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Network Back-up Device to Bolster Product Range

Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions DNS Arrow group announced that it has been certified by TADASoft as a distribution partner for TADASofts award-winning solution, Restorepoint. This agreement strengthens DNS Arrows security offering in the U.K., as the product is only available through DNS Arrow and is not available through direct sales.

As TADASofts distributor, DNS Arrow will recruit and manage the Restorepoint channel in the U.K. Restorepoint is the innovative industry product for back-up solutions. It was important to TADASoft to partner with the leading distributor in the U.K., said Rory Nolan, director of TADASoft. As DNS Arrow has many large security vendors already in their portfolio, our product will be an easy add-on, at very high margins.

Restorepoint is a low-cost solution for end-user networks as well as managed service providers for backing up and restoring configuration files from multivendor devices (e.g., firewalls, routers, switches, proxies, etc.) on the network. It automates the back-up task on time. Devices supported within Restorepoint include: Juniper, Cisco, Check Point, Proofpoint, F5 Networks, Watchguard, Nokia, Barracuda, Blue Coat and many more.

We are so pleased this successful product is in our portfolio. Restorepoint recently was named the ˜Most Innovative Product by SC Magazine. TADASoft has cemented its position as an industry leader, said James Pattinson, divisional director for security at DNS Arrow. We are already working with many key resellers who love what the product can do.

DNS Arrow is a specialist information technology distributor providing enterprise-class solutions and services focused on data storage, network security, enterprise software, virtualisation and access infrastructure. DNS Arrow supports resellers from initial consultation, planning and design through engineering to implementation so they can deliver greater value and increase their customers’ competitive edge. DNS Arrow is a group of Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions, a business segment of Arrow Electronics Inc. Visit www.dnsarrow.co.uk for more information.

ABOUT ARROW ENTERPRISE COMPUTING SOLUTIONS

Arrow ECS, a business segment of Arrow Electronics Inc. [NYSE: ARW], provides enterprise and midrange computing products, services and solutions to value-added resellers, system integrators, and independent software vendors. Based in Englewood, Colo., and with offices in 26 countries, Arrow ECS connects its customers to the worlds foremost technology suppliers, including HP, IBM, Sun Microsystems, EMC, NetApp, Hitachi Data Systems, and other leading storage networking, software, and security suppliers. Arrow ECS reported $5.4 billion in global enterprise computing solution sales in 2008. Subsidiaries include Alternative Technology, Asplenium, DNS, FINOVIA, Internet Security, IPvista, ITL, LOGIX, REL and Soft-Tronik. Visit www.arrowecs.com for more information.

TADASoft, who won the SC Magazine Europe Innovation Award 2009, and WhiteGold Solutions, Australia’s first Unified Value Distributor (UVD) have today announced a new partnership that will bring the Restorepoint range of configuration backup & restore solutions into the WhiteGold portfolio. With a portfolio of more than 15 vendors, WhiteGold Solutions brings to TADASoft the experience of launching emerging security, networking and unified communications products into the ANZ market.

Restorepoint is the only award-winning integrated hardware and software solution for Network Administrators, which makes it easy to automatically backup and store the configuration of their network devices and to restore configurations when needed. This is managed from one convenient central location with an easy-to-use web interface. Restorepoint is the only vendor-independent appliance on the market and the first product to address this commonly overlooked issue.

”This partnership with WhiteGold Solutions brings our unique technology into the wider market and shows how far the TADASoft product is now being sold and supported from our original UK base”, said Rory Nolan, Director of TADASoft. He added, “WhiteGold Solutions have the expertise and the reseller base to push the Restorepoint range better than anyone else in the Australian/New Zealand market and we look forward to putting a lot of time and resources into supporting their loyal channel”.

