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R1Soft Web Hosting Software Provider, Releases Windows 2.0 Application
Houston, Texas – (The Hosting News) – August 19, 2008 – Developer of near-continuous data protection products for Linux and Windows, R1Soft, has
released a public beta version of its Windows 2.0 Continuous Data Protection.
As the latest and most feature-rich version of its high performance backup and recovery solution for Windows Servers, R1Soft’s data protection solution is the only software capable of a Continuous Data Protection style backup for both Windows and Linux servers.
The new Windows 2.0 CDP agent significantly expands the scale and reach of data protection technologies for Windows servers by offering a variety of key features, including Bare-Metal Restore, Open File backups, and backup windows reduced to minutes using CDP synchronization technology. The new Windows 2.0 CDP tools add support for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008 on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms.
David Wartell, Vice President, R1Soft division, BBS Technologies, Inc. noted, ”While R1Soft happens to be the only Continuous Data Protection solution for Linux servers, the Windows market has long been familiar with CDP technology. Typically what we see with other Windows CDP software is that it requires extensive training and support from the vendor and in some products it is impossible to use without the customer investing in specialized Storage Area Network hardware. Most IT environments are mixed-platform, and the market wants an easy to use high performance backup tool for both Windows and Linux. Most IT administrators who try our CDP software for Linux say, ‘Wow that was so easy. R1Soft reduced my Linux server backup window from 8 hours to 15 minutes. Can you do that for Windows too?”’
R1Soft Continuous Data Protection software runs cross-platform allowing IT administrators to manage their environment of choice. Linux servers running R1Soft CDP are even able to provide CDP services for Windows servers.
Windows 2.0 CDP agent is available as a downloadable upgrade at no additional charge for existing R1Soft Windows customers.
Founded in 2003, R1Soft is a provider of disk-based backup solutions. The company’s customer list includes some of the world’s largest hosting providers. R1soft products provide Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for over 85,000 mission-critical Linux and Windows servers worldwide. In November, 2007 R1Soft was acquired by BBS Technologies, Inc.
For more about R1Soft and Continuous Data Protection, please visit: www.r1soft.com.
Web Hosting Application, Ensim Unify 4.5 Shared Edition, Supports Microsoft HMC
Santa Clara, California – (The Hosting News) – August 19, 2008 – Collaborative infrastructure and web hosting application, Ensim Corporation, will support the Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration Version 4.5 (HMC 4.5).
Francois Depayras, Vice President of marketing and alliances at Ensim Corporation remarked, ”We remain committed to giving our customers the tools that keep them ahead of the curve by supporting a variety of the latest applications. With Unify, service provider customers can focus on delivering their hosted services as opposed to developing them, and are afforded the convenience of deploying these services over any type of infrastructure, whether it be the new HMC 4.5 or a homegrown platform.”
As a participant in Microsoft’s Technical Adoption Program (TAP), Ensim extends Microsoft’s technology with its Ensim Unify Shared Edition, a single, centralized software application that simplifies the day-to-day burden of activating, configuring and managing a service provider’s hosted infrastructure. The latest edition of Unify Shared Edition, Version 4.5, can be installed in a wide range of deployment scenarios, including the new HMC 4.5, HMC 4.0, and homegrown infrastructures.
Some of the features available in Ensim Unify 4.5 are:
Support for Microsoft HMC 4.5: Ensim is pleased to announce that Unify Platform 4.5 is compatible with the latest release of Microsoft’s HMC product
Control Panel Customization Using Role Management: With Unify’s role management feature set, service providers and reseller administrators gain granular control over all operations performed by the system administrators.
Support for Ensim Migration Tool: Service providers can now use the Ensim’s Migration Tool (EMT) to connect to existing organizations, resellers, and users that were created using Microsoft’s HMC solution. This feature can also be used to migrate organizations (OUs) and users (created using a legacy solution) to Ensim Unify without having to re-create them.
New Password Management Enhancements: Service providers can now configure Unify to accept more than one password hint question.
Support for Microsoft .NET 3.0: In Unify platform 4.5.0, the Unify provisioning engine and control panel servers use Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0.
New Web Services Methods: Unify platform 4.5.0 includes 50+ new web service methods.
Confirmation for Organization and Reseller Removal: As an added safety precaution, when enabled, this feature requires administrators to enter an authentication password before being able to delete any organization or reseller. Ensim Unify Shared Edition, including support for HMC 4.5, is available for purchase immediately.
Founded in 1998, Ensim Corporation is the leading provider of user provisioning and access control software. Ensim products are used by service providers and enterprises worldwide to accelerate and enable deployment of integrated solutions, simplify and automate secure management of complex environments, and increase user and IT productivity. Ensim is Microsoft Gold Certified, and maintains strategic partnerships with many leading infrastructure vendors including Research In Motion (BlackBerry), Hewlett-Packard, Accenture, Siemens and BroadSoft.
For more information about Ensim, please visit: www.ensim.com.
