TIG Selects Zadara Storage and Asigra to Power its Cloud Service Growth

TIG Selects Zadara Storage and Asigra to Power its Cloud Service Growth Zadara Storage and Asigra partner to deliver on-demand 4ile and block storage, with built-in comprehensive data backup and recovery for UK MSP TIG IRVINE, CA AND TORONTO – June 14, 2016 – Zadara™

Storage the provider of enterprise-class storage-as-a-service (STaaS) and Asigra Inc., a leading cloud backup, recovery and restore software provider, have been selected by TIG, provider of cloud, connectivity and transformational managed services in the UK, to enable it to deliver a high-performance Mile and block storage and comprehensive cloud backup solution to its customers.

This is the first time a managed services provider has deployed Asigra and Zadara Storage together. The result is a highly complementary solution that enables Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to offer aggressive, agile services that meet changing customer requirements very quickly, in a pay-as-you-go model for faster revenue realization. “We selected Asigra Cloud Backup™ and Zadara Storage because they each offer a powerful solution to meet our customers’ most critical business needs. However, when used together, they have dramatically improved our cloud services business,” said George Georgiou, sales director, TIG. “The combined Zadara and Asigra value propositions have elevated our business agility, improved our ability to scale very quickly as customer demands dictate, and enabled us to reach revenue faster – all without large, capital expense investments.

The two services are extremely complementary – and the strongest in the marketplace – and will continue to allow us to expand our services, maximize operational efficiencies and provide our customers with the leading storage and backup solutions.” “We are delighted to collaborate with Zadara to provide our leading cloud backup capabilities seamlessly integrated with its platform, to meet TIG’s top-line customer and corporate objectives,” said Eran Farajun, executive vice president, Asigra. “As an agentless, multi-tenant comprehensive data protection solution, Asigra Cloud Backup gives TIG maximum security, reliability, manageability and affordability, as well complete flexibility to scale on demand to meet the needs of 1 any organization. We look forward to further opportunities to bring the combined Asigra and Zadara value propositions to MSPs around the globe.” “For a service provider like TIG,

it’s vitally important to maximize the resources at hand, and as clients’ storage needs ebb and flow, to be able to meet their needs quickly and without incurring a significant infrastructure expense,” said Nelson Nahum, CEO and co-founder, Zadara Storage. “By offering Zadara Storage services on demand, uniquely coupled with Asigra’s award-winning cloud backup software, TIG can effectively and nimbly manage TIG’s corporate data and its clients’ data, and as needed spin up a trial environment for a new customer within 24 hours. This is a game changer for MSPs like TIG.”

Together, Asigra and Zadara Storage deliver (QoS) Mile and block storage and comprehensive data protection in a pay-as-you-go model to MSPs as a Mlexible, cost effective solution. Asigra software is hardware agnostic and is installed on top of Zadara’s unique and patent-protected VPSA™ storage arrays to create SAN and NAS in the cloud solutions. The Asigra software aggregates the data from all machines, drives, applications and systems, with optional offsite replication for additional redundancy and disaster recovery (DR). The Zadara Storage VPSA™ service provides enterprise SAN and NAS while the ZIOS™ service delivers private object storage. The services can be deployed at any location (cloud, on-premise or hybrid), supporting any data type (block, Mile and object) and connecting to any protocol (FC, iSCSI, iSER, NFS, CIFS, S3, Swift).

Zadara is available via OPaaS (OnPremise-as-a-Service) and through a variety of partners including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and others. To learn more about Zadara, Asigra or TIG, visit the respective website: www.zadarastorage.com, www.asigra.com, or www.tig.co.uk. Click to Tweet: .@ZadaraStorage and @Asigra team up to power UK #MSP @TIGCloudService growth.#cloudbackup #cloudservices #zadarastorage - http://bit.ly/1svvRLJ

About Zadara Storage

Zadara Storage offers enterprise Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) through the award-winning Zadara Storage Cloud. It can be deployed at any location (cloud, on-premise or hybrid), supporting any data type (block, Mile and object) and connecting to any protocol (FC, iSCSI, iSER, NFS, CIFS, S3, Swift). The VPSA™ service provides enterprise SAN and NAS while the ZIOS™ service delivers private object storage. Zadara provides resource isolation, exceptional data security, and 2 management control. Zadara is available via OPaaS (On-Premise-as-a-Service) and through a variety of partners including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and others. Visit www.zadarastorage.com, the Zadara Blog, or on LinkedIn and Twitter.

About Asigra

Trusted since 1986, Asigra provides organizations around the world the ability to recover their data now from anywhere through a global network of partners who deliver cloud backup and recovery services as public, private and/or hybrid deployments. As the industry’s first enterprise-class agentless cloud-based recovery software to provide data backup and recovery of servers, virtual machines, endpoint devices, databases and applications, SaaS and IaaS based applications, Asigra lowers the total cost of ownership, reduces recovery time objectives, eliminates silos of backup data by providing a single consolidated repository, and provides 100% recovery assurance. Asigra’s revolutionary patent-pending Recovery License Model provides organizations with a cost effective data recovery business model unlike any other offered in the storage market. More information on Asigra can be found at www.asigra.com.

About TIG

TIG provides award-winning Managed Services, Cloud and Connectivity and Transformational Services. Our long track record in IT infrastructures combined with our award-winning service and dedication to our customers has resulted in the best portfolio of solutions in the industry. Our unique combination of managed and transformational services, along with state-of-the-art cloud and connectivity solutions will give your business Mlawless IT performance. Whatever you need, trust us to deliver. Follow TIG on LinkedIn and Twitter. Zadara Storage Media Contacts (A3 Communications): Asigra Media Contact: McClenahan Bruer (503) 546-1000 asigra@mcbru.com US: Mary Kae Marinac Phone: 978-685-3136 Email: mkm@mkmarinac.com EMEA: Federica Monsone Phone: +44 (0) 1252 875 203 Email: fred.monsone@a3communications.co.uk