DS3 DataVaulting Wins Asigra Award: Real Backups of Virtual Environments: Realizing the Cool

Business Wire, June 19, 2009

Recovery Site Hosting Solution Delivers Unparalleled Business Continuity Success for Ideal Innovations

CHANTILLY, Va. -- DS3 DataVaulting, a veteran data management solutions provider and the first in North America to manage a petabyte of customer restorable data, announced today a major Asigra award for its innovative Recovery Site Hosting (RSH) solution delivered to Ideal Innovations, Inc. (I3), a leader in specialized technology consulting. The “Real Backups of Virtualization: Realizing the Cool” award was bestowed by Asigra, the leading cloud backup and recovery software provider, at the annual Partner Conference in Toronto this week, and showcases the strengths of a virtualized approach to business continuity.

The RSH solution, part of DS3's Business Continuity/Disaster Mitigation (BCDM) suite of products, allows clients to continue operations using DS3's data centers even if the entire client IT infrastructure is lost. DS3’s proprietary technology, powered by Asigra, enables clients to virtually back up images of target servers—be they physical or virtual machines—securely store them and recover in a matter of minutes in the event of a failure. With this innovative approach, I3 is able to achieve unparalleled business continuity success, accelerating recovery times and significantly reducing resource requirements and costs.

“The Asigra award serves as another proof point of the value of virtualization, and underscores the strength of a managed services approach to business continuity and disaster mitigation,” stated Stacy Hayes, DS3’s co-founder and President. “DS3’s evolving proprietary technologies continue to leverage Asigra’s solutions in innovative ways to give customers like Ideal Innovations maximum peace of mind for maximum business growth potential.”

"We congratulate DS3 DataVaulting on this prestigious award, which clearly showcases the ‘cool’ in virtualized backup and recovery,” stated Eran Farajun, executive vice president for Asigra. “Our partners enable us to fully extend our transformational solutions to enterprises of all sizes in all sectors and I3 is a profound example of how this translates into high availability for unmatched operational excellence."

“As a rapidly growing company with limited resources we faced a common challenge of how to effectively ensure continuity if our servers crashed, or we lost our server room,” stated Joshua Mordin, Director of Information Technology for Ideal Innovations. “By using DS3, if a disaster occurs, we know we can get our users connected and operational within hours, not days. That’s a return on investment that makes my CFO and CEO smile.”

About DS3 DataVaulting

DS3 DataVaulting was founded in 2002 to provide offsite, online data backup and restore services which enable customers to rapidly and securely back up and restore files, databases and operating systems. DS3 DataVaulting is the first in North America to manage a petabyte of customer restorable data. From this strong base of customers accustomed to the outsourced services model; DS3 has continued to evolve, exposing new and innovative data management services to business enterprises, both large and small. Local and remote business continuity services, coupled with innovative backup archive tiers and data discovery capabilities typify the expanding scope of services that DS3 DataVaulting now offers. DS3 has pioneered the term “business continuity/disaster mitigation (BCDM)”, which encompasses this full range of data management capabilities. For more information, visit www.ds3datavaulting.com. To follow DS3 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DS3DataVaulting.