Cloud Backup for Cloud Apps -
You there, reselling cloud applications: Do you think Google and Salesforce have greater control over data protection you are doing? If you answered "yes," you'd probably right. Do you think keeps the SaaS application data of your customers safe from harm? If you still answered "yes", you would be less right.
While Gmail has been known to disappear, the greatest risk to your customers cloud data is one of its own human failures of their employees. When someone accidentally (or intentionally) removed, corrupts or overwrites a file and nobody notices before the next backup, it does not have current data and completely identical in both places, because it lacks the same who is lost.
For this you need multiple backups points in time, and be able to restore from that fact just before the glitch. That, in a nutshell, is the case for backup-as-a-Service SaaS application data. It is a case that Backupify based in Cambridge Massachusetts, allows consumers and retailers, they get a discount of 20 percent off MSRP on subscriptions to the service.
According to Daniel Stevenson, vice president of Backupify partnerships and alliances, the service now has more than 100 Google App resellers, some offer the service as an add-on and others that together with cloud applications. "For retailers, it is also a way to recover some of the lost revenue because mobile customer applications from the server to the cloud, and traditional backup dealer," says Stevenson.
it is interesting to note that Google Apps, at least, does not keep versioned copies of shared files, knowing that a shared file is the one whose vulnerability is multiplied by the number of users with editing privileges. But without an external backup, deleting the file owner deletes all versions. (See also Google Apps Vault, an add-on storage announced in March that appears to be aimed more at regulatory filing.)
ACCOUNTS mIGRATING
another good example for backup, as -a SaaS data service account migration. Crisantos Hajibrahim is co-founder of Los Angeles-based Google Apps reseller ViWo where Backupify business in the the education market is fast, he said, for this purpose. Schools use the service to move .edu email accounts to their students back to Gmail when they leave.
The future, Hajibrahim said, is to have a single supplier and a dealer or MSP up and restore all data and one of your cloud applications - all your heaven, if you will - in a single interface. Backupify, with the support of the Symantec Security Central, is working on this, having recently announced a separate backup service for Salesforce.com, and similar support for Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Google Sites, Google contacts, Flickr, Picasa, LinkedIn, Blogger and Zoho in one package of social media.
Another name in this space is Spanning Cloud Apps Inc. in Austin, Texas, which offers the same cloud backup for Google Apps email, documents and player, calendar and contacts.
At the sign -up, Backupify users grant access to their application data. The service then accesses the data by own API through an application, encrypts and stores daily to Amazon S3 hosted servers. Users connect to a Web interface, and search and restore data in their cloud or storage areas.
Look backup cloud that allows you to search granularly to individual files or emails; your customers do not want to spend time restoring or leaning across multiple files. Make sure that backups are done on time and as required, usually just before the software updates, and permissions can be finely defined and implemented for each user, so that everyone can only delete files for which he or it is responsible. Consider safety in the light of your industry encryption requirements.
Rachel Dines, senior analyst at Forrester Research, added some recommendations: Check what happens during the separation; your data is safely deleted? Check the retention policy: How many versions are kept, how many times did (usually daily), and for how long? She says 30 days is typical, with extensions at an additional cost. And while services generally charge per user per month or year, see if ceilings storage volume.
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