CloudBerry Adds Microsoft to Roster of Storage Providers in Support of MSP Backup Service

Backup and management solution provider CloudBerry Lab has partnered with Microsoft in support of managed service providers (MSPs). The company is supporting Windows Azure Storage in its white-label Managed Backup service, giving MSPs and end users an additional choice for storing their data in the cloud.

The cloud storage market is exploding as the demand for IaaS services grows along with customer confidence and deployment levels. Major players are consistently entering the fray, with Oracle being the latest major competitor with several new storage services announced. Amazon is also a huge player and CloudBerry supports Amazon S3 and Glacier as options for remote storage.

The company, which specializes in public cloud solutions with its service, is now letting service providers integrate their own Windows Azure Storage accounts with the service. This affords cost savings and simplicity as it removes the need for MSPs to build and maintain their own data centers.

The CloudBerry Backup service automates the backup process to ensure secure data transfer to the storage service of choice. Providers may control and manage the backup and data storage processes separately, which enables them to access and restore customer data directly from storage if necessary.

CloudBerry considers itself a competitor to popular backup solution provider Mozy. In fact, Mozy is backed by EMC, a giant provider of data center platforms and services and coincidentally, a major Oracle partner. Oracle has been pushing their Cloud offerings and just announced a new set of cloud storage services, set up to compete pretty much directly with Amazon. So curiously, a lot of the shakeout happening at the service provider level is directly related to the storage and IaaS giants duking it out for market share.

In addition to offering Amazon and now Microsoft storage for the MSP Backup solution, CloudBerry supports several additional cloud storage services for its CloudBerry Drive offering, geared toward enterprise users. These include HP Cloud, Google Cloud Storage, OpenStack, Rackspace and DreamObjects.

Among CloudBerry’s advantages is the ability for MSPs to completely customize and rebrand the solution as their own. Service providers also benefit from advanced remote management and monitoring capabilities. Providers may test drive a fully functional solution free, on a trial basis, through CloudBerry’s website. 


Edited by Alisen Downey