By Jamey Kirby, CEO Rectiphy

In this BLOG entry I want to talk a little bit about compression. One of the first questions people ask about compression is “why do I care about the type of compression?” In most cases, for backup and disaster recovery, it may not be important. However, there are some situations where controlling the type of compression can have some benefit.

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According to IDC‘s Worldwide Storage Software QView, the storage software market has enjoyed year-over-year growth for seven consecutive quarters now.  IDC, the premier global provider of market intelligence, says the total market value for storage software was close to $3.4 billion during Q2 of 2011 which is up 11.3% over the same period last year. IDC says that this double-digit growth is thanks in part to increased corporate investments in server and disk storage systems.

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Rectiphy has made the list of CRN’s Emerging Vendors for 2011. The list, published in the August 2011 issue of the popular channel publication, comprises of companies from every discipline and technology facet. According to CRN’s Andrew R. Hickey, “With new innovations like cloud computing and virtualization speeding up the pace of innovation and technology mainstays like storage and networking branching off into new directions, this list encapsulates a tectonic technology shift where the recently founded are starting to rule the roost and become household names much more quickly than in the past.” The article concluded with, “2011 is the year where emerging turns to emerged and startups and upstarts take hold.”

By Jamey Kirby, CEO Rectiphy

ActiveImage Protector(tm) utilizes the new Intel AES-NI advanced encryption instructions across all Windows and Linux platforms.

All versions of ActiveImage Protector from version 2.7.5 forward utilize AES-NI when using the Intel Core processor family based on the 32nm Intel micro architecture codenamed Westmere. These new instructions allow ActiveImage Protector to encrypt and decrypt the backup stream at blazing fast speed; tests have shown a 10x performance increase over software-only solutions.

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As a non-profit organization you probably know a lot about natural disasters and disaster recovery. But are you really prepared if your mission-critical computers, servers or applications suffer from a catastrophe? Gartner says that 60% of organizations will have a major data loss at some point. Your hard drive may crash, a laptop could be lost or stolen, users might delete data by mistake (or on purpose), malware could infect your servers or your office could potentially be damaged by fire or flood. In the event of failure or loss – are you protected?

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With ActiveImage Protector flexibility and customization are built in. Using AIP’s advanced scripting you can make your data backup routine do things it might not have been originally designed to do. While customizing your backup process with backup scripts takes a bit of extra work – Rectiphy has made it as painless as possible.

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According to the Gartner Group, If you are not backup up your small business’s data – you are at risk of going out of business. According the findings, 25% of all PC users suffer from data loss each year and 7 out of 10 small businesses that experience a major data loss go out of business within a year.

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Rectiphy Corporation has posted a new build of ActiveImage Protector ^TM (3.0.3.686) for download. This latest build adds significant backup and restore speed improvements, scheduling improvements and other feature enhancements. Build 686 is available for all Window versions of ActiveImage Protector v3 including, AIP Desktop Edition, AIP Server Edition, AIP for Hyper-V with ReZoom, AIP Virtual Edition and AIP IT Pro Edition. The latest build download is available for free to all customers of ActiveImage Protector v3, customers with current software maintenance, and product evaluators.

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ActiveImage Protector is the 1st to support uEFI mother boards / GPT (GUID partition tables) system and boot volumes. This means support for huge volumes along with better reliability for backing up data from servers using next generation motherboards.

The GUID Partition Table (GPT) was introduced as a part of the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) initiative. GPT provides a more flexible mechanism for partitioning disks than the older Master Boot Record (MBR) partitioning scheme that has been common to PCs. GPT disks can grow to a very large size. The number of partitions on a GPT disk is not constrained by temporary schemes such as container partitions as defined by the MBR Extended Boot Record (EBR).

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