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

Novosoft Releases Handy Backup for Android v. 1.3 to Deliver Online Backup Capability for Android Smartphones

Novosoft releases version 1.3 of Handy Backup for Android, a data backup tool for Android-powered mobile devices, now with a new Online Backup option.

Alliance, Ohio, December 8, 2009 – Novosoft, one of the leading providers of data backup solutions worldwide, today announced the release of a new 1.3 version of Handy Backup for Android. Now users of the utility can take advantage of the Online Backup option and back up phone's data to a secure online storage system provided by Novosoft.

"We launched our Remote Backup Service in October, 2005, and the reaction of users of PC version of Handy Backup was very positive," said Alexander Prichalov, head of Novosoft Development Department. "Today we are happy to come up with a similar solution for Handy Backup for Android, and we hope that users will find the new feature useful and advantageous."

The release of the current update is the first Novosoft's attempt to monetize the application: to an extent it resembles Handy Backup for PC which is a low-cost utility upgradable with paid add-ons. Handy Backup for Android remains free of charge, but the use of a new Online Backup option requires the user to have a paid account at Novosoft Remote Backup service.

"Further development of Handy Backup for Android will be focused on increasing security and ease of use," said Mr. Prichalov. "In the upcoming releases we are planning to add support for SFTP and FTPS protocols, as well as a separate encryption engine, to let the users feel even safer about their data."

Handy Backup for Android is distributed as a freeware and can be downloaded directly on your phone from the Android Market.

About Novosoft Remote Backup Service

Novosoft Remote Backup Service is a secure online storage system located in an underground shelter in San Diego, California. Protected from fire, flood, magnetic and electric fields and any other factors that can damage user data, it is accessible 24x7x365 from any point of the world. To learn more, please refer to http://www.remotedatabackup.net

About Handy Backup for PC

Introduced in 2002, Handy Backup™ is a family of data backup and synchronization software for Windows computers and Windows Server-based enterprise networks. Prices of the software range from $39 for Handy Backup Standard to $599 for a full-featured enterprise backup solution Handy Backup Server. To learn more, please refer to the product website at http://www.handybackup.net

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

Novosoft Announces Marketing Strategy for Handy Backup for Android

Novosoft, one of the leading providers of data backup solutions worldwide, today announced the intention to use Handy Backup for Android, their data backup tool for Android-powered phones, to promote Novosoft Remote Backup Service.

Alliance, Ohio, November 17, 2009 – Novosoft, an international IT-consulting and software development company, announced today that the upcoming version Handy Backup for Android will be bundled with Novosoft Remote Backup Service.

"Handy Backup for Android will remain free for all users of Android phones," said Alexander Prichalov, head of Novosoft Development Department. "However, we are planning to add features integrated with third-party services. For example, the upcoming release will support backing up to FTP servers, but it will be available only for customers of our Remote Backup Service."

The strategy of providing free or low cost software with paid options is not new for Novosoft. Handy Backup for PC is marketed in exactly the same way: its core functionality can be extended with paid plug-ins of two types, one for extracting data to back up (files-based, drive-based and database backup plug-ins) and another for controlling storage and processing options.
"We've taken great care to develop the same powerful architecture that we have in a desktop version," said Mr. Prichalov. "Further development of Handy Backup for Android will be focused on creation of plug-ins for data selection and storage, and FTP backup is the first of them. In a short time, we will revise pricing strategy of our Remote Backup Service, and come up with a solution that will be cost-effective for most Android users. The release of the new version is planned for the end of November."

The first beta of Handy Backup for Android was introduced by Novosoft in March, 2009. It was an extension to a desktop version of Handy Backup that allowed users to back up their phones to PC on the client-server model, controlled by PC. In the beginning of November the company released a standalone backup application for Android-based smartphones. At present, it is available on the Android Market and can be downloaded free of charge.

