19th Consecutive Record Quarter for AppAssure

AppAssure Software, Inc. reported its 19th consecutive record quarter of growth in Q4 2011 and 194% revenue growth in 2011 compared to 2010.

Its unified backup and replication products protect more than 6,000 customers’ applications and data.

"AppAssure is the best backup and recovery product I’ve ever used," said Danny Welch, corporate systems manager at American HealthTech, Inc., who switched to AppAssure because his legacy backup tool wasn’t up to the task of backing up his 100% virtualized environment. He continued, "Nothing is even close. We’ve used a lot of products, but nothing touches this."

"In our benchmark tests, AppAssure proved to be significantly faster than legacy or single-point VM backup products, with performance ranging from 50% to 4000% faster than competitors’ when performing backup operations," said Jack Fegreus, a technology expert and analyst at OpenBench Labs. He added, "More importantly, we discovered AppAssure’s Smart Agent technology to be unique in being able to provide zero-perceived restore time, without adding significant processing overhead by remapping writes and then consolidating that data in a lengthy post-recovery process."

"AppAssure’s speed and ease of use are great, and the continuous backup makes recovery go really smoothly," said Dave Buzzell, Sedona Group‘s CIO. "Our IT environment is constantly changing, and only AppAssure has been able to keep up with it. We estimate that we can keep three years of continuous backups just due to AppAssure’s true global deduplication and compression technology. That’s amazing."

"We attribute our success to listening to our customers and partners as trusted colleagues," said Najaf Husain, AppAssure’s President and CEO. "Moreover," he continued, "the amount of data in organizations is growing fast and we are focused on delivering innovative cloud-enabled backup and replication solutions that meet the challenges of protecting huge data sets in both virtual and physical environments."

Highlights of AppAssure’s 2011 Milestones:

Product Milestones:

New AppAssure v4.7 Product Launch: Backup, replication and recovery software extends in virtual and physical environments.
Enhanced virtualization data protection: Expands the ability to protect multi-hypervisor environments and improves VMware vSphere 5 integration.
Advanced application awareness: Extends performance with database-consistent backup and increases reliability with recovery auto-testing and auto-verification.
Enhancements to AppAssure’s technologies including Live Recovery – instant recovery technology offering near-zero Recovery Time for VM and physical servers; Recovery Assure – offered years ago, and one that sets a standard in data protection with automatic testing and verification of recoverability for every VM and physical backup; and Universal Recovery – cross-platform recovery that restores backups from anywhere to anywhere: from physical to virtual, virtual to virtual, or virtual to physical, as well as bare-metal recovery to dissimilar hardware (P2V, V2V, V2P); it includes granular object-level recovery with application-item and file-level recovery.

Recipient of six industry awards:

Windows IT Pro Magazine Editors’ Best – Two gold awards, one in the Backup and one in the Disaster Recovery category. The 2011 Editors’ Best Awards are based on a product’s strategic importance to the market, its competitive advantages, and its value to customers.
Virtualization Review Magazine – Readers Choice 2012 ISV Winner in the Business Continuity category.
Best of Tech-Ed 2011 Awards – AppAssure was named as a finalist in the Backup and Recovery Software category.
2011 CRN Emerging Technology Vendor – AppAssure selected to the annual list that features the most innovative vendors.
Inc. 500 – Inc. Magazine ranked AppAssure as the fastest growing company among all backup and disaster recovery software firms nationwide in 2011.

Record growth in recruitment
Expanded to more than 250 employees across customer service, R&D, sales, marketing and human resources.

Record growth in new partner recruitment
226% increase in active reseller partners and MSPs driven by partners’ need for the best unified virtual and physical data protection product.