http://www.inmage.com/news/153/442/InMage-Announces-Unified-Backup-and-Disaster-Recovery-Appliance.html SAN JOSE, Calif. – October 23, 2013 – InMage Systems® today introduced the 4000 Series, a backup and disaster recovery appliance designed to satisfy the needs of a wide range of customers, from SMB, to Enterprises with petabyte sized deployments. Based on a self-contained architecture that includes compute, networking and storage, the 4000 Series is fast and easy to deploy and boasts minimal space and power requirements. The 4000 Series provides the capability to re-instantiate data centers in minutes with near zero data loss, significantly reducing operational time and costs. The 4000 Series can also address hybrid cloud based disaster recovery, replicating from appliance-to-appliance, to a secondary data center, or to a wide range of cloud providers. Built in, best-of-breed features such as compression, encryption, WAN acceleration and bandwidth management enable replication across geographic distances while minimizing bandwidth costs, maximizing capacity, and increasing security. InMage’s proprietary technology allows byte level change protection and in-line de-duplication which results in the most efficient and thorough backup and recovery solution. “We chose the InMage 4000 because it is a cost effective backup and DR solution all rolled into one magic box.” Pat Smith, CIO at Our Kids, a non-profit provider of child welfare services to Florida’s Miami-Dade and Monroe counties. The InMage 4000 Series is based on unique data protection technology that captures data changes in real-time at the byte level, and allows for continuous backup with near zero impact on primary servers and storage. This approach completely eliminates backup windows and surpasses recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO) offered by traditional methods. The 4000 Series also provides the ability to recover to any point in time, at the level of granularity required, such as mails or mailboxes, files and folders, volumes, full server or even the entire site. I got sent this and it looks quite interesting. It’s great to see InMage Systems working on an appliance to meet the business requirements for SMB and enterprise customers in the backup and disaster recovery space. I’ll need to check it out and read up more, particularly about it’s integration and support of virtual workloads. The more alternatives and competition in the market place, the better chances there are for customers and end users to find the solution that meets their business objectives and...