Yotta280: Asigra Top Enterprise Backup Application for 2014 – TechTarget

Yotta280 Inc.‘s cloud backup, recovery and restore software provider since 1986, Asigra, Inc., has been named by TechTarget as the top enterprise backup application for 2014.

In the comparison, Asigra outscored all enterprise backup competitors in the areas of sales-force competence, initial product quality, product features, product reliability, technical support and likelihood of return purchases.

“For the last five years, enterprise backup was represented by the ‘big five backup apps’ of CommVault, EMC, HP, IBM and Symantec; but Dell NetVault Backup and Asigra cloud Backup software joined the ranks this year,” said editors in the comparison. “Asigra provides software for cloud backup services and software for enterprises to install in their data centers; we asked users to comment on the latter product … Asigra’s margin of victory of 0.60 points is the largest ever in the enterprise backup applications group.“

A total of 455 respondents providing 1,012 product evaluations participated in this year’s review with Asigra sweeping all categories in the annual enterprise backup software vendor comparison. Yotta280’s software provider, Asigra, received the highest overall ranking of 6.38 out of 8 compared to all other contenders in this year’s evaluation. When asked whether they would purchase the product again given what they know today, 93% of the participants surveyed indicated a readiness to purchase Asigra again – the highest in the category. All vendors surveyed on this question were ranked as follows by enterprise users:

Yotta280’s Asigra Cloud Backup is the cloud-based data recovery software with an installed base of private cloud deployments worldwide. The software is built for efficient operation and integrates with public, private, and hybrid cloud architectures. Agentless multi-tenant software architecture provides for simple deployment and hands-free management while providing features that include global de-dupe, automated mass deployment, autonomic healing, and validation restore capabilities.

The software maintains set of capabilities with enterprises highlighting following:

• Support for physical, virtual and cloud environments
• Non-intrusive and easy to manage agentless architecture
• High-performance local and remote backup and recovery
• Long-term data recoverability to meet compliance mandates
• NIST FIPS 140-2 certified security with AES-256 encryption in-flight and at-rest for compliance readiness

“The most well-known enterprise backup solutions in the market were reviewed in this comparison and enterprise customers responded favorably to the value proposition provided by Asigra,” said Eran Farajun, EVP, Asigra. “While our end-to-end backup software may be a new consideration for some enterprises, it is in widespread use with more than one million installations globally. We are proud to see the strengths of our technology, customer service and reliability corroborated by the enterprise users that depend on our solution every day.”