ShadowProtect’s data recovery results sweeten life for Mackay Sugar’s IT team

Since Mackay Sugar, Australia’s second largest sugar milling company, implemented StorageCraft™ ShadowProtect™ real-time recovery (RTR) solution 28 months ago, Network Administrator Michael Ryan has enjoyed a much easier working life knowing all his data is recoverable if a problem or disaster strikes. First his senior management are assured that the company is complying with the

StorageCraft protects at-risk Sydney businesses

When Moore Technology takes on new SMB clients in Sydney’s CBD and surrounding suburbs, initial audits reveal that the majority are placing themselves at risk of losing their data and systems. A disturbing number have no backup or disaster recovery solution in place – or worse, have paid for a product that is not working.

Brisbane school learns quickly: ShadowProtect is quick, safe and dependable

When a critical financial server at Brisbane’s Anglican Church Grammar School failed unexpectedly, its rapid and effortless recovery prompted Network Systems Administrator Gavin Rees to go out and buy 28 StorageCraft ShadowProtect licences the next day. Fortunately Gavin had been running a demo of ShadowProtect when the server failed. It was recovered within 22 hours,

SAN rebuild takes just 45 minutes – with no data loss

When a medical services client’s storage area network (SAN) with five servers crashed one afternoon, IT specialist Dennis Evans had them all and running again within 45 minutes. He accomplished this using StorageCraft® ShadowProtect®, a real-time recovery solution for Windows servers that delivers integrated backup, recovery, disaster recovery and system migration in a single solution.

ShadowProtect saves Hotline IT customers ‘hundreds of hours’ downtime

The ‘HotBox’ developed by Hotline IT, based on Sydney’s Northern Beaches and servicing clients nationwide, is reducing the time taken to restore crashed servers by 80-90 per cent. HotBox is a new product that has saved small to medium business customers hundreds of hours downtime by performing ultra-fast, near instant restores in a fraction of

StorageCraft drives business continuity at Mike Carney Toyota

Business continued to drive along serenely at Mike Carney Toyota, in Northern Queensland, even on the day the company’s Microsoft Exchange email server failed, bringing all corporate emails to a halt. Fortunately, IT Manager Chris Candy had taken the precaution of implementing StorageCraft ShadowProtect real-time backup, recovery and disaster recovery solution with its Granular Recovery

StorageCraft protects at-risk Sydney businesses

When Moore Technology takes on new SMB clients in Sydney’s CBD and surrounding suburbs, initial audits reveal that the majority are placing themselves at risk of data loss. A disturbing number have no backup or disaster recovery solution in place – or worse, have paid for a product that is not working. Moore Technology is

MTI offers good-news angle on tech support

After working for a decade in information technology, Steven Denny had learned to be cautious about claims made by vendors. Then he received a pleasant surprise from StorageCraft – a solution that not only delivers but exceeds expectations and delivers excellent local Australia based support For the past six years Steven has run MTI Business

5 Minutes With…Alex Vasilovski, StorageCraft Business Development Manager

Alex has been an invaluable member of the StorageCraft team since March 2010. In this interview we find out a little more about Alex… Q: Alex, what attracted you to your current position? A: The fact that I could have a direct, measurable impact on a fast growing company. Also going out and meeting lots of new

Why is Cloud Killing off the Archival Tape Library

Traditional tape-based archival is under threat from cloud storage services that act as an offsite archival medium, facilitating integrated and seamless remote disaster recovery sites. The cloud is very flexible and can easily replicate archived backups to other cloud providers for greater redundancy and should be used with encrypted backups to increase security of information.