Backup Automation, Protection of Millions of Files and Bare Metal Restore Lead One MSP to Select R1Soft

By Jerome M. Wendt on September 29, 2010

Back at the end of July I took a look at why traditional backup software approaches are faltering at managed service providers (MSPs) and new solutions such as those from R1Soft are having such success with these providers. Since then I have had an opportunity to speak with GSI Hosting, an MSP in Kansas City, MO, who explained why it opted for R1Soft's Continuous Data Protection (CDP) instead of a more traditional backup solution.

GSI Hosting is a leading managed services provider that specializes in the design and management of complex, customized hosting environments engineering and overseeing secure, highly available system environments for clients of a wide range of sizes and types.

To protect the data of its clients, GSI Hosting had been using EMC RetroSpect as its primary backup software. But as GSI Hosting grew and expanded, it found that RetroSpect lacked some of the enterprise features it needed but those backup problems finally came to a head a couple of years ago.

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