Asigra Televaulting 9 is coming

Asigra Inc. have just released a new version of their award winning online backup and vaulting software. We should receive delivery within the next week and hope to have it in production use before the end of April. Highlights include support for Windows 2008 servers and improved support for Vista. Support for application layer backups of Exchange, Notes, GroupWise, SQL Server, Oracle DB2 and SharePoint are all improved. There’s also been significant improvement in backup speed and resilience.

DS-Client updates will be automatically pushed and installed on customer sites. In most cases this should go unnoticed, but those with very restrictive security configurations may notice an issue. As normal we’ll notify resellers and/or customers if we notice a backup hasn’t run. Support will be discontinued for new installs on Windows 2000 systems (upgrades are supported), and the budget allocation module. This is instead being replaced by a new DS-Billing tool.

Asigra have also put a lot of work into delivering a fully NIST certified security infrastructure (an industry first), with the AES encryption, random number generator, digital signature and HMAC modules all being NIST certified. This new security architecture should also be fully FIPS 140-2 certified in the near future.