It’s an old cliché at that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. But the problem has always been that “last minute cures” are always easier to sell than “preventative maintenance”. This applies as much to people, as it does to organizations.

ORION Launches Canada's First Online Data Backup Service for R&E

The Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network (ORION) is launching Canada's first backup storage service dedicated exclusively to research and education institutions.

The new service, unveiled at the Ontario Universities Computing Conference at the University of Ottawa last week, is designed to deliver operational benefits and economic efficiencies to universities, colleges and other research and education facilities in the province.

"This is very significant to Ontario's postsecondary institutions and research-intensive facilities, because it allows them to use ORION to backup and store multiple terabytes of critical data in a robust and highly secure environment," ORION President and CEO, Phil Baker, described. "The resulting benefits and efficiencies will be quite substantial."

Offered in partnership with Toronto-based Storagepipe Solutions, the service will connect Storagepipe's Ontario-based storage servers with the ORION network. The partnership with a commercial company means ORION, as a not for profit organization, offers data back-up and disaster recovery as a value added service to its members.

Storagepipe Online Backup Now Supports 64-Bit Windows, Also Available Through Channel Partner Program

As a leader in high-performance data protection, Storagepipe Solutions has announced the new release of their online backup service with support for 64-bit Windows systems.

64-bit computing offers a number of significant advantages:

• For video-editing and other resource-intensive applications, 64-bit systems allow for faster and more efficient processing.
• And for business servers, 64-bit technology can support more RAM memory, while using this memory more efficiently.
• This also improves overall performance since data stored RAM can be accessed several thousand times faster than data stored on disk.

That’s why Storagepipe has been hard at work testing their latest version of CDP Online Backup, designed for 64-bit Windows systems. The new software will be officially released to the public on June 1st, 2010.

According to Storagepipe president Steven Rodin:

“Given the incredible performance advantages offered by 64-bit processing, it’s inevitable that business will be moving quickly to leverage this technology to their advantage. And we believe that software providers should be proactive in helping them make the most of these performance improvements.”

The new 64-bit release of Storagepipe’s CDP will also be made available through Storagepipe’s Channel Partners, as part of their white-label Online Backup Partner Program.

“A lot of partners have been asking for this 64-bit Windows support. This will certainly open up exciting new markets for VARs, ISVs and other Channel partners in the B2B space... and give them a significant technological advantage over other competitors.” says Rodin.

Storagepipe’s CDP online backup offers continuous data protection with advanced encryption and a robust back-end infrastructure. It’s the perfect premium online backup service for small-businesses concerned about getting only the best data protection.

Other business continuity and data protection services offered by Storagepipe include high-availability, online backup and email archiving.

Storagepipe Recently had the honor of being interviewed on the Startup Success Podcast with Bob Walsh and Patrick Foley.

The interview goes into detail about Storagepipe, its products, and the current state of business data protection. Also, the interview talks about Storagepipe’s online backup Partner Programs, and how resellers can take advantage of market opportunities in promoting their own online backup services.

We’ve split the interview into multiple segments, although you can view the unedited interview by clicking here.