Introduce Yourself Here!

[Samantha Morris]

Welcome to BackupHeroes.com! I'm Samantha, the Community Manager. If you ever need to contact me for any reason, you can send me a private message or e-mail me at samantha.morris@asigra.com (mailto:samantha.morris@asigra.com)

You can use this thread to introduce yourself to the other Heroes in this forum.

You may want to tell everyone a little bit about yourself, what brought you here and the value you hope to get from participating on BackupHeroes.com. What you reveal and to what extent is entirely up to you.

I look forward to getting to know everyone as this community grows! :)

[Amrita Chandra]

Hi I'm Amrita Chandra - I was formerly the Senior Director of Corporate Marketing at Asigra and now am in a new role as Vice President, Marketing at Sequentia Environics. I am here to help foster a great community for backup professionals and to participate in conversations around backup strategy. (I get a little lost when the talk gets super technical!). I am also here as a client of backup services, so interested to see what other folks in my position do.

Looking forward to meeting you all.

[trutherford]

Hello,

My name is Travis Rutherford. I work for CoreVault Inc. I manage pre-sales engineering, tier II tech support & 3D Hybrid partnerships. I'm here to network with other backup professionals.

Interested to see where this new community goes!

Thanks

[terry fields]

Hell All,

My name is Terry Fields, CEO at Yotta280, Inc. I'm here to contribute anyway possible and support the efforts and members of the backupheros community. Please feel free to contact or call on me anytime. I too am very interested to see where this new community goes and say thank you to the team that has worked so diligently to launch this community!

“Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” - Vince Lombardi

[Peter Fogarty]

Hi All,

My name is Peter Fogarty; I work for Network Recovery, we provide disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) solutions which includes an Asigra Cloud Backup service to our enterprise customers and channel partners and I'm also here to network with other backup professionals.

Congrats on the launch!

Thanks

Peter

[lbourgeois]

Hello All,

My name is Larry Bourgeois. I am a Sr. Solutions Engineer for Asigra. I am here to offer my input and insights on backup and recovery as well as provide whatever assistance that I can to help with the development of this community and to see how it goes forward from here.

Looking forward to meeting everyone and to many interesting discussions in the future.

[cbu]

Hi All,

my name is Christian Buhn; I work as Service Manager for matrix technology AG in Munich. Role includes developing Asigra business. I am excited to meet and communicate with other members familiar with managing data in general and back-up in specific.
Let's see this community develop and participate in the future of backup.

Thanks to the initiators team for this chance and congratulations on the launch.

Christian

[gaulfinger]

Greetings!

I'm Gary Aulfinger of Electronic Vaulting Services (EVS). We specialize in computer storage—including backup recovery, disaster recovery, equipment sales and professional services related to data storage and protection. I'm delighted to join a new forum to share ideas and experiences in the backup/recovery realm. Hopefully we'll all get a little more sleep at night sharing and learning from our collective wisdom...

Cheers,
Gary

[Joe Damiani]

Hello Everyone,

I'm Joe Damiani of The Capris Group. We are a Canadian Service Provider delivering from our owned and operated Data Centre in the Greater Toronto Area. We provide Data Centre Services, Emergency Office Space for Business Continuity, Custom Software Development and SaaS platforms.

Pleased to join the forum, learn and contribute to new industry solutions and best practises.

Best Regards

[CanadaCloudGuy]

Hi Everyone,

I am Tyler Fergusson, one of the Regional Sales Managers, bloggers, and social media enthusiast in training for Asigra. I'm very excited about the opportunity to network with an elite group of backup/recovery professionals. I am here to provide input and share best practices, along with hopefully spark up some lively threads.

I look forward to all of us making this community a success.

Tyler Fergusson

[Greg O]

Hi!

I'm Greg Onoprijenko, President and Managing Director of Sales for e-ternity. e-ternity provides a comprehensive suite of cloud services that guarantee business continuance despite any disaster or threat. We've been an Asigra partner since our inception 6 years ago, and we're happy to share our experience and collaborate with other service providers to make us all stronger.

Thanks Asigra for spearheading this initiative. Good luck everyone.

Greg Onoprijenko
President and Managing Director, Sales
e-ternity Business Continuity Consultants Inc.
greg.onoprijenko@e-ternity.ca
(416) 918-4993
www.e-ternity.ca

[Samantha Morris]

Great introductions so far! You can also update your profiles with more information and/or add an avatar.

[batye]

Hello
Alexander Stephens CEO Almechanical
Information Security
Nvidia partner
APC partner

[tdugan]

Good day, everyone. This is Tom Dugan from Recovery Networks (Philadelphia). I know most of you so I'll spare you a picture.

[mvarre]

Hello all - I'm Michel Varre, the Technical Manager at Kishmish, Inc. and administrator of asigraforums.com (northcide).

Looking forward to sharing ideas with others in the backup and recovery industry.

[Arthurb]

Hello,

I am Arthur J. Byrnes. I work for the world's leading aerospace university.
Since I don't speak for the university, it will remain unnamed for now.

We have a disk to disk backup system that is about 1 1/2 years old.

I am sort of an evangelist for disk to disk backup. It is a lot easier to do then most people think. Yes there is an upfront cost, but not having to track tapes and eliminating the problems caused by bad or glitchy tapes, is worth it.

File recovery time is now measured in minutes rather than hours.

If you are not doing disk to disk backup, you are wasting your time and your employer's money.

[Amrita Chandra]

Hi Arthur - welcome!

Interesting point you just made - we are having a discussion around whether tape is dead on another thread - http://backupheroes.com/showthread.php?19-Is-Tape-Dead

So many people are reluctant to move away from tape - would love your insights from conversations you have had with your peers

[Backup Manager Guru]

Hello All,

I am Ron Haberman with Backup Manager Corp and I am in charge of Sales and Marketing for Backup Manager Corp. I look forward to meeting everyone!

[mclarin]

Hello,
Matt Clarin with Corporate Technologies LLC. We provide managed services and traditional VAR services for small to large organizations. Looking forward to learning how others are talking about and justifying the costs of backup. Recently had a conversation which was summed up with backup is not an ROI rather a total cost of ownership.

[terrydavis]

Hi all,

My name is Terry Davis with Jelecos in Omaha. I oversee the operations for our Asigra-powered business continuity solutions. I am very excited to see where this community goes. Also nice to see some familiar faces.

[eTegrity]

Hi Steve Ferman here President of eTegrity Systems International, inc. I am very excited to join the community and am hopeful for it's great success. We are all in the same industry and many of us Powered by Asigra, this fourm will be what you and I make of it, lets make it a huge succes.

[ChrisPowell]

Hi All,

I am Chris Powell - Tech Director / VP of plugging stuff in, I think I have met and had a beer with most of you. Hello to those of you I haven't.

I am terrible at blogging and keeping up to forums, but I try to make an effort - here to chat about backup and mainly Asigra.

Talk soon

Chris

[eTegrity]

Hey Chris welcome. Yes I believe we did toss a few back :) I have the same issue not enough hours in the day my friend. Just do what you can and do not sweat the rest.

Best Regards
Steve

[Amrita Chandra]

Thanks everyone for introducing yourselves. Just a reminder that this is a backup forum and we will have many non-Asigra-affiliated folks here so want to keep the dialogue open to all.

[Gary Witts]

Hi everyone, my name is Gary Witts and I am the Technical Director of DataStore365. Looking forward to participating on backupheroes.com and building the community for the benefit of us all !

[continuitycentr]

Hey all,

Gregory Tellone here from Continuity Centers, headquartered in New York. I've been in the backup and recovery business since 1992 when I began my career as a tech support engineer at Cheyenne Software, the original developers of ARCserve tape backup software for Novell Netware, OS/2 and Windows. After a few years there, I moved to McKinsey & Company where I worked on the server and network infrastructure team and built out a disaster recovery plan with IBM, after evaluating IBM, Sungard and Comdisco.

When we started Continuity Centers, our mission was to create secure, affordable recovery services that would bring peace-of-mind to the small and mid-sized business. Since our inception in 1999, we've grown from a regional business in the New York Metro Area to a company providing recovery services across North America. We incorporate the recovery of people and business processes along with recovery of the technology infrastructure. We currently have three Tier I hot-sites in New York with Tier II workgroup recovery facilities throughout the country.

My role as the COO is to develop and maintain processes to ensure smooth onboarding and 100% recovery of our Members' infrastructure. As a "recovering geek", I'm also involved with sales and marketing, whenever I'm not designing a recovery network for a new Member.

I'm glad to see some familiar names here and look forward to contributing in any way I can.

Gregory R. Tellone
Chief Operating Officer
American Business Continuity Centers, LLC.
www.ContinuityCenters.com
http://www.continuitycenters.com/images/supert1.gif (http://www.twitter.com/continuitycentr)
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[wcoetzee]

Hi All, Werner Coetzee from Shoden Data Systems, South Africa. I'm part of the Business Development team. We are working hard to introduce Asigra into the local market. I will try to make an effort in supporting this forum, looking forward to networking with you all.

[Diriga]

Hey All,

My name is Gary Johnston, Business Development Manager with Diriga Technologies, Inc.. I’m delighted to join this new forum to share ideas and experiences in the backup/recovery from a sales and technical perspective.

Diriga is a Managed IT Services provider headquartered in Orlando, Florida and an authorized Asigra partner. Our mission is to deliver peace of mind to our customers by providing consistent, automated data protection and business continuity services while ensuring measurable value with cost-effective solutions.

My role is in sales whereby I collaborate with business owners, C-Level executives and IT department heads of small to mid-sized businesses to craft unique technology support plans to ensure business continuity and IT operational efficiencies.

Best regards,
Gary Johnston

[jwinsor566]

Hello,

My Name is Jarrod Winsor and I am a Network Administrator. One of my primary focus' is Backup and Recovery for my company. I have been trying to implement a new backup strategy, moving away from Tape based backups internally. I have been very interested in the Asigra platform. I am here to share my thoughts about backup and disaster recovery, and to learn from other professionals who experience the same issues day to day. I hope this forum meets its potential.

[ndemuynck]

Hi All,
My name is Nicolas Demuynck. I'm the Technical Director at Eurobackup. Eurobackup provides cloud based backup solutions since 2002 and is mainly active in Europe.
I'm here to help members regarding any backup related issues (technical and non-technical) but also to share experiences with other Managed Backup Service Providers.
I hope this community will help backup software editors improving their products and solutions.

Best regards,
Nicolas Demuynck

[rahrenstorff]

Hello Everyone,

I'm Rodd Ahrenstorff, Project Manager with Dakota Backup, an Asigra partner since 2005 delivering our service offering in Rapid City, SD with two geographically disparate data centers. My direct responsibilities include; pre-sales engineering, channel development (technical), product research/evaluation, technical training and tier III support for our partners. I can hopefully be both a resource and pupil while sharing our experiences in this field.

And I would like to thank Asigra for pioneering this community.

Rodd Ahrenstorff

[StiffBoard]

Hi, Joacim, been working with backup since TSM was ADSM. New to Asigra but finally sees a competitor to TSM. At the moment IT manager at an energy and IT infrastructure company.

[WWallace]

Hello All,

I am Woodie Wallace working with CoreVault in Oklahoma City OK. We have partnered with Asigra since 2005 and have customers in 43 states and 3 countries: great product and getting better ... come grow with us.

[Samantha Morris]

We have new members joining the community, so welcome!
Don't be shy, use this thread to introduce yourself....:D

[alan]

Hello all - My name is Alan Dunkley. I work for HP Enterprise Services, as a solution architect in Business Continuity & Recovery Services engineering. I am part of a team that designs and develop new service offerings for our customer base, as well as enhance existing services in our portfolio

[mbottoms]

My name is Michael Bottoms, I'm a Sales Engineer at Corevault. I work with our sales team to plan and implement backup and recovery solutions using the Asigra platform and our suite of vmware based cloud offerings. I provide support for our customers and those of our Asigra hybrid partners, and assist partnered MSPs with management and monitoring of the Asigra platform at all levels.

[gary]

Hi all!

I'm Gary Pigott, CTO at Central Databank in Ireland. We've been an Asigra partner since 2004 and I'm responsible for pretty much everything that beeps.

[clayramsey]

Hi All - My name is Clay Ramsey, and I am a Sales Engineer / Tech. Support Engineer with Netmass. We are a reseller of Asigra software and also Iron Mountain and Vembu. I'm here to network, share know-how, and hopefully find a new job with a firm that has a presence in the Dallas, TX area and is also involved with either Asigra, Vembu, or Iron Mountain.

[Annett Ruediger]

Hello all!
My name is Annett Ruediger, I am Sr. Consultant for backup and archiving at matrix technology AG in Munich, Germany. We have a partnership with Asigra and provide backup services and managed services for customers with offices worldwide.

[bvenable]

Greetings,

My name is Bill Venable, of Document Management Solutions, LLC, in Ohio. We are evaluating a disk-to-disk backup services offering for our customers. We do own a Firelock Vault for media storage and believe D2D backup services have a place in our future. I hope to learn from the 'pioneers' in this industry and I hope to be a contributor to those that follow us someday.

[Samantha Morris]

Hey Bill!

Just saw your e-mail to your colleagues which was great and helps creates so much value for our community.
Thanks so much for being a part of BackupHeroes.com!

[BradL]

I'm Brad Lappe with Dakota Backup, an Asigra partner since 2005. I'm the Sales Manager and assist in Marketing. I look forward to following the dialog and communicating with other members that have some of the same concerns and issues in the data back-up arena.

Cheers,
Brad

[Lasseoe]

Hi,

My name is Lasse Osterild, CTO at Backup112 in Denmark. We're a new Asigra partner but have been in the online-backup MSP industry since 2004. We are hopeful that this community will provide a lot of business & technological networking opportunities, and we'll do our best to help grow the community.

[JelecosLT]

Hi All, I'm Leon Thomas, President of Jelecos. We are a technology consulting and services provider with a wide array of managed infrastructure offerings, including backup/recovery and business continuity.

[CloudBackupGirl]

Good day Everyone,

My name is Bonnie Malec, Channel Business Development Manager with Asigra, my focus is to on-board and develop service providers who are new to Asigra and/or new to the business of Cloud Backup.

I commend the thought leadership demonstrated in online communities such as Backup Heroes as it brings tremendous value to the backup industry and I look forward to participating in the exchange of thoughts and ideas.

Twitter @CloudBackupGirl

[outofthewoods]

Hi fellow Backup Heroes. I'm Jacob Woods, one of the Biz Dev guys at Asigra. I am honored to be part of a backup group of great business, technology thought leaders.

I'm here to provide my thoughts, commentary, and education on the business of backup.

Here's to the success of Backup Heroes!

JW

[Rob Cosgrove]

Hello Everyone,

I'm Rob Cosgrove, CEO of Remote Backup Systems, hoping to be able to contribute to and learn from the discussions here.

Rob Cosgrove

[BackupsReview]

Hello,

I'm Eric, and I run OnlineBackupsReview.com (http://www.onlinebackupsreview.com/), a website which reviews and compares online backup services. I also blog at www.onlinebackupsreview.com/blog/ (http://www.onlinebackupsreview.com/blog/). Looking forward to the conversations here

[ezra]

Hi all,

This is Ezra Brook, editor at Backup Review [ http://www.BackupReview.info ], a website dedicated for the cloud online data backup news, reviews, interviews and articles. I am glad to finally see a dedicated, managed forum site for the heroes of the backup industry.

A big thank you to Asigra people for launching such a useful forum!

I hope to contribute to and learn from others in this forum.

[MattG]

Good Day Everyone,

This is Matthew Grosso, EVP at Data Storage Corporation (www.datastoragecorp.com). We specialize in IBM i (iSeries, AS400) HA and DR managed services as well as Windows/Linux Cloud Backup & Recovery (with Virtual DR), operating out of 4 Data Centers here in the US. We have been an Asigra Partner since 2005 and, as a member of the Asigra Partner Advisory Council, I am really excited with all the great additions David and Eran have made over the past 2 years. I look forward to meeting many backupheroes who will be joining us at the Asigra Partner Summit this June. Look me up, drinks on Me! :)

[Samantha Morris]

And if you're not affiliated with Asigra, I'm sure Matt will buy you a drink whenever he's in your town!

[agh3]

Hi Everyone,
I'm Andrew Hargreave, President of agh3 Consulting LLC. agh3 Consulting offers technology consulting services to small businesses in the Chicago-land area. I've been in IT since 1984 and managed networks for many companies large and small. One of my new services I'm offering to my small business clients is offsite backup services. I've used most of the services out in the industry (Mozy, CrashPlan, etc.) and got into a branded solution last year with Remote-Backup.com but have moved to Vembu StoreGrid a few months ago.

Getting small businesses to understand backups in general and the advantages of offsite backups is a real challenge. I look forward to discussing and learning from everyone here!

[smokey]

Hello!

My name is Mike and I work as a storage admin for a very large hosting provider (I do not speak for them though). I see a lot of things happening in the storage/backup industry and I am very interested to share thoughts and ideas with other admins on this topic. Thanks for the forum!

[Handy_Backup]

Bonjorno everyone,

I am Aleks, research & marketing manager at Novosoft Handy Backup. The things you are to hear from me at this forum are strictly my personal opinion, although they are largely based on my experience as a member of the Handy Backup team. Speaking of experience. Handy Backup is a family of data backup software which has been out there in the industry since 1992. The product line includes solutions for Andoid devices, PCs under Windows and Linux, computer networks, and servers. We've seen lots of curious stuff happening in the backup industry and keep tracking the latest trends. I will be truly glad to share our experience in backup software developement and management with the Backup Heroes. The topics I am personally interested the most are the key concepts of Handy Backup, data backup automation and software personalization. Looking forward to discussing those along with other topics. See you in the threds!

Best,
Aleks

[Samantha Morris]

Nice Introductions, keep them coming! :)

[drewhackworth]

Good evening! I'm Drew Hackworth and I'm IT Manager at ACF Consulting in Trinity, FL. We are an Asigra partner. ACF Consulting is a Managed Service Provider and Design Firm in South Florida.

I look forward to using this Forum as a source for knowledge and networking with BUDR and BC professionals around the globe. Competition and profit aside we all have a common goal and that is to provide the best service possible to our clients and give them the peace of mind that their business is protected.

I'm always available to bounce ideas off of, talk about current tech trends or talk about the most random topics available :)

[Jamesc]

Hello!

Im James Chillman the managing director for UK Backup Limited, We currently provide a large number of companies with raw offsite storage space for backups and are looking to expand further into managed backups/cloud backups etc so can hopefully learn/input alot on here!

Also hoping to boost the british membership on here! ;)

[lenin]

Hi,

I am with Vembu and my role is interacting with MSPs on a frequent basis in understanding their hurdles in implementing a backup service both from Business and Technology perspective and offer assistance wherever required. My plans for this forum is to offer assistance and advice on best implementing backup service for Small Business and strictly no advertising!

Looking forward to a fruitful discussion.

Regards,
Lenin

[SotoNets]

Hello,

My name is Leonardo Soto from Soto Networks Inc. in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. We work primarily in Latin America and Western Canada and our focus is on mid size and enterprise Engineering and Project Management companies in the Oil and Gas Industry.

Looking forward to exchange useful information on backup and recovery strategies.

[seskier]

Hello Everyone,

I see that this site has seen some growth and thought I'd jump in the pool with all of you. My name is Adam Young and I am a Pre-Sales Systems Engineer selling Archiving, Disaster Recovery and Discovery solutions. If you've heard of Nearpoint, Connected, LiveVault, CloudRecovery, etc., you probably know where I worked. In the market for a new job at the moment and I have some interesting prospects. We'll have to wait and see where I land. Anyway, I can give my 2 cents.

[Nick]

Hey there!

Glad to have found this site a couple of months back, thought I should formally introduce myself. My name is Nick, currently working an IT Systems Manager managing an infrastructure comprising, virtual and physical servers running bespoke in house LOB applications across a variety of platforms.

I'm looking forward to seeing where this community goes and hoping this forum will be a great opportunity for us to share, learn, etc.

[Adam]

Hi! My name is Adam and work for an online file storage company by the name of FilesAnywhere. We're always looking to improve our product and this looked like a great community to learn from each other. I'm looking forward to talking to you all.

[Jamesc]

Hi Adam,

Welcome to the forums!

[katchampion]

I am a research analyst at a UK based research consultancy (new media partners) with a long standing interest in supporting sustainable growth within the digital media and creative industry sectors. We are really interested in the cloud back up market and your forum has some really helpful and engaging discussions going on. I am hoping that I'll be able to join in some of these discussions and learn a little more about the market environment for cloud backup from managed service providers and other interested industry stakeholders.

I look forward to joining in the discussions

Many thanks

Katherine

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/17/championkatherine01phix.jpg/

[Jamesc]

Hi Katherine!

Welcome to the forums, It would be interesting to see some of the research/reports you have written before?

[buchatech]

Hi Everyone,

My name is Steve. I work with Microsoft DPM 2010 as our backup solution. I am new to these forums and hope to learn from backup/recovery professionals as well as share my knowledge.

[Samantha Morris]

Welcome to the community Steve! We're all looking forward to your contribution in the forums! :)

[maclellana]

Hi - I'm Andy MacLellan, operations manager for cloud at Onyx Group. I've worked with the Asigra product for over 10 years now at various companies, large and small. This included a comprehensive pilot study for a very large insurance company back in 2001. So I've worked with data backups for quite a long time and still learn something new every day. We provide Asigra to our customers through the OnyxSafe product - run from our own data centres in the UK.

Andy

[Jamesc]

Hi Andy,

Nice to see another UK based person on here!

[RecycleYourMedia]

Hi Everyone,

I am Brian from the company Recycle Your Media that focuses on data tape media: we buy them back, recycle them ensuring secure data eradication, and then we re-sell them at a cost effective price.
I hope to network with each of you, so that we share our thoughts on backup/recovery world.

I look forward to meeting everyone.

Have a great day!

[ByronTom]

This member is no longer active

[Samantha Morris]

Welcome to the community Brian! I think you're very unique to the community in terms of the work you do -- very interesting!

[RecycleYourMedia]

Thank you for the warm greeting! I'm looking forward to conversing with the Backup Heros community.

[aravindhaltruist]

Hi Everyone,

I am Aravindh Chimtamneedi, tier 3 engineer at TCS.I had complete understanding of infrastrucure operations and particularly in storage domain.In last 4 years i had worked with symantec backup exec,Netbackup,IBM tivoli and EMC legato networker backup products.I am also certified celerra professional.I am here to explore more from the heroes of this community and share my views too.

Thanks
Aravindh

[Samantha Morris]

Welcome to the Community @arvindhaltruist! We're all looking forward to your contributions to the forums -- you definitely have a lot of experience with a number of different platforms! :o)

[Ambika]

My name is Ambika and working for online backup software company "Vembu Technologies". I am new to these forums and hope to learn more about backup and share my knowledge.

[Samantha Morris]

Welcome to the community Ambika! I look forward to seeing your contributions on the forum! :)

[dedupe-works]

Hi! Backup Exec Expert here. Hope to contribute in that area as often as I can :)

[EdGuzman]

Hello everyone, I'm Ed.

Currently work for Advanced Data Protection Systems in Colorado. I have roughly 12 years of enterprise backup & recovery experience with multiple technologies.

I hope to learn from others here, help where I can and make fiends along the way.

[Allcore]

Hello,

I'm Fred Capretta and I work for AllCore Communications Inc. as there Wholesale Channel Manager. Looking forward to working with all of you to provide Cloud Backup Services to Canada.

Thanks,

Fred

[sdmartin]

Hello, my name is Scott Martin from Clear Cover Data Protection Corp in Toronto Canada. Just joined the forum and looking forward to contributing and getting valuable feedback from all the members.

[Jamesc]

Hello, my name is Scott Martin from Clear Cover Data Protection Corp in Toronto Canada. Just joined the forum and looking forward to contributing and getting valuable feedback from all the members.

Hi Scott, Welcome to the forum, Seems to be quiet every now and then but dont let that put you off hanging around.

[Pmayock]

Hello everyone,

I am Pat Mayock, part of the Backup Heroes from Rapid City. AKA Dakota Backup. Looking forward to interacting more with the group.

[Jamesc]

Hi Pat, Welcome!

[Samantha Morris]

Hey Pat!

Glad to see you've introduced yourself to the community -- welcome! Hopefully you'll share the #oldmandrap with all of us sometime soon?! :)

[Pmayock]

Hey Samantha. the #oldmanrap is always a possibility, at any event, after a few refreshments.

[sdmartin]

Hey James, thanks for the email and sorry for the late reply. I had a question for you that hopefully you could help me with. If not, maybe some advise on the best place to post this. Thanks. See below:

Retention Policies

We are running into customers with extensive tape legacy backgrounds. They want to apply the tape retention (ie GFS - Grandfather, Father, Son) structure to the Asigra platform. The issue is its' increasing the size of our backups deeming the solution to be not economically viable for the customer.

The question is are there other members dealing with the same issue and what are they doing from a data management perspective to both satisfy the customer and keep the costs down?

Your help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

[Gambhir_Hemant]

Hello,

I am Hemant Gambhir & currently associated with Wipro Technologies and I am working on Various Backup Applications and managing huge Infrastructure.

Looking forward where we all can share our valuable thoughts on related technologies via this forum and I am sure it'll be great learning as well.

Thanks & Good day!

[philc]

Hi, All,
I'm Phil Collins (no, not that one.), I work for EMC managed services in the UK. I manage a large installation for one of our customers, with 7 datazones across 9 sites spread across Europe. I've been working in the world of backup for far too long, after a history as a hardware engineer. My expertise (as you'd expect) is mainly in the world of Networker, but I've dipped a toe into Netbackup, Commvault and a few other products.

Phil

[Jamesc]

Hi Phil,

Welcome! Glad to see another Brit onboard. We've just been looking at the possibility of rolling out EMC for our next set of storage actually.

[philc]

Hi, James,
Thought I was the only member from "Over here" I'm not a salesman, you'll be glad to hear, but I'm sure there's a product that suits your requirements in the range somewhere :)

Phil

[Samantha Morris]

Welcome to the community Gambhir_Hemant and philc! Looking forward to your contributions in the forums! :)

[martinl]

Hello all

My name is Martin Lea and I am a Business Development and Sales Executive for RMT Technology, based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

RMT Technology is the IT Division of RMT Accountants & Business Advisors, so my side of the business consists of qualified IT experts with some qualified accountants.

Our client base is varied but all have one thing in common - Backups!

We're finding that as data volumes grow, data growth management is fast becoming a major concern.

I hope that by being part of this forum, I can learn from others and share my experiences of this phenomena.

Cheers for now
Martin

[Jamesc]

Hello all

My name is Martin Lea and I am a Business Development and Sales Executive for RMT Technology, based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

RMT Technology is the IT Division of RMT Accountants & Business Advisors, so my side of the business consists of qualified IT experts with some qualified accountants.

Our client base is varied but all have one thing in common - Backups!

We're finding that as data volumes grow, data growth management is fast becoming a major concern.

I hope that by being part of this forum, I can learn from others and share my experiences of this phenomena.

Cheers for now
Martin

Hi Martin,

Welcome, Im glad to see more people from this side of the pond joining in.

[dkennard]

Hello,

I am Doug Kennard, currently a pre-sales Engineer for Symantec specializing in Data Center solutions (file system, volume management, clustering, DR, archiving and data protection (NBU and BE).

I've been here over 12 years starting w/Veritas in 1999. Prior to that, I worked various roles for 10+ years at StorageTek and spent many years prior to StorageTek doing break/fix and processor upgrades on old 3090/44xx mainframes so i've been around the backup and datacenter world for a while. Have seen the evolution of bus/tag channel cables to where we are today.

Looks like a great place to share thoughts and ideas.

Feel free to contact me any time.

Doug Kennard

[Samantha Morris]

Welcome to the community Doug! We all look forward to your contributions on the forum.

[PWhelan]

Hi Everyone,

My name is Patrick. I am a freelance contractor specializing in Veritas/Symantec NetBackup. I have been working with it since 1997. I am looking forward to see what kind of activity exists on this forum.
If you have a NetBackup question, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Regards,

[Cynthia Hart]

Welcome, Patrick!

[kevlamb]

Hi,

I'm Kev, I am a Senior Unix Engineer and Storage Archive Specialist with IPC Media Ltd in the UK, I have been working with Backups for over 20 years starting with simple tar and cpio then becoming a Legato Certified Administrator, I have been working with Symantec Netbackup now for over 15 years and am now a Symantec Certified Specialist.

Looking forward to interacting with the Backup Community and both learning new things and helping others

[ZaidRasid]

Hey Kev, welcome to the community. We look forward to your contributions. If there is anything you need from the Mod end just let me know. Best!

[fejer.madlen]

Hello everyone,
I am an IT recruitment consultant by CPL Jobs Hungary.
I work on various IT positions mainly in the CEE - Central Eastern Europe - region.
Currently I am looking for a SAN storage administrator for a market leading multinational company located in Brno, Czech Rebublic.In case you are interested feel free to contact me for further info: madlena.fejer@cpljobs.hu

[ZaidRasid]

@fejer.madlen, welcome to the community. Glad you found us. The opportunity above surely can benefit someone. Instead of having this content in the announcements section, I'll create a category for job postings. Please post any posting you might have in that category. Thanks and welcome!

[fejer.madlen]

Thank you for the warm welcome :) The category for job posts is a great idea, thanks! I will use it and will inform the community about all the relevant job opportunities. Have a nice day!

[ZaidRasid]

Np, here is the link to the new Job board: http://backupheroes.com/forumdisplay.php?21-Job-Board

[viju]

Hello Everyone,

My name is Vijayendra Shamanna, CTO at Zintrus (based out of Bangalore). We have built an disk image-based, near-continuous cloud-enabled data protection product (Intact) focused around SMBs and the mid-market. We are always looking to improve our product and this looks like a great platform to connect with backup professionals around the globe.

looking forward to contributing and getting valuable feedback from all the members.


Cheers
Viju

[ZaidRasid]

Hey Viju, glad you found us and again welcome. If there is anything you need on the admin end just send me a message!

[rmendez]

Hello All,

Thanks to Zaid for finally getting me in the forum!

My name is Ray Mendez. I'm a Systems Engineer at DSA Technologies in Elk Grove, CA. We are an Asigra partner working primarily in the SMB space. I'm currently working on backup strategies for our clients as well as trying to get a stronger grasp on the Asigra BLM functionality and design. I look forward to learning and interacting with all the other backup professionals here.

[ZaidRasid]

Hi Ray, glad you found the community! Let us know if there is anything in particular you are looking for.

[techwizz42]

My Name is Ben Vincent I am the CEO of Vertical Storage Systems. We are a company that specializes in off site backups for the SMB market. We are always looking to improve our service and products. I am very interested in learning more about increasing revenue for my company. I am the Vie President of an IT firm and will be leaving in the next year to run my data company so i am open to new ideas about generating customers and revenue. I look forward to interacting with everyone here!

[ZaidRasid]

Welcome Ben! Glad to have you join the community.

[cmcdaniel]

Introduction -

Hi all! My name is Chris McDaniel, National Technical Sales for Xilocore. I help our partners develop, manage and grow their BURR practices.

Thanks,
Chris L. McDaniel
XiloCore - We live and breathe Asigra

[ZaidRasid]

Hi Chris, glad you found the forum! Let me know if you need anything from an admin end!

[jasonkalowsky]

Hello Everyone,

Its Jason Kalowsky from New York. I'm am working there in a Data Centre. I am pretty much excited to get connect with the real Back Up Heroes :) I look forward to be an active community member here.

Regards.
Jason

[ZaidRasid]

Hey Jason, glad you found the community. It is great to learn about you. If you have any questions please do leverage the forum. And if you need anything from a moderator stand point, just let me know.

[Tiffany]

Hello Everyone,

My name is Tiffany Leung, working for Netshield based in the UK in the marketing department. We are a resller and one of our core services is data backup and recovery, by partnering with vendors such as Asigra. I'm looking forward to being involved with the community and learning more about backup. :)

[ZaidRasid]

Hi Tiffany, glad to have you as part of the forum! Welcome!

[uwolloch]

Hi,
I'm Uri Wolloch. I'm a software developer working in the last few years in the field backup and recovery.In 2011 I founded N2W Software. We are developing a backup and recovery solution for instances running in the EC2 compute cloud. I will try to help when I can. Please feel free to contact me.

Best Regards

[ZaidRasid]

Hi Uri, welcome to the community. Glad you have joined us!