Corporate Backup Launches Cloud Storage in Melbourne
Announcement posted by Probax Pty Ltd 16 Jun 2014
Corporate Backup has continued their aggressive expansion as a cloud backup wholesaler to the IT sector with new storage hosted inside NextDC’s M1 facility.
The storage enables resellers on the company’s proprietary Probax Platform to choose between Perth, Melbourne or both sites for offsite storage of data backups.
The Probax Platform has been winning accolades from IT companies since its release last November. Probax is the brainchild of Corporate Backup Technical Director, Kevin Allan. “The feedback from our reseller channel was that IT companies needed a single point of management for the range of backup types they were deploying. In the case of Australian IT business, the two most obvious players are ShadowProtect and Veeam. We’ve designed Probax to handle the offsite storage, monitoring and recovery of these types of data as well as being compatible with FTP connections between the major NAS brands”
“Our presence in Melbourne marks a big step forward for us in terms of uptime and recoverability” said Kyle Walter, head of business development. During a trip to Melbourne recently, Kyle noted that the demand for large volumes of cloud storage were increasing dramatically. “5 years ago, selling a single terabyte of storage to one business was a pretty rare transaction. Most of the companies that met with us during our Melbourne road show were interested in 10TB or more”
Another strategic milestone was reached recently when a deal was brokered between Corporate Backup and New Lease, the Australian Veeam distributor. “This is part of our mission to take the sting out of buying licences for major backup brands” says Mr Allan. “We’ve already made access to monthly ShadowProtect licences incredibly fast and simple through the Probax Portal, Veeam was the next logical step for us.”