Asigra Inc. has reached the 550,000 global customer site deployment milestone, with 150,000 of those installations taking place in the last six months alone. The 37% increase since June, 2011 shows the growing adoption of public, private and hybrid cloud backup as businesses replace time consuming, manually intensive, insecure and unreliable tape-based data protection.
Cloud service providers powered by Asigra have accelerated their onboarding of new customers as cloud backup and recovery continues to unseat traditional tape-based approaches to data protection due to the complexity and costs associated with legacy backup. According to analysts, growth in the market is being driven by the need for companies to ensure business continuity. With most businesses perceiving traditional in-house data backup infrastructure as insufficient in safeguarding critical corporate data from system failures, theft, vandalism, floods and fire while magnetizing enormous investments in time and money. Against this backdrop, cloud-based backup options are increasing in popularity as companies race to online vaulting managed service providers to hedge the risks associated with the unknown future.
Asigra CEO, David Farajun said, "Businesses today are redesigning their backup environments to take advantage of the technological advancements accelerated by the Cloud. While we have benefitted from this trend, it is our global partner ecosystem and the work it does with end customers that supports this growth. Together, we are changing the face of data protection."
Jason Buffington, Sr. Analyst - Enterprise Strategy Group said, "With more than 26 years of experience in this area, Asigra delivers a refined solution that is vendor-and hardware-agnostic to deliver sound end-to-end protection. But the real strength behind Asigra is their understanding of the channel and how to help partners succeed. This is illustrated by a laser focus on their channel ecosystem and extensive turnkey programs to help managed service providers build their businesses while reducing the risks faced by investing in new technology."
