Products & Services: Blackfly SWARM™

Blackfly SWARM™

Remote, Offsite Backup

You might think that your backups are secure, but the experts disagree.

Your onsite backup is not enough.

For years, industry giants such as Cisco, Oracle, CNET, Microsoft, Computer Associates and others have all spoken, at great length, about the frail nature of most corporate backup strategies. Single point of failure, single data location, and not backing up complete data sets are all factors contributing to a potential disaster waiting to happen to your company. With
 
gas and labor prices on the rise in recent years, services like Iron Mountain for backup tape transportation have become largely the luxury of Fortune 500 companies and Silicon Valley startups. As IT budgets constrict, Network Administrators are being forced to provide a greater level of service and security with less money and time. Often, this comes at the expense of backups and redundancy. Blackfly SWARM™ was created to be the Simple, Smart & Secure answer for this need. SWARM™ is a low cost, robust, easy to implement application that allows you to backup individual client workstations as well as servers to a secure, offsite facility.


 

More About SWARM™
While SWARM's™ primary purpose is to serve as a Disaster Recovery point for your existing data infrastructure, some of our clients prefer to use us as their sole backup source. In these cases, we preserve a proper chain of redundancy by creating a duplicate of the data we receive and storing it in a different geographical location than the primary data backup.

SWARM's™ interface is easy to use and can be configured to monitor individual folders or entire drives. SWARM™ runs in the background working with your operating system to watch for changed files. Whenever a file is created or modified, it is added to a queue of files to be backed up to our remote servers.

SWARM™ begins transferring files when an Internet connection is detected and throttles it's usage to prevent Internet bottlenecking during heavy periods of file modification. Files are encrypted during transit between your facility and ours, ensuring the highest level of security during data transfer.


What about my mobile users?
SWARMs™ built-in queuing feature is particularly useful when dealing with mobile user's and telecommuters using VPN access. The queue is updated regardless of Internet status, when SWARM™ detects that an Internet connection has become available, file backup begins automatically.

Pricing
$2.00 per GB storage space a month for backup, $3.50 per GB storage space a month for backup & redundant copy to alternate geographical location (best Disaster Recovery option of you don't already backup your data). 5GB Minimum per month. Contact our sales department for more information.
 

Unlike most backup programs where you have to purchase costly licenses for each client or server, SWARM™ eliminates this complexity by charging a flat rate per GB of storage available per month. You are free to use the space however you would like: install the software on hundreds of clients, just a couple of servers or any combination you desire. You do not pay per machine that needs backed up!


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