Tellurian Networks wanted to provide reliable backups for their customers SQL Servers hosted at Tellurian’s data center and also was required to protect them from potential disasters. Tellurian was looking for a solution that will backup SQL databases faster and reduce the size of the backups and also automate the process of creating standby databases for disaster recovery purposes.

Sonasoft Solution

Tellurian Networks wanted to provide reliable backups for their customers SQL Servers hosted at Tellurian’s data center and also was required to protect them from potential disasters. Tellurian was looking for a solution that will backup SQL databases faster and reduce the size of the backups and also automate the process of creating standby databases for disaster recovery purposes.

Users can configure pre-defined templates to meet their data protection and disaster recovery needs. Once created, these templates can be used over and over again. One of the key requirements from customers is the ability to use a SQL database for reporting purposes. A specific database can be restored periodically and can be effectively used for reporting purposes. Another new feature is the ability to add newly created databases to a pre-existing plan automatically. This will help to make sure all the databases are protected automatically. The revamped user interface allows users to navigate and manage different tasks very efficiently.

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Sonasoft Corp. announces the availability of its new version of SonaSafe for SQL Servers. This release contains many advance features including pre-defined templates for backup, new user interface, improved manageability, enhanced replication and recovery capability.

Sonasoft provides a high-availability solution, protecting data from hardware/software failures and human errors. SonaSafe application maintains the redundant, standby server by continually updating the data with that retrieved from the primary system. The standby system can take over instantly in the event of primary system failure. The standby system can be on-site, or located at a remote site for protection against natural or man-made disasters.

Users can configure pre-defined templates to meet their data protection and disaster recovery needs. Once created, these templates can be used over and over again. One of the key requirements from customers is the ability to use a SQL database for reporting purposes. A specific database can be restored periodically and can be effectively used for reporting purposes. Another new feature is the ability to add newly created databases to a pre-existing plan automatically. This will help to make sure all the databases are protected automatically. The revamped user interface allows users to navigate and manage different tasks very efficiently.

“I was looking for a robust failover/failback solution to protect our SQL servers that were used in conjunction with enterprise applications. I looked at a number of solutions including Sonasoft’s SonaSafe solution. The value provided by Sonasoft’s solution at the price it provided was unmatched by any other product in the marketplace. Once implemented, SonaSafe really made me look like a Hero”, Robert Kay, IT Manager, Spence Stuart.

About Sonasoft

Sonasoft Corp. provides compliance, disaster recovery and data protection solutions for the Microsoft platform. Sonasoft is the only company that provides a three in one solution, namely, archiving, replication and backup as part of an integrated solution. Typically, customers have to buy multiple solutions from different vendors to get similar capability. Also, it would cost three to four times more to get comparable functionality offered by Sonasoft’s SonaSafe solution. For more information, please visit www.sonasoft.com.

Sonasoft Corp., provider of SonaSafe integrated backup, high availability and disaster recovery software, signed a North America distribution agreement with Avnet Technology Solutions, an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT). Avnet will distribute Sonasoft’s Point-Click Recovery software for Microsoft Exchange, SQL and Windows File Systems as a standalone software product offering or as part of a fully integrated appliance solution using HP servers.

Sonasoft recently announced the expansion of its channel program to capitalize on the momentum it has already built in the marketplace. The new initiative builds upon the company’s increased traction in high availability and data protection markets. The Sonasoft partner program is designed to help new and existing Sonasoft partners acquire customers through such benefits as partner marketing, joint sales engagement opportunities with dedicated sales and technical resources, and sales and technical training.

Sonasoft brings tremendous knowledge in backup/recovery, high availability and disaster recovery for Microsoft Exchange, SQL and Windows servers, said Rick Alvarez, vice president and general manager, Avnet Technology Solutions, Americas, HP Solutions group. SonaSafe products are a great fit for Avnet’s HP solutions business. Our HP team will work closely with Sonasoft to identify sales opportunities for our channel partners and bring them the resources they need to be successful in their target markets.

Avnet is an influential and respected distributor of technology products and has been working with HP’s channel for 30 years. Partnering with Avnet will help Sonasoft broaden its reach across North America. Avnet’s reputation, expertise and reseller-focused services will enable a broad range of resellers to offer Sonasoft software with added benefits to the end user. We are very delighted to have Avnet as our partner, said Andy Khanna, president and CEO at Sonasoft.

About Avnet Technology Solutions Avnet Technology Solutions is an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT) representing US$6 billion in annual revenue for fiscal year 2007, with locations in more than 30 countries. As a global technology sales and marketing organization, Avnet Technology Solutions has sales divisions focused on specific customer segments and a select line card strategy enabling an exceptional level of attention to the needs of its customers and suppliers. Visit www.ats.avnet.com.

