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SHI launches Backup as a Service to help customers manage Big Data

Posted by at 2:02 PM

Big Data can offer organizations a true competitive advantage, creating new ways to enhance their dialogue with customers and partners, evaluate and improve marketing and pricing strategies, and identify new revenue opportunities. But it also creates challenges for the IT folks tasked with storing, backing up, and protecting the massive amounts of digital information.

As the amount of data grows, and organizations also deal with accelerated virtualization, regulatory compliance, strict SLAs, and shrinking backup windows, IT departments will be forced to rethink their data backup and recovery strategies.

To better help our customers navigate this environment, SHI has partnered with EMC to create a Backup as a Service (BaaS) solution. SHI Backup as a Service is an end-to-end software and hardware backup and recovery solution that’s delivered as a self or managed service.

It combines SHI’s Management and Support Services with EMC Avamar and Data Domain to provide high-speed data deduplication, predictable performance, and simple scalability. With BaaS, organizations can cut down network bandwidth issues, reduce backup time, and keep data safe at minimal cost, without upfront expenditure.

SHI BaaS provides fast, daily full backups of physical and virtual servers, desktops, laptops, enterprise applications, and network-attached storage (NAS) servers. It easily integrates with many existing environments — Oracle, NetBackup, Microsoft, and VMware, to name a few — so organizations don’t have to worry about a major process or infrastructure change.

SHI BaaS is available in several deployment models to meet the needs of every IT department: Continue Reading…

SHI joins Operation Shoebox NJ to spread holiday cheer to troops overseas

Posted by at 8:15 AM

Earlier this month, our partners at McAfee joined more than 140 SHI employees and Operation Shoebox New Jersey at SHI Headquarters to assemble care packages for U.S. troops stationed overseas. We had been collecting supplies — toiletries, snacks, knick-knacks, Girl Scout cookies, etc. — since the beginning of September with the goal of mailing 500 packages to arrive in time for the holidays.

But on Dec. 7 (the 71st anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, a meaningful coincidence that was not lost on us), in a mere three hours, we exceeded that goal, packaging 647 boxes for our servicemen and women.

Operation Shoebox New Jersey is a great organization that has shipped 60,000 care packages over the past eight years to U.S. troops in the Middle East and around the world. In the below video, Executive Director Rod Hirsch talks more about the mission of Operation Shoebox and how volunteers (like you) can make it a success.

For a closer look, check out these pictures on our Facebook page.

From everyone at SHI, have a happy and healthy holiday season!

SHI features Managed Private Cloud at VMworld

Posted by at 10:14 AM

It’s that time of year again. VMworld 2012 kicked off today in San Francisco, and the SHI team is busy making last minute preparations to our booth and breakout sessions on Workspace-as-a-Service, Mission-Critical Applications in the Cloud, and the Expectation Gap.

It was just a year ago that we unveiled our high-performance, industrial-grade SHI Cloud, but our dedication to developing innovative cloud solutions didn’t end then.

This year at VMworld, we’ll be showcasing our unique and HP-certified Managed Private Cloud (MPC). Managed Private Cloud is an on-premise, appliance-based solution that keeps the cloud onsite, in YOUR data center, behind YOUR firewall. All the while, SHI’s cloud technicians remotely monitor and support it from the security of SHI’s cloud data center. Because your data never leaves your premises, MPC is a valuable solution for state, local, and federal government entities, as well as academic and financial institutions that are governed by strict security and privacy regulations.

Our Managed Private Cloud YouTube video embedded below gives a good overview of what the solution is and how it works.

Intrigued? Want to learn more? Swing by booth #923. We’d love the chance to show you what our cloud’s got.