Startup StorServer is also adding to its virtualization story this week with news that its Business Continuity appliances now support VMware's consolidated backup software, which manages backups across virtual machines. StorServer is now selling a pre-packaged bundle consisting of its own appliances and the VMware software, which will start at around $20,000, depending on the amount of storage and the number of VMware servers to be backed up.
StorServer's vice president of product development Laura Buckley told Byte and Switch that the deal was prompted by a desire to simplify users' VMware deployments. "It removes the need for customers to have individual backup client agents on each virtual machine," she says, adding that the StorServer device now performs the backups.
Elsewhere, backup specialist WysDM will announce that Double-Take is OEM'ing its software for managing and monitoring its backups. (See WysDM Enhances Software and WysDM Shows Off.) This follows similar deals between WysDM and EMC, Copan, and Avamar (which was acquired by EMC last November). (See WysDM Announces Partnership, WysDM Builds Channel , EMC Acquires Avamar, and EMC Picks Up Avamar.)
Data Domain will also announce today that the San Francisco Giants baseball team has deployed its DD430 appliance for local disk backup.
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