Asigra
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| Company type | Privately held |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer data backup |
| Founded | 1986 |
| Founder | David Farajun |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | David Farajun (CEO) Eran Farajun (Executive Vice President) |
| Products | Asigra Cloud Backup™ |
| Website | www.asigra.com |
Asigra Inc. is a company that produces a cloud backup and recovery software platform known as Asigra Cloud Backup™. The company is privately held and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
History
The company was founded in 1986 by David Farajun when he faced a personal catastrophic data loss event.[1] Farajun had been developing a second-generation operating system for programmable logic controllers for commercialization and sale. When his business was wiped out due to a data loss event, Farajun wanted to ensure that such an event did not happen again. He searched for a safe and secure method to back up data without having to transfer data manually to tapes. Unable to find a satisfactory solution, he decided to develop technology to securely back up data to a secure location over communication lines himself, hence establishing Asigra.
The name Asigra comes from the declarative verb asegurar in Romance languages, meaning to assure.
Business Model
Asigra follows a 100 percent channel focused business model, relying on an ecosystem of channel partners including managed service providers to take its technology to market. By not selling direct, the company aims to overcome any channel conflict in its business space.[2]
Asigra channel partners include value added resellers, managed service providers, and telcos. Asigra channel partners employ Asigra Cloud Backup™ software to run cloud backup services for consumers, small and medium businesses and large enterprises.
Asigra service providers have the liberty to structure their business operations, pricing, and cloud deployment models independently. They can choose to sell the software as a service (SaaS) or as either a physical or virtual appliance to their customers in any one of the cloud deployment models – public, private, or hybrid.
Product
Asigra Cloud Backup™ is the company's singular product offering which contains a number of modules encompassing the various facets of backup and recovery. The product is offered in various flavors based on the data sources that need to be backed up from.
The pricing of the product is structured based on the amount of data that is stored in compressed, deduplicated and encrypted form at the backup repository.
Alliances
The company has a number of strategic alliances with technology hardware companies for developing integrated products. This includes companies such as NetApp,[3] Cisco,[4] Intel,[5] and IBM.[6]
The company jointly offers a Data Protection as a Service (DPaaS) offering with NetApp targeted at cloud services providers.[7]
Asigra also has developed integrated offerings with Cisco and Intel targeted at the distributed remote office and the small and medium business space, respectively.
The Asigra platform is also configured to run in the IBM SmartCloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform and can backup/recover data to and from machines provisioned in the IBM SmartCloud.[8]
Awards and Recognition
Asigra has been recognized by the media and by industry analysts for both its technology and its engagement model with its channel partners.
The Asigra software has been featured in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software for two years in a row.[9]
The company was awarded the 2012 North American New Product Innovation Award in Cloud-Based Data Management by Frost & Sullivan.[10]
In 2012 Asigra won the Storage Magazine Gold "Product of the Year" in the Enterprise backup category which was contested by approximately 100 other backup software vendors.[11]
In 2012, the company was awarded a 5 star rating for its channel partner program by CRN Magazine and recognized as the best channel vendor by Business Solutions Magazine.[12]
References
- ^ Backup Veteran Asigra Keeps Calm as Competitors Crowd the Cloud (Bloomberg)
- ^ Asigra forges channel partner program for MSPs, resellers
- ^ Details of Asigra-NetApp Partnership
- ^ Details of Asigra-Cisco Partnership
- ^ Details of Asigra-Intel Partnership
- ^ Details of Asigra-IBM Partnership
- ^ NetApp Solution for Data Protection as a Service Solution with Asigra
- ^ IBM SmartCloud Integration
- ^ Asigra in Gartner Magic Quadrant
- ^ Frost & Sullivan Presents 2012 Product Innovation Award to Asigra for Cloud Backup & Recovery Software
- ^ 2012 Gold "Product of the Year" by the Storage Magazine
- ^ 5-Star Rating in CRN Magazine