WatchDog Software today announced the release of Version 5 of its monitoring package, which tests and monitors backups from a central console and now features daily automated recovery testing (DART) technology.
Additionally, Watchdog Software has become an alliance partner of StorageCraft’s Asia Pacific operations, headquartered in Sydney, Australia. The alliance with leading real-time recovery technology provider StorageCraft Asia Pacific enables WatchDog Software to provide the highest levels of confidence in protection and recoverability of data, databases and complete systems available to date.
Matt Thompson-Moltzen, Chief Technology Officer of WatchDog Software, said: “This is an exciting alliance for us. WatchDog Software provides a near-absolute assurance that a customer’s data is safe and recoverable – no other product even comes close to delivering this level of detailed and automated testing for physical, virtual and cloud based servers.”
WatchDog Software centralises the monitoring of StorageCraft ShadowProtect backup, recovery, disaster recovery and system migration services installations to achieve new levels of data protection and recoverability. Its unique DART technology performs a complete test every night on all an organisation’s servers being protected with StorageCraft ShadowProtect.
Thompson-Moltzen said: “Our DART technology, combined with the advanced sector-based backup provided by ShadowProtect, delivers possibly the only solution capable of testing to this degree the recoverability of physical, virtual and cloud servers automatically without any manual involvement.”
Greg Wyman, Vice President – Asia Pacific for StorageCraft, said: “The integrated solution will give ShadowProtect customers an even higher degree of confidence when it comes to protecting and recovering their data. Now our customers can have total visibility into their backups and receive near-instant notification of potential or critical backup problems. They can identify and resolve backup problems faster and substantially reduce the costs of monitoring backup status and recoverability of data.”
Thompson-Moltzen said WatchDog Software reduces an administrator’s workload by providing a central console to view the status of all ShadowProtect backup jobs. Servers or systems with problems jump to the top of the queue and change the traffic light colour to red or yellow, depending upon the urgency of an alert. The software is simple to install, cost-effective and gives maximum reassurance that all servers can be restored in any environment with StorageCraft ShadowProtect.
WatchDog Software customer and Regional Support Leader (Qld) at Lion Pty Ltd, Sandy Pennisi, said: “WatchDog is a must-have add-on for ShadowProtect. Before implementing, we were a little blind as to the backups and whether or not they were working as expected. Now with WatchDog, we know instantly that the backups are working or have an issue since we have it displaying in our office for all technicians to see and act upon. We are then able to diagnose the issues within minutes and get the backups back on track, to have our required levels of data and systems protection.”
WatchDog v5 features an integrated database, improved reporting and revised investment structure, SNMP alerting to feedback ShadowProtect status into enterprise management framework products. The product was developed independently by WatchDog Software and is fully supported by the Asia Pacific operations of StorageCraft, headquartered in Sydney.
Pricing – Australia • BASE including 10 CALs (systems being monitored): $A487 annual subscription • Additional 10 CALs: $A299 annual subscription • Additional 50 CALs: $A584 annual subscription • Substantial discounts are available for three-year subscriptions
For more information: www.watchdogsoftware.com.au
About WatchDog Software
WatchDog Software has developed a centralised monitoring and automatic testing tool for Windows servers. This implementation supports StorageCraft ShadowProtect environments as well as monitoring the Windows event logs to provide a central dashboard to server health and the status and recoverability of backups.
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