Sonasoft Announces Industry Leading SonaRAMBO For Microsoft Customers

New suite of customizable and integrated Replication, Archiving, Migration and Backup Offering for SMBs

Sonasoft Inc., an emerging leading provider of fully integrated and automated solutions for archiving, disaster recovery, and data backup/recovery solutions for the SMB market, is pleased to announce SonaRAMBO, the industry’s first, fully integrated Replication, Archiving, Migration and Backup Offering. This comprehensive suite harnesses the state-of-the-art features and functionality, unmatched from a single solutions provider. SMBs gain tremendous advantage by leveraging the integrated architecture of the Sonasoft SonaRAMBO solution to capitalize on its powerful features, full-featured functionality, and scalability. Effective immediately and available through December 31, 2009, the bundled price for this unique solution is $7,777 for up to 250 mailboxes.

“Sonasoft is always looking for new ways to help users utilize the full potential of their replication, archiving, migrating and backup solution,” commented Andy Khanna, President and CEO, Sonasoft. “With the new SonaRAMBO bundled offering, Sonasoft has carefully selected an integrated product suite that is unique to the industry which provides the full functionally and flexibility demanded by our customers.”

The SonaRAMBO bundled offering consists of elements from both its SonaExchange and SonaVault product offering.

SonaExchange – Replication, migration and backup – delivers unparalleled levels of backup / recovery and replication by incorporating flexible, state-of-the-art technology. This provides SMBs the ability to be up and running quickly in case of system failure or total disaster. SonaExchange delivers total protection of data ensuring mission-critical information is accessible at all times. Sonasoft’s patent-pending solution enables the rapid recovery of emails at the point-of-failure without losing a single email, calendar, contact and other important information.

Key features of SonaExchange include:

1. Backup and Recovery of Exchange Information Stores

With information store protection SonaExchange Protector can recover Exchange Server to a point-in-time or point-of-failure without loss of emails.

2. Email Recovery

SonaExchange Protector takes a pro-active role by performing the backup at the mailbox level and stores emails in Outlook PST format. When needed, single or multiple emails, contacts, calendar or any message item can be recovered with a simple and powerful SonaExchange Web Console. As the messages are stored in PST format, backup file can be opened with Outlook, providing an additional option to search and retrieve required emails.

3. Primary Exchange Server Replication

Sonasoft’s patent-pending, unique and extremely powerful technology provides replication of the Exchange Server at the mailbox level. SonaExchange Replicator, unlike competitive offerings keeps the Standby Exchange Server online and does not transfer physical corruptions. This is the result of replication taking place at the mailbox level by restoring emails to the Standby Exchange Server. Primary Exchange Server replication is an inherent, hardware agnostic, SonaExchange capability to seamlessly switch to a Standby Exchange Server, without loss of data protection capabilities.

4. Exchange Server Migration

SonaExchange Migrator replicates mailboxes from Primary Exchange Server to a new Exchange Server running a higher version of Exchange than the Primary Exchange. During the replication process, users still access the Primary Exchange Server. Once the replication is completed; fail-over can be initiated. This re-points all users to the mailboxes on the new migrated server. At that point, all emails can be sent and received through the new server.

SonaVault – Archiving and protection – delivers a new generation of email archiving solutions. SonaVault is a stand-alone, software based, powerful and comprehensive email archiving solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2000, 2003, 2007 and 2010. It enables organizations to archive, search and retrieve emails to achieve regulatory compliance and operational excellence.

Key features of SonaVault include:

1. Storage Management

SonaVault for Email Archiving delivers a fully integrated portfolio of features and tools to lighten a data encumbered Exchange server. The resultant effect is an improved efficiency, performance, and better storage management solution.

SonaVault uses stub technology without any client side component installation to reduce the size of the Exchange Server. In this process, message contents including attachments are removed from the email and a pointer, namely “stub” is created in the email body which has a small footprint compared to the actual message size. This is transparent to the end-users who access emails through Outlook in the usual fashion. Stubbed emails when replied or forwarded, retrieve contents from the SonaVault Store instead of the Exchange Server, seamlessly to the end-user.

