StorageCraft Releases ShadowProtect Small Business Server Edition 3.3

StorageCraft Technology Corporation, a provider of disk-based backup, disaster recovery, system migration, data protection and security solutions for servers, desktops and laptops, announced it is releasing StorageCraft ShadowProtect Small Business Server Edition 3.3, the latest version of the StorageCraft ShadowProtect line of disk-based backup and disaster recovery software.

StorageCraft ShadowProtect Small Business Server Edition 3.3 simplifies the complexity of backing up, restoring or migrating for small businesses that use Microsoft Windows Small Business Server (SBS). The addition of Hardware Independent Restore (HIR) features enables businesses to recover from a catastrophic failure quickly and easily.

Discounted Pricing
“As a managed services provider for businesses primarily running Windows Small Business Server, we depend on ShadowProtect to protect our customers’ servers,” said Mark Crall, CEO, Charlotte Tech Care Team and Microsoft SBSC PAL. “ShadowProtect minimizes our risk through media-less, image-based recovery to virtual machines during a disaster recovery. The fact that StorageCraft is lowering the price for this kind of SBS protection is just icing on the cake for us.”

On top of the special discounts for small business servers, StorageCraft is also offering competitive upgrade pricing. The special pricing includes a discount for businesses that use server versions of Acronis True Image and Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery wishing to purchase StorageCraft ShadowProtect Small Business Server Edition 3.3.

Most small businesses need to be able to protect their server and data – just as large enterprises do, but often they cannot afford the complex backup and recovery software, or the time it takes to implement such a system. StorageCraft ShadowProtect Small Business Server Edition 3.3 not only is an affordable, scalable solution, its simple interface and easy-to-follow wizards do not require hours or days of training to implement.

“One of the obvious benefits for small businesses to use StorageCraft ShadowProtect Small Business Server Edition 3.3 is that you can set it up to take scheduled backups of your server in just a few minutes,” said Brandon Nordquist, vice president of product management for StorageCraft. “Once you’ve scheduled your backups, you don’t have to do any monitoring or maintenance. We’ve designed StorageCraft ShadowProtect Small Business Server Edition 3.3 to be very easy to use.”

HIR Features Give Disaster Recovery and System Migration Flexibility
StorageCraft ShadowProtect Small Business Server Edition 3.3 also gives small businesses the flexibility of restoring or migrating their small business servers to another small business server environment – whether virtual or physical. This includes migrating from a physical machine to another physical machine (P2P), a physical to a virtual machine (P2V), a virtual machine to another virtual machine (V2V) or even from a virtual machine to a physical machine (V2P).

StorageCraft ShadowProtect Small Business Server Edition 3.3 supports virtualization solutions, such as VMware platforms and Microsoft Virtual Server, for quick and reliable disaster recovery, system migration and consolidation.

Additional Features
StorageCraft ShadowProtect Small Business Server Edition 3.3 also includes additional features which help small businesses simplify the process of protecting their systems and data. These features include the following:

• Bootable recovery CD based on Windows Vista; includes automatic hardware detection and network support;
• New Verify Backup Image tool to ensure backup files are recoverable;

• Additional optical media support (CD-R/RW, DVD+-R/RW, Blu-ray R/RE—both single and dual layer);
• Network throttling during backup for improved performance;
• Improved image management;
• Visual partitioning support;
• Remote management of recovery environment;
• Improved user interface;
• Bare metal recovery of Windows Small Business Servers in minutes;
• Ability to take online or cold state backup images without the need to install software;
• Simple view to quickly recover files and folders or update backup images;
• Network Configurator to manage domains, mapped drives and network resources.

How to Receive Competitive Upgrade Pricing
Competitive upgrade pricing is $100 off the list price of ShadowProtect Small Business Server Edition 3.3 when customers switch from Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery Windows Small Business Server Edition, Symantec Live State Recovery (LSR) Standard Server and Acronis True Image for Windows Small Business Server.

This offer is available in North America and South America only.

Pricing and Availability
StorageCraft ShadowProtect Small Business Server Edition 3.3 is available for $495 (U.S.) from the StorageCraft Web site, through Lifeboat Distribution and through additional authorized StorageCraft distributors, managed service providers (MSPs) and value-added resellers (VARs). Volume discounts are available.