As the readers to this blog know, we’re big fans of Avamar. More importantly, our customers are big fans of Avamar. Just take a look at the recent successful implementations and immediate results. For example, one eGroup customer claimed “<a href="http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/emc-avamar-customer-success">our weekend backup has shrunk from 48 hours to 1.5 hours</a>.” Wow.

And be sure to read about how we helped <a href="http://www.itnewsletter.net/customers/e-Group/0712/eGroup_PDF_newsletter_0712.pdf">Conway Medical Center in deploy Avamar and Data Domain</a> solutions that to back up its data to a remote hot site.

So why are we talking up Avamar? Well, in case you missed it, <a href="http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2012/20121107-03.htm">EMC just announced</a> a complete end-to-end, channel solution geared towards the midmarket user. This is EXCELLENT news for our mid sized business users who require all the enterprise class functionality but at a lower price and complexity point. <!--more-->We listed some of the key important technical feautres below, but this analyst quote from <a href="https://twitter.com/Jbuff">Jason Buffington</a> of Enterprise Strategy Group is spot on:

<em>“Implementation of integrated backup appliances that combine software and hardware continues to expand briskly in the enterprise. Today’s mid-market companies operate the same kind of IT platforms (just on a smaller scale), so they face essentially the same backup challenges. The introduction of EMC Avamar Business Edition takes a highly effective and proven integrated backup appliance solution and packages it specifically for mid-sized customers. Avamar’s ability to address both physical and virtual backup should prove useful to these customers, and it comes without the complexities normally associated with disaggregated hardware and software elements.”

</em>Avamar Business Edition provides all the value and features of Avamar, and:

• Reduces backup time and network load via client-side and global data deduplication

• Performs daily FULL backups (no need for incrementals or differentials) and one-step recovery

• Up to 95% reduction in backup storage

• Up to 99% reduction in data moved across the LAN from clients

• UP to 90% reduction in backup times

Finally, if you’re looking for some more general information on Avamar, eGroup’s Cloud Services Manager, Steve Rattacasa, has a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/egroupus">few video demos</a> up on our YouTube channel.

As always, feel free to contact us (<a href="mailto:sales@eGroup-us.com">sales@eGroup-us.com</a> / 1.877.eGROUP.1) concerning all things Avamar and the newly launched Avamar Business Edition.

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