Small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) with multiple locations gained a powerful ally in their efforts to protect the data that keeps them in business, with the introduction of a software suite that helps centralize backup and recovery efforts at a fraction of the cost of competing products. ROBOBAK announced the availability of its Version 8 Data Protection Platform in the streamlined Standard Edition, beginning at a suggested retail price of $1,000.
ROBObak's automated agentless backup and recovery system effectively solves many of the current data backup and recovery challenges that businesses like yours experience every day. Whether it's a file or an entire server, the integrated products that make up the ROBObak suite are designed to provide superior data protection. Big firms have big requirements when it comes to protecting their data. It's not just the information that's contained in their main data center that's at constant risk, it's the information from their multiple branch offices as well. All too often, that data simply doesn't get the same attention. This means backups are done on an ad hoc basis.
ROBOBAK's Standard Edition delivers many of the powerful features contained in ROBOBAK's Enterprise edition of Version 8, including support for today's most popular databases such as Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange, Oracle, DB2, MySQL and more. The Standard Version is specifically designed to meet SMBs' data protection requirements; unlike high-priced software offerings from firms like IBM, Symantec, EMC, Avamar, eVault and Asigra, ROBOBAK Version 8 Standard Edition was developed with the needs of SMBs in mind. The paradigm has changed: companies can now afford to protect as little as one or more SQL Server database, Exchange server or other servers at a remote location.
It also incorporates ROBOBAK innovations designed to streamline the protection of information on Windows-based servers at remote and branch locations such as Agentless CDP, which enables "real-world" continuous data protection and data deduplication at the source, which dramatically reduces both the amount of storage required, and the time needed to accomplish a backup or restoration.
Like ROBOBAK's Enterprise software, the Standard Edition is configured to install simply, without the need to install additional software on every computer at a given location. This agentless approach is key for IT administrators at SMBs, who need a dependable, affordable remote backup solution which does not require them to install additional software on each machine they manage, and which lowers the time needed to manage tasks associated with data protection.
Blist unveiled a new chapter in the database market with the company's official launch of its new online social database. Unlike traditional spreadsheets and databases, Blist provides everyday users with a strikingly intuitive and flexible way to design simple or sophisticated databases that meet their specific needs. A formal demonstration of Blist will take place on the DEMO 08 stage on January 29 at 2:38 p.m. PT, and throughout the conference at pavilion station number 44.
