.
ShadowProtect Server Edition 3.0 and ShadowProtect Desktop Edition 3.0 have an improved recovery environment which includes additional drivers to make it easy to recover systems and data. In addition, ShadowProtect allows IT professionals to dynamically load drivers to provide complete flexibility in adding new storage controller drivers or NIC drivers, for example.
Additional features in ShadowProtect Server Edition 3.0 and ShadowProtect Desktop Edition include:
- Bootable recovery CD based on Windows Vista; includes automatic hardware detection and network support.
- New Verify Backup Image tool to ensure backup files are recoverable.
- Additional optical media support (CD-R/RW, DVD+-R/RW, Blu-ray R/RE (both single and dual layer).
- Network throttling during backup for improved performance.
- Improved image management.
- Windows Vista support
- Visual partitioning support
- Remote management of recovery environment.
- Improved user interface
- Bare metal recovery of servers, desktops and laptops in minutes
- Ability to take online or cold state backup images without the need to install software
- Simple view to quickly recover files and folders or update backup images
- Network Configurator to manage domains, mapped drives and network resources
“With StorageCraft ShadowProtect I am confident we will never lose more than 15-minutes of data or database or Exchange e-mails; and if one of our critical production servers crash, we can rebuild it, migrate it to dissimilar hardware or even to a virtual environment in minutes and restore it to the ExactState™ immediately prior to the crash – unbelievable!” said Warren Gerdes, IT Manager, Synovate Aztec - Australia’s leading provider of scan data services that offers data agency and value-added data processing services across the grocery, pharmacy, liquor, mass merchant and petrol / convenience channels. “StorageCraft ShadowProtect has become a vital engineering tool in our organization,” concluded Gerdes.
Pricing and Availability
StorageCraft ShadowProtect Server Edition 3.0 and ShadowProtect Desktop Edition 3.0 are available now through the StorageCraft authorised StorageCraft distributors, managed service providers (MSPs) and value-added resellers (VARs). Volume discounts are available.
For additional information about ShadowProtect Server Edition 3.0, ShadowProtect Desktop Edition 3.0 or to learn more about volume licensing, contact StorageCraft.
Phone: +61 2 9229 9770 or Email: sales@storagecraft.com.au or visit: http://www.storagecraft.com.au
About StorageCraft Technology Corporation
StorageCraft Technology Corporation provides innovative security, disaster recovery and data protection solutions for servers, desktops and laptops. StorageCraft delivers software products that reduce downtime, improve security and stability for systems and data and lower the total cost of ownership for servers, desktops and laptops. Visit: www.storagecraft.com
ShadowProtect, ShadowProtect Server Edition, ShadowProtect Desktop Edition and ExactState are trademarks of StorageCraft Technology Corporation. Other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
Contact Information:
Greg Wyman - StorageCraft Asia Pacific
Phone: +61 2 9929 9770
Email: greg.wyman@storagecraft.com.au
