Carbonite Introduces Hybrid Backup Appliance for SMBs

Carbonite, Inc. introduced its Appliance HT10, a hybrid backup solution designed to meet the needs of small businesses.

The appliance delivers the speed of local backup and the safety of the cloud, protecting businesses against data loss and minimizing downtime, at a low cost. With the launch of the channel-exclusive Carbonite appliance, the company continues to prove its commitment to its partners and the small business market.

For channel partners, the appliance is a solution that allows partners to provide centrally-managed local and cloud backup to their small business clients. It is managed by the channel partner, allowing partners to increase their interaction with clients, empowering them to strengthen existing relationships and providing the opportunity to drive revenue through business growth. With the hybrid backup appliance, the company is providing partners control and a solution that is designed to keep their clients’ businesses moving and take their own businesses to the next level.

“We are reinforcing our commitment to our channel partners and the small business market with the launch of the channel-exclusive Carbonite Appliance,” said David Maffei, VP, global channel sales, Carbonite. “The Carbonite Appliance is a simple, secure hybrid backup solution that’s just right for our partners’ small business clients. The local data recovery and automatic cloud integration allow partners to protect their clients’ most important asset – their business-critical data. The complete bare metal backup and recovery ensures small business clients can get right back to business.“

It provides partners and their small business clients with following benefits:

• Hybrid Solution: The company provides an appliance for local backups, and automatically copies all stored data to the cloud – ensuring businesses can get data back completely. The appliance includes 1TB of local storage plus 500GB of cloud storage.

• Simplicity: Setting up the appliance is done in three steps. Carbonite provides the partner with an interface that makes it easy to configure, monitor and manage the backup and restore processes.

• Affordability: No hardware fees, upfront costs or per-server license fees. The appliance meets small businesses’ needs, as well as their budgets.

• Speed: Bare metal recovery ensures that a business can get backup and running by restoring the full system, including OSs, applications, databases and files to new or existing hardware.

• Security: Data is transferred using SSL encryption and stored with AES-256 encryption server-side.

David Levenson, owner of Creative Computer Consulting in MA, uses the appliance to ensure that his clients have the ability to recover from data loss or equipment failure.

“I believe in providing image backups – not just backups,” said Levenson. “A proper image backup includes the ability to do an image restore on different hardware. Restoring to dissimilar hardware with the Carbonite Appliance is easy and it decreases the impact of downtime on the business and has other benefits such as saving my clients’ time, money and a lot of anguish.“

Levenson finds the appliance easy to set up and manage, and says the feature set makes sense for many of his midsize business clients. Backup schedules and their statuses are accessed through a web-based dashboard that is accessible from any onsite computer.

“Many other appliances tend to be too complex and expensive for this particular market,” said Levenson. “Other comparative solutions may incorporate many moving parts and administrative costs and the totals may exceed the cost of this appliance. The Carbonite Appliance is a simple and powerful solution that handles creating image backups of Windows Servers, storing them on the appliance, and sending all of that data to the cloud.“