SmartPick Backup Introduces Online Data Backup Appliance

SmartPick Backup, a San Jose-based provider of data backup products and services, announced the introduction of a series of backup appliances for mid market and enterprise customers. The new product line, branded as SmartFilers solve a need for businesses to backup their data both onsite and offsite.

              
SmartFiler Backup Appliance SFB8000R:
2U rack mount server built for enterprise storage
with 8 hot-swap drive bays for a maximum capacity of 8TB. Available with 4 x 1TB or 8 x 1TB capacity.

Customers own their own solution; as an example, they buy two SmartFilers, pair them together, one located onsite and the other located offsite, and seamlessly backup their mission critical data on both SmartFilers. This allows customers to have a copy of their data onsite while retaining another copy offsite.

“With our SmartFiler Backup Appliances, customers become their own offsite data backup provider and do not have to rely on or pay monthly service charges to third party vendors. This is the most cost effective offsite data backup solution in the market today”, says Swami Nathan, President of SmartPick Solutions, Inc.

SmartPick has been successfully providing online data backup services for small and medium businesses from 2003. With the shift by companies to store all data in a digital form, be it heath records, financial information, email trails for compliance etc., it has become increasingly difficult to do a daily offsite backup, primarily due to the volume of data involved.

The SmartFiler backup appliances are for situations where more than 50GB of data need to be backed up daily onsite and offsite. In addition, in a mixture of heterogeneous environment consisting of Windows and Linux servers, a backup solution that is operating system agnostic is what the industry needs. That is exactly what the SmartFiler series of products provide, albeit at a cost less than solutions offered by companies such as Barracuda Networks and Sonicwall.