Founded in 2005, ESDS is a leading data center services and cloud solutions provider. The company also manages operations for several UK-based Web hosting companies; in total, ESDS supports two million websites and 35,000 customers – the majority of which are in the shared hosting, reseller, VPS and cloud hosting markets.
Piyush Somani, Founder and CEO at ESDS, knows that having the right backup technology in place can make all the difference for these customers – and thanks to R1Soft’s Server Backup Manager (SBM) software, he’s confident that backups are executing successfully and with maximum efficiency.
“Maintaining incremental backups was a serious challenge for us in the past,” Somani says. “When trying other solutions, backups failed frequently and we had to deal with quite a few angry customers. Switching to R1Soft finally enabled us to achieve 100 percent customer satisfaction – which today is the cornerstone of our business.”
R1Soft is recognized as the leading commercial backup software for Web hosting providers, and the company’s Server Backup Manager software offers the fastest, most scalable server backup for both Windows® and Linux® platforms in private and public clouds.
“Providing our customers with real peace of mind around backup and data security has always been a top priority for us,” says Somani. “R1Soft has played a vital role in helping us achieve that – and since we began working with SBM seven years ago, we haven’t experienced any data loss whatsoever.”
Server Backup Manager leverages R1Soft’s Continuous Data Protection™ Technology, which identifies deltas at the block level and backs up only those files that have changed since the previous incremental backup. This greatly reduces disk I/O and minimizes the strain placed on protected machines – effectively reducing traditional backup windows from hours to minutes, even with large datasets.
“Customers can be careless when it comes to running their own data backups, especially when they know we’re taking care of things behind the scenes for them,” notes Somani. “We used to try and convince our customers to maintain their own local backups – but thanks to R1Soft’s incremental backup functionality, we don’t have to worry about that any longer. That peace of mind for both ESDS and our customers is invaluable.”
