Managed Service Providers Worldwide Choose Asigra Cloud Backup To Drive Monthly Recurring Revenue

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1 Managed Service Providers Worldwide Choose Asigra Cloud Backup To Drive Monthly Recurring Revenue

2 Cloud Backup Managed Services is getting hotter by the terabyte. Don t miss out on this amazing opportunity to drive monthly recurring revenue. We live in a world where data is the new digital currency. In 2013, IDC forecast that the Digital Universe contains 4.4 zettabytes worth of data. The explosive data growth has led to newer data access paradigms such as cloud. More and more data is born in the cloud and more and more workloads are moving to the cloud. This presents Managed Service Providers who offer cloud backup managed services and DRaaS with immense business opportunity. There has never been a better time to provide Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), as market demand for cloud services is expected to triple over the next few years. According to Gartner* by 2017, the number of enterprises using the cloud as a backup destination will double, up from 12% today and by 2019, there will be a 60% increase in the number of large enterprises eliminating tape for operational recovery. Providing DRaaS, a complete end-to-end solution that protects applications and data from a natural or human disaster or service disruption by enabling a full recovery in the cloud, is the ideal way for creating stable stream of monthly recurring revenue. This guide will provide you with real-world peer to peer feedback on why Managed Service Providers around the world choose Asigra Cloud Backup to power their cloud backup and recovery service to earn monthly recurring revenue, expand their total addressable market and increase wallet share with existing customers. * Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup Software and Integrated Appliances June 2015

3 Table of Contents The Product... 4 Technical Support...13 Partner Program...16 Innovative Pricing Model...18 After dealing with enterprise software products for 20 yrs, working with Asigra is a breath of fresh air. To have an offering that has full scale enterprise functionality that can also be used and afforded by SMB customers is a real pleasure. Matthew Harris, Fasset Technologies

4 The Product n

5 I ve been implementing Asigra for over 6 years as Public, Private and Hybrid Clouds. Its key features for me are: Agentless Architecture, WAN Optimisation, Incremental Forever, Encrypted at Source, FIPS Certification. These features give service providers and customers the confidence that their data is protected and secure. Jeremy Wyatt, Fantastic Cloud Services The incremental forever functionality is an excellent feature never requiring master backups to ever be taken after the initial backup, resulting in an extremely fast efficient solution. I personally have been using Asigra for the past nine years now and still believe it to be the best cloud based enterprise backup and disaster recovery solution. Oliver Kelly, Fantastic Cloud Services We ve used Acronis, ARCserve, BackupExec, Code42, BackupAssist, LiveVault, and many others. Asigra stands head and shoulders above the rest with its ability to support a variety of different operating systems and applications. Plus being agentless is a huge advantage. Brent Reichow, Blueshift Data Protection 5

6 Traditionally cloud backup services required the installation of a software agent on every client side host server. Even in small environments, that quickly got expensive and complicated to manage, leading to agent pollution. Asigra does not require any agents to be installed but instead reaches out over the network to back up operating systems, file systems, and applications, using industry standard programming interfaces it s a much more effective solution. Cassie Holmes, Databarracks The product is rock solid, and monitoring options are easy. Lee Taylor, mycatalyst Inc. Asigra does a number of things well. First, it s a cross-platform data backup and recovery solution. This means you can use the same software to backup Microsoft, Linux, OS X and VMs. The same software can be used for servers, desktops and mobile devices which helps to smooth the delivery process as their are less moving parts. Brent Reichow, Blueshift Data Protection 6

7 Asigra does well at file level backups. It is great at controlling the life cycle of file generations along with meeting requirements of long life retention. Stephen Sifers, Sagiss Asigra Cloud Backup Software is a very reliable backup solution which ensures an incredibly high recovery availability and success rate with short RTOs. Christian Buhn, Matrix Technology AG We have tried and used many products. Asigra met all of our objectives and was the best fit for our ideal clients. Asigra works well with SMB and enterprise environments. All components have redundancy options so you can build a true no single point of failure system. John Whitford, Structured Communication Systems 7

8 True end to end offering. There are very few operating systems or applications that Asigra doesn t support. Asigra s deduplication and compression settings allow us to reduce our clients expenditure on cloud backup. James Chillman, UK Backup Asigra is built with multi-tenant MSPs and companies in mind so it s easier to use when managing many companies or isolated parts of a business. Asigra can stackup well in these situations against Avamar and Commvault. IT Consultant The Asigra software is extremely scalable and able to back up 99% of a company s infrastructure. Kyle Ruby, Long View Systems 8

9 This is the best backup solution I have used. Very easy to setup and very user-friendly. I have administered other backup solutions like Commvault, and Symantec. This is by far the easiest up is great. No extra overhead on the servers. The tech support is outstanding as well. Steve Preston, FIS Global Built from the ground up for MSP s Asigra s multi-tenant, agentless backup never ceases to amaze me with its capabilities to backup everything from enterprise servers down to desktops and even cellular phones and it s almost limitless functionality. Leroy Barnes, Razor Technology Asigra offers outstanding recoverability, automation and security. With the right design, Cloud Backup services powered by Asigra can provide an economy of scale beyond all its competition. If data protection is about keeping the lights on and reducing risk, Asigra is number one. Mark Saville, OnDemand Recovery 9

