VMworld: StorageCraft ShadowXafe Data Protection Solution

System downtime can cost businesses a tremendous amount of money in lost productivity and revenue.

According to the Aberdeen Group, the average cost of downtime for businesses has grown to $260,000 an hour.⁽¹⁾ As a result, organizations are desperately seeking ways to achieve improved reliability and availability in their data backup and management.

In fact, according to Gartner, “By 2022, 40% of organizations will augment or replace their backup applications from what they deployed at the beginning of 2018.” ⁽²⁾

To solve this dilemma, StorageCraft Technology Corp., whose mission is to protect all data and ensure its constant availability, announced ShadowXafe, a data-protection solution.

Michael Linton, EVP and GM, VLCM Tech., StorageCraft partner, adds : “VLCM is excited about the release of ShadowXafe! We think this is a game changer because it carries forward the proven and tested data-protection technology of ShadowProtect and expands significantly on its functionality and ease of use.” He continues: “We are very much looking forward to the new product release because we think it will resonate well with our customers and comprehensively address many of the issues they are facing today. Protecting an organization’s data is top of mind for all IT professionals. StorageCraft’s new solutions make it easy to deploy, manage and feel confident that your data is safe.”

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Designed specifically for SMBs, ShadowXafe is simple to deploy, to manage and reliable even under the most demanding circumstances. It ensures SLA-driven data protection and delivers recovery for physical and VMs. Integrated with the company’s cloud-based Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), it provides business continuity and orchestrated recovery with a click. In the event of system failure, data corruption or natural disaster, SMBs can perform VM recovery in milliseconds and restore their entire infrastructure in minutes using the firm’s patented VirtualBoot technology.

Said Shridar Subramanian, VP, product management and marketing, StorageCraft, said: “As data grows and infrastructure becomes increasingly complex, SMBs are faced with the challenge of protecting data cost-effectively and recovering it quickly. These objectives have been unachievable until today. ShadowXafe combines reliable recovery, scalability and total business continuity with ease of use and affordability.”

Key features of ShadowXafe include:

Flexible data protection:
With ShadowXafe, the company delivers agent and agentless protection managed through a single pane of glass. While agentless deployments will satisfy the SLA requirements for most VMs, agent-based protection offers the highest SLA for physical and performance-intensive VMs. Customers can recover any server, physical or virtual, regardless of size into a VM in milliseconds. It provides a simple and consistent experience independent of whether one is recovering from local storage, offsite or the cloud.
Management simplicity at scale
The data-protection workflow is managed through OneSystem, an unified management platform featuring a SLA-based protection framework. The entire protection lifecycle – from specifying protection requirements to ongoing management and compliance assessment – is done through policies. These SLA policies are outcome-based rather than process-oriented to ensure high accuracy and compliance. OneSystem offers remote monitoring and management from a single console as well as simplified discovery. These features enable data-protection workflow at scale, save time and reduce the risk of errors.
Business continuity
ShadowXafe delivers business continuity because it integrates with the company’s optional disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS). As a result, it offers complete, orchestrated one-click failover in the cloud, recovering the entire infrastructure.

Building on the heritage of ShadowProtect, a backup solution, ShadowXafe expands the firm’s product portfolio of data backup and data-management solutions.

It is available through the company’s network of authorized resellers and distributors.

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