About Novosoft Remote Backup Service

Novosoft Remote Backup Service is a secure data storage system located in an underground shelter in San Diego, California. It is secured from fire, flood, magnetic and electric fields and any other factors that can damage user data, and is accessible 24 hours a day and 365 days a year from any point of the world. To learn more, please refer to http://www.remotedatabackup.net

About Handy Backup for PC

Introduced in 2002, Handy Backup™ is a family of data backup and disaster recovery software for Windows computers and Windows Server-based enterprise networks. Prices of the software range from $39 for Handy Backup Standard to $599 for a full-featured enterprise backup solution Handy Backup Server. To learn more, please refer to the product website at http://www.handybackup.net

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

Novosoft Releases Backup Software for Android Mobile Devices

Novosoft, one of the leading providers of backup solutions worldwide, announces Handy Backup for Android, a data backup and restore utility for Android-based phones.

Alliance, Ohio, November 3, 2009 – Novosoft, an international software development and IT-consulting company, today announced the release of a lite version of Handy Backup™, a data backup tool for Android-powered mobile devices.

"We started working on compatibility with Android in early spring of this year," said Alexander Prichalov, head of Novosoft Product Department. "The first beta came out in March, and it was a client software that allowed a PC version of Handy Backup access and back up phone's data. After collecting user feedback, we saw a huge demand for a standalone Android backup tool, so we immediately started working to come up with a solution."

By creating a portable version of Handy Backup, Novosoft provides owners of Android-based smartphones with an opportunity to back up their data independently of Google services. The current release supports backing up SMS messages, contacts, call logs and SD card data. Contacts are saved in VCard format, so they can be later imported to Outlook or other messaging software.

"While the application may look simple at the first sight, we actually developed the same architecture that we have in desktop version of Handy Backup," said Mr. Prichalov. "Now it will be easy for us to extend the functionality with support for more data, various Android applications, capability to back up to network and FTP locations, and much more – just the way you can back up your PC with Handy Backup."

Handy Backup for Android is free of charge and can be downloaded directly on your phone from the Android Market.

About Handy Backup for PC

Handy Backup™ is a complete, extensible PC backup software featuring a unique architecture, where all backup jobs are created through plug-ins of two types: one for selecting data that you want to back up (there are files-based, sector-based and database backup plug-ins) and another for controlling data processing and storage options. To learn more about Handy Backup, please refer to the product website at http://www.handybackup.net

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

Novosoft Releases Backup Solution for IBM DB2 Data Servers

Novosoft, an international IT-consulting and software development company, announced the release of a new version of their flagship product Handy Backup, now validated as "Ready for IBM DB2 Data Server"

Alliance, Ohio, October 20, 2009 – Novosoft, one of the leading manufacturers of backup software worldwide, today announced that the new version of their backup utility Handy Backup received the "Ready for IBM DB2 Data Server" technical certification. Now companies that use DB2-based IBM applications to manage e-commerce, CRM and other business solutions are enabled to protect their business at a new level of quality.

"We couldn't be happier to enhance our partnership with IBM by releasing a new backup solution for IBM software" said Natalia Sigaeva, head of Novosoft marketing department. "Handy Backup Server is already used by hundreds of companies worldwide, and we hope that the new functionality will help us further advance into the market of enterprise backup software."

The "Ready for IBM DB2 Data Server" validation program was designed by IBM to help customers differentiate products that have met requirements of reliability, quality and security, established by IBM. The logo is provided after strict quality assessment given by the company's experts and confirms that the software meets explicit specifications of compatibility with DB2 databases and allows business owners to achieve the highest business results.

About Handy Backup

Introduced in 2002, Handy Backup is a family of professional backup software for Windows computers and Windows Server-based corporate networks, consisting of two editions for enterprise backup: Handy Backup Full and Handy Backup Server. Handy Backup Full costs $199 and enables you to back up DB2 databases, IBM Lotus databases, MS Exchange Servers, MS SQL Servers, Oracle databases and other data managed by a local server. Handy Backup Server is a client-server backup solution that allows controlling backups of networked workstations and servers from a single control point. The package includes 5 licenses for remote computers and costs $599.

