WatchDog Software has announced the release of Version 5 of its monitoring package, which tests and monitors backups from a central console and now features daily automated recovery testing (DART) technology.

Additionally, Watchdog Software has become an alliance partner of StorageCraft’s Asia Pacific operations, headquartered in Sydney, Australia.

Matt Thompson-Moltzen, Chief Technology Officer of WatchDog Software, said: “This is an exciting alliance for us. WatchDog Software provides a near-absolute assurance that a customer’s data is safe and recoverable – no other product even comes close to delivering this level of detailed and automated testing for physical, virtual and cloud based servers.”

WatchDog Software centralises the monitoring of StorageCraft ShadowProtect backup, recovery, disaster recovery and system migration installations to achieve new levels of data protection and recoverability. Its unique DART technology performs a complete test every night on all an organisation’s servers being protected with StorageCraft ShadowProtect.

Thompson-Moltzen said: “Our DART technology, combined with the advanced sector-based backup provided by ShadowProtect, delivers possibly the only solution capable of testing to this degree the recoverability of physical, virtual and cloud servers automatically without any manual involvement.”

Greg Wyman, Vice President – Asia Pacific for StorageCraft, said: “The integrated solution will give ShadowProtect customers an even higher degree of confidence when it comes to protecting and recovering their data.  Now our customers can have total visibility into their backups and receive near-instant notification of potential or critical backup problems.  They can identify and resolve backup problems faster and substantially reduce the costs of monitoring backup status and recoverability of data.”

Thompson-Moltzen said WatchDog Software reduces an administrator’s workload by providing a central console to view the status of all ShadowProtect backup jobs. Servers or systems with problems jump to the top of the queue and change the traffic light colour to red or yellow, depending upon the urgency of an alert. The software is simple to install, cost-effective and gives maximum reassurance that all servers can be restored in any environment with StorageCraft ShadowProtect.

WatchDog v5 features an integrated database, improved reporting and revised investment structure, SNMP alerting to feedback ShadowProtect status into enterprise management framework products. The product was developed independently by WatchDog Software and is fully supported by the Asia Pacific operations of StorageCraft, headquartered in Sydney.

Australian pricing starts at  $A487 annual subscription for 10 systems being monitored.

www.watchdogsoftware.com.au