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EMC Helps Honda France Manufacturing Transform Its Data Protection

Avamar Disk-based Backup Solution Replaces Legacy Tape Infrastructure, Yielding Super-Fast Backups and Recoveries, Cost Savings and Reduced Capacity Requirements

HOPKINTON, Mass., Aug. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that Honda France Manufacturing has redesigned its data protection infrastructure, leveraging EMC® and VMware® solutions deployed in combination with EMC Avamar® deduplication backup and recovery software. By protecting its virtualized server environment with Avamar, the Orleans, France-based manufacturer has achieved a broad spectrum of efficiencies and can now rapidly and reliably recover both its data and systems.

As one of Europe's leading manufacturers of power products, Honda France Manufacturing assembles over two hundred thousand goods per year for distribution throughout the European market. In an increasingly competitive market, they rely heavily on their IT systems to successfully drive their highly streamlined "just-in-time" manufacturing processes, as well as all associated operational, financial and administrative functions. Several years ago, the company began a comprehensive project to upgrade its IT systems that included EMC and VMware solutions. But their existing backup system, which consisted of tape infrastructure and Symantec NetBackup, was not keeping pace.

"Our legacy backup process was incredibly slow," said Benoit Perrussel, systems network manager for Honda France Manufacturing. "Just backing up the data held on the file server could take twelve hours. With that kind of performance, we were only able to complete a full system backup once a week. We needed to make a change and began a search for a new solution."

Today, Honda France Manufacturing's high performance data protection infrastructure is a model of excellence that closely mirrors its own commitment to quality in manufacturing. "With EMC Avamar, the same file server that used to take twelve hours to backup now takes just one hour to backup," says Perrussel. "In addition, Avamar's VMware protection capabilities are truly exceptional."

Perrussel also cites excellent recovery speeds, reduced management and administration time, the ability to reliably perform full backups every day, and cost savings due to reduced storage capacity requirements as additional advantages gained with Avamar. "I can recommend EMC Avamar because Honda France Manufacturing has received outstanding benefits and found the product extremely easy to implement and use," notes Perrussel. "With EMC's help, our redesigned data protection system is light years ahead of our legacy system, and we're comfortable that our systems, applications and data are protected and easily restorable in virtually any circumstance."

Additional solutions contributing to the Honda Manufacturing France data protection infrastructure include two EMC CLARiiON® CX4-120, VMware ESX® v13, EMC DiskXtender® and EMC SAN Copy™. For a full explanation of Honda France Manufacturing's data protection infrastructure, please see: http://france.emc.com/collateral/customer-profiles/h4800-honda-france-mfg-cp.pdf .

VOSI.biz launches Online Email and Address Book Backup Software – VOSI.biz Email Backup 2.0

PR Log (Press Release) – Apr 15, 2010 – Apr. 12, 2010, VOSI.biz (www.vosi.biz)

, the leading cloud-based Virtual Office, Virtual Server and Virtual IT service provider announced a new version Email Backup software - VOSI.biz Email Backup 2.0, the industry-leading software for highly efficient and reliable Outlook email and address book backup.

Backing up Microsoft Outlook was never an easy task. The .pst files are always open or locked by Outlook. The .pst files can also change at anytime due to arrival of new emails. Usually .pst files are very huge, copying such large files is cumbersome; uploading / downloading such a huge file could take a very long time. During the time, the network could be un-plugged, computer might be shut-down. This could cause the backup task to fail.

Many backup utilities, incl. VOSI.biz Online Backup, can backup .pst files. VOSI.biz Email Backup 2.0 is totally different. It can manage your emails and contacts like managing files; you can drag-&-drop or automatically backup your Outlook / Outlook Express / Windows Mail and contacts in real-time or scheduled times. It never needs to upload any huge .pst files. The default dual-pane interface allows users to easily drag & drop emails / mail-boxes from their local PC to VOSI.biz online email system. Users can change the interface to only show local emails or VOSI.biz emails.

See Details at: http://www.prlog.org/10627911-vosibiz-launches-online-email-and-address-book-backup-software-vosibiz-email-backup-20.html

About VOSI.biz (www.vosi.biz):

is the leading company offering cloud-based "Basic IT System" Service. Our products and services include Remote File Server, Email Server, Offsite Data Backup, FTP Server & Web Server, Online Storage, Sharing & Collaboration, etc.

