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T5 Data Centers and RestorePoint Sign Partnership Agreement to Offer Customers Turnkey Data Protection & Virtualization Services

RestorePoint Migrates to T5@Atlanta Data Center as First Step in Offering Virtualization, Object Storage Management, and Disaster Recovery to Joint Customers.

Atlanta, GA, USA — T5 Data Centers™, innovators in providing state-of-the-art, customizable and highly reliable computing support environments, and RestorePoint, a leader in enterprise data protection, virtualization and recovery, have entered into a strategic partnership to offer T5 customers data storage solutions. As part of the partnership, RestorePoint will relocate its hosted infrastructure to the T5@Atlanta colocation facility and offer enterprise data protection including data management, virtualization, backup and disaster recovery services to T5 Data Center customers across the country.

RestorePoint specializes in virtualizing and protecting data across public, private and hybrid clouds. The Data Virtualization platform, which leverages a single, physical, ‘Golden’ copy of production data, can be used for multiple business use cases. Examples include Data Protection (backups), Business Insights & Analytics, Business Continuity including Disaster Recovery, and Application Development/Testing. RestorePoint’s Data Archival and Object Storage platform frees up production storage by moving aged data to a lower cost storage platform for long term retention, and thereby reduces the need to buy more storage. RestorePoint offers scalable solutions that accommodate growing data storage and management needs using T5’s highly available and reliable data centers.

“Our customers look to T5 for highly reliable enterprise data center solutions, and through this partnership with RestorePoint we will now be able to offer turnkey virtualization, storage management, and disaster recovery services,” said Craig McKesson, Executive Vice President, Enterprise Services for T5 Data Centers. “In fact, to demonstrate the power and versatility of this partnership, RestorePoint will be hosting its global data virtualization and protection platform at T5, starting with our T5@Atlanta data center. We see this strategic relationship as the ideal way to offer business-critical data center services to our customers that align with the ever-changing needs of their business.”

“T5 is an ideal data center partner for RestorePoint,” shares Abdul Altamimi, Founder and CTO of RestorePoint. Altamimi continues: “They are an innovative Tier III plus data center solution provider with a unique and highly reliable power redundancy feature. T5 has locations across the U.S., which gives RestorePoint the scale and expansion capabilities to provide our clients with geographic redundancy as needed. Additionally, T5 is strategically located slightly north of Atlanta in Alpharetta, GA, and less than three miles from RestorePoint’s headquarters. Our engineers can quickly be onsite and be a true extension of our client’s IT team in the event of a disaster.” Altamimi goes on to say, “We strategically chose to move our Object Storage platform for Data Archival and long-term retention to T5@Atlanta, providing our clients maximum redundancy and flexibility, and world-class data protection.”

Both T5 Data Centers and RestorePoint offer data support services that are ideally suited for healthcare, insurance, financial services, education, engineering, government agencies or any organization with a critical data need. Storing data using RestorePoint services hosted by T5 Data Centers helps customer’s lower operational costs while still maintaining ready access to archived and operational data.

About RestorePoint
RestorePoint specializes in virtualizing data across Private, Public and Hybrid Clouds, leveraging best-of-breed software solutions. These scalable solutions protect multi-petabytes of data for enterprise clients globally. RestorePoint’s suite of services include Data Virtualization, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery as a Service, File Sync & Share and Professional Services like backup out-tasking and storage assessments. For more information, please visit http://www.RestorePoint.Net.

About T5 Data Centers
T5 Data Centers (T5) is a leading national data center owner and operator, committed to delivering customizable, scalable data centers that provide an “always on” computing environment to power mission critical business applications. T5 Data Centers provides enterprise colocation data center services to organizations across North America using proven, best-in-class technology and techniques to design and develop facilities that deliver the lowest possible total cost of operations for its clients. T5 currently has business-critical data center facilities in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Dallas, Portland and Charlotte with new projects announced in New York and Colorado. All of T5’s data center projects are purpose-built facilities featuring robust design, redundant and reliable power and telecommunications, and have 24-hour staff to support mission-critical computing applications. For more information, visit http://www.t5datacenters.com.

