NovaStor

Company Overview
For many years, NovaStor has successfully developed and distributed backup, disaster recovery and data retention solutions. Millions of computers and servers worldwide utilize their products, enabling private users, SMB and enterprise level customers to efficiently secure the availability of their critical personal and business data over years.

Headquartered in Rotkreuz, Switzerland, NovaStor's software products are developed in Hamburg, Germany and Simi Valley, USA. NovaStor's product portfolio covers data protection, data recovery and the long-term, legally-compliant storage of data. NovaStor products distinguish themselves through their user-friendliness, high performance and low costs.

NovaBACKUP
NovaStor’s feature rich NovaBACKUP has helped millions of users overcome data loss and disasters for over 18 years. The product provides a powerful backup solution at a competitive price. Built-in support for hundreds of the most popular storage devices and a step-by-step Backup and Restore Wizard makes NovaBACKUP extremely easy to use.

NovaNET
To meet the network needs (servers and PC desktops) of small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), NovaNET offers a comprehensive solution, which supports Microsoft Windows®, Linux and Netware. In 2006, current version 10 was released and provides the growing SMB market with features that meet both their needs as well as the needs of larger organisations.

Stefan Utzinger, CEO:
“No other manufacturer of data protection and availability software offers a more comprehensive product portfolio regarding data security. Hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide rely on NovaStor software to restore important data in the event of a data loss. Our main task now is to position the next generation of the NovaStor product range on the market.” (www.novastor.com)


Data Center: NovaStor’s operation:
• Sits on a dual Sonnet fiber ring with multiple redundant OC-48 connections to the Internet.
• Backup power includes large-scale UPS and backup diesel generator assuring uninterrupted operation
• Data is fully replicated to a secondary system
• They perform 24X7 monitoring of all operations and utilize many automated systems to assure uptime reliability and data availability.
• They use our own software (NovaNet) to backup the OLBS

Customers: About 1,000 (partners/resellers/distributors/OEM). NovaStor’s consumer/prosumer user base is more than 2 million

Company Highlights: Well-known computer magazine PC World named NovaBACKUP® the winner of its "Top 5 Backup Utilities" test in July 2005, and the Best Buy Award in August 2006.