To learn more about Handy Backup, please refer to the product website at http://www.handybackup.net

About Novosoft

Established in 1992, Novosoft creates and markets a wide range of software products for individual computer users and small- to medium-sized businesses. The company strives to use the most advanced technologies and deliver high quality and cost effective solutions ensuring customers satisfaction and trust. For more information, refer to the corporate website at http://www.novosoft-us.com

Novosoft Partners with Oracle to Deliver Backup Solution for Oracle Databases

Novosoft, an international software development and IT-consulting company, releases backup software for Oracle databases and becomes a certified partner of the Oracle Partner Network.

Alliance, Ohio, September 24, 2009 – Novosoft, one of the leading providers of backup solutions for Windows-based servers, today announced that they partnered with Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq:ORCL), the world's largest enterprise software company, to deliver high-quality backup solution for users of Oracle databases. The main factor that contributed to the partnership was the release of a new version of Novosoft's flagship product Handy Backup, featuring support for backing up Oracle databases.

"We are excited to partner with a recognized world leader in enterprise DBMS development," said Alexander Prichalov, head of Novosoft Product Department. "It proves our competence and expertise in Oracle technologies, and also strengthens Handy Backup's positions to meet growing global market demands for complete enterprise backup systems."

Through the partnership with Oracle, Novosoft has ensured that Handy Backup is compatible with the most popular versions of Oracle databases, including latest releases of Oracle Databases 10g and 11g.

The Oracle Partner Program is a business network of more than 20000 companies that provide customers with leading-edge business solutions based on Oracle software. Partners are able to access Oracle's education, marketing and sales support, and organizations that work with partners can be confident that their IT infrastructures will be built with the best software on the market and deliver the highest business results.

About Handy Backup

Handy Backup is an award-winning data backup and disaster recovery software for Windows Server-based enterprises. It carries multiple certification logos, such as Microsoft's "Works with Windows Server 2008" and "Compatible with Windows 7" and allows automating all backups of corporate data including Oracle databases, Exchange mail servers, and much more.

Handy Backup is available in several editions, prices of editions that support Oracle backup range from $199, for a single PC, to $599 for a client-server backup solution. To learn more about Handy Backup, please refer to the product website at http://www.handybackup.net

Novosoft Becomes Microsoft Gold Partner

Novosoft Becomes Microsoft Gold Partner
Novosoft, an international software development and IT-consulting company, earns Microsoft Gold Partner status.
Alliance, Ohio, September 16, 2009 – Novosoft, one of the leading providers of backup solutions worldwide, today announced that they have achieved the status of Gold Partners with an ISV/Software Solutions Competency in the Microsoft Partnership Program. The main factor that allowed the company to earn the status was certification of their flagship product Handy Backup for the Microsoft's "Works with Windows Server 2008" logo.
"Becoming Microsoft Gold Partner gives us an opportunity to bring even more benefits to our clients," said Vladimir Vaschenko, CEO of Novosoft. "It not only demonstrates our knowledge of Microsoft technologies and our proficiency in high-quality software development, but also provides us with a rich set of resources that will help us further improve our products and deliver better service to our customers."
Microsoft Gold Certified Partners with an ISV competency are considered as being the most experienced companies that have proven their technical competence and expertise at developing professional software solutions. The Partnership Program is aimed to help customers identify the best software vendors on the market and use only the best products that are guaranteed to deliver superior user experience and highest business results.
About Handy Backup
Handy Backup is an award-winning backup solution for desktop and laptop computers working under Windows OS and Windows Server-based enterprise networks. It 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 $199 for Full edition. Also, there is an enterprise backup edition of the program, Handy Backup Server, which includes 5 licenses for remote workstations and costs $599.
To learn more about Handy Backup, please refer to the product website at http://www.handybackup.net
About Novosoft
Established in 1992, Novosoft develops and markets a wide range of B2C and B2B solutions for individual PC users and small businesses with Windows-based IT infrastructures. The company strives to keep in step with the most advanced technologies and deliver high quality and cost effective software products, ensuring customer satisfaction and trust. For more information, please refer to the corporate website at http://www.novosoft-us.com

Backup Rotation Schedule Basics

Backup rotation schedule is an essential basis of the whole backup strategy especially concerning corporate data backup and recovery used by enterprises. It is widely known that having only one copy of important information is asking for trouble. You have to keep multiple copies and one of them in secure off-site storage. Backup schedule is usually using a combination of partial backups interspersed with full backups to reduce backup time and capacity usage.

