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Data recovery provider FarStone Technology has launched an inexpensive new suite of applications designed for small and midsize businesses that tend to have problems losing data stored on their computers.
FarStone’s bread-and-butter product, RestoreIT, takes a troubled computer back to the state it was in before the problem occurred, so that users can pick up where they left off. Now FarStone has unveiled a new edition of DriveClone for small businesses.
DriveClone includes the original RestoreIT recovery software, plus it enables a user to make a complete snapshot copy of a hard drive. The suite includes versions for workstations, servers and networks, and a new solution for system builders.
The software can perform complete and incremental backups from within Windows without the need to reboot the system, a spokesperson said. It also allows users to take incremental snapshots at the sector level of the hard drive, either at startup or at user-defined intervals.
With the DriveClone suite, FarStone addresses what it perceives as the two top concerns of SMBs in disaster recovery: complete data protection and minimal recovery time, the spokesperson said.
“FarStone seems interesting. They are trying to move up to the SME space, where they will be competing with Veritas and Acronis,” Henry Baltazar, storage analyst with The 451 Group, told eWEEK.
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