About Avnet

Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT) is one of the largest distributors of electronic components, computer products and technology services and solutions with more than 300 locations serving more than 70 countries worldwide. The company markets, distributes and optimizes the supply-chain and provides design-chain services for the products of the world’s leading electronic component suppliers, enterprise computer manufacturers and embedded subsystem providers. Avnet brings a breadth and depth of capabilities, such as maximizing inventory efficiency, managing logistics, assembling products and providing engineering design assistance for its 100,000 customers, accelerating their growth through cost-effective, value-added services and solutions. For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2007, Avnet generated revenue of $15.68 billion. For more information, visit www.avnet.com. For more information, please visit www.avnet.com.

About Sonasoft

Sonasoft Corp. provides compliance, disaster recovery and data protection solutions for the Microsoft platform. Sonasoft is the only company that provides a three in one solution, namely, archiving, replication and backup as part of an integrated solution. Typically, customers have to buy multiple solutions from different vendors to get similar capability. Also, it would cost three to four times more to get comparable functionality offered by Sonasoft’s SonaSafe solution.

For more information, please visit www.sonasoft.com.

SQL Server Magazine helps professionals solve problems and gain functionality by reporting on relevant products quality and utility. To recognize superior products in the market, the editors and writers of SQL Server Magazine created the first annual Editors Choice Awards.

The Editors Choice Awards allows editors and writers to give our perspective on the products we find exceptional – said Karen Forster, Editorial and Strategy Director.

Editors and writers chose a platinum and gold winner in 17 categories based on the product’s strategic importance to the market, its competitive advantages, and the value to the customer.

We’re excited to have the opportunity to connect readers with the third-party vendors who serve them and to acknowledge excellence – said Forster.

Full details about the Editors Choice Awards and Tech Ed awards are available at www.sqlmag.com or in the August issue of SQL Server Magazine.

Sonasoft provides an integrated backup/recovery and replication solution which is easy to use, automated and cost effective. The Sonasoft Standby Solution bridges the gap between a highly expensive Failover Clustering solution and time-consuming native SQL Server Backups. Sonasoft provides a high-availability solution, protecting data from hardware/software failures and human errors. This procedure completely automates log shipping practices and ensures data integrity, enabling the standby system to take over instantly in the event of primary system failure. The standby system can be located on-site or at a remote site for protection against natural and man-made disasters.

Editor’s Choice Award is another proof of Sonasoft’s commitment towards providing exceptional products which is key to our customers as we have to meet their requirements in a highly dynamic and competitive marketplace, said Bilal Ahmed, CTO & VP of Engineering at Sonasoft. We are delighted to receive the Editor’s Choice Award from a well respected magazine like SQL Server Magazine. We will continue to strive for excellence and will enhance the product to meet the backup/recovery and disaster recovery needs of SQL user community – said Dr. Vas Srinivasan, Vice President of Marketing at Sonasoft.

About Windows IT Media

Penton’s Windows IT Media, the largest independent Windows IT community in the world, includes flagship print publication Windows IT Pro. First published in 1995, Windows IT Pro is the editorial leader in its field and has a paid subscription base of 105,000. The magazine is published in 13 languages and has an international reach into 160 countries. Windows IT Pro UPDATE, the group’s flagship email newsletter, is the only e-newsletter to make BtoB Magazine’s Media Power 50 list.

Windows IT Media also includes SQL Server Magazine and MSD2D. SQL Server Magazine has 30,000 paid subscribers, and three email newsletters sent to more than 130,000 opt-in subscribers. MSD2D is a rich online information resource for IT professionals, with a focus on the software developer community. MSD2D has a robust product mix that includes a vertical search engine, Web sites, partner directories, email newsletters, trade show programs and Web seminars.

The Windows IT Media network has 2.5 million unique visitors to its websites each month, and over one million (gross) subscribers who opt-in to one or more of our email newsletters. Windows IT Media is the world’s leading producer of custom roadshows, paid conferences and paid workshops for Windows and SQL Server IT professionals. For more information, please visit www.windowsitpro.com/pressroom and www.windowsitmedia.com.

About Sonasoft

Sonasoft, Inc. automates the disk-to-disk backup and recovery process for Microsoft Exchange , SQL and Windows Servers with its groundbreaking SonaSafe Point-Click Recovery solutions. Designed to simplify, automate, and eliminate human error in the backup and recovery process, SonaSafe solutions also centralize the management of multiple servers and provide a cost-effective turnkey disaster recovery strategy for companies of all sizes.

For more information, please visit www.sonasoft.com.

Intransa, the global innovator of network-centric, IP storage solutions, today announced it is teaming with Sonasoft to provide an advanced backup and recovery IP SAN solution. Intransa will be reselling Sonasoft’s Sonasafe suite of software tools which are designed to make point-and-click backup and recovery extremely easy through a very intuitive user interface.

Coupling Intransa’s core-to-edge portfolio of IP SAN products and management software with Sonasoft’s point-and-click recovery solutions means customers can protect their data with minimal impact to their IP network infrastructure while benefiting from unique combined value-add features, said Doug Rainbolt, Vice President of Marketing, Intransa.

