R1Soft Unveils CloudCopy — Online Backup Software for Service Providers

HOUSTON, TX–(Marketwire – April 24, 2012) – R1Soft®, a division of Idera and the developer of continuing Data Protection® (CDP) backup and recovery software for servers within the cloud , today announced CloudCopy™, secure online backup software for Internet service providers (ISPs), enabling them to present cloud backup services to homes and small businesses. CloudCopy enables providers to give online backup services competitive with existing services from companies like Carbonite, Inc. and Mozy by Decho Corporation, a subsidiary of EMC Corporation.

The CloudCopy workstation client performs automated backups of desktop computers running Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, or Linux operating systems. CloudCopy server client software for Microsoft Windows Servers provides small office servers with automated cloud backup including support for Microsoft SQL Server and Exchange.

“Why shouldn’t a client have just as many decisions for online cloud backup as they do for website hosting or domain name registration?” said David Wartell, Vice chairman of R1Soft Products at Idera. “Everyone within the business knows the barrier to entry in online backup is the software, and the prevailing providers like Carbonite, Mozy, Backblaze, and CrashPlan, all develop their very own. CloudCopy will bring thousands of recent service providers into the growing multi-billion dollar online backup market.”

ISPs use their existing data centers and infrastructure and easily install the CloudCopy repository and management software on commodity Windows servers of their data centers. a completely-configured, white-labeled online backup service offering takes lower than an afternoon to establish. The CloudCopy management server software integrates with popular ISP billing software including: Parallels Business Automation Standard, Citrix EMS Cortex, Extend ASP, Ensim Unify, WHCMS, and Kaseya.

R1Soft will immediately make CloudCopy software available to its existing customer base of over 1,000 cloud, hosting, and ISPs that already use the R1Soft CDP software to back up the Windows and Linux servers of their data centers.

About R1Soft

R1Soft is a division of Idera and the developer of constant Data Protection® (CDP), scalable and high-performance backup software for Windows and Linux servers within the cloud. Recognized because the leading commercial backup software in hosted services, R1Soft CDP is currently utilized by over 1,000 Cloud infrastructure providers and protects greater than 200,000 servers worldwide.

Idera, R1Soft, CloudCopy and Continuous Data Protection are registered trademarks of Idera, Inc. within the U.s. and trademarks in other jurisdictions. All other company and product names can be trademarks in their respective companies.