10 Asigra has the broadest footprint in the industry. My clients don t have to worry if they have servers, laptops, tablets or smartphones as Asigra will protect all of their data across all platforms. I also have clients that use Salesforce backup and they love it. John Boros, AssureVault, LLC Asigra support is very experienced and efficient. When I have needed it they are always professional and prompt. Jonathan Hozeska, Network Services Group The biggest compliment I get from clients is how fast I can recover data, specifically flat files. Asigra is solid when it comes to file recovery in general. Jonathan Drummond, Cohere Communications 10

11 The major benefit from a managed service provider standpoint is the ability to provide truly secure multi-tenanted backup as a service. It is the only product we ve used that can deliver the security and confidentiality demanded by clients in the legal, financial and healthcare sectors. Gary Pigott, Another 9 Asigra s client-less approach is one of the best in the industry. Ensuring the backup/management of any system on the network through one single portal is extremely helpful. Asigra s message level restore is an exceptional feature for retrieval of deleted s. The quality of the backup can always be trusted as there are numerous background services running to constantly check data integrity. Although not tested as of yet, version 13 offers backup of Microsoft Online Exchange backup (Google Apps was available for Version 12). Backup of ESXi (including the free version) as well as Hyper-V and Hyper-V cluster is nice as well. Reviewer Asigra is still the leading cloud based backup technology in the market right now, geared for the MSP marketplace. Their solution set is very comprehensive and constantly evolving. If you want to enter the cloud backup market, you won t go far wrong looking at Asigra. Jason Butler Dataedge has been utilizing Asigra since We selected Asigra for it s Data Security and Data Integrity among other reasons. Asigra has proven to be very scalable and reliable. Rob Didlake, Dataedge Solutions 11

12 My company uses Asigra to provide a powerful and reliable backup solution to our customers. I can t recall telling a business we can t back that data up or more importantly We can t restore your data. Asigra s design gives you the ability to design a data protection solution for any environment. Sam Users Pick Asigra As Top Enterprise Backup App Source: 2015 TechTarget Storage Magazine Quality Awards Asigra is awesome backup software, its GUI is very simple and easy to understand. It gives maximum dedup. in case of Exchange and SQL databases as compared to other backup software, very easy to handle and manage. sourabhwadhwa Excellent piece of software. We use this to back up our database, and file server every day. We also use a CDP continuous backup to backup after image files of our database (snapshot of incremental changes/ transactions made since last backup), which are created every 2 minutes. We use Backup Technology Ltd who I would highly recommend. Great value for money, we hold about 400GB of data with them. Matt_ITSolutionCentre

13 Technical Support n

14 Support staff very knowledgeable. Good to have engineers available to assist. Marco Grugnale The Asigra company has great service on all levels, from sales to technical and end customer service. The software itself is very stable and functional. It has all our requirements as a cloud backup service provider for customers in all sectors, including the health sector. IT Consultant 14

15 When we have had emergency issues over the years I have always gotten prompt excellent support, whether it is account team or tech support. Glen DeGeare What is also important is the post sales support wherein the product code is done so well that you rarely need to engage Asigra s support team for escalations and support calls. On top of it, Asigra technical support works very well to ensure you are taken care of well & quickly. This is one of the most important things that you look for while evaluating any product as you need to have the right people around you when you are in trouble. Anonymous Reviewer, C-Level Executive in Customer Service 15

16 Partner Programn

17 Asigra has a very special ecosystem for it s partners. The Asigra management team will help any new or existing partner in growing their business. For this reason (and for technical reasons) we will continue renewing the Asigra software contract. Pesach Goldman Asigra has one of the best channel partner programs I have experienced. They provide seemingly endless resources to support your sales and marketing effort and also a pricing a product approach which creates a strong commercial proposition as a service provider which creates long term business value. The turnkey marketing campaigns and the support with generation and distribution of PR that supports and promotes your own business demonstrates Asigra s mutual commitment to your own investment in their product and relationship. Richard Gaudin, OnDemand Recovery 17

18 Innovative Pricing Modeln

19 As a user of the solution it offers a revolutionary pricing model which rewards good IT practices by lowering the cost of an organisations backup and recovery when you have maintained a low requirement for recovery in previous years. It also removes the cost and management overhead of multiple agents across the IT estate. Richard Gaudin, OnDemand Recovery 19

20 Sources TrustRadius G2Crowd Spiceworks IT Central Station Get More Information To speak to an Asigra Recurring Revenue Specialist to start offering cloud backup services to drive monthly recurring revenue, or call ext To start your free no obligation 14-day trial of Asigra Cloud Backup software, go to About Asigra Trusted since 1986, Asigra provides organizations around the world the ability to recover their data now from anywhere through a global network of partners who deliver cloud backup and recovery services as public, private and/or hybrid deployments. As the industry s first enterprise-class agentless cloud-based recovery software to provide data backup and recovery of servers, virtual machines, endpoint devices, databases and applications, SaaS and IaaS based applications, Asigra lowers the total cost of ownership, reduces recovery time objectives, eliminates silos of backup data by providing a single consolidated repository, and provides 100% recovery assurance. Asigra s revolutionary patent-pending Recovery License Model provides organizations with a cost effective data recovery business model unlike any other offered in the storage market. Asigra has been recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor and has been included in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software since In 2015, Asigra Cloud Backup was also named the Top Enterprise Backup Solution and Product of the Year by Storage Magazine. More information on Asigra can be found at Asigra Inc. Asigra, the Asigra logo, Asigra Cloud Backup, Recovery is Everything, and Recovery Tracker are all trademarks of Asigra Inc. Recovery License Model is a registered trademark of Asigra Inc. All other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. [10/15]