Dominic Whitehand, Managing Director of WhiteGold Solutions said: “We are very excited to be working with TADASoft. Their success in such a short period of time is testament to the quality of the product and the unique problem it solves.” He added, “We foresee that TADASoft will become a huge brand in Australia and we are looking forward to being at the centre of that. The technology behind the Restorepoint platform will allow us to offer additional value add for all our hardware offerings, in the form of a Managed Service providing multi-vendor network device config backup “In the Cloud” for our resellers to on-sell to their end users. Indeed resellers, ISPs and MSSPs can purchase the Restorepoint platform for themselves and provide the service directly to their customers, and/or sell the platform as CPE (Customer Premise Equipment) to their corporate customers. Either way, this is a unique technology that provides config backup support for a huge range of devices from the likes of Cisco, Juniper, Extreme Networks, Brocade, F5, Blue Coat, Barracuda, BlueCoat, WatchGuard, Fortinet, Check Point and many more. We will build unique services around that for our resellers – and give them the opportunity to do the same”.

About WhiteGold Solutions

WhiteGold Solutions is Australia’s first Unified Value Distributor (UVD) in the Australian IT channel. The ANZ region has been crying out for a hybrid model somewhere between Broadbased and Niche distribution – to facilitate a wider set of technologies through one distribution vehicle rather than many, whilst at the same time providing all the value-add of experienced-based pre-and-post-sales and technical support, training and professional services -normally only offered through Niche distributors. The term Unified Value Distribution encompasses just such a model – and it works. This strategy gives resellers better margins, services, support and (ultimately) better value in all solutions involving the WhiteGold Product Portfolio. WhiteGold was incorporated in Australia in 2002 by seasoned IT security identities with experience across sales and marketing, technical capabilities and channel knowledge in this space. The company provides products to resellers encompassing the SME, Education, Government, Corporate and Enterprise sectors – with key niche verticals within each. Key Vendors represented are AirTight Networks, Allied Telesis, Array Networks, Barracuda Networks, Fortinet, eEye Digital Security, Isilon Systems, Kaspersky Lab, Marshal8e6, Swivel Secure, VASCO, TADASoft, WatchGuard and more. For further information, please visit: www.whitegold.com.au

TADASoft, an award winning vendor of innovative configuration backup appliances has been awarded 4 out of 5 stars for producing a solution for IT administrators to manage their multiple device configurations that is a good value solution thats incredibly simple to deploy and use

We had the appliance up and running in minutes and referring to the web interface as intuitive commented the SC Magazines test lab.

The Reviewer concluded that The simplest solutions are often the best and Restorepoint is a prime example as it makes light work of device configuration management.

Restorepoint is a multi-award winning integrated hardware and software solution for Network Administrators, which makes it easy to automatically backup and store the configuration of their network devices and to restore it when needed. This is managed from one convenient central location with an easy to use web interface. Restorepoint is the only vendor independent appliance on the market and the first product to address this commonly overlooked issue.

Commenting on the review, Rory Nolan, Director of TADASoft said: We are delighted with the review, 4 stars is just superb. We know Restorepoint is the best solution out there and our customers tell us the same so we always felt very confident that our product would do well in a independent review. When youre comfortable with what you develop in-house yourself and sell the solution worldwide day in day out, reviews are very welcomed. We have won numerous awards in only a few months and we have so much more to launch, watch this space.

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TADASoft is actively recruiting partners and has recently signed up a number of resellers and distributors throughout Europe and beyond to promote, support and distribute the appliance and managed service option including DNS Arrow in the UK, iSecure in Israel and Trygg Data in Norway

Restorepoint is a multi-award winning integrated hardware and software solution for Network Administrators, which makes it easy to automatically backup and store the configuration of their network devices and to restore it when needed. This is managed from one convenient central location with an easy to use web interface. Restorepoint is the only vendor independent appliance on the market and the first product to address this commonly overlooked issue.

Commenting on this news from the USA, Rory Nolan, Director of TADASoft said : This is amazing. Considering we have done no marketing at all in the USA, to be identified and recognised like this is a great boost to our plans to break into that market, he continued We are proactively speaking with partners in the USA and are looking to invest in growing our business there over the next few years.

In just over a year TADASoft has gone from strength to strength firstly being nominated as a finalist in the SC Magazine awards against strong competition from established vendors such as Scansafe, then being awarded Storage Product of the year by the readers of Storage Biz.

