Monday, April 02, 2007

Been There Done That

StoreGrid 2.2 Service Provider Edition Release is out, and cranking up the market.

Lots of new features, lots to talk about. Mainly for the Service Providers and as well lots of feedback are coming out.

This release was a mammoth for our standards, what with features such as,

StoreGrid Server
1.Improved organization of the clients backing up to the server.
2.Server Side management of all licenses (MSPEU based licensing).
3.Revamped 'Local To Remote Server Migration'; now additional full backups can also be done locally and migrated to the remote backup server.
4.Revamped replication management, flexible replication scheduling, CPU usage control and lots more.
5.Replication progress support in both the Backup Server and the Replication Server
6.Primary Server Disaster Recovery from Replication Server using StoreGrid webconsole.
7.Invoice Generation based on Invoice Plans. You can assign the same plan across Customers.
8.Server Activities Dashboard (Current Active Clients Monitoring, Last 5 Successful/Failed Backups, Disk Space Monitoring, License Monitoring, etc.,)
9.Trial Client Settings (Evaluation Period/De-Activation Period/Automatic Cleanup of De-Activated Client, etc.,).
10.Individual Client/Backup De-activation.

StoreGrid Client

1.Advanced Plugins for Exchange using ESE APIs.
2.Advanced Plugins for MS SQL Server using VDI APIs.
3.Volume Shadow Copy support for Windows XP, Windows 2003 Servers systems.
4.In StoreGrid Service Provider Edition, there is no need to apply license keys in the client.
5.MySQL Plugin for windows
6.Restore progress window enhanced to show file based restore progress
7.Revamped Client Dashboard.

General

1.Secure(https) WebConsole.
2.Support for 64-bit Windows Operating Systems.

We are gladly and actively working on the StoreGrid 2.2 Professional Edition Release too. Which should also be available shortly,

And lots of time we say, 'Been There !! Done That !!', Now the following phrase also keeps adding on,

'And miles to go before we sleep, And miles to go before we sleep !'