Most known and simple partial backup method is differential backup which allows saving all data changes made since last full backup. Due to backup strategy it takes more storage capacity, but is much faster to restore backed up information if it is necessary. Incremental backup is a little bit more complicated method allows backing up changes made since last incremental backup instead of full. This method helps to reduce storage capacities used to keep backup files, but process of backed up data restoration is relatively slow.

Top backup rotation schedules used for tape backup are mostly Grandfather-Father-Son (GFS) and Tower of Hanoi. GFS is based on using three sets or generations of tapes. Monthly full backup is grandfather, weekly full backup is father and a son set for partial everyday backups. Grandfather tapes are stored off-site while “younger” generations stay in backup rotation. Tower of Hanoi is based on mathematic puzzle of the same name and provides an ability to increase generations’ depth.

No matter which backup rotation schedule you will select according your corporate data backup strategy. The most important requirement is to have 24/7 access to your backups, though it is provided by every quality remote backup service.

Remote data backup planning issues

Remote data backup requires careful preparation and planning stage before you can be sure that performance will be adequate. Understanding of how much data you need to backup in a typical evening is the first important issue to be considered when planning remote backup strategy. When you know approximate data level to backup daily it’s time to select remote backup service which fits your budget and offering an adequate bandwidth.

Another factor gaining importance for remote data backup is data deduplication or intelligent compression as it also called. Typical remote backup may create many copies of the same file. Data deduplication used to avoid creating redundant information. It only makes one reserve copy of the file and provides pointers to other file iterations. So if you have 100 copies of 1 MB file, ordinary backup will use 100 MB of storage for them, while data deduplication need storage for 1 MB file and references for additional copies. 1 MB instead of 100 MB is a difference which makes reasonable enough to use only data deduplication supporting remote data backup.

The third issue with planning remote data backup strategy is possibility of connection failure. Business impact of link problem must be identified to make plans for minimization negative effects. Temporary connection problems must be corrected by repeat of remote backup attempt several hours later when the connection will return.

See also How to Backup Online

Internet Backup Server

Internet backup servers are widely acknowledged as the best storage for PC backups. There are several reasons for this. Firstly, backups stored online are very reliable and much less subject to disasters of any kind, as they are commonly kept in a distributed system, replicated several times. Secondly, online backups are widely available: you can always access them from whatever place in the world, whenever you need any of the backed up files. Finally, backing up to internet backup server enables individuals and enterprises to reduce costs related to handling of storage media and organize backups with minimal investments in infrastructure and education.
Any business critically relies on the information stored in its enterprise network. That's why it is highly recommended to choose a robust internet backup server, so you can be always be sure that your data is safe and can be quickly restored after whatever disaster.
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Backup Registry

It is important to regularly back up Windows registry, as it contains all options and preferences of software and hardware installed on your PC. If you have a backup of registry, you can always feel safe about the operation of your system: even if something goes wrong, you will be always able to restore settings of all devices and your favorite applications that you've tweaked to perfection.

When choosing a backup software capable of registry backup, make sure that it allows working with individual registry keys. All configuration options are logically split into several sections: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, HKEY_CURRENT_USER and other, each storing data about different PC settings. By including different keys into different backup plans, you can establish a really flexible and reliable backup strategy.

Keep your Important Files Safe with Computre Backup Storage

Author: D Fraser

Having an up to date backup of important photos, files and other data from your computer at home or office is something everyone should have, how ever very few do. How Come? Well at first I thought it might be because no one knew how or that they should do it. How ever that wasn't the case, the answer seems to be that most people just assume a data loss problem or PC failure won't happen to them, that is until it's to late.

In this brief article I'm going to look at computer back storage options and backup software and solutions. We'll discuss the different types of storage you can use to store a backup and the different methods you can create the backup file(s).