Rory Nolan, Director of TADASoft said This is absolutely fantastic news. We knew we had a great product and to win this award from SC Magazine proves it. We have spent a lot of time and effort bringing Restorepoint to the market and have just appointed our first distributors to take this to a wider audience

TADASofts win comes on a day that Restorepoint is being exhibited at Infosecurity Europe 2009 where IT professionals are invited to come along and see how the product addresses a critical flaw in many companies backup and recovery plans. At the exhibition TADASoft are also releasing their unique Restorepoint managed service for the Managed Service Provider(MSP) market. This offering has already had some early success in recruiting some of the larger MSPs to offer the service to their customers.

Restorepoint is a multi-award winning integrated hardware and software solution for Network Administrators, which makes it easy to automatically backup and store the configuration of their network devices and to restore it when needed. This is managed from one convenient central location with an easy to use web interface. Restorepoint is the only vendor independent appliance on the market and the first product to address this commonly overlooked issue. Devices supported within Restorepoint include; Juniper, Cisco, Check Point, ProofPoint, HP Procurve, F5 Networks, Barracuda, Blue Coat etc.

Restorepoint has had a number of high profile installations including being used by TNS Global, South Lanarkshire Council, Blue Square & Friends Reunited to ensure their multi-vendor configuration files are kept safe and to facilitate rapid config restore.

The new Restorepoint RSP-500 low-power appliance runs at less than 60W Peak (a light bulb) and 42W idle. The appliance brings the next generation of low powered server to you today. Utilizing the very best components the new RSP-500 gives the high level of reliability and features you would expect from TADASoft but in a very small form factor and tiny power envelope.

Commenting on the release of the new low powered RSP-500, Rory Nolan Director of TADASoft said “Our customers want to remain as environmentally efficient as possible so the new low power and space saving components of the RSP-500 means that the appliance can still handle up to 500 network device backups but only consume the same amount of power as your average 60W light bulb. The price will also remain the same at £7,495 for a 3 year bundle”

If you compared the appliance to even its closest rivals which are often underutilized themselves, the power savings are dramatic. In most cases it is possible to run twice the number of Restorepoint RSP-500 appliances in the place of standard single CPU equivalent servers based on Xeon 3000 or Core processors.

The new Restorepoint RSP-500 is available now through our worldwide channel partners, see www.tadasoft.com
Restorepoint currently supports the following vendors; Alcatel, Cisco, Foundry Networks,  NetApp, Array Networks, ConSentry Network, Nokia, Barracuda Networks, Extreme Network,Nortel,Bloxx,F5 Networks, McAfee, Blue Coat, Fortinet, Proofpoint, Brocade, HP, Riverbed, Check Point, Juniper Networks, Watchguard. New device support is added free of charge, see www.tadasoft.com for regular updates.

TADASoft, an award winning vendor of innovative configuration backup appliances has been awarded Storage Product of the year by the readers of Storage Biz-News.com . Beating established vendors including Dell, Fujitsu, Compellant, and Asankya, the Restorepoint appliance has in a short space of time become the most innovative product in its class.

Restorepoint is a multi- award winning integrated hardware and software solution for Network Administrators, which makes it easy to automatically backup and store the configuration of their network devices and to restore it when needed. This is managed from one convenient central location with an easy to use web interface. Restorepoint is the only vendor independent appliance on the market and the first product to address this commonly overlooked issue.

Commenting on the news that Restorepoint won 45% of the vote, Rory Nolan, Director of TADASoft said:

“We are absolutely delighted to be recognised by Storage Biz-news for our product. We are a new vendor to the market but have already seen great success in an area that is traditionally not served by the more established storage solutions. “

During the voting process, Restorepoint got some strong endorsements from the readers.

One voter described Restorepoint as “unique”, stressing the appliance-based solution’s ability to automatically backup configs from multi-vendor devices.

“It will also alert the admin if any change has been made to the config and detail this change,” said the storage-biz.news reader.

“The admin can then on the fly roll back the config by restoring the master copy template or one of the other back ups from a previous hour/day/week/month.”

