StorageCraft Upgrades ShadowXafe Data Protection and Recovery Software

StorageCraft Technology Corp. announced upgrade and expansion of its ShadowXafe.

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The solution provides enhanced features for MSPs, including data monitoring, protection, and recovery for the entire data center, independent of size and type of machine, from a single console. It eliminates complexity, improves productivity, and reduces pressure on IT skills and training. It outperforms competitive offerings by multiple orders of magnitude and delivers immediate business impact.

Enhancements of ShadowXafe include:

• MSP-friendly and flexible billing and invoicing for improved productivity

• Network tunneling for massive, yet simple scale of new and expanded customer deployments

• Support for Hyper-V applications

For MSPs, standardizing on ShadowXafe offers a path to improved productivity, profitability, and business success. It saves them hours during deployment and management, takes milliseconds for recovery of data, and reduces the potential for errors. Its scalability lets MSPs add additional data protection and workflows in a few clicks. By supports a virtually unlimited number of nodes, it allows them to grow their customer base without increasing service desk staff. It delivers everything through a single license and a single, usage-based, recurring or combination billing system. ShadowXafe supports consolidated automated billing through PSA and RMM partners.

ShadowXafe’s native tunneling feature allows for the management of thousands of devices with minimal impact on network performance and without having to reconfigure firewalls. Organizations can scale at speed and with ease because it can restore any device or an entire IT infrastructure from a single console and via a single pane of glass.

With reliability, speed and simplicity, the company’s protects all data for midsize companies and MSPs irrespective of its source: whether on-premises or in the cloud, directly from VMware, or Hyper-V applications, and from both desktops and servers. For total DR and BC, ShadowXafe replicates data to a public cloud, a StorageCraft Cloud, or an off-premises location.

By supporting agentless and agent-based protection, ShadowXafe satisfies SLAs for performance-intensive VMs and physical machines. It delivers protection for multiple use cases – including physical and virtual servers, on-premises and cloud, and DRaaS, in a single solution. It recovers VMs in milliseconds, outperforming competitive offerings by multiple orders of magnitude. It recovers and restores entire IT infrastructures in minutes and, with a click, delivers total BC with a complete and orchestrated virtual failover to the cloud. Exceedingly flexible, ShadowXafe is 20x faster to deploy than any competitive offering.

Because ShadowXafe features an architecture of microservices which provide a simple, scalable, and flexible workflow, it makes managing and restoring VMs and physical machines a breeze. In addition, it offers integration into DRaaS for failover and recovery. In the event of system-wide failure, data corruption or natural disaster, ShadowXafe’s patented VirtualBoot technology allows organizations to perform a VM recovery in milliseconds and restore entire infrastructures in minutes.

With an array of features and capabilities and powerful, differentiated functionality at SMB pricing, ShadowXafe is a solution for SMBs, SMEs, and MSPs of all sizes and levels of complexity.

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

Shridar Subramanian, VP, product management and marketing, StorageCraft, said: “Depending on whether you’re an SME or an MSP, solving the data protection and recovery dilemma is a burden or a business opportunity. SMEs struggle to cope because of limited skills or budget. Meanwhile, MSPs miss the opportunity to scale and respond to growing demand. ShadowXafe solves both sides of the equation. For SMEs, it provides best in class protection and recovery with ease. For MSPs, it brings the advantage of being able to standardize on a single data protection platform that also delivers on scale, productivity, and profitability.“

Ryan Walsh, chief channel officer, Pax8, said: “This is a smart move by StorageCraft and presents an important business advantage for Pax8. ShadowXafe fits well with our promise to improve operational efficiency and lower customer acquisition costs for channel partners looking to expand their cloud services business. Providing a single, simple interface to manage multiple environments at scale, with unprecedented levels of data management, protection, and recovery, in a single license, will be an attractive proposition for our channel partners. This version of ShadowXafe is a new release, and we will have it available in early summer.“

Ryan Rosenkaimer, director, operations, Razor Technology, said: “We are a data and cloud-heavy operation. Our customers rely on our services to be always available. ShadowXafe provides MSPs with the means to manage and protect all our customer environments and their specific SLAs within a single and easy to manage interface. The ability to monitor capacity and easily scale is of particular value to us because of the unpredictable and data-heavy nature of our customer needs. Both these features have the potential to deliver significant efficiencies that will impact our bottom line.“

Travis Vigneau, director, solution partner strategy, ConnectWise, Inc., said: “StorageCraft has long been the leader for BC solutions. We expect the enhancements in ShadowXafe to be very popular with the channel. The ability to manage and protect multiple environments, plus the ability to recover customer environments in a single orchestrated click, from a single, standardized environment is a compelling service proposition. The channel will also find the seamless integration with ConnectWise for reporting and billing, will add to the ease of business management and improved margin potential.“