Kaseya Africa – An MSP Approach To Overcome The Dearth Of Technical Skills

Kaseya Africa Highlights

• Targets Managed Service Providers
• Focuses on creating a community, not a channel
• Sees new communications opening up the African market – especially in mobile solutions
• MSPs can make up for the dearth of technical experties
• Thabo Mbeki’s initiatives to create standards of governance, agreements and freedom are central to economic developments in Africa

Kaseya’s Garth Hayward

Asigra And Partners Push Cloud Backup

Asigra Highlights

• Has deep technical knowledge gained over 26 years
• Offers its agent-less software exclusively through its hundreds of global service provider partners
• Is considering a new capacity pricing scheme – lower price for backup (close to the price of disk), but an ‘appropriate’ higher one for restore
• Aims to prevent customers spending money on things they don’t use as a result
• Is partnering with NetApp to offer ‘Data Protection as a Service’ (DPaaS) through service providers
• Will have 3.5k functions in version 12 of its software
• Is part of an inexorable, but slow replacement of tape with disk
• Is a strong early Cloud Computing player

Symantec – Tuning Backup For Virtualisation, Appliances And The Cloud

Symantec Backup Launch Highlights

• Launches Backup Exec 2012 and NetBackup 7.5
• Simplifies software interfaces
• Integrates more fully into Microsoft and VMware virtual environments
• Integrates with NetApp snapshots
• Enhances Cloud services and appliances to extent beyond its traditional licensing sales approach
• Is the world’s fifth largest software company