NEW YORK, NY & BOSTON, MA – September 24, 2019 — /BackupReview.info/– Probax, a market leader in cloud data management and backup and recovery solutions, today announced a 40% reduction in its backup as a service cloud storage pricing as a result of its recently announced Wasabi partnership. This means new MSP partners in North America have access to the industry’s most affordable and limitless cloud storage for Veeam, StorageCraft, Cloudberry and more.

To celebrate its new pricing in North America, Probax is also announcing a not-for-resale (NFR) cloud storage promotion of 1TB “free forever” for MSP Partners. This free offering represents a unique opportunity for MSPs to evaluate and use the Probax service in-house, without commitment or cloud storage costs.

With this new pricing and free storage promotion, the Probax and Wasabi partnership is quickly proving to be a compelling offering for MSPs to manage and protect their customers’ vital business data. Customers can quickly and reliably backup critical applications and data to a disruptively affordable and higher performing cloud storage service for ultimate protection and economics.

“The Probax partnership with Wasabi has enabled us to rapidly offer the most compelling price points on the market. Importantly, this new pricing represents maximum margin gain for our North American MSP partners,” said Sam Meegahage, CEO of Probax. “We believe that if our solution is to be sold as a service by MSPs, it should be tried and tested in-house first. Being able to access 1TB of backup as a service cloud storage for free means our partners can evaluate our offerings without obligation. As Probax continues its expansion strategy across North America, we’re looking forward to continually supporting our partners with innovative solutions.”

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David Friend, CEO of Wasabi said: “Empowering MSPs to offer real business value to their customers while strengthening their MSP business with increased margins is what the Wasabi and Probax partnership is all about. With cloud storage pricing this disruptive and compelling for MSPs, we note that even the absolute rock bottom promotional pricing of competitors can’t compete with this cost-effective model.”

By leveraging the Probax platform, North American MSPs servicing the enterprise, small business, and public sector can now offer cost effective and leading backup and recovery solutions to their customers. Organizations of all sizes can now easily integrate with Wasabi’s affordable and fast hot cloud storage solution to improve the bottom line. The new partnership offers substantial cost savings and enhanced performance so partners can gain additional margin while providing a cost effective, reliable and secure storage solution.

Discover all the details about the new pricing for North American Partners and the “free forever” 1TB cloud storage promotion by visiting www.probax.io/1tb-free-nfr

About Probax (www.Probax.io)
Probax offers its MSP channel partners a multi-vendor, multi-tenant data protection platform with a range of award-winning solutions including Backup as a Service (BaaS), Archive as a Service (AaaS), Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS) Protection and more. Probax source and integrate technology solutions for the channel by implementing the tools of today, designed for the emerging SMB, SME and MSP of tomorrow. Probax is proud to offer its services exclusively to MSPs globally.

For more information on the Probax platform and portfolio, please contact:
Nadia Allan
Vice President of Sales, North America
nadia.allan@probax.io
+1 8888-776229

About Wasabi:
Wasabi is the hot cloud storage company delivering disruptive storage technology that is 1/5th the price of Amazon S3 and faster than the competition with no fees for egress or API requests. Unlike first generation cloud vendors, Wasabi focuses solely on providing the world’s best cloud storage platform. Created by Carbonite co-founders and cloud storage pioneers David Friend and Jeff Flowers, Wasabi is on a mission to commoditize the storage industry. Wasabi is a privately held company based in Boston, MA. Follow and connect with Wasabi on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and our blog. www.wasabi.com

PR Contact:
Lindsay Levitts
Kel & Partners
lindsayl@kelandpartners.com
+1 617-519-6551

Source: Probax

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Oct 14, 2019

Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

Backblaze is a company offering unlimited online backup services. In June 2016, they launched the official version of Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, a metered object storage service. Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage is characterized by price, it is the lowest price compared to other object storage services like Amazon S3 (Cloud Storage Comparison). Just by registering your email address, you can use 10GB free service with no time limit. If you use more than 10GB you will need to register your payment information, but you can continue to use the first 10GB free.

You have two choices to back up your files to Backblaze. The first one is Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage with a backup application like qBackup. The second one is Backblaze Unlimited Backup. Each has its own characteristics, which one is better to choose depends on the situation. Refer to the table below.

(*1) Additional fee may be charged for downloading and transactions.

qBackup is listed on the Backblaze B2 Integrations. This page introduces how to backup to Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage using qBackup.

Sign up for Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

Go to Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, enter your email address and password, and click [Sign Up for B2].

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Select [App Keys] from the B2 Cloud Storage menu.

Your keyID is displayed on this page. Click [Create New Master Application Key] to create an Application Key.

qBackup uses the keyID and the Application Key to access Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage.

Installing qBackup

Download qBackup installer, and run the installer and complete the installation according to the instruction.

Creating project (backup configuration)

Run qBackup, and click [New] on the toolbar.

Enter project name.

Adding backup sources

Select [Include], and add files and folders to be backed up.

Files to be backed up

Any number of files and folders can be added.
You can add and delete files after backup is executed.
You can specify exclusions on [Exclude].

Storage

Select [Storage] and set storage information.

Options

Select [Options] and set each item as necessary. Backup can be executed even in the initial state. Set encryption password if you need to encrypt backup data.

Uploading speed

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If the uploading speed is slow, you may be able to improve by changing the [Max threads] (Storage).

Click [OK] to save the project.

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Backing up

Select the project you created. Click [Backup] on the toolbar to start backup.

The processing status is displayed on the window during backup.

When the backup is completed, the processing status becomes [Complete].

For the second and subsequent backups, only changes from the previous backup are backed up (incremental backup).

Restoring backed up files

Select the backup you want to restore and click [Storage] on the toolbar.

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The files backed up in the storage are displayed.

Select the files/folders you want to restore and click [Restore].

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On the window that appears, enter conditions such as the destination and click [OK].

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The processing status is displayed as in the case of backup.

For more information please refer to the documentation of qBackup and Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage.