Free Evault Endpoint Protection for Windows Azure Customers

EVault, Inc. (a Seagate company) announced that Windows Azure customers who sign a Windows Azure Enterprise Agreement will receive one year of free EVault Endpoint Protection, a cloud-connected backup, recovery and data security solution for endpoint devices.

The offer is available to Microsoft Enterprise and Partner Group customers signing a Windows Azure Enterprise Agreement with an annual commitment of $50,000 or more and is valid through June 30, 2014.

The promotion includes unlimited device licensing, unlimited licensing for optional network caches, vault set-up, and 24/7 support from the team of data protection experts. The company has been supporting cloud-connected backup and recovery services on Windows Azure since October 2010.

“While working with Microsoft, we’ve been able to provide organizations around the world flexible and cost-effective solutions that both protect critical information and scale over time to meet their unique needs,” said Terry Cunningham, president and GM, EVault. “Our successful relationship has already benefited many joint customers, and we look forward to offering more of our cloud-connected services on the Windows Azure platform in this coming year.”

Distributed workforces depend on a variety of connections to be productive. For the organization, this increases the chance of data loss and diminishes corporate data visibility. This simplifies data recovery in case of employee turnover, equipment upgrades and the handling of lost devices, while providing businesses with centralized data recovery and data loss prevention controls. It synchronizes data to the customer’s instance of Windows Azure.

“With this special offer, new Windows Azure customers gain additional protection by backing up the data that resides on endpoint devices connected to the Windows Azure cloud,” said Kim Akers, GM, developer and platform evangelism, Microsoft Corp. “Our relationship with EVault helps us provide our customers with greater capacity and flexibility to mitigate a wide range of endpoint data protection risks.”

The company provides onsite, cloud, and cloud-connected-or hybrid-data protection solutions to help organizations protect and access their business data. The company has led the industry in the move to hybrid storage models, with an integrated ecosystem of storage software, SaaS, managed services, and appliances that help ensure that customers maintain BC in multiplatform, multisite environments. Data protection, DR, and other storage services are optimized to perform in a distributed environment; supported by a cloud storage infrastructure; and backed by customer service.

Windows Azure is allowing developers to build applications spanning from the cloud to the enterprise data center. The platform combines cloud-based developer capabilities with storage, computational and networking infrastructure services, all hosted on Microsoft’s servers.