software fate acquired by dell predecessor appassure successor dell appassure founded 2006 founder najaf husain defunct february 24 2012 2012 02 24 headquarters reston virginia united states key people najaf husain executive vice president products software owner dell website 1 dell appassure was a series of backup solutions . the solutions were developed and marketed by the company with the same name until dell acquired the company in february 2012 . 1 appassure was founded by najaf husain in 2006 . 2 in 2008 appassure software received a series a investment by bain capital ventures . 3 on november 11 2011 appassure announced the availability of appassure v4 .7 backup & replication software on friday feb. 24 2012 dell announced the acquisition of appassure renaming it dell appassure . 1 current version in spring 2014 is version 5 . this information is out of date the company s total revenue grew 196 % in q3 of 2011 over the same period in 2010 and total revenue for the third quarter grew 18 % over the previous quarter . appassure achieved 3 450 % growth over the past three years and more than 5 000 customers partners and service providers in over 50 countries . the company has now posted 20 consecutive quarters of growth . 4 dell appassure is headquartered in reston va. product information edit the latest version is version 5 . appassure version 5 added the capability to back up linux servers physical and virtual . it was developed as a windows only backup solution with deep integration for the following windows application servers ms exchange ms sql and ms sharepoint . it also supports backing up windows vms hosted in ms hyper v and vmware esx environments . it provides global deduplication easy set up and ease of use according to both the product site and the many reviews referenced in this article . the product strives to minimize recovery time near zero recovery time objective and provide 5 minute recovery point granularity . it also purports to be scalable and to allow recovery of backups to any location vm even if they have dissimilar hardware from the backup source . it also allows granular object level recovery for both files and application level objects such as emails . 5 the product is delivered by dell under a software only version and a dedicated hardware appliance dell powervault dlxxxx series and has been renamed to rapid recovery . 6 references edit a b official announcement dell acquires appassure 24 february 2012 . visited 30 march 2012 appassure software . appassure.com . retrieved 2011 08 08 . darcy darlene 2008 05 26 . washington business journal . washington.bizjournals.com . retrieved 2011 08 08 . mcdonough ann 2011 11 22 . appassure wins gold product award . appassure . retrieved 2012 03 30 . dell appassure product page . dell inc. retrieved 2012 08 20 . appassure data backup recovery & replication dell software . software.dell.com . retrieved 2016 06 03 . external links edit appassure v t e dell technologies computers adamo alienware dimension inspiron inspiron mini latitude optiplex precision studio vostro xps servers poweredge m1000e blade system powervault poweredge vrtx thin clients fx100 wyse smartphones streak venue pro venue acquisitions alienware equallogic emc corporation perot systems dell kace dell boomi ocarina networks dell compellent force10 secureworks dell appassure wyse sonicwall other powerconnect switches axim digital jukebox dj monitors dell support center dell diamond retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title dell appassure & oldid 723471979 categories companies acquired by dellsoftware companies based in virginiacompanies based in reston virginiabackup softwaredell products 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 3 june 2016 at 06 53 . 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