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EVault Cloud-Connected Service Provider Program Sees Partner Momentum, Named 5 Star Program in the 2011 CRN Partner Program Guide

Channel Partners Varay Systems, Network Medics, Compuquip Technologies, NOEVA and Avantage Join Growing Program to Offer Cloud-Based Data Protection Services

i365 Inc., A Seagate Company (NASDAQ:STX), today announced that its EVault® Cloud-Connected Service Provider (CCSP) Program has been named an elite 5-Star Partner Program in the 2011 CRN Partner Program Guide, recognizing vendors offering great services and resources to VARs. i365 also announced continued momentum for the program with Varay Systems, Network Medics, Compuquip Technologies, NOEVA and Avantage among the 30 partners to join the CCSP program, serving hundreds of customers. The EVault CCSP program is a unique channel offering that packages i365′s EVault technology and best practices to help participating Value Added Resellers (VARs) quickly build a profitable, Cloud-based data protection service — backed by i365, EVault technology, and the EVault Cloud. For more information about the EVault CCSP program as well as EVault Cloud-Connected data protection services, visit booth 355 at the Cloud Expo, from June 7-9, at the Javits Convention Center, New York, NY. Read more »

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Now, how about third-party applications such as Adobe and Java (just to name a few), what patching methods are in place for these applications? These products come with vulnerabilities of their own and unfortunately there is no easy way to keep these products updated as there is no industry standard which forces a vendor to have an enterprise level updater. In other words, they don’t have a central management tool to manage their patches and to ensure each individual computer running these applications are compliant. This has caused another challenge for many organizations and system administrators.

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Hi all,

I came across this great write up about some of the challenges organizations are facing as more and more data is being pushed to Cloud-based companies. Again, the point here is not that the Cloud is bad, but that it is certainly not the end-all-be-all for a sound computing strategy.

For more on this topic, check out my post The Public Cloud isn’t the Panacea it’s being Marketed As.

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On my last blog post we discussed how important it is to patch in today’s technology driven world. I also emphasized how we, as a technology company, have a big focus on making sure our clients are kept up to date with Microsoft’s security updates. What were some of the challenges we came across and how did we overcome them? Why do we only focus on the security updates if there are so many other updates that Microsoft publishes? How did we reach this decision and make it a part of our patching policy?

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How One Company Met the Challenge of Data Growth using EVault

One e-commerce management company recently faced several data storage challenges that were driving up costs. With new clients coming on board, leading to immediate increases in data storage, as well as multiple databases that needed daily backup, the company’s old tape backup system was no longer cost-effective or secure enough. Plus, too much data was bogging the system down, leading to long backup windows, a high risk of hardware failure and data storage loss.

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