Axcient Inc., a provider of comprehensive data protection software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), announced the availability of the company's hybrid on-premise and cloud data protection and business continuity service.
Axcient's pay-as-you-grow approach includes an on-premise data backup and replication appliance with offsite cloud storage and services that delivers a secure and cost-effective way for SMBs to ensure fast data recovery and uptime. The advantage of having a backup storage appliance onsite is that customers benefit from one-click rapid restores, so they can be up and running within minutes of a data loss.
The Axcient service will be sold exclusively through the IT solution provider channel and has been built from the ground up to serve the business needs of SMB customers with anywhere from 1 to 500 workstations or servers and 10 GB (gigabytes) to 10 TB (terabytes) of data.
Axcient offers hybrid on-premise and cloud data protection and business continuity service to make business continuity and backup simple for SMBs by delivering a secure and cost-effective way to ensure uptime and data recovery. The pay-as-you-grow service features zero infrastructure, license or software costs, thereby eliminating capital expenditures and minimizing operating expenses to meet SMB requirements for affordability and simplicity. Axcient customers encompass a range of industries, including legal, financial services, healthcare, design and creative industries, retail, credit card services, web-based companies, and education. The Axcient service is available through a nationwide network of IT solution providers.
"The most important thing to remember is that backup is about recovery. Online backup is an important component because it delivers disaster recovery and compliant archiving, but for fast recovery you must have the backup data stored locally. Axcient offers the best aspects of an onsite solution plus the best aspects of an online solution as a single integrated service," said Justin Moore, CEO, Axcient.
"Axcient's service has been in development for the past two years, with our team laser-focused on solving the data protection challenges of the SMB market and the outsourced IT professionals who serve it. We realized early on that businesses need one comprehensive service that can handle backup, recovery, archiving, and disaster recovery - without having to cobble together various vendors' products," Moore added.
As the Axcient solution is agentless, there is no software to install on servers, workstations or laptops, so implementation is painless and backup of virtual machines (VMs) is both practical and effortless.
The Axcient web-based management platform also requires no software installation and is securely accessible by authorized administrators from any location. Additionally, the computing related to data protection occurs on the Axcient on-premise appliance, resulting in little impact on system performance in customers' production environments. For total information security, data is encrypted on the on-premise appliances, transferred offsite through an encrypted tunnel, and encrypted when at rest at Axcient's data centers.
"As business organizations continue to generate vast amounts of data and seek optimum methods to store and protect them, the growth of storage capacities delivered through storage-as-a-service offerings will outpace traditional storage architectures," said Brad Nisbet, program manager, storage and data management services at industry analyst firm, IDC. "Solutions such those from Axcient that enable more efficient data protection, faster recovery, and greater business continuity are shrinking end-user pain by reducing downtime, simplifying the management of explosive data growth, and easing pressure on capital expenditures."
Axcient offers backup for laptops, servers and workstations and supports multiple operating systems including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The on-premise data appliance provides fast, network-speed restores that have minimal impact on uptime and allow customers to hit critical recovery time objectives (RTOs). Important files can be continuously backed up as changes are made, increasing protection and reducing backup windows. In addition, customers can restore a whole volume to its original location or select a version of a file folder and restore it to a chosen location.
Axcient's data retention algorithm reduces corruption, decreases backup windows, and provides highly customizable archiving and retention settings, which enable customers to meet critical compliance requirements and recovery point objectives.
In the event of a site failure, Axcient will ship a new data protection appliance, fully loaded with a company's data and system information, to a new or temporary location within 24 hours. Data is stored in multiple offsite locations fitted with the latest security measures to further protect data.
Axcient's business model is fully channel-focused. The company guarantees no direct sales conflicts and has developed a customized channel program to suit the individual business needs of its partners.