Contact:
Aaron Wangenheim
T5 Data Centers
(415) 292-7700
aaron@t5datacenters.com

Katie Keser
RestorePoint
(678) 341-4750
katie.keser@restorepoint.net

Cirrus Data Launches Data Migration Server for Legacy, Cloud and Data Storage Center Moves

Version 3.0 can natively run virtual appliances allowing the streamlining of P-to-V conversion as part of the migration process.

New York, NY (USA), June 05th, 2015 –– Expanding the reach of live data storage migrations with zero downtown and no interruption of services is the motive behind Cirrus Data Solutions release of its Data Migration Server version 3.0. DMS is built on proprietary and patented technology called “Transparent Datapath Intercept.” Cirrus is a provider of applications that manage and optimize storage area networks (SANs).

“Data Migration continues to be a point of pain for companies outgrowing their storage infrastructure,” said Sridhar Vasudevan, Principal Architect, Datalink Corporation. “We have a strong relationship with Cirrus Data, and have extensively used the DMS product to support our clients in their data migration requirements. The new features in version 3.0 further expands the scope of services we can provide to our customers.”

Data Migration Server by Cirrus is the industry’s first block-level data migration appliance designed from the ground up to eliminate production downtime during migration. DMS supports all types of data migration schemes including: local storage refresh and local to remote (data center move), legacy to cloud (physical to virtual), cloud to cloud, cloud to datacenter, and other common storage management practices.

Throughout the migration process, DMS requires zero downtime until the scheduled cut-over time.

Data Migration Server is based upon proprietary technology called “Transparent Datapath Intercept” which was built on the notion that data appliances should look like a wire when installed into a live SAN. Because of this intercept, the Cirrus Server can be installed in-line between the switch and the storage unit with as much ease as changing a Fiber Channel cable.  The install takes five seconds per path.

“With worldwide Cloud initiatives going mainstream and with the amount of data growing at a dizzying rate, the need to migrate data from one place to another is also growing exponentially,” says Wayne Lam, Cirrus CEO. “The IT manager has no way to migrate data fast enough, and can face negative consequences. This is why we developed Data Migration Server so that data center operations can take full advantage of cloud storage options that offer more flexibility to end users and can run more cost effectively, faster, and with less power consumption.”

Data Migration Server 3.0 includes the following functionality for enterprise data centers:

* Remote Data Migration — enables DMS appliances at different geographic locations to transfer data to one another, with encryption, compression and verification.
* Swing Box Support — the ability to transport compressed data on low-cost drives.
* Cloud datacenter and Virtual Machine Environment Support — DMS installs as a Linux VM and facilitates data movement from physical to virtual servers.
* 16-Path per DMS Cluster — increasing the pipeline for data movement, with cluster support of up to 16 paths.
* No need to make switch zoning changes, to modify LUN masking or to change/add host drivers, which substantially reduces risks, and saves both time and money.

All Cirrus Data appliances are designed to be 100% transparent, requiring no modifications to the existing environment. Cirrus appliances are built on the patented Transparent Datapath Intercept technology, which allows for true plug-and-play installation of the appliances within a heterogeneous environment.

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About Cirrus Data Solutions Inc.:
Headquartered in Long Island, New York, Cirrus Data Solutions is a developer of software for data migrations and caching within data centers and storage area networks (SANs). Its software appliances are sold/licensed through a network of systems integrators and channel partners including Cognizant, Dell, Fujitsu, IBM and Datalink. The team holds 18 patents, with the most recent one being granted by the US PTO on August 2012 (# 8,255,538) for Transparent Datapath Intercept. For more information visit http://www.cdsi.us.com/ or email info@cdsi.us.com.

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