StorageCraft opens in Asia-Pacific

Storage veteran Greg Wyman has setup an Asia-Pacific operation of US storage company StorageCraft.

Wyman is a 15-year veteran of Seagate Software, Veritas and Brocade. He was appointed regional director for PowerQuest in mid-2002.

StorageCraft would be pushing its ShadowProtect (server and desktop) and ShadowProtect (IT edition) products through distributor T Data.

The ShadowProtect software creates an exact online backup of an entire system and can backup to USB, NAS, SAN and Firewire devices.

“Most customers today are still struggling with reliable backups. We’re looking at the backup and recovery market from a recovery perspective and have built a solution that provides the ability to backup data every 15 minutes,” Wyman said.

ShadowProtect IT Edition provides a bootable Windows environment that lets users create and restore compressed and encrypted backups without having to install software.

The user boots from a CD which takes an image of the exact state of a system, Wyman said.

The products integrate automatic SQL Server and Exchange backups at no additional fee, he added.

For the meantime, T Data would act as a sole distributor but was “possibly looking at a second distributor,” Wyman said.