Novosoft Signs Distribution Agreement with Nexway, Bringing the Leading Backup Solution to the Western Europe Region

Novosoft today announced that it has signed an agreement with the leading European software distributor, Nexway. The partnership will increase the availability of Novosoft's flagship product Handy Backup in Western Europe.

Alliance, Ohio, January 19, 2010 – Novosoft, an international software development and IT-consulting company, has teamed up with Nexway, the leading European software and video games distributor, to make their flagship product Handy Backup™ available for purchase through Nexway's network of partner e-commerce, boutiques and on-line portals.

"We are happy to partner with Nexway and support it as the leading digital content distribution platform in Europe," said Nataly Sigaeva, head of Novosoft Marketing Department. "Handy Backup already has a strong position in the United States, and the partnership with Nexway will enable us to grow the product's availability and expand market share in Europe."

Under the terms of the agreement, Nexway will facilitate the promotion and sales of Novosoft's family of backup solutions Handy Backup, increasing options for customers, lowering barriers and expanding the software's presence in the home and small business market.

About Novosoft

Established in 1992, Novosoft develops and markets a wide range of software solutions for individual PC users and small businesses with Windows-based IT infrastructures. Novosoft's flagship Handy Backup is an award-winning backup solution that allows creating scheduled backups of information stored on workstations and servers, including Exchange servers, SQL servers, databases of different types and much more. Prices of the software range from $39 for Standard edition to $599 for an enterprise backup edition called Handy Backup Server. For more information, please refer to the product website at http://www.handybackup.net

About Nexway

Nexway is a leading player in the digital e-commerce sector and a strategic partner of worldwide digital content publishers and international e-commerce portals. It has teams in 12 countries and distributes high-quality, cutting-edge software in more than 50 countries around the globe. In 2008, Nexway reached the million download milestone, ranked in the Top 10 of Deloitte Technology's 2008 Fast 50, and in the Top 100 of EMEA's Fast 500 of the fastest growing technology companies. To learn more, please visit http://www.nexway.com

Contact
Alexander Rassokhin
Novosoft
Phone: +7 (383) 330-34-69
E-mail: pr@novosoft.net

Novosoft Releases Handy Backup 6.5 to Deliver Effective Backup Solution for Large Enterprises

Novosoft releases a new version of a popular data backup utility Handy Backup, now with differential backup capability.

Alliance, Ohio, January 13, 2010 – Novosoft, one of the leading providers of backup solutions for Windows computers and Windows Server-based networks, today announced the release of a new version of their flagship product Handy Backup. Handy Backup 6.5 features a powerful differential backup engine and multiple improvements in data indexing algorithms, optimized for use with large amounts of data.

"It wasn't until we built the first beta that we realized what a powerful tool for enterprise backup Handy Backup becomes," said Alexander Prichalov, head of Novosoft development department. "Now, instead of backing up many gigabytes of databases and mail servers each day, companies can greatly optimize data protection by making differential backups and save up to 90% of the cost of data storage."

Differential backup is a technology based on binary comparison of data with existing backup, where only new files and changes on modified files are processed. It greatly saves time and drive space required to store backups and enables enterprises to achieve near continuous protection of business data at minimal costs.

"Business data retention policies require backups to be regular and automatic," said Mr. Prichalov. "We are excited to come up with an effective solution and strengthen Handy Backup's positions among professional backup software."

About Handy Backup

Handy Backup is a family of data backup and disaster recovery software for computers working under Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000 and 2008/2003/2000 Server operating systems. It is available in two editions for home PCs, called Handy Backup Standard and Handy Backup Professional, and two editions for corporate backup, called Handy Backup Full and Handy Backup Server.

Handy Backup Full costs $199 and lets enterprises back up MS SQL Servers, MS Exchange Servers, Oracle, DB2, Lotus Notes, ODBC-compatible databases, and other data. Handy Backup Server costs $599 and allows backing up multiple servers on a client-server scheme. Until January 17, 2010 all new customers can purchase Handy Backup Full with 20% discount and receive a free additional license for Handy Backup Professional. To learn more, please refer to the product website at http://www.handybackup.net/order.shtml

Contact
Alexander Rassokhin
Novosoft
Phone: +7 (383) 330-34-69
E-mail: pr@novosoft.net