Data Protection Providers Arcserve, StorageCraft Agree to Merge
…Paragon Micro. Its director of sales, Jeff Richards, told Channel Futures that he sees promise in the combination of the two companies.
“This gives us an opportunity to promote their solutions in a more contiguous fashion across our entire customer base,” Richards said.
Extending UDP for Managed and Cloud Services
Arcserve designed its core BDR platform, Unified Data Protection (UDP), to scale hybrid environments to provide business continuity. Besides enterprises, UDP is for MSPs and cloud providers because it extends over long distances and connects multiple sites. UDP supports various workloads including Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and various SaaS on-premises server and VM environments.
Last year’s release of UDP 7.0 brought an extended set of cloud and on-premises environments it can protect. But UDP has lacked two key components that would make it suitable for MSPs and cloud service providers. One is support for multitenancy, which Arcserve will address with its new console, planned for release this spring. Signorello noted that Arcserve’s Cloud Direct solution, for direct-to-cloud backups gained from its acquisition of Zetta, is multitenant.
“The only piece that we were building out was the back office and the billing and the infrastructure that is required for this,” Signorello said. “And the integration with StorageCraft will just speed that up a lot by having that already built out based upon how far ahead StorageCraft is with that.”
DRaaS and BaaS
StorageCraft’s Brockett noted its ability to offer first-party appliances that allow MSPs to offer disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) and backup as a service (BaaS).
“We’re really looking to have a breadth of offerings that encompasses and goes beyond what the competition does out there just in terms of scaling channel partner business models,” Brockett said.
Arcserve’s alliance with Sophos last year could eventually extend its ransomware protection to StorageCraft.
“Combining data protection with data security has become a key direction in the marketplace,” IDC’s Goodwin said.
Besides enabling UDP to give StorageCraft the ability to scale, StorageCraft brings key technology to Arcserve.
“The underlying architecture of the StorageCraft products is object-based,” Goodwin said. “The object-based architecture expands the way data can be protected and recovered, to make it more granular and easier to manage.”
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