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Press
Release
UNIBLUE
ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF NEW BACKUP AND STORAGE INFORMATION PORTAL
- BACKUPANSWERS.COM.
Backupanswers.com
is the new portal that offers free information on the backup
and storage industry to small- and medium sized businesses.
7th December 2005 - Uniblue
Systems, a leading provider of backup and recovery management
software for the SoHo and SMB market, today announced the release
of backupanswers.com.
The storage requirements of small and medium
sized businesses have been ignored because the SMB market has
been traditionally considered small, unprofitable and as not
having the same critical issues of their larger counterparts
when it comes to storage, and, to a lesser extent, backup. Recent
research, however, shows that SMBs face identical issues when
it comes to these to mission-critical areas of any IT infrastructure.
Today, vendors are bullish about the SMB market for backup and
storage hardware, software and related services. Gartner state
that while storage hardware sales are at a plateau, software
(e.g., backup and recovery management software) and services
(e.g., archiving) are growing steadily.
Backupanswers.com tackles these themes by providing
a wealth of targeted content on the backup and storage industry.
Featuring a plethora of related articles, white papers, technical
briefs and industry news, backupanswers.com goes straight to
the heart of the matter and successfully addresses technical
and business issues SMBs are facing today. The portal also contains
a glossary of 400+ backup and storage related terms, a directory
of hardware and software vendors and service providers and a
forum for discussion.
SMB Needs:
"SMBs are frustrated because they feel that their specific
needs seem come second to the enterprise-level firms",
said Bosse Malmberg, Chief Executive Officer at Uniblue.
"SMBs face identical problems as large
organizations - data integrity, backup, email and compliance
to the legal requirements of their country of operation (and
related data security issues)", continued Malmberg. "They
want powerful protection for their data and minimum downtime
when disaster strikes. Moreover, their business demands that
they are up and running 24x7, so the time-window available for
implementing a backup strategy is becoming smaller and smaller".
"The release of backupanswers.com is an
important milestone for Uniblue", continues Malmberg. "We
would like to provide value to SMBs, our core customers, not
only by delivering tailor-made products that address their specific
needs and wants but also by delivering valuable content that
will help them in tackling their IT investment decisions and
their daily network administration".
Backupanswers.com - A One-Stop Shop…
Backupanswers.com features a non-exhaustive directory of backup
and storage hardware and software vendors and third-party service
providers. "The companies within the backup sphere are
predominantly our competitors but we still approached the more
important ones with the idea for our portal. Those who responded
sent us their white papers, press releases and a large collection
of marketing materials to put on our site", stated Malmberg.
"The idea is to have an unbiased, vendor neutral reference
point for SMBs to come in and make dramatically more informed
decisions about what technologies they should look at and invest
in".
…and sister site to Processlibrary.com
"We have accumulated a rich experience in running free-information
service sites - in fact, within less than a year since its launch
processlibrary.com which explains over processes (3000 at the
last count) that may be running in anyone's computer, now caters
for the needs of millions of home users and system administrators
across the globe and has grown to accommodate over 100 million
searches", reported the CEO.
"Backupanswers.com presents a marvelous
challenge for us and we aim at achieving the same level of success
as processlibrary.com. We already have had some encouraging
comments from our business customers who have helped us review
a pilot site", remarked Malmberg.
About WinBackup - Backup Made Easy:
The WinBackup suite of backup solutions sets industry standards
for ease of use and for bundling complete reliability and superior
performance under a highly cost effective price tag. Designed
for small and medium sized businesses, home and small offices,
and for enterprises workgroups, WinBackup awards best-in-class
protection for data assets and mission-critical applications
on notebooks, desktops, and servers.
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Uniblue, WinBackup and Backup Made Easy are
trademarks of Uniblue Systems Ltd.. Other trademarks are the
property of their respective owners.
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