OneNimbus provides onshore hosting for EVault cloud backup

Stephen Withers
Friday, 16 September 2011 15:23

Business IT - Security

An alliance between Seagate subsidiary i365 and local software and services company Jasco Consulting will give Australian users of i365's EVault software the option of onshore third-party hosting for remote backup.

Jasco is adding EVault backup support to its OneNimbus family of cloud services. EVault Endpoint Protection already provides a mechanism for backing up to in-house and hosted storage, but the latter was previously available only from providers outside of Australia.

While local hosting is a little more expensive - "we don't have the scale" to match overseas hosts, conceded Jasco CEO Jason McClintock - some organisations either prefer or are required to keep their data onshore. The local hosting for EVault uses the infrastructure Jasco built for its e-fort data protection service.

One attractive feature of the tariffs is that while it is priced per-computer (eg, $15.95 per computer per month for 10G of data stored on Jasco's local servers, or $12.95 for storage on Windows Azure's offshore servers), the total space is pooled. So if only 5G was being backed up from one system, another could back up as much as 15G.

The EVault software also supports remote wiping and encryption, so "if you've lost your laptop, you haven't lost your data," said McClintock.

For servers, EVault for Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) takes advantage of existing DPM licences (which are part of Microsoft enterprise licensing agreements) while providing a mechanism for backing up  non-Microsoft platforms from the same console.

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