Asigra
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| Company type | Privately held |
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| 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 Spanish infinitive asegurar, meaning to assure.
Business Model
Asigra sells its products to value added resellers, managed service providers, and telcos, who use the software to run cloud backup services for consumers, small and medium businesses and large enterprises.[2]
These service providers are free 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 only product. It contains various backup and recovery modules, based on the data sources that need to be backed up from. The price of the product is based on the amount of data that is stored in compressed, deduplicated and encrypted form at the backup repository.
Alliances
NetApp and Asigra sell Data Protection as a Service (DPaaS) to cloud services providers.[3] The company has also developed products with Cisco and Intel, which are designed for distributed remote offices and the small and medium business spaces, respectively.[4][5]
The Asigra platform runs in the IBM SmartCloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform and can backup and recover data to and from machines provisioned in the IBM SmartCloud.[6]
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.[7]
The company was awarded the 2012 North American New Product Innovation Award in Cloud-Based Data Management by Frost & Sullivan.[8]
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.[9]
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.[10]
References
- ^ Backup Veteran Asigra Keeps Calm as Competitors Crowd the Cloud (Bloomberg)
- ^ Asigra forges channel partner program for MSPs, resellers
- ^ NetApp Solution for Data Protection as a Service Solution with Asigra
- ^ Details of Asigra-Cisco Partnership
- ^ Details of Asigra-Intel Partnership
- ^ 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