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CeBIT 2009 - Part 7 and the Finale

By Vijay Anand - 10 Mar 2009

IDSbox's Booth

IDSbox's Booth
 

 The guys at IDSbox are squarely focused on providing a simple and straightforward method for backing up data for SME & SMB users and we think they've got a breakthrough. Though introduced sometime last year, they must be doing the right thing to have had several success stories to share at the show.

 This is the simple and straightforward IDSbox that provides fast confidential, secure and automatic backup of data anywhere in the world. The magic is in the firmware of this Linux based box that does all the magic for you. A purchase of an IDSbox actually comes in pairs � one for the critical system/server/office to be backed up and another to be placed off-site, for example in a secondary office or the boss' home. These pairs have the intelligence to find out where they are once connected to the network and begin their routine maintenance/backup schedules as you've assigned.

 The beauty of this system is that it doesn't perform blind backups of your server/office data, but rather it copies only what's pertinently required. For example, there may be several DLL files in each program that are quite likely identical. So it saves just one of them and builds a data structure table to point to the right source or for re-building the data from scratch. For different versions of a file, the box copies only the differential info. As such, a basic 1TB drive can in fact backup many times more than its actual size. Also, should one of the IDSbox devices be damaged due to an unforeseeable physical event to the premises, all you need is the secondary box to get all systems working as usual.

 Each IDSbox pair costs 2500 Euros. If a service vendor wants to utilize these to offer a service to its clients, it can actually buy an entire server specialized to manage multiple IDSbox devices for about 6000 Euros, and then have the client pay a nominal monthly fee for this backup service.

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