Cloud backup, recovery and restore software provider, Asigra, today announced volume shipping of the company’s Cloud Backup Connector Appliance. The program uses the Cisco ISR G2 router and UCS E-Series server blade and includes the latest version of Asigra Cloud Backup™ software. The appliance provides onsite backup data storage and the ability to replicate to external cloud service providers at the user’s discretion for both local and remote recovery.
This is an interesting play for Asigra for a number of reasons.
1) It opens up Asigra to a number of new partners within the Cisco partner community, companies that would otherwise never have heard of Asigra before.
2) The relationship helps those Cisco partners get into new forms of managed services, like backup. While Cisco does have its own managed services program, it tends to focused around Cisco technology exclusively.
3) By leveraging Cisco’s appliance, Asigra can remain focused on developing software and not get bogged down by having to create hardware for their partners. Plus, Asigra partners (and customers) have a brand in Cisco that is well known and trusted.
4) Although this is pure speculation, this program does raise an interesting notion of a possible deeper relationship between Asigra and Cisco down the road.
The Cloud Backup Connector Appliance features:
• Asigra Cloud Backup v12.2 pre-installed for plug-and-play mass deployment and agentless protection of all computing environments
• The ability to perform standalone local backup and/or connect to the service provider of choice for offsite recovery
• End-to-end data protection of storage, servers, desktops, laptops and mobile devices (tablets and smartphones)
• High-performance data recovery across physical, virtual and cloud operating environments
• Autonomic healing to ensure data integrity/recoverability
• Enterprise-class security for regulated industries such as healthcare, financial services and government with FIPS 140-2 certification
• 2TB internal storage standard which scales to 10TB per appliance to store compressed, de-duplicated data for local recovery
• Capability to leverage external cloud service providers for offsite data recovery
• Connectivity: Three integrated 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports with 1 port capable of RJ-45 or SFP connectivity, one service module slot, three onboard digital signal processor slots and one internal service module for application services
“Our strong technology partnerships are the foundation for technology that brings significant advantages for service providers and the end-customers they serve,” said Eran Farajun, Executive Vice President, Asigra. “With general availability by a growing number of channel partners and deployments in place globally, customers have the ability to dramatically improve business continuity with the recovery of any data on any device at any time.”