By joining forces, Intransa can provide its customers with an integrated backup and recovery replication solution that leverages its IP SAN technology while utilizing Sonasoft’s intuitive, web-based recovery software enabling customers to utilize the same storage platform for their primary and backup data. The combination allows customers to take advantage of Intransa’s technological ability to provide different RAID policies within the same IP storage enclosure.

Available immediately, the Intransa Sonasoft solution will be sold worldwide through an Intransa reseller agreement.

The Intransa Sonasoft joint solution offers a unique backup and recovery solution to IP customers, said Dr Vas Srinivasan, Vice President of Marketing, Sonasoft. Combining Intransa’s and Sonasoft’s technology innovation results in customers enjoying best-of-breed, high-performance solutions that work to create total protection for multiple Microsoft applications.

About Intransa

Intransa is the innovator of network-centric IP SAN solutions that are easy to use, extremely scalable and offer the right match in performance and data protection to customer’s applications. As the only provider of true IP network-centric SAN solutions, Intransa simplifies, enables and unleashes the use of intelligent IP technology for both small and large enterprises. Based on a common management framework with built-in investment protection, Intransa’s solutions leverage the cost and performance advantages of Ethernet and the universal, dynamic and intuitive aspect of IP networks. Intransa’s solutions address the issues of direct attached storage, making it easy and cost effective for the masses using volume servers to take advantage of shared storage and immediately realize dramatic improvement in storage utilization.

Founded in 2000 and headquartered in San Jose, California, with offices world-wide, Intransa was recently chosen as one of Red Herring’s 100 hottest private companies in North America.
For more information, please visit www.intransa.com.

About Sonasoft

Sonasoft, Inc. automates the disk-to-disk backup and recovery process for Microsoft Exchange , SQL and Windows Servers with its groundbreaking SonaSafe Point-Click Recovery solutions. Designed to simplify, automate, and eliminate human error in the backup and recovery process, SonaSafe solutions also centralize the management of multiple servers and provide a cost-effective turnkey disaster recovery strategy for companies of all sizes.

For more information, please visit www.sonasoft.com

Microsoft SQL Server is being increasingly used as the database of choice to support high available and high performance applications. Also, SQL Server is being used as the database of choice for SAP implementations. More than 20,000 customers worldwide are running SAP applications with SQL Server and 42 percent of all new R/3 and mySAP deployments use SQL Server. The key advantages of using SAP with SQL Server include improved performance, ability to support large databases, comprehensive data management features and ability to run on standard commodity servers and storage.

Today, one has to choose one solution for backup recovery and another solution for replication or disaster recovery. Customers have to deal with two disparate solutions from two different vendors and they are not integrated. Also, the combined solution is very expensive and it is beyond the reach of many SMB customers. Sonasoft offers an integrated backup/recovery and replication solution which is easy to use and costs one-fifth of what it will cost to implement other solutions.

Since both SAP system and SQL Server are critical, customers are choosing Sonasoft for providing reliable backup/recovery and disaster recovery capability. SonaSafe Backup and Recovery Suite offers total protection through reliable backup and gives customers the ability to be up and running quickly in case of system failure or total disaster. When recovery is required, SonaSafe automatically determines which files need to be restored and quickly performs the recovery from backup data stored to internal hard disks. There’s no need to hunt for backup tapes or determine the correct restore path. Human error and unnecessary downtime are eliminated, and the data is available within minutes, instead of hours.

Heat and Control is the recognized world leader in the supply and manufacture of food processing and packaging equipment. Heat and Control benefited by acquiring the SonaSafe solution through trouble-free, reliable operation and the capability to bring their SAP system up quickly in a satellite office in the event of database failure at corporate headquarters. Also on the fly compression reduced the total size of the database by 90%. “Sonasoft’s SonaSafe Solution elegantly automates the backup and recovery processes. SonaSafe has literally cut our backup time in half and we no longer have to manually change tapes as we used to do in the past. This is impressive for a backup over the network”, noted Daryl Cotton, Senior System Administrator, Heat and Control.

Key Benefits to Customers

• Affordable, easy-to-use solution for Microsoft SQL Server
• Achieve rapid recovery of entire server, instances or databases
• Automates complex log shipping tasks
• When disaster strikes, role switching is one click away
• Support for one-to-one, many-to-one and one-to-many standby scenarios
• Bridges the gap between expensive Clustered and Mirrored systems and native SQL Server backups
• Allows use of read-only Standby Server for reporting purposes
• Improve productivity through Point-Click recovery
• Manage backup and recovery remotely on multiple servers

About Sonasoft

Sonasoft, Inc. automates the disk-to-disk backup and recovery process for Microsoft Exchange, SQL and Windows Servers with its groundbreaking SonaSafe Point-Click Recovery solutions. Designed to simplify, automate, and eliminate human error in the backup and recovery process, SonaSafe solutions also centralize the management of multiple servers and provide a cost-effective turnkey disaster recovery strategy for companies of all sizes.

For more information, please visit www.sonasoft.com