AUCKLAND, JUNE 25, 2012. StorageCraft Asia Pacific today launched a Managed Service Providers (MSP) program for Australia and New Zealand partners, which will deliver affordable, reliable and flexible subscription licensing for StorageCraft ShadowProtect solutions.

Adapted specifically for the New Zealand market, the program will enable partners and resellers to invest in a monthly subscription for StorageCraft ShadowProtect™, StorageCraft replication and enterprise disaster recovery products.

Greg Wyman, Regional Vice President for Asia Pacific at StorageCraft, said: “Our New Zealand MSP program enables participants to build a business practice around backup and disaster recovery as a service by leveraging private, public and hybrid cloud infrastructures. The technology is affordable, rock solid and locally supported from Australia.”

StorageCraft ShadowProtect solutions are available through Soft Solutions and Westcon in New Zealand.
Wyman says the MSP program delivers maximum flexibility and will reward partners as they grow customer numbers: the more solutions deployed, the lower the monthly rate will be.

He said: “We are helping to make MSPs heroes by solving the backup, recovery and disaster recovery issues their customers face daily. Complete servers, regardless of size or complexity, can be restored in minutes using VirtualBoot™ technology, and files are restored in seconds.”

Wyman added: “We have been trialling the MSP model for several months and feedback from initial partners suggests that it really fits like a glove the objectives of both partners and their customers, by bringing together all the key components they require.”

StorageCraft lists 10 reasons for becoming a StorageCraft MSP:

1. Flexible monthly subscription licensing –pay only for what customers are using generating recurring revenue
2. Turn licences on and off through a specifically developed cloud-based portal.
3. Deliver a Backup-as-a-Service and Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service models to customers.
4. Offer remote replication for remote archival and offsite disaster recovery with the ability to spin up virtual servers in minutes at the remote site to their exact state from no more than 15 minutes ago.
5. Provide the ability to automatically test recovery capabilities locally (at the customer site) and remotely (at the disaster recovery site).
6. Protects virtual servers, physical servers, SBS servers, cloud servers and desktops with the same solution.
7. Restore servers locally in minutes with the unique ShadowProtect VirtualBoot technology and restore files in seconds.
8. Eliminate backup windows at customer sites.
9. Reduce the cost and complexity of backup, recovery and disaster recovery.
10. Local Australian-based technical support for the Asia Pacific region.

Over the past five-plus years StorageCraft has grown its ANZ user base from zero to over 40,000 customers. More than 2,500 resellers in Australia and New Zealand purchase StorageCraft solutions which has helped to establish the vendor as the leader in real-time recovery solutions for virtual, physical and cloud based servers.

About StorageCraft Technology Corporation

StorageCraft Technology Corporation provides best-in-class backup, disaster recovery, system migration and data protection solutions for servers, desktops and laptops. StorageCraft delivers software products that reduce downtime, improve security and stability for systems and data and lower the total cost of ownership. For more information, visit www.storagecraft.com.au

StorageCraft, ShadowProtect and ShadowControl are trademarks of StorageCraft Technology Corporation. Other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

For more information

Greg Wyman, StorageCraft
Vice President – Asia Pacific
Phone: +61 2 8061 4444 or mobile +61 402 259 359
Email: greg.wyman@storagecraft.com.au

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