Don't Spend a Lot of Money on Fancy Gadgets

It's the trap of technology shopping, the huge list of features that are compared from product to product. The sad thing is we rarely need all those features, but we end up buying it anyways. What do we do that? Most of the time our eyes glaze over and think how great it would be to have this feature and that without even thinking if we need them or not. Take my advice and just buy something simple to get the backup job done, you don't need bells and whistles to protect your files and photos.

When it comes to computer backup storage keep it simple. Consider using a USB jump drive or just dvd's. I'd suggest staying away from second hard drives, tape backups and other high tech alternatives.

Simple Software will Do

So storing the backup your create is one step, but creating that backup is another. You can do something as simple as zip up all your files using the windows compression utility and just burn that to a DVD. How ever software can make the process a lot cleaner.

Easy to use PC applications like Acronis True image make the backup process a lot easier then doing it manually. Programs like this are automatically integrated to store a backup on a USB drive or even transfer it off site via FTP. Using the backup software is as simple as selecting what files and folders you want backed up and the software takes care of the rest until you want to add new files or folders.

The important point is don't get pulled down with a feature rich piece of software. All you need is point and click backup functionality. Anything more then that will risk you not doing your job which is setting up the backup software to run frequently so your files are safe.

Back it all Up Online

One option for computer backup storage and software that is becoming very popular are online backup services. These websites offer the storage for your files (online) as well as a simple desktop application that will automatically keep your files up to date. Most services can be bought for $5 - $10 bucks a month and are a complete hands off application once setup.

If you take one thing away form this article the thing to remember is that you must take action. Not backing up your files today leaves one more day for something to crash and you lose all of your important photos, videos, music and more.

There's never been a better moment then this one to get started with computer backup storage. Just remember keep it simple and take action, because after you have a PC crash it's to late.

Find a backup solution for your PC now. Visit our Online Backup reviews at http://www.dontloseyourdata.com/ and compare the top services on the web for file storage and backup.

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Why Use Remote Data Backup Software?

Author: Roland Jefferson

Since computers play a larger role in the modern world, and as technology runs businesses and provides consumers instant access to anything they need, storing information has become increasingly important. While many users know and understand the importance of backing up files, others don’t know how and where to begin.

Remote data backup software provides small businesses with an effective way to prevent data loss, while ensuring home users that all documents and other important data are kept safe for future use. Although a computer user can easily back up his files every day using basic techniques, he or she cannot determine when the system will crash and data will be lost for good. For this reason, remote data backup software provides both businesses and consumers a secure and effective way of protecting data in the unlikely event that uncontrollable disasters strike the computer.

With remote data backup software installed in your computer, you can easily perform backups when and where you need them. With just one click of your mouse, all information and data that you select to backup will easily be stored on a remote location where the software company is located. This means that if your computer crashes, you can easily restore the data by contacting the company who developed the remote data backup software.

Choosing a Remote Data Backup Software

Due to hundreds of companies providing remote data backup software, choosing the right program can be an overwhelming and complicated task. For this reason, you need to examine the features that each type of the software is offering to ensure your data will be uploaded and restored effectively.

One of the most important features to look for in backup software is the ability to backup several large files into different types of media. This feature, which is also known as “media spanning”, defines authentic backup software. You should also look for software that provides backup verification – a process that ensures your backup is accurate and viable.

A helpful feature provided by majority of available software is scheduling and automatic backups. This feature enables your computer to backup files automatically at a pre-determined time. This means that you will not have to do the work manually if you require backup’s every day, once a week or on a monthly basis.

Of course, the most important thing you should consider in choosing remote data backup software is security and support. Since your data is important, you need to ensure that each time you upload information, it will be kept secure. In addition, the software should also guarantee that if a disaster strikes your system, you could be able to restore data easily with the company’s support system.

About the Author: Roland Parris Jefferson III is an online researcher based out of Los Angeles, California. Need more details and expert advice on Data Backup? Then please visit our Remote Data Backup Software Resource.

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