Another factor that garnered support was the fact Restorepoint supports numerous devices, including Cisco, Check Point, Juniper Networks, Blue Coat, Barracuda Networks, Proofpoint and HP Procurve.

While cost and ease of use were highlighted, one voter pointed to Restorepoint’s ability to increase network management productivity.

“It can also help towards gaining or maintaining the complex PCI DSS compliance standard,” said the voter.

About TADASoft

TADASoft is a privately held company with headquarters in the UK. The company’s mission is to provide powerful enterprise-class appliance solutions that are suitable for the largest of organisations, yet offer the ease of use and affordability for small business applications. Restorepoint won “Most Innovative Storage Product” at the recent Storage Expo and won “Storage Product of the year” by Storage Biz News. Restorepoint is also a finalist in the SC Awards Europe 2009 in April. To find out more about Restorepoint visit www.tadasoft.com

Contact:

Rory Nolan
TADASoft
Phone: +44(0)870 141 4125
Email: info@tadasoft.com

With 45 per cent of the nominations, the solution for network administrators was the clear winner in a field that included Fujitsu, Dell, Compellent, Brioo, Akorri and cloud storage specialists Asankya.

RestorePoint automatically backs-up and stores the configuration of your network devices and restores it when needed.

The solution has established itself as a vendor-independent appliance and Tadasoft says it is the first product to address this “commonly overlooked” issue.

Its simplicity is a major selling factor – it is managed from one convenient central location with an easy to use web interface.

In collecting the most votes RestorePoint also got some strong endorsements from readers.

One voter described RestorePoint as “unique”, stressing the appliance-based solution’s ability to automatically backup configs from multi-vendor devices.

“It will also alert the admin if any change has been made to the config and detail this change,” said the storage-biz.news reader.

“The admin can then on the fly roll back the config by restoring the master copy template or one of the other back ups from a previous hour/day/week/month.”

Another factor that garnered support was the fact RestorePoint supports numerous devices, including Cisco, Brocade, Juniper, Blue Coat, Proofpoint and HP Procurve.

While cost and ease of use were highlighted, one voter pointed to RestorePoint’s ability to increase network management productivity.

“It can also help towards gaining or maintaining the complex PCI DSS compliance standard,” said the voter.

Among the other nominations, Dell-EqualLogic’s PS Series of virtualized iSCSI SAN were singled out for attention.

They were described as the clear leader in the midrange (1-500TB) iSCSI SAN space – a market that includes EMC, NetApp, IBM and Hitachi.

Areas where the PS Series impressed included ease of use, flexibility, performance and overall value.

Compellent’s SAN was also highly recommended, not least for its space reclamtion offer and being the only SAN in the market with Automated ILM.

Storage-biz.news would like to thank everyone who took the effort to nominate a product and to cast a vote.

Commenting on the award, Rory Nolan, Director of TADASoft said:  “We are delighted to have made it to the final of the SC Europe awards and this achievement demonstrates the importance of the Restorepoint product in networks across the world.”

A key feature that distinguishes Restorepoint from other solutions is that the core functionality is packaged as a plug-and-play appliance, making installation quick and easy. Used in conjunction with a secure web based service, Restorepoint is effectively a management console providing all the functionality required for supervising, backup and restoring IT network configurations.

“The infrastructure in most organisations is growing and becoming ever more complex as additional network devices are installed, “explains Nolan. “All the servers, switches, routers, proxies and firewalls, will have specific configuration settings which need to be recorded and managed so that they can be re-applied in the event of a failure or incorrect modification.”

“Although there are a few software products that do something similar, Restorepoint is the only solution that works on an appliance, so you don’t have to install any software or operating system. Restorepoint takes about five minutes for configuration and then you are up and running. The clear user interface makes it extremely easy to use ”

All software updates and product plug-ins are controlled centrally and distributed automatically by TADASoft, who will also provide online remote support if necessary.

Another important differentiator is that Restorepoint is the only product that offers data encryption. Traditionally software tools store all the computer filing in plain notepad text on the servers, making this information readily accessible.

Encryption technology ensures a high level of security by ensuring that only authorised people will be able to access data concerning the network configuration.