Backupify Launches ‘Bring Your Own Storage’ Tendancy

Backupify
Inc. announced plans to expand their support for multiple
storage providers to give customers more ownership over their data.

Universal support for storage providers
helps companies control and manage their data – on their terms.

According to research firm IDC, it is
estimated that public cloud services will account for almost $100
billion in spending by 2016. Not surprisingly, as more organizations
embrace cloud computing solutions, there has been a significant
increase in the amount of organizational data stored in the cloud.

With vast amounts of data stored in
SaaS apps and in the cloud, enterprise companies are seeking enhanced
security, privacy, control, and access. The universal storage
provider support will enable IT organizations to retain ownership of
their data by having a second, independent copy of their SaaS data
archives stored wherever they want. Initially, the copany plans to
offer support for the following cloud storage providers: self-managed
Amazon S3 storage accounts, Rackspace, and Google cloud Storage.
Additionally, Backupify has future plans to support on-premise
storage.

"For many enterprise
organizations, security and privacy remain a serious barrier to cloud
adoption," said Wayne Pauley, senior analyst, Enterprise
Strategy Group. "If SaaS vendors like Backupify can ease
the transition to the cloud by providing companies with enhanced
control over their data, this barrier can be lowered and the risks
can be mitigated."

"The growing trend among
enterprise businesses is toward total data ownership," said
Rob May, CEO, Backupify. "Data should be stored wherever
companies want it, available when they want it, and vendors need to
support this desire for storage flexibility. Many of our larger
customers have existing relationships with storage providers, and
have been asking for centralized management of their data, including
backups. These companies have massive amounts of data and want the
ease of storing their data in one place, under their full control.
Those customer requests were the motivation behind Backupify’s ‘Bring
Your Own Storage’ (BYOS) product direction."

Backupify stores a second copy of a
customer’s data in an encrypted archive in Amazon’s storage cloud.
For those customers interested in using their own storage provider,
the company is testing with a select group of customers and welcomes
additional participation. The BYOS pilot program allows customers to
store their backups in their self-managed Amazon account. Expanded
support for additional storage cloud providers will be available by
year end.