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Backup Technology Offers Lifeline to Symantec Backup Exec.Cloud Customers

Free Migration Available to Asigra Backup Solution

Leeds, United Kingdom: Backup Technology (BTL), which specialises in online backup & disaster recovery services for global enterprises, is offering a lifeline to Symantec customers affected by the American company’s decision to close down its Backup Exec.cloud service.

The offer of a free migration to all Backup Exec.cloud customers comes after BTL moved Datek Solutions to its Asigra-based backup solution platform just days after the UK IT consultancy received an email from Symantec saying it would end its Backup Exec.cloud and stop selling subscriptions or renewals in Jan 2014.  Datek is now centrally managing its multiple customers from BTL’s web-based monitoring portal.

Dave Twilley, Technical Services Manager for Datek Solutions, said: “A lot of our customers rely totally on cloud backup for things like exchange data and sensitive documentation so as soon as we got the end of life email from Symantec we knew we needed to act quickly. We spoke to BTL on the Friday and by the Monday morning all of our customer’s data was fully backed up. They did a great job.”

BTL is now offering a free migration service to all Backup Exec.cloud customers. This will allow them to run BTL’s stable enterprise backup solution alongside the Symantec solution free of charge until the drop dead date of their contract.

Rob Mackle, Sales Manager and Channel Sales Manager EMEA for BTL, said: “Symantec’s announcement has left a lot of customers in limbo. We moved Datek onto our enterprise backup solution quickly and smoothly to ensure their customers were not left exposed from the EOL announcement and we’re now offering free migration to anyone else affected by Symantec’s decision. Once migrated, they can run our Asigra solution in tandem with Backup Exec.cloud to see if it’s the right fit for them and to build up their data history.”

Asigra is the world’s leading online backup software developer and BTL is its largest global partner. The BTL offering provides an Enterprise and WAN optimised solution, allowing large amounts of data to be protected over small bandwidth connections.  BTL’s proprietary portal enables centralised web-based monitoring and consolidated daily emails giving customers full transparency of backups on a real time basis.

BTL, which is part of UK cloud company iomart Group, currently protects over 15 petabytes of data in the public and private cloud for customers including Siemens, British Red Cross, WPP, Pernod Ricard and Liverpool and Everton football clubs.

 

BTL Offer Backup Exec.Cloud Customers a Lifeline

With the announcement from Symantec, as we reported yesterday, to pull the Backup Exec.cloud service just before its 3rd birthday in January 2015.  The end-of-life announcement has been made with a promise of a new ‘feature rich’ product to replace, but with no further details about the product, customers have been left in limbo.

However, here at Backup Technology, we have decided to extend a backup life line to those customers who need a stable enterprise backup solution.  BTL are offering all Backup Exec.cloud customers a free migration to their Asigra based backup solution.

The solution will include being able to use their backup solution along side the Symantec solution free of change until the drop dead date of the contract.  This allows them not only to ensure the Asigra product is the right fit for them, but also allows them to build up their data history.

The agentless architecture of Asigra enables the customers to quickly and unobtrusively configure and run their backups to BTL’s Data centers in an incremental forever fashion.

The BTL offering provides an Enterprise and WAN optimised solution, allowing large amounts of data to be protected over small bandwidth connections.  BTL’s proprietary Portal enables centralised web based monitoring and consolidated daily emails giving the user confidence and full transparency of backups on a real time basis.

Any interested parties should get in touch with BTL on 0800 999 3600 or www.backup-technology.co.uk

 

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