backup founded 1986 founder david farajun headquarters toronto ontario canada area served worldwide key people david farajun ceo eran farajun executive vice president products asigra cloud backup website www.asigra.com asigra inc. is a company that produces a cloud backup and recovery software platform known as asigra cloud backup . the company is privately held and is headquartered in toronto canada . contents 1 history 2 business model 3 product 4 alliances 5 licensing models 6 awards and recognition 7 references 8 external links history edit the company was founded in 1986 by david farajun after a hard drive failure caused the loss of his company s data . 1 he decided to develop technology to back up data to a secure location over communication lines hence establishing asigra . the name asigra comes from the spanish infinitive asegurar meaning to assure . business model edit asigra sells its products to value added resellers managed service providers and telcos who use the software to run cloud backup services for consumers small and medium businesses and large enterprises . 2 these service providers are free to structure their business operations pricing and cloud deployment models independently . they can choose to sell the software as a service saas or as either a physical or virtual appliance to their customers in any one of the cloud deployment models public private or hybrid . product edit asigra cloud backup is the company s only product . it contains various backup and recovery modules based on the data sources that need to be backed up . the price of the product is based on the amount of data that is stored in compressed deduplicated and encrypted form at the backup repository . alliances edit netapp and asigra sell data protection as a service dpaas to cloud services providers . 3 the company has also developed products with cisco and intel which are designed for distributed remote offices and the small and medium business spaces respectively . 4 5 the asigra platform runs in the ibm smartcloud infrastructure as a service iaas platform and can back up and recover data to and from machines in the ibm smartcloud . 6 licensing models edit asigra introduced the patent pending recovery license model rlm on july 10 2013 to address rising storage costs stemming from growing data volume . this licensing model allows users to pay based on data recovered . the capacity license model clm introduced in 1992 is based on the amount of data stored and is the prevalent pricing model used in the market today by most vendors in the backup and recovery industry . asigra provides organizations the option to choose between the current clm or the new rlm based on the organizations business needs . awards and recognition edit the asigra software has been featured in the gartner magic quadrant for enterprise backup and recovery software for two years in a row . 7 it has won various awards including the 2012 north american new product innovation award in cloud based data management from frost & sullivan 8 the storage magazine gold product of the year in the enterprise backup category 9 and a 5 star rating for its channel partner program from crn magazine . 10 references edit backup veteran asigra keeps calm as competitors crowd the cloud bloomberg asigra forges channel partner program for msps resellers netapp solution for data protection as a service solution with asigra details of asigra cisco partnership details of asigra intel partnership ibm smartcloud integration asigra in gartner magic quadrant frost & sullivan presents 2012 product innovation award to asigra for cloud backup & recovery software 2012 gold product of the year by the storage magazine 5 star rating in crn magazine external links edit asigra retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title asigra & oldid 729125389 categories business continuity and disaster recoverydata protectioncloud computing providerscompanies based in toronto navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 july 2016 at 02 12 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view