Intradyn Cuts Data Backup Costs for Small Businesses by 20%
In a move to aggressively expand the smart business practice of secure data backup and archiving, Intradyn announced today it is slashing the prices of the desktop models of its popular RocketVault™ appliance for small businesses by 20% from the already-aggressive prices the products have sold for widely since 2003. The entry-level model is now $1195. The firm says the price reduction is enabled by volume production and associated economies of scale.
St. Paul, MN (PRWEB) May 25, 2005 -- In a move to aggressively expand the
smart business practice of secure data backup and archiving, Intradyn announced
today it is slashing the prices of the desktop models of its popular
RocketVault™ appliance for small businesses by 20% from the already-aggressive
prices the products have sold for widely since 2003. The entry-level model is
now $1195. The firm says the price cut is enabled by volume production and
associated economies of scale.
When it introduced the RocketVault™ two
years ago, Intradyn was the first company to offer backup and archiving for both
on-site and off-site data protection in a single, self-contained unit. The
device is a hard-disk-based hardware and software solution for backing up a
business’ data. In addition to on-site storage, it can send the data securely
off-site for disaster recovery purposes. The RocketVault™ uses the highest level
of encryption available, for the utmost in data security. It’s a simple,
plug-and-play network-server solution requiring little setup time and no IT
expertise. It provides protection against system crashes or other disasters that
can severely affect any business’ ability to continue operating, enabling
lightning-fast restores of critical business data when required.
The
RocketVault™ has met with broad acceptance since its introduction in 2003, and
is sold by a rapidly expanding network of resellers – now numbering more than
115 organizations throughout the U.S. and in several other countries. It is
available in 11 models, from 240-Gigabyte to 4.0-Terabyte capacities. The price
cuts, effective immediately, apply to the four desktop models, called the
RocketVault™ Mini 240 and Mini 500, available with and without RAID 1 redundant
disk drives. These models have a local archive capacity of 240 and 500
Gigabytes, respectively – enough to enable millions of small businesses to back
up their data daily, weekly, and monthly, or whatever their needs dictate. Each
desktop weighs only 8.5 pounds and is about the size of a toaster.
“Small
businesses are extremely cost-sensitive,” said Gary Doan, founder and CEO of
Intradyn. “The price cut we’re announcing today means that real, secure,
enterprise-class data protection is now affordable to many more thousands of
smaller firms. It’s part of a broad IT trend in the small business sector –
these firms are starting to adopt advanced technology that had previously been
available only to large firms, until recent price disruptions. We’re seeing it
happen in telephony with VOIP, in software and IT infrastructure with
open-source, in hardware with PC and server commoditization, as well as with the
seemingly never-ending price drops for disk drives. We feel it’s only natural
that significant savings should now come to data protection and disaster
recovery, in the way of an all-in-one solution – and we’re glad to be leading
that charge. Affordability was a key driver for us in bringing the RocketVault™
to market in the first place in 2003.”
Market Need
Data protection is
one of the most pervasive problems facing small businesses today. Nearly a third
of the small firms in the U.S. – meaning millions of businesses – have no
off-site backup, and most are without readily accessible archives, according to
Intradyn’s market research. Prior to the availability of the RocketVault™
disk-based backup and archiving appliance, the majority of small businesses that
were backing up their data were doing so to magnetic tape. Yet, a widely cited
study by The Yankee Group found that 50-60% of attempted restores from tape
backups fail, which the firm attributed both to the general unreliability of
tape, as well as to human error. Network-based hard-disk backup and restore is
many times faster than tape and widely recognized as more reliable. It is also
more secure, in that tapes can be lost or stolen when transported to off-site
locations.
RocketVault™ Customers Rave
Pete Semington, the owner of
Dunn & Semington, a Minneapolis-based printing company, used to spend a
weekend a month going back and forth from home to office in order to back up
data, graphics files, and other materials relating to his clients’ work. “It was
such a tedious process,” he said. “I hated it – I was just sick of it. But you
need to do it. If anything happens, you have to have a way to pull yourself out
of it.” Then he found the RocketVault™ appliance. The best part, he said, was
that is was so simple, and every other solution he looked at involved tapes or
other manual labor to complete the backup. With the RocketVault™ appliance,
Semington receives an email each morning informing him that his data backed up
the night before, and once a week his information is sent in encrypted form via
the Internet to his home for safekeeping. Now, he said, he spends his weekends
with his family. “I’m not Mr. Technical Guy. The beauty of this thing is I don’t
have to be,” Semington said. “As simple as they make the RocketVault™ out to be,
it was. It’s a miracle machine as far as I’m concerned.”
Analyst
Comments
Mike Karp, senior analyst, Enterprise Management Associates:
“RocketVault™ is the first appliance I’ve seen that offers sophisticated
archiving capabilities…and storage of encrypted files on both its internal drive
and at a remote site. Its automation of backup and archiving provides improved
reliability and reduced staff costs.”
James Gaskin, noted small business
technology author and columnist for Network World: “RocketVault™ is the first
product to bring enterprise-class server backup automation within the price
range of small businesses.”
How to Purchase or Schedule a Demo
More
information about the RocketVault™ Backup & Archiving Appliance is available
at www.intradyn.com/rocketvault/. (To find out the reseller
nearest you, look for the “Buy Now” link.) Availability of the four RocketVault™
Mini 240 and Mini 500 desktop models at the reduced prices of $1195, $1795,
$1995, and $2895 is immediate.
About Intradyn Inc.: Intradyn’s mission is
“Data Protection Made Simple.™” Headquartered in Eagan, Minnesota, the company
develops software that it incorporates into all-in-one data protection and
preservation “appliances” – bringing enterprise-class functionality at prices
affordable to small and midsized businesses (SMBs). Founded in 2001, Intradyn
designs its products specifically to address the overriding IT issues facing
smaller businesses today: complexity and affordability. It introduced the
RocketVault™ Backup & Archiving Appliance in July 2003, and later that year
won a “Best of the Tests” award from Network World magazine. The company’s other
products include the BackAgain™ family of data protection software for Microsoft
Windows™ environments, and the ComplianceVault™ Email Archiving & Retrieval
Appliance, which allows companies to affordably comply with such strict rules as
the SEC’s email retention and availability regulations. The company sells its
products throughout the U.S. and internationally through a growing network of
resellers and partners, now numbering more than 115 organizations. Additional
information is available at the company’s web site, http://www.intradyn.com, or by
calling 651-203-4600.
Contact:
Tony Keller
S&S Public
Relations
719- 634-8279
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Data
Protection Made Simple™, RocketVault™, BackAgain™, ComplianceVault™ are
trademarks of Intradyn Inc.
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