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Home» Posts tagged "Backup"

Unitrends Named to Inc. Magazine’s Annual Exclusive List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies

Posted on September 11, 2013 by Mark Hall in News Feed No Comments

Unitrends ranks No. 1427 on the 2013 Inc. 500|5000 with three-year sales growth of 281 percent. COLUMBIA, S.C., August 30, 2013 Unitrends, the leading provider of all-in-one backup, archiving, instant recovery and disaster recovery solutions, today announced it has been ranked No. 1427 on the seventh annual Inc. 500|5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s [...]

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Great Tongue-in-Cheek Guide From Unitrends: Seven Shortcuts to Losing Your Data

Posted on July 31, 2013 by Mark Hall in Articles No Comments

This excellent whitepaper from Unitrends covers the seven most effective ways to lose your data, and possibly your job in the process. WARNING: This guide is only intended for IT professionals who are serious about decreasing their job security. Click to Download: 7 Shortcuts to Losing Your Data On the other hand, if you are [...]

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Stupid Vendor Tricks Part 5: Pay For it Now – Then Pay For it Again

Posted on July 27, 2013 by Mark Hall in Articles 2 Comments

After 32 years in the IT industry I’ve seen just about every trick a vendor can play on a prospective client.  This is the fifth in a series of the most egregiously bad, deceptive or just plain wrong Stupid Vendor Tricks I’ve seen over the years.  (Click here for parts one, two, three & four.) [...]

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Stupid Vendor Tricks Part 4: This is Our Best Price. Until it Isn’t.

Posted on July 21, 2013 by Mark Hall in Articles No Comments

After 32 years in the IT industry I’ve seen just about every trick a vendor can play on a prospective client.  This is the fourth in a series of the most egregiously bad, deceptive or just plain wrong Stupid Vendor Tricks I’ve seen over the years.  See Part 1 here, Part 2 here and Part [...]

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Stupid Vendor Tricks Part 3: Give Away the Razors; Make Money on the Blades…

Posted on July 13, 2013 by Mark Hall in Articles, Uncategorized 2 Comments

After 32 years in the IT industry I’ve seen just about every trick a vendor can play on a prospective client.  This is the third in a series of the most egregiously bad, deceptive or just plain wrong Stupid Vendor Tricks I’ve seen over the years.  See Part 1 here and Part 2 here. In [...]

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Unitrends Continues on its March to $100 Million Annual Revenue with Record Growth for 18th Consecutive Quarter

Posted on July 10, 2013 by Mark Hall in News Feed No Comments

Backup and recovery leader increases pace of innovative technology, signs nearly 800 new customers in 2013 and maintains customer satisfaction rating exceeding 98 percent Columbia, S.C., July 10, 2013 – Unitrends, the leading provider of all-in-one backup, archiving, instant recovery and disaster recovery solutions, today reported tremendous growth in Q2 2013, marking the company’s 18th [...]

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Stupid Vendor Tricks, Part 2: One Piece at a Time

Posted on July 5, 2013 by Mark Hall in Articles 3 Comments

After 32 years in the IT industry I’ve seen just about every trick a vendor can play on a prospective client. This is the second in a series of the most egregiously bad, deceptive or just plain wrong Stupid Vendor Tricks I’ve seen over the years.  To see part 1 of the series, click here. [...]

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ExaGrid Issued US Patent for Unique Zone-level Deduplication Technology

Posted on June 23, 2013 by Mark Hall in News Feed No Comments

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ExaGrid Systems, Inc., the leader in cost-effective and scalable disk-based backup solutions with data deduplication, today announced that it received US Patent no. 8,412,848, building on the company’s history of innovation to solve data protection problems for its customers. The patent covers ExaGrid’s unique Zone-level deduplication method, a core component of ExaGrid’s deduplication [...]

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When is a “Suite” Not Really a “Suite”?

Posted on May 31, 2013 by Mark Hall in Articles 1 Comment

I usually think of a “suite” in the context of a suite of rooms: an arrangement of rooms, accessible from a common entrance. “Suite” can also be a useful analogy when an IT vendor offers a group of related products which are accessible from a common screen or console. Sometimes, however, vendors will use the [...]

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PHD Virtual Provides Easy On-Ramp to Cloud DR and RaaS

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Mark Hall in News Feed No Comments

Disaster Recovery Assurance Presents a Paradigm Shift for Cloud Operations and Management  PHILADELPHIA–(BUSINESS WIRE)– PHD Virtual Technologies, a pioneer in virtual backup, infrastructure monitoring and innovator of disaster recovery assurance solutions, announced today an easy on-ramp for cloud service providers wanting to provide disaster recovery-as-a-service solutions (RaaS). Because IT organizations feel sustained pressure to support [...]

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