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R1Soft Customers Embrace Acquisition by ContinuumBOSTON & HOUSTON --(Business Wire)-- Continuum®, the industry's only channel-exclusive provider of fully integrated managed IT services solutions, has received overwhelming support from R1Soft® customers for its recent acquisition of R1Soft Server Backup Manager (SBM) from Idera. More than 2,500 cloud infrastructure providers currently use R1Soft SBM to protect more than 300,000 servers worldwide, making it one of the leading commercial backup software for web hosting providers. "We have been an R1Soft partner for years," said Corey Arbogast, Owner of R1Soft Licenses, an x10Hosting Website. "We not only rely 100 percent on their backup solution but also manage for hundreds of other small businesses and hosting companies. With the resources and experience at Continuum coupled with the already talented R1Soft development team, we are excited to see the evolution of R1Soft already underway. We are especially enthusiastic to welcome Continuum and look forward to their vision for the future of R1Soft." "We've enjoyed working with R1Soft over the years," said Karl Zimmerman, Chairman and CEO at Steadfast Networks, one of the leading IT Data Center Service companies in the Midwest. "It is a dedicated team that is continually improving the product, allowing us to be confident in crafting backup and disaster recovery solutions for our clients. We're happy to see the same team is still there, but with the additional support and resources that Continuum can provide. We're excited to see what happens next." The R1Soft SBM acquisition directly answers Continuum partners' demand for a robust cloud-based backup solution. It brings a proven offering from R1Soft, which is renowned worldwide for its fast, scalable and affordable server backup software for both Windows® and Linux® platforms in private and public clouds. Continuum is currently readying various options of R1Soft SBM for partners to extend and enhance their portfolios. Moving forward with a focus on delivering for R1Soft customers, Continuum today unveiled the first major product release since the acquisition, Server Backup Manager 5.8. Key product enhancements include Amazon Glacier support for offsite storage of Disk Safe replicas, UEFI/GPT support/Backup and BMR UEFI/GPT partitions, XFS bare metal recovery support and API enhancements. Download SBM 5.8 by logging into the License Manager at: http://download.r1soft.com. For more information on the R1Soft SBM, visit: http://www.r1soft.com/.
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