2. Continuous Email Archiving

When used in conjunction with Sonasoft’s Exchange Replication product, Continuous Email Archiving can be achieved without the loss of emails even after the Primary Exchange Server switches over to the Standby Exchange Server. This is due to the fact that the Standby Exchange Server is always online with a pre-configured archiving agent which will start archiving as soon as it assumes the primary – active – role.

3. Secure and Guaranteed Archiving

The SonaVault solution employs reliable safeguards including encryption to ensure that the email is tamper-proof without the possibility of being altered. SonaVault uses Microsoft’s Journaling mechanism to extract and archive messages. This ensures that every message which goes out and enters an Exchange Server is archived even if the message is deleted by the user from his or her mailbox.

4. Regulatory Compliance Requirements

SonaVault for Email Archiving solution helps meet a wide variety of regulatory compliance requirements such as Sarbanes Oxley, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), SEC requirements and many more worldwide governmental regulations.

Please visit www.Sonasoft.com to learn more about these products or to take advantage of this limited, price reduced program.

About Sonasoft®

Sonasoft, Inc. revolutionized the Disk to Disk backup and recovery process for MS Exchange MS SQL & Windows File Systems with its groundbreaking Point-Click Recovery™ solutions. Designed to simplify, automate, and eliminate human error in the backup and recovery process, Sonasoft solutions also centralize the management of multiple servers and provide a cost-effective turnkey disaster recovery strategy for companies of all sizes. Founded in 2003, the company is headquartered in San Jose, CA. For more information, please visit www.sonasoft.com.

Data Robotics Raises $10 Million in Funding Round

Data Robotics, Inc., the company that is changing the way the world stores digital content, today announced that it has closed $10 million in Series E financing. The recent round of funding was led by Focus Ventures, a firm specializing in expansion stage venture capital, with participation from existing investors Greylock Partners, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), RRE Ventures, and Sutter Hill Ventures. Data Robotics will use this investment to accelerate research and development programs and expand global sales and marketing initiatives.

Data Robotics has experienced double-digit growth in every quarter of 2009 and recently announced 100 percent growth in worldwide sales over the second quarter of 2008. In addition, over 240 new resellers were added to Data Robotics’ worldwide channel. The Drobo family of business class and professional data storage solutions offers a unique value proposition that combines simplified capacity expansion and self-healing data protection.

“Unlike many companies over the past year, Data Robotics has continued to demonstrate a strong track record of revenue growth to justify a strong positive valuation,” said Kevin J. McQuillan, co-founder and General Partner of Focus Ventures. “Data Robotics’ patent-pending BeyondRAID technology is truly revolutionizing data storage for SMBs and creative professionals and we look forward to working with the Data Robotics team as they continue to expand their business.”

“We are excited that Focus Ventures understands our unique position within the storage market and has joined our team of investors,” said Dr. Geoff Barrall, CEO and co-founder of Data Robotics. “This recent funding shows the level of confidence that our investors have in Data Robotics and their firm belief in our ability to deliver continued growth in current markets while rapidly expanding our reach into new opportunities.”

About Data Robotics

Data Robotics, Inc., the company that is changing the way the world stores digital content, develops automated storage products designed to ensure data is always protected, accessible and simple to manage. The award-winning Drobo storage arrays are the first to provide the protection of traditional RAID without the complexity. The revolutionary BeyondRAID technology frees users from making the difficult and confining choice of “Which RAID level to deploy?” by providing an unprecedented combination of advanced features and automation, including single and dual disk redundancy, instant expansion, self-monitoring, data awareness, self-healing, and an easy-to-understand visual status and alert panel. For more information, visit Data Robotics at www.datarobotics.com.

Data Robotics, Drobo, and BeyondRAID are trademarks of Data Robotics, Inc., that may be registered in some jurisdictions. All other trademarks